Participant Profile

Mariela Gemisheva

Bulgaria
Sofia
Performance

Combining a background in fashion design with an interest in performance art and dance, Gemisheva creates innovative presentations incorporating unique apparel that explore how fashion is used as communication. In the performance Fashion Fire, for instance, professional models cast their designer garments into a bonfire as a gesture of collective liberation and purification. Gemisheva also teaches fashion design and fashion-related performance at the National Art Academy in Sofia. In the US, she wanted to observe different practices in contemporary dance and performance and research the relationships between street and commercial fashion

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