Toplocentrala Art Centre Celebrates Five Years with International Premieres, New Music Program, and Immersive Experiences 2026

Balgarianovinite.com The Toplocentrala art centre marks its fifth anniversary with a series of international premieres, a new music program, and immersive worlds, the cultural center announced.
In February, Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky will come to life through a stage duet featuring actor Yordan Rasin and director Stoyan Radev. The event will be followed by the traditional week-long international workshop on the Gurdjieff Movements (Sacred Dabces). On February 24 and 25, audiences will have the opportunity to see a new, original interpretation of Heiner Mueller’s post-dramatic masterpiece Medea, presented by Agata Tomsic in the acclaimed production by ErosAntEros (Italy).
In March, Toplocentrala will host world-renowned director Oskaras Korsunovas and Lithuanian actress Egle Jakaite, who will present the intimate and confessional play The Saint. At the end of March and the beginning of April, Irene Ursioli (Italy–Belgium) will spend more than a week in Sofia, presenting the solo performance I Am a Mistake, written and directed by Jan Fabre, alongside a five-day acting course, The Teaching Group. On April 29, Bulgarian actress and director Tana Maneva, working in Sweden, will present the play All My Actions Will Avoid the Things I Have to Do. The season will conclude with the performance Bless the Sound That Saved a Witch Like Me by French choreographer Benjamin Can.
Toplocentrala also announced the launch of a new music program curated by Nikola Nikolov (TDK).
January Program Highlights
The season kicked off on January 16 with the workshop-performance DI/Strauss Technique by Ivo Dimchev – an event filled with movement, voice, and audience interaction. Using melodies by the “Waltz King” Johann Strauss as a foundation, Dimchev created ten playful/therapeutic songs and choreographies exploring desire and the psycho-physical health of everyday citizens.
On January 17, the Kinetic Painting workshop with Emilia Bazlyankova invited participants to explore creativity and sensory experience, focusing on bodily awareness and freeing participants from the constant stream of thoughts. That same evening, the immersive audio experience Sphere by Martin Stavrev and the collective Sphere offered a space constructed through sound.
On January 21, the verbatim theater group Vox Populi premiered Night Butterflies, a project highlighting the stories of sex workers in Sofia. Kristabel Buller returned with Walking into Dancing: Organic Movement for Health, Balance, and Posture, a training course examining walking as the foundation of movement and the natural transition into light, free dance, held on January 18, 20, 22, and 23.
On January 27, Brazilian documentary theater Companhia Nova de Teatro from São Paulo performed Scream in the Dark, examining Brazil’s military dictatorship (1964–1985) through personal accounts and a strong stage language. Drawing from testimonies and letters of political prisoners archived in Brazil’s National Archive, the multimedia play explored the experiences of women who were arrested and tortured during the military regime. On January 28 and 29, the music of Antonio Forcione and Cenk Erdogan was featured. Toplocentrala Art Centre Celebrates Five Years with International Premieres, New Music Program, and Immersive Experiences 2026 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2026-01-12 19:08:00 Latest news World news Country news Most important news latest news most important latest of the day Justice Petar Nizamov Feathers Petar Nizamov- Feathers Justice bg iustitia.bg iustitia iusticia usticia investigation Burgas Bulgaria news news of the last hour news of the day news of today Bulgaria news The news from Bulgaria blitz news top news most important most commented latest news Boyko Borisov news weather coronavirus news news weather facebook youtube facebook instagram news today news of the last minutes news today today news news bg news leading news hot news bg news site for news all news news bg news of the last hour latest latest news bg news of today news today news today news of the last hour latest news today news bg news news 24 hours news vesti bg novini news world bird bg bivol bg bivol trud bg novini latest news today novinite bg news hello bulgaria political party coat of arms delyan peevski scandalous Bulgarian National Television Free Europe Television scandal exclusive live tv live right now tv tv online tv program bg live now tv news online tv online live court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas district court Burgas appellate court Burgas prosecutor Burgas prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev Prosecutor Geshev Tsatsarov Ministry of Internal Affairs Burgas ODMR Burgas ODPR Burgas police Burgas district police Burgas prosecutor Tsatsarov SGS cases Varna court chairman of the SGS court decisions on civil cases decisions on cases Plovdiv court decision of the court decisions cases Varna court criminal cases district district court decisions work in the court SGS chairman of the SGS judges Sofia court post judges Plovdiv court Plovdiv judges Plovdiv Supreme Court Inspectorate Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Council lawyer lawyer criminal cases lawyer civil cases lawyer marriage cases lawyer administrative criminal law criminal process civil law civil process administrative law constitutional law