Performance Zhana Ivanova

Minute by minute what will happen during this hour, has already happened in the hour before. All of today is replaced by yesterday, yesterday by the day before. – script excerpt

Premiere of Imaginary Magnitudes by Zhana Ivanova
October 17 & 18 at 8 pm. (duration approximately 45 min.)
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An image at a swimming pool on the edge of town in Ruse, Bulgaria, on September 23, 1986, forms a recurrent memory. The performance sets conditions for language to repeatedly return to and diffract this image. Two readers relate a script to four mostly unrehearsed performers, who interpret the text live. Fragments of that memory resurface, dissolving into stage scores and rendering memory itself a diffused structure.

Imaginary Magnitudes traces the tensions between what is intended, imagined and actually occurring. It diverges and multiplies experiences of sensory memory, space, pollution, sexuality and class. Assembling fragmentary sensations through reenactment and increasing detail, the insistence on the particular opens up into a magnified and collective present moment.

Zhana Ivanova, 2025

Cast

Narrators: eva susova, Zhana Ivanova

Base Performers: Nikolai Galvez, Panagiotis Panagiotakopolous aka Taka Taka

Guest Performers Amsterdam:

October 17: Bea McMahon, Venuri Perera

October 18: Aion Arribas, Ahmed El Gendy

Concept, script and direction: Zhana Ivanova

Dramaturgy: Konstantina Georgelou

Process collaborators: Amparo González Sola, Deniz Buga, Molly Palmer

Garment advice: Panagiotis Panagiotakopolous aka Taka Taka

Lighting design: Katinka Marac

Sound design: Nahuel Cano

Production: Helena Julian

Development support: Bau Amsterdam

Special thanks: Sjoerd Kloosterhuis, Joel Galvez, Das Third Cycle Research Group

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