director: Ani Vaseva
text: Boyan Manchev
video: Ivan Nikolov, Ani Vaseva
live music: Angel Simitchiev
sound design: Angel Simitchiev
music: Christophe Pectchanatz
graphic design: Katrin Metodieva
premiere: 25 November 2024, Goethe-Institut, Sofia
with: Leonid Yovchev, Katrin Metodieva, Emona Ilieva and Nikol Vasileva
video starring: Sigal Zouk, Laurie Young, Katrin Metodieva
The forest is the territory between nature and culture where time is enchanted. It is one of the most ancient cultural images that haunt the imagination. The topos of the forest is linked to the very origin of the performing arts - the secret Dionysian rituals performed on the borders of urban spaces and forests.
The enchanted forest is the forest of Pan, Artemis, Orpheus, dryads, Bacchantes and enchanted beings from other mythologies, the initial space of music and fantasy from which the arts are inspired. The Enchanted Forest is an immersion in the tension between the fantasy of nature in the arts and the rituals of transformation and otherness, in the imagination of different forms of being - the source of our dreams, cultural obsessions and fears.
The performance is created by Metheor with the support of the Goethe-Institut and the Ministry of Culture.