PAPHA – Dance Installation

PAPHA project incorporates an interactive dance installation, in which the reality of the performers merges and transposes with the virtual reality of their digital reflections. The project poses questions about the identity of a person, about their identity with their image and thus with themselves. The digital is simultaneously essence and form of the work, as well as its distribution method.

The project will investigate the processes of alienation and disorientation, arising from the loss of contact with your own body. The implemented approach is the principle of reflection as the ability to recreate yourself in another structure. It is also the origin of the symbolic name of the project, ‘Papha’ – the daughter of the sculptor Pygmalion and his animated statue Galatea. This legend redirects the insights of the past into the present, which could help us better comprehend our future. The project seeks an answer to the question: Is it possible to predict the consequences of our actions for ourselves, for nature and the social processes? The dancer is in an unanticipated dialogue with their own reflection.

Our project partners, the cultural institutes in Rome, Berlin and London, will broadcast the streaming in real-time on their internet platforms.

Besides the presentation of the installation and the dance performance, the second part of the event will include a discussion between the authors and specially invited guests – critics, analysts from various fields and the audience.

The limited live audience will have the opportunity to personally experience entering the world of the installation and facing their digital version at the end of the event.

Media partner of the event is information agency BGNES.

The project is realized with the financial support of Programme “Culture” of Sofia Municipality, Bulgaria.