Fantastic Futures (A Beginning)
“Dancing in queer nostalgia” is not just a dance; it is a pop TV show, a shared meme, or a quirky advertisement for a dance archive. It is a space for the coexistence of different dance stories, open to kinetic empathy, pleasure, satisfaction, and radical tenderness.
Fantastic Futures is built from ultraperipheral spaces, revisiting our emotional, hidden, ashamed, and guilty pasts, those from behind. It is a rebellion against linear time, where sentimentality and shared memories forge new collective queer realities.
The concepts of “future/queer nostalgia” and “reading from behind” frame the research series that Aleksandar Georgiev began with the works Screensaver and The Power of S.
Fantastic Futures is the next work in this series, starting with this first experience in Galicia titled Fantastic Futures (a beginning).
Aleksandar Georgiev
Aleksandar Georgiev graduated from the Master's program in Choreography at DOCH in 2014. He works and lives simultaneously in Tenerife, Sofia, Skopje, and Stockholm. His recent work revolves around nostalgia as a poetic space of archive, revisiting history and claiming it in a more inclusive manner, radical tenderness, the politicization of the year, and queer/future nostalgia.
His latest artistic works include Screensaver, The Power of S, Echoes of S, and the dragON trilogy.
Together with two other artists, Darío Barreto Damas and Zhana Pencheva, he formed the artistic team STEAM ROOM, the imaginative cultural institution ICC (Imaginative Choreographic Center), and the organization Garage Collective (Bulgaria). Additionally, he is part of structures such as the Nomad Dance Academy Network (Balkans), Lokomotiva - Center for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture (North Macedonia), Interimkultur (Sweden), and PiedeBase (Canary Islands).