Programata

We met with the talented young poet/writer/theatre director and co-founder of Valeri Petrov Creative Weriting Academy just a few days after her description got another "slash" and here's what follows it: Golden Leopard for Best Actress from the Locarno Film Festival. Congrats to Rene and the cast and crew of Godless which was awarded Best Movie.

After we first saw the trailer of Correction, we just had to speak with his director Jiří Havelka. On the map around Bulgaria this name means a lot (especially in the Czech Republic), but here the information is written mostly in telegraphic style such as "director, host, actor and dean of faculty, aged 36". The author of this dance spectacle, which comes for the World Theatre in Sofia on 10 of June, is much more than this, considering just the prizes he won for his work.

He is not exactly "young director", if we count his stagings, the Ikar prize for his debut, which he takes 10 years ago for his spectacle "Parts of the whole", and even his age - 35. However, in every new staging Stiliyan Petrov is working as if it's his first time: he's going from the beggining with huge curiosity.

He's composing music for theater - he has two Askeer Awards and two Ikar Awards behind his back, and for the last year he's composed for six productions. We meet with him to talk about all that and why his studio is the smallest in the world.

We meet the theater director to talk about what he was thinking at 15, where he hides on opening nights and why he needs to take the same route every day.

Dry statistics would say that Emilian Gatzov-Elby is a composer who often works on theater and dance spectacles (so far more than 50), has won an Ikar award for the Psychosis 4.48 music and constantly hovers around the continent to make music for various performances on stage.

Days before the premiere of his new play, we ask director Anton Ugrinov how many copies of Anatol he knows and do we become wiser in the field of love.

Once she saw Marius Kurkinski and she said to herself that she wanted to thrill someone in this way.

At 32, Vasilena Radeva is a name at the theatre, which is near three other ones: Ikar, Askeer and Stoyan Kambarev. We respect her for these prizes but it is not the statuettes that are so important as much as her talent to move the audience and to send messages so easily, no matter if she sets a classical play or a documentary theatre. It is interesting what is on her mind several days before the premiere of her new play at Theatre 199? There are no answers without questions, so we are looking for them  at The Great Moment of Mr. Koenig.

He's half of Chuchkov Brothers - a production company, founded with his brother Borislav. But today we're not talking business - we met with Victor to discuss the things he loves and life in our city.

Let's start from the beginning. Lora has written The House Of Bernarda Alba in 1936, when Spain is smothered by fascism and religious fanatism. This combination creates monsters in his play and it is a high standard for every director. A director like Diana Dobreva. Her play by Lorka is emotional whirligig named The House of Anger. After the curtain fell, we talked with Diana about the road and emotions that lead her from the text to the stage.

Tedi Moskov never stops working and we do not stop looking his plays. After As You Want Me at the National Theatre, the director remains on an Italian wave - Girlfriends of Mine is his second premiere for this season but this time - at Little City Theatre Off The Channel. We know that he does not like to speak about his plays til the last day of the rehearsals but one afternoon we called him.

In additioin to his talent, he also has a strong character. He is a rebel but he doesn't yell and instead of fussing, he acts. He always has a plan B. It seems that Ovanes Torosyan has found the right formula.

Bold curls, pearls, bright lipstick and flirty dresses in all colors of the rainbow! Sounds like a prop from an old movie, but actually it is recognizable traditional dress code of the funniest in our community - that of swing fans. You've probably seen these men and women at retro parties or other special events, wondering how they always manage to look so casual but always chic. The answer is in the music, and it is the language of the soul, according to Yavor and Sonya - two of the most popular swing dancers in the country, which are also part of the team Lindyhop.bg, one of the few specialist dance schools in Bulgaria. Here's what else they shared one devoid of formality, but curious afternoon conversation.