Intercontinental Bienal
Oratoria Performance
National Museum of the Republic
Play Name: Oratoria
“Oratoria“ is a contemporary performance that creates a neo-dramaturgy consisting of music articulations based on variety of genres ranging from opera to trash and hardcore by using only the intonation and sound extraction of the speech. It choreographs a contemporary dance from the gestures we use while speaking. The project traces human verbal development solely through the non-rational, automatic and affective aspects of speech – intonation (music) and gesture (dance). Thus Oratoria “reconstructs” a universal “authentic” proto-language, that everyone can understand, and opens up a space for research into the causes and the functions of speech as a human phenomenon.
Intercontinental Bienal
Finalist Play: Oratoria
Performing Arts: Country: Bulgaria
Director
Anna Dankova
Performers
Galya Kostadinova, Vasilia Drebova, Aleksandar Gochev, Nikolay Barzakov
Sound interference
Yoana Robova
Costome
Pola Popova
Oratoria
Short film projection at National Museum of the Republic, Brasilia, Brazil, South America. Day: July 04, 2025
The museum is located on the Esplanade of the Ministries in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil.
National Museum of the Republic . Brazil, South America
Anna Dankova
Concept Design and Direction
Anna Dankova is an independent creator and director committed to experimental quests and intersections on the verge of contemporary performing arts. Zero-waste usage of genres and physicality, black-box stenographer, or live sound design may distinguish her diverse works, while sharp dramaturgy is always present. She explores meeting performance practices, experimental means, and tools from different art forms such as visual arts, theatre, music, contemporary dance, and digital arts.
Anna studied journalism, film and television directing and then completed a Master’s degree in Dirеcting for Drama in 2002. She has 20 years of experience in psychodrama as a certified psychodrama therapist. This background is evident in her productions, revealing unexpected reflections of significant or trivial perceptions.
Her earliest performances include “Taxira“ (2007) and “Cosmonaut“ (2013), a portrayal of the death of the legendary astronaut Vladimir Komarov thtough the cataclysmic disarray in his wife’s kitchen. Anna offers a satire on the glorification of consumerism with Golem (2016), a glimpse at the radical duality of a genius mind with „Ada Lovelace“ (2019), and a wordless conversation through age and time with “Oratoria“ (2023)