STEAM ROOM

ICC (Imaginative Choreographic Center)

Photo from "dragON forever" STEAM ROOM.

Photo: Nataliya Sidorenko

During their stay in MDT, STEAM ROOM will work on their third and last part of the choreographic trilogy “dragON” and facilitate different events through ICC (Imaginative Choreographic Center) at MDT and in Stockholm. This also includes performing dragON aka PONY at ArkDes as a part of Stockholm Kulturnatt (Culture Night) on the 22 April at 11 pm in the exhibition "Tham & Videgård: On Architecture". Read more about it here. For all STEAM ROOM events happening between 22 and 28 April click here, and for all ICC events between 1 and 7 May click here – or visit our Off Stage section.


STEAM ROOM (North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Spain, Sweden) is an artistic team working within the field of choreography and dance. The team is formed by Aleksandar Georgiev – Ace, Zhana Pencheva and Darío Barreto Damas, three choreographers/dancers actively operating locally and internationally.  STEAM ROOM was formed in 2018.  They have produced two artistic works, (dragON aka PONY and dragON aka PHOENIX as part of the choreographic trilogy dragON), and have initiated cultural programmes focused on discursive and critical practices, the dialogue between artists-art-audience, research, artistic residencies and emerging artists throughout the project institution ICC (Imaginative Choreographic Center).


dragON forever is the third and last part of the choreographic trilogy dragON. The trilogy explores drag practices from a dance and choreographic perspective to ask: how can dance and choreography drag?


The first two works, dragON aka PONY and dragON aka PHOENIX, are inspired by and work with two specific drag practices, ballroom and reading respectively. In dragON forever, STEAM ROOM explores another historic drag practice: the lip sync; a practice dragON forever proposes  as a connection between dance and choreography, a  reflection through musical perspective and common imagination. dragON forever is a concert about eternity. In dragON forever, music is the motor to which the performers dance, a choreographed space with great kinetic impact.


“I'm here

You are here

We are here

And we are ready

You are here

I'm here

And this could go forever"



IG: @steamroom.team Email: steamroom.team@gmail.com

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ICC is a long term artistic project focused on processes of imaginative institutionalisation of the artists work in the field of choreography and dance. 


ICC functions as a net that researches different support structures for artistic works processes and stresses discursive practices around dance and choreography. ICC proposes an undefined space for collectively working around practices of nurturing the choreography and dance scene, and the creation of common resources oriented towards the artist´s work, (the totality of the labour implied in it), its regulation and its processes. 


ICC does not have a physical space even though it actualises itself in different existing physical spaces. Following the same logic, ICC does not own an administrative body / does not have a legal organisation and it functions by collaborating with already existing ones. The territory where it operates intrinsically depends on the people who are part of it. ICC is a black hole, a denationalised container, a proposal for a choreographic center run on the bases of needs and imagination. 


ICC offers different programs focused on discourse and critical practices, the dialogue between artists-art-audience, research and artistic processes. ICC is initiated and run by the artists Aleksandar Georgiev, Zhana Pencheva and Darí­o Barreto Damas and the cultural worker Viktoria Kostova, in close collaboration with Nataliya Sidorenko and Ida Daniel. The locations where ICC currently actualises its program activities are Bulgaria, Macedonia, Sweden and Spain, since the people involved with them are nowadays operating in those places.


IG: @imaginativecc Email: hello@imaginativecc.info

This initiative/project has been activated because of the support of ICC, National Cultural Fund - Bulgaria, Goethe Institute through a Creative Europe program called Culture Moves Europe and MDT. 

This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.