August 2023. Artist’s residency at the Toplocentrala Center for Contemporary Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria, performing Je t’embras(s)e by Alexandra Bierlaire. Part of a series of works produced by Elena Marnova as part of Dance Frame Collective.

Je t’embras(s)e is an installation and performance in three acts that reveals the parallels between and dance and bdsm practices through the process of casting a dancers body in liquid latex.

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Thank you to Martina Stefanova, Peter Sragoev and Sara Kisiov for technical support.