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Join surdce dance collective’s dancers for a FREE community dance workshop @ Pelican House.This event is co-produced by POMOC’s What Was Us, What Is Us working group: a space for Eastern Europeans to gather, reflect, and organise for justice and transnational solidarity.
What Open level dance workshop, exploring themes of Eastern European heritage
When 21st August 2025 @ 6:30 pm
Where Pelican House - 144 Cambridge Heath Rd, London E1 5QJ, United Kingdom
For who Everyone is welcome, whether it’s your 1st time dancing or you’re an experienced dancer. Children 6+ can also attend with a parent / carer participating. Please email access requirements to surdcedancecollective@gmail.com
Bring with you Water bottle, comfortable clothes to move in, socks, barefoot or clean shoes for movement.
About surdce dance collective
We are a British Bulgarian dance company of a new generation. We explore myth, heritage, mysticism and identity through a female gaze. Our two co-Artistic Directors Marchela Merchant and Stephanie Handjiiska are creating original work through the viewpoint of the female migrant and inspired by the female energy would like to think of a new world.
About Samodiva
Samodiva is the debut dance performance by surdce dance. This immersive dance work reconstructs and embodies the mythical female creatures called samodivas (самодиви in Bulgarian) - who roam free into the forests, declining patriarchal world order and living as one with nature, animals and plants. Director & choreographer Marchela-Vasilena Merchant challenges an international cast of 6 female dancers to embody the timeless wisdom of the samodivas in front of the London audience.
Samodiva is created with the financial support of Arts Council England.
Join surdce dance collective’s dancers for a FREE community dance workshop @ Pelican House.This event is co-produced by POMOC’s What Was Us, What Is Us working group: a space for Eastern Europeans to gather, reflect, and organise for justice and transnational solidarity.
What Open level dance workshop, exploring themes of Eastern European heritage
When 21st August 2025 @ 6:30 pm
Where Pelican House - 144 Cambridge Heath Rd, London E1 5QJ, United Kingdom
For who Everyone is welcome, whether it’s your 1st time dancing or you’re an experienced dancer. Children 6+ can also attend with a parent / carer participating. Please email access requirements to surdcedancecollective@gmail.com
Bring with you Water bottle, comfortable clothes to move in, socks, barefoot or clean shoes for movement.
About surdce dance collective
We are a British Bulgarian dance company of a new generation. We explore myth, heritage, mysticism and identity through a female gaze. Our two co-Artistic Directors Marchela Merchant and Stephanie Handjiiska are creating original work through the viewpoint of the female migrant and inspired by the female energy would like to think of a new world.
About Samodiva
Samodiva is the debut dance performance by surdce dance. This immersive dance work reconstructs and embodies the mythical female creatures called samodivas (самодиви in Bulgarian) - who roam free into the forests, declining patriarchal world order and living as one with nature, animals and plants. Director & choreographer Marchela-Vasilena Merchant challenges an international cast of 6 female dancers to embody the timeless wisdom of the samodivas in front of the London audience.
Samodiva is created with the financial support of Arts Council England.