News
October 2010
Katherina will be performing Burning Black at Emergency Festival in Manchester on the 2nd October at the Greenroom. For more information visit www.greenroomarts.org/archive/events/emergency-2010/
September 2010
Katherina will be designing the set and costumes for Scottish Dance Theatre's new piece choreographed by Kate Weare. The piece will open in February 2011 and will tour extensively in the UK during 2011
July 2010
Katherina is designing the set and costumes for Elephant 21 by The Mayhem Company- a new writting play opening at Royal Court Theatre Local- Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre- Unit 219 on 12 July 2010 http://themayhemcompany.net/
June 2010
Katherina and Alister Lownie will be presenting their new piece Burning Black at South Hill Park on June 19th at 7pm. Invite below:
Play is not always playful. You light a match and watch it burn. It is about enjoying the smallest, almost imaginary, danger. It can be about the transformative event, an experience shared amongst those present at one unique moment. Burning Black is a journey through the mysteries of fire. Working with memory and ritual, it draws the viewer into an ephemeral community. From those moments together, what do the flames destroy? What endures? Bring your past, your dreams, and together we'll forge the present.
Katherina Radeva and Alister Lownie have been working together since October 2009, investigating community and memory. Working with installation and performance, they are the artists in residence for the At Play exhibition, devising this new work at South Hill Park.
Free, but please RSVP kat@katherinaradeva.co.uk
May 2010
Katherina is performing her Native Birds at The Bear, Oval, London on 12 May at 9:30pm as part of Arts 4 Human Rights www.arts4humanrights.org.uk
Katherina is performing her new piece Fallen Fruit- now you are here- now you are gone on 22 May at the Bluecoat, Liverpool as art of Poolside Emergency 2010 www.theblueoat.org.uk
April 2010
Katherina is taking a research trip to Bulgaria and Turkey looking at old rituals around/ about and using fire. This research will later be used for Burning Black - a new performance created in collaboration with Alister Lownie. Radeva & Lownie will develop the piece as part of a Residency at South Hill Park in June 2010. Showing of the work in progress is scheduled for 19 June at 7pm at South Hill Park.
February 2010
27 February - Katherina will be showing a short work in progress of Fallen Fruit at the Rules & Regs re union dinner at Battersea Arts Centre
12 February- Katherina is working as a director and devisor for two short performance pieces devised with 4 actors and 10 theatre design students from Wimbledon College of Art on themes from Shakespeare's As you like it. Performances will take place on 12 February at the Theatre at Wimbledon College of Art, London SW19 3QA.
January 2010
- Katherina is designing the set and costume for Ill met by Moonlight by Moon Fool Theatre Company- a Trestle Theatre and South Hill Park co oproduction - national tour starting 3 February 2010 www.trestle.org.uk
February
3 & 4 -Trestle Arts Base, St Albans/ 5 -South Hill Park, Bracknell
9- Theatre by the Lake, Keswick/ 11-The Cut, Halesworth/13- Merlin Theatre, Frome/ 23- Queens Hall Arts Centre, Hexham/ 24- Darlington Arts Centre/
25 -The Theatre Chipping Norton/ 26- E M Forster Theatre, Tonbridge
March
9- The Brewhouse, Taunton/ 10-Salisbury Arts Centre/ 11-Cornerstone, Didcot
12 & 13Mercury Theatre, Colchester/ 17-Guildhall Arts Centre, Grantham
18- Croydon Clocktower/ 23- Jersey Arts Centre/ 25- Arts Depot, North Finchley
26- Old Town Hall, Hemel Hempstead
December 2009
- Native Birds - 5th December at The Basement, Brighton as part of the Supperclub www.thebasement.uk.com/
- Drawings and video work at the Byrd Hoffman Foundation in Brooklyn, New York/ Private View on 10 Devember http://robertwilson.com/about/bhwf
November 2009
- Native Birds- 15th November as part of Experimentica 09, Chapter, Cardiff www.chapter.org Full lenght video of the show at Experimantica can be viewed here www.culturecolony.com/videos?id=1038
-All Night Trio by Moon Fool on 19th November- Costume and Set Design by Katherina Radeva, work in progress showing at Trestle Arts Base, St.Albans. National tour from February 2010 www.trestle.org
October 2009
- Native Birds at Showroom, Chichester- 15 October www.chiuni.ac.uk/showroom/index.cfm
- Kitty has no Pity- The Art of Not Giving Up- new piece of live work as part of Rules and Regs at South Hill Park, Bracknell- presentation on 16 and 17 October www.southhillpark.org.uk Mentored by Nikki Tomlinson
- Fallen Fruit - new performance piece based on this year's 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall as part of Up the Wall, Chester- 23 & 24 October, Roman Gardens, Chestre www.chesterperforms.com
September 2009
- Native Birds as part of Tasty- 10 September at The Albany Cafe, Deptford, London www.tastydinersclub.com
