TANA MANEVA
Tana Maneva is a performance artist, director and actress/ dancer. In her work she integrates theater, dance, butoh, photography and visual arts.
Tana graduated from the National Academy of Theater and Film Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria and has an education in Japanese Butoh dance in Dharamshala, India.
She has toured all through Europe and played and collaborated on international stages such as Young Vic in London, La mama theater in New York, Theater 199 in Sofia, and others. Tana is a cofounder of one of the first independent theater groups in Bulgaria after Perestroika, New Forms Theatre.
Since 2002, Tana Maneva has been based in Stockholm, Sweden and worked in a close collaboration with composer Rikard Borggård and Teater Giljotin.
In 2017 she initiated Giljotin's Laboratorium, an international platform for modern stage art, theater, experimental art and music.
In her field she stands out with several performances with strong transgressive and avant-garde language, such as Emergency Exit, Lucifer Effect and Concealed Party.
Her works are often provocative and expressive, disturbing and unpredictable, breaking the psychological, (straight) linear narrative and creating an inner non-linear narrative.
She explores a human personality, moral norms, taboos and dogmas. The beautiful in the ugly and ugliness in beauty.
In her work she strives for depth, authenticity and freedom of expression.
The purpose of her work is to liberate our creative nature, integrate its chaos, unpredictability and irrationality and open space for a different perspective to our mostly rational approach to reality and life. A perspective where a bigger picture of Life obtained and ways to bring opposites together found, where a non-judgmental, more empathetic mind/attitude and a deeper understanding of the process of life is cultivated through Аrt.
