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Katherina Radeva

Listed as: Costume/Set Design, Actor/Performer

kat [at] katherinaradeva.co.uk

www.katherinaradeva.co.uk

0779 040 2521

Victoria Cottage
Stockbridge
SO20 6HB
East Wiltshire
South West

Awards

2006- Artsadmin Bursary Recipient for Early Career Artists

2005- Linbury Biennial Prize for Stage Design: Finalist

2003- Wimbledon School of Art Travel Bursary- Prague for the Prague Quadrennial 2003

Residencies

2010- South Hill Park, Berkshire- Burning Black- devised performance collaborating with Alister Lownie

2009- Rules and Regs at South Hill Park Bracknell, Berkshire, UK- devising a new performance

2009- Robert Wilson’s Watermill Centre, New York, USA developing and devising Native Birds

2007- Arcadia, ACC Gallery, Weimar, Germany- video and installation piece

Education

2005-2001 Wimbledon School of Art, London U.K. Design for Performance-BA (Hons) (1st Class)

2000-1999 City of Bath College, Bath- Foundation Course in Art and Design (Distinction)-scholarship

2000-1995 National High School for Fine Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria (Distinction)

Design for Dance, Film, Theatre

2010 Elephant 21 – set and costume design, Mayhem Company, Royal Court Theatre Local, London

2010 Ill met by Moon light- by Moon Fool Theatre- Set and Costume Design- small scale national tour

2009 Various Cures for Loneliness- Set & Costume Design dir. Martin Constantine, The Albany London

2009 Glass Mountain- Set & Costume Design, Trestle Theatre- national tour

…some wonderfully imaginative work by designer Katherina Radeva…Bristol evening Post

2008 Trestle International Residency- Set & Costume Design, Trestle Arts Base, St.Alban’s

2008 Hungry Ghosts by Lost Dog dance company- Costume Design, International Tour

2008 Hansel und Gretel- Costume and Set Design for opera, Woodhouse Open Theatre, Surrey

2008 Veil by Bob Frith, Horse and Bamboo Theatre Set & Costume Design for mid scale National Tour

“Veil is a huge step forward for visual theatre” The Stage

2008 Fat Christ by Gavin Davis, Set & Costume Design, Kings Head Theatre, London

“A word has to go to Katherina Radeva who provided a very serviceable set” The British Theatre Guide

2007 Hungry Ghosts by Lost Dog dance company- Set & Costume Design, The Place, London

2007 Subtransmission by Simon Humphreys Musical Play Costume Design- Courtyard Theatre London

2007 An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde- Costume Design, Cockpit Theatre, London

2007 Pig Tales – Set & Costume design for small scale touring production by Julie McNamara

2007 Ignorance Is- Set & Costume Design for new writing, Chelsea Theatre, London

2007 Persona Non Grata- Set & Costume design for dance- by Carlota Miceli-The Place, London

2006- The Underpants adapted by Steve Martin- Set and Costume Design, Old Red Lion Theatre

“Katherina Radeva’s design is impressive” The Stage, **** Metro, **** The Sunday Telegraph

2005 Twelfth Night by W. Shakespeare- Costume Design a site specific performance, Soho, London

2005 Smother Mother - Production Design for a 16mm film dir. Mark Sayles, London Film School

2005 Daffodils part of “Dance Collaborations 2005”- Set & Costume Design, The Place, London

Devised Performance Works by Katherina Radeva

2010 Burning Black- devised piece with dir. Alister Lownie as part of At Play Residency, South Hill Park

2010 Fallen Fruit- now you are here- now you are gone- at the Bluecoat, Liverpool

2010 You might like it- devised project with theatre design students- Wimbledon College of Art, London

2009 Kitty has no Pity- The Art of Not Giving Up- South Hill Park, Berkshire as part of Rules & Regs 09

2009 Fallen Fruit- as work in progress at Up the Wall Chester and Blue Elephant Theatre London

2009 Native Birds-Watermill Centre, NY & Artsadmin London, Pilot Birmingham, Showroom Chichester, Experimentica Chapter Cardiff, The Basement Brighton

2009-2008 Birds behind Bars- (work in progress) - Freshly Scratched BAC London, Emergency at Greenroom Manchester, Easton Community Centre, Bristol and Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury

2008 Wine with a difference- devised performance, Keeping it Live, Hertford, curated by Holly Darton

2007 Part and Parcel devised performance, Toynbee Studios, as part of Artsadmin Bursary, London

2007 Water into Wine -devised performance at The National Review of Live Art, Glasgow

2005-2004 Settling Dirt –devised performance at EXPO, Nottingham, Insomnia, London and East End Collaborations, London

2004 Inside and OUT - devised performance Area 10, London and N.R.L.A, Glasgow

2003 Bird Can FLY - devised performance Wimbledon Arts Club, London and Cinema Nova, Brussels

2003 Deferral - devised performance Wimbledon School of Art Theatre, London

Selected Exhibitions and Films

2009 Looking OUT- a solo exhibition and installation created for M2 Gallery, London, U.K.

2009 Friday- a documentary film about a group of Bulgarian Folklore Dancers based in London

2008 the scale of things- Duo exhibition of paintings and objects- Ideas Space, London

2008 Tracing Love 24/7 – Group Photography Exhibition, DEVE, Belgrade, Serbia

2008 Mein erstes Kunsterlebnis – The first time you encountered Art, Wallraf das Museum, Cologne created by Cornel Wachter

2008-2007 2003-2007 Collaborators, SBTD Exhibition of UK Design for Performance, Nottingham and Victoria and Albert Museum, London

2006 Zoo group show of drawings- Nolia’s Gallery, London

2005 Linbury Biennial-Finalist- Lyttelton Foyer, Royal National Theatre, South Bank, London

2002 Solo exhibition- Stonemasons Arms, Hammersmith, London, UK- screen-prints

2001 International Drawing Competition Exhibition- Moderna Galeria Rijeka, Croatia

2001 Prints in Varna Printmaking Biennial, Varna, Bulgaria

Forthcoming Events

Fallen Fruit- now here, now gone Two Destination Language Katherina Radeva 11 Feb

Venue: ICIA Theatre University of Bath
Full Price: £10
Concession Price: £8 University Staff/ £5 BUSU

Bulgarian performance maker Katherina Radeva takes you on a journey through love, childhood and breaking free in this solo performance. Fallen Fruit – now here, now gone be...

Posted by Katherina Radeva | 07.01.12 | Categories: solo performance about identit

Key Projects

Elephant 21 by Sarah May, directed by Ben May, Royal Court Theatre Local, London: Costume and Set Design for the Elephant 21 theatre production. Devised by the Mayhