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Yasen Vasilev, Bulgaria

Yasen Vasilev lives between Brussels and Sofia and works internationally in the field of contemporary dance and performance with dance dramaturgy, critical writing and artistic research.

In Belgium he most recently collaborated with choreographer Milo Slayers on his second piece DEMONstratio, on tour in Flanders and Brussels in 2023-2024, and has an ongoing dialogue with choreographer Ehsan Hemat.

NUTRICULA/IMPOSSIBLE ACTIONS, a long-term trajectory he initiated in 2015 in Shanghai and in 2019 in Taipei, has been developed and presented internationally in the form of workshops and performances which aim to test and re-imagine the limits of the body, and set up horizontal working models.

Yasen is also active on the topic of working conditions in the frame of different initiatives, most recently Kunstenpunt’s A Fair New Idea where he co-authored a Letter for transnational fair practice.

In 2023-2024, he will be artistic research fellow at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp and artist in residence at Akademie Schloss Solitude with a project around the distribution of agency within a collective body.

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Read Icon Unearth, by Jefta van Dinther. Photo © Jubal Battist

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Jefta van Dinther: Unearth

Read Icon Libya, by Radouan Mriziga. Photo © Beniamin Boar

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A bird’s-eye view at Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2023

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The wall and the circle

Read Icon Foreground: a figure holds a microphone (face and body out of picture). Midground: a man looks towards her. Background: a woman (face and body half off pic) also looks towards her

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CODA 2022: movement research for every body?

Read Icon A set made of a central slab with three layers and a backpiece, plus stpes to one side, and benches around it. Five figures in blue dresses and white stocking are arranged across the set. Sheets of white paper are strewn all over.

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What makes a performance contemporary?

Read Icon Five wet bodies in wigs and underwear form tangle together in a clump

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Alice Ripoll: Lavagem

Read Icon Mette Ingvartsen in The Dancing Public. Woman in trunks and sleeveless top, head thrown back and arms up, on a platform. Behind and to the right of her is her own shadow on the wall

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Mette Ingvartsen: The Dancing Public

Read Icon Marion Darova and Martina Apostolova, two women in white sneakers and dark blueish trousers and tops, on a dark bluish stage, with two floor lights behind them, in their stage duet WO MAN

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Marion Darova & Martina Apostolova: WO MAN

Read Icon Jitterbugging couples and dark shadows against a purple background, the opening scene of David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive

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Dance+: Mulholland Drive

Read Icon Compagnie Yoann Bourgeois: Celui qui tombe (He Who Falls). Photo © Foteini Christofilopoulu

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Circulating artists, defunded infrastructures (audio)

Read Icon Compagnie Yoann Bourgeois: Celui qui tombe (He Who Falls). Photo © Foteini Christofilopoulu

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Circulating artists, defunded infrastructures

Read Icon Mårten Spångberg in 46. Photo: Yasen Vasilev

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Mårten Spångberg: 46

Read Icon Ana Kreitmeyer / Sonja Pregrad (Croatia): Out There and In Here, at Antistatic Festival 2019, Sofia, Bulgaria

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Vote for dance: Antistatic Festival 2019, Bulgaria

Read Icon Eisa Jocson’s Princess. Photo © Jörg Baumann

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Oktoberdans, Bergen: minorities dance for a majority audience

Read Icon Giant pillow in An outdoor version of Pietro Marullo's Wreck

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Pietro Marullo’s WRECK: survival of the fittest in the age of austerity?

Read Icon Mia Habib’s How to Die, Inopiné. Woman with cropped hair and outstretched arms is looking up in the foreground. She wears a grey unitard embroidered with lichen-like greys and oranges. In the background are four others, in similar costumes. Wooden pallets lie on the floor and there is smoke in the background.

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CODA collection: four dances from Norway

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Les Brigittines International Festival 2018