The program brings together artists from the Czech Republic, Italy, and Bulgaria who use dance and movement as a gesture of resistance and memory—against silencing, against forgetting, against the devaluation of the human body and experience.
Moving Body Festivalbegan in 2016 in Varna, Bulgaria as a response to a noticeable absence: a lack of space for contemporary movement-based practices, for open-ended artistic dialogue, and for works that challenge the limits of how the body is represented and understood. What started as a modest initiative has since grown into a consistent annual platform that offers a space for artists and audiences to engage with dance, performance, and moving image not as separate disciplines, but as overlapping fields of inquiry.
The festival’s programming has always centered on the body—not just as form or technique, but as a site of experience, dialogue, memory, empowerment, and possibility. Each edition is carefully curated around main conceptual questions that drive us and responds to the urgencies of the moment—whether personal, political, or environmental. < What moves us? How do we move? Where we are moving to? How we move from individual towards collective body? How we move in time of catastrophe? >
The program has featured live performances, dance films, video art, installations, process-based labs, public space interventions, and discussions that stretch across aesthetic registers—from the minimal and intimate to the charged and confrontational.
