Zornitsa Stoyanova is a native of Bulgaria and holds her B.A. in Dance and Sound Design from Bennington College where she studied with Susan Sgorbati, Dana Reitz, Eva Kartzag, Brendan McCall, Paul Matteson, Keith Thompson and Terry Creach.
After graduating, she moved to Philadelphia and started dancing with Amnesiac Music and Dance and was one of the co-founders of Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd(Bilwa, Emily Sweeney, and Mikeronesia) . During this time, Zornitsa started working professionally as a lighting designer, launched a dance company called Here[begin] Dance Co.,  and started producing "Current: an evening of dance and art" series at Mascher Space Cooperative.
While still in college her choreographic work was shown in Bulgaria, Hungary, and St. Marks Church in New York City. She has danced for Brigitta Herrman's, AUSDRUCKSTANZ, Emergent Improvisation Project directed by Susan Sgorbati,  and Paul Matteson. Presently, she is working on a project with Austrian choreographer Willi Dorner and working on a new project with Here[begin] Dance Co. to which she is artistic director.  In her own work she is exploring different kinds of traditional and not so traditional mediums and is equally interested in installation and performing art.  This fall she is attending Headlong Performance Institute to further her knowledge of acting.

Here[begin] Dance Co. formed in the beginning of 2007 out of the need to name all the exciting collaborations, installations, productions and curated shows that I was doing. Directed by Zornitsa Stoyanova, we are interested in making dances, talking to people, and playing with space, time, tools, technology, paper and paint. Ongoing company members/collaborators have been percusionist Toshi Makihara, composer and lecturer Greg Dunn, dancers Jil Stifel, Allison Lorenzen, Liza Clark, Christina Gesualdi and Gina Stikney. Our main goal is to produce and help produce innovative art in collaboration with each other.

If you are interested in any of the following, please write me at zornitsa@herebegindance.com
Hopefully we can make a lot happen and have fun in the mean time.

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