- The Glass Mountain- by Trestle Theatre- Set and Costume Design by Katherina Radeva opening on 24th at Trestle Arts Base St. Albans www.trestle.org.uk then touring nationally for eight weeks
August 2009
Katherina is writing the text for her new performance piece Fallen Fruit loosely based on this year's 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
Katherina is devising , storyboarding and filming her documentary film FRIDAY - to be released end of November 2009
July 2009
Katherina will be performing her Native Birds at Pilot 17, Birmingham on 2 July 2009
June 2009
Katherina has been painting- new paintings on the Drawings and Objects page under Dancing Dogs and Magic Tricks
Katherina is designing the set and costumes for Trestle Theatre's Glass Mountain opening on June 19th 2009 at Trestle Arts Base, St. Albans- extpansive national tour starting in September2009 running to November 2009
Images of the Preview Performances are now uploaded on the Design for Theatre page
After an amazing time at Robert Wilson's Watermill Centre, NY developing her new piece Native Birds ( images of the piece on the Performance & Live Art page) Katherina is back in town with lots of energy. Below are her forthcoming events in May 2009
- 6th May 2009 7:30pm Native Birds a devised performance at Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street, London E1
- 10th May 2009- Looking OUT- a solo exhibition at M2 Gallery, 2c Kings Grove, Peckham SE15 Private View on 10th May 2009 4-6pm. The exhibition is on for a month and it can be viewed 24/7
- 16-17th May 2009 Native Birds devised performance as part of Internationale, a weekend of performanve and discussions, Bluecoat, Liverpool
March 2009- Katherina will be developing her latest piece Native Birds- a devised performance at Robert Wilson's Watermill Centre, New York 11976, USA. For more information on the project please visit
February- May 2009- Katherina will be shooting and working on a documentary film called FRIDAY about a group of young Bulgarian folklore dancers based in London. Details of screenings to follow.
February 2009- Katherina is opening her studio for visitors. Weekend of 21 and 22 February 2009. For more details get in touch via the contact page.
January 2009- Katherina will be performing her Birds behind Bars (work in progress) for Practice at Salisbury Arts Centre on 31 January (Saturday) at 8pm. www.salisburyartscentre.co.uk
Katherina will be working with Trestle Theatre Company on their new show The Glass Mountain- to tour in the second part of 2009. www.trestle.org.uk
Katherina is preparing for a solo exhibition of new work Looking Out at the M2 Gallery, London opening in May 2009 www.quay2c.com
November 29-30 2008- Katherina will be taking part at the Christmas Art Market in Leverkusen's Cultural Centre- Forum, Germany
November 14th 2008 7-9pm Private View of The Scale of Things at 1DEA5PAC7 Space, bellenden road, peckham, London- an exhibition of new work- drawings, paintings and objects by Katherina Radeva and Frances Scott.
October 2008- Katherina has won a place on the new documentary film course at UCL- London in Motion taking place from November 2008- May 2009 www.london-in-motion.ucl.ac.uk
September 2008-Katherina is doing a mini tour of her current work in progress Birds Behind Bars. The piece can be seen at
-Battersea Arts Centre as part of Freshly Scratched on 25th September 2008 www.bac.org.uk also featuring Jordan Gogov
-Greenroom, Manchester as part of Emergency on 27th September 2008 www.greenroomarts.org
-Easton Community Centre, Bristol as part of You and Your Work 5 on 3rd October 2008 www.youandyourwork.blogspot.com
August 2008- Katherina has been awarded a Residency at Robert Wilson's Watermill Art Centre in New York to develop and present her new performance piece Native Birds (working title). The Residency will take place in March 2009. See www.watermillcenter.org
August 2008-Katherina's Costume Designs for Lost Dog's Hungry Ghosts are going on tour. For details, dates and venues. See www.lostdogdance.co.uk
July 2008-Katherina and Frances Scott are preparing for their forthcoming exhibition of new work - objects and paintings The Scale of Things opening in November 2008 in 1DEA5PAC7 Gallery, Peckham, London.
August 2008-Katherina is taking part in Mathew Robin's DIY5 project Things to make and do. See www.thisisliveart.co.uk
June 2008-Katherina’s work is currently in Tracing Love 24/7 - an exhibition of photographs by more than 30 women from across Europe taking place in Belgrade. See http://www.deve.org.yu
June 2008- Her designs for Daffodils - model box and drawings is currently in Collaborators UK Design for Performance 2003-2007 at the V&A Museum London until end of October 2008. See http://www.vam.ac.uk/tco
July 2008- Katherina will be taking part in Quarantine’s Summer School 2008 in Manchester as well taking a specialist sewing course in Bulgaria. See http://www.qtine.com
June 2008- Katherina is designing Hansel und Gretel - opera by E. Humperdinck at Open Air Theatre in Surrey opening in September 2008