SCREAM – Contemporary Visual Dance Site-Specific Performance by Derida Dance Center

Premiere: May 20th, 2025

Location: Hall of Urns, Mausoleum of Adrian, Castell Sant´Angelo, Rome, Italy

CREDITS:

Choreograph: Jivko Jeliazkov

Dancers: Mihail Bonev, Elena Marinova, Filip Milanov and local dancers

Visual artist: Ivelina Ivanova

Composer: Ivan Shopov

Production team: Derida Dance Center, Mira Georgieva and Atanas Maev

“How heavy is the pain when it’s not only yours? How long can you carry someone else’s suffering before it becomes your own? SCREAM is the pulse of a generation torn between silence and scream, between the fear of feeling and the need to be heard. This performance is aimed at a young audience—one searching for its voice in a world filled with both noise and silence.

Inspired by Andrea Camilleri’s No Time Left to Be Born, this is not a story. It is the moment when you look into another’s eyes and see yourself. It is the moment when the body speaks because words are no longer enough.

SCREAM is a site-specific performance that places the audience in a unique elevated perspective, observing the dancers and the dynamic visual environment unfolding beneath them. The performance employs a minimalist movement vocabulary, while video mapping creates effects that merge with the choreography, amplifying the emotional impact.

Do you hear the scream? Or is it yours?”

JIVKO JELIAZKOV

Jivko Jeliazkov graduated the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria and specialized in contemporary choreography at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia. He is the co-founder of the first center for contemporary dance in Bulgaria, Derida Dance Center, Vice-Chairman and co-founder of the Art Link Foundation, and Artistic Director of Derida Stage and Derida Company. In 2018, he was selected as one of the Top 20 choreographers in Europe by the largest platform for contemporary dance in Europe, Aerowaves – Dance Across Europe. His performances have been featured in Europe, America and Asia. In 2017, he won the