TRILATERAL: Budapest/Sofia/Philadelphia DANCE ARTIST EXCHANGE –
TAMARA ZSÓFIA VADAS/Budapest, SILVIA CHERNEVA/Sofia, CHRISTINA GESUALDI/Philadelphia were joined by 2015 Exchange Artist GABRIELLE REVLOCK/Philadelphia as part of the Cannonball Festival in September 2024. Performing to a full house audience.
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TRILATERAL Dance Artists Exchange is a project of Philadelphia Dance Projects (PDP) in partnership with the Műhely Alapítvány/Workshop Foundation in Budapest, Hungary and BodyMeld in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is made possible with support from the Trust For Mutual Understanding. Artists were together in 10 day residencies in all three cities. Through their stay in each other’s city they experienced the many facets of dance-making, its opportunities/challenges and its aesthetic along with the social and political concerns that may surface in creative work or in daily life. This Fall, Philadelphia was the culminating residency.
Tamara Zsófia Vadas, Budapest-based dance maker, performer, choreographer and educator, has participated at the iDANS Festival in Istanbul and Impulstanz Festival in Vienna among many other venues and festivals. She is a recipient of numerous awards including grants from the Ministry of Human Resources in Hungary.
Silvia Cherneva says she “tries to maintain an air of mystery by combining different forms and genres so that none of them reveal what her real skills are.” She has been a co-organizer, teacher and artist at the award-winning Focus: Screendance programme, has co-organized and performed as part of PIC – Platform for Improvisation and Composition, has been co-running the cultural program at Hod Movement Laboratory. She recently made her choreographic stage debut premiering “Critical Mass” at Toplocentrala Center for Contemporary Arts in Sofia.
Christina Gesualdi is a Philadelphia-based dancer, choreographer, improviser and yoga teacher. She has danced in projects of Annie Wilson, Zornitsa Stoyanova, Megan Bridge, Curt Haworth, and Nicole Bindler. Christina has shared her own dance work in Philadelphia as well as Portland, Detroit, Asheville and Poznan, Poland. She says, “All into the process soup goes: attending to sensation, gentleness, listening, failing/flailing, queering, patience and indirectness.”
Gabrielle Revlock is a choreographer, performer, improviser, and somatics educator, whose work is
influenced by postmodern dance, experimental theater, conceptual art and compassionate
communication. She is a New York City Bessie Award-winning choreographer. Internationally, she
has performed in Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, Hungary, Russia and India. As a dancer she has
performed for brilliant artists including Susan Rethorst, Lucinda Childs, Jane Comfort, and Susan
Marshall.