Aleksandra Talyokova

Aleksandra Talyokova is a dance artist and choreographer. She is the creator of SAY IT THROUGH YOUR BODY, a program that explores the diversity of life through movement, dance, voice and breath practices. She has initiated socially engaged projects related to building community through the power of music and the performing arts. She studied contemporary dance at Off-Theather (Düsseldorf/Germany) and has worked as a dance artist in various international productions. In 2014 she moved to Vienna where she presented her original performance ‘Painting Spaces’. As assistant-choreographer she has worked at Tanz die Toleranz (Vienna). At the beginning of 2018 she returned to Bulgaria after more than a decade abroad and created a number of choreographies for one of Lyubo Kirov’s concerts and worked with Ivo Dimchev and Ruth Koleva. She was a judge at the first Vogue Ball in Bulgaria. In her work she combines elements from different styles of urban dance culture with contemporary dance, focusing on awakening instincts and reflections for improvisation. She explores speed, effort, soft and dense textures, delicacy and explosive energy. In her dance she playfully explores stereotypes by presenting a palette of bold, crazy, beautiful, hysterical, sexual, ugly, tender, irreconcilable characters.