STEAM ROOM is an artistic and cultural non-formal group within the field of choreography, dance and performance, initiated by Aleksandar Georgiev (SWE/MK/BG), Zhana Pencheva (BG) and Darío Barreto Damas (SWE/SP), three choreographers/dancers actively operating in several European localities.
STEAM ROOM is formed out of the wish to facilitate conditions and environments that contribute to the development of the work in the field of choreography, dance and performance in different localities, with an intrinsic international vision. STEAM ROOM aims to open spaces for reflection and wider field knowledge through artistic proposals and cultural initiatives.
Their first choreographic work, dragON aka PONY, has been nominated to IKAR prize 2020 of the Union of Artist in Bulgaria in the category “Contemporary Dance and Performance”.
Aleksandar Georgiev - Ace is a choreographer/cultural worker. He has been part of formal and no-formal educational programs such as NOMAD, SPAZIO, DanceWeb, 50 Days Fly Low and Passing Through and Critical Practice program (3rd generation). He graduates at the Master program in Choreography at DOCH, Stockholm, in 2014.
He has been exploring nomadic approaches in terms of working base, constantly replacing himself, but it is in the last 4 years when, while working, he defined four places he considers home/locality, (Stockholm, Sofia, Skopje and Tenerife).
Lately he initiated the choreographic research CO-series. The research works with different artistic practices and methods exploring the ideas of co-existence, hyper and holography through the prism of dance and choreography.
He is member of NGOs such as Lokomotiva (North Macedonia), Garage Collective (Bulgaria) and Interimkultur (Sweden). He is also a member of the network NOMAD (Balkan countries).
Darío Barreto Damas is a freelance dancer working in the field of dance and choreography. Darío is based in Sofia, Skopje, Stockholm and Tenerife.
Throughout his work, Darío focuses in the emancipation/independency of dance and in spaces of de-contextualisations/dis-identifications.
His formal education takes place at Teatro Victoria (Tenerife), Institut del Teatre, (Barcelona) and DOCH (Stockholm). At the moment he is studying the MA Program in Choreography and Performance at Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen.
Darío is member of the NGOs Lokomotiva (North Macedonia) and Interimkultur (Sweden).
Zhana Pencheva is a dancer and choreographer based in Bulgaria. She graduated, (Bachelor and Master), in Dance and Theatre in New Bulgarian University, Sofia. With strong interests around body and movement, she continued her education through series of workshops and non formal programs such as Nomad Dance Academy and DanceWeb.
She is co-founder of Garage Collective, Sofia, a member of Nomad Dance Academy - Bulgaria and member of the board of Hamalogika, Burgas. As a performer, she is actively collaborating with Dune Dance Company, Bulgaria. She works pedagogically with groups of different constellations and needs, focusing her teaching around dance technique and choreographic structures.
Artistically she is interested in the potential of the body as a moving structure and the role emotions play within it. In her last solo work, “Six love songs”, (prized by Tri3avisim 2018, Bulgaria, and nominated for IKAR prize 2020 in the category “Contemporary dance and performance”, Bulgaria), she is exploring pop figures in contemporary culture and the identification of self in performative contexts. Her latest fascination is pole dance.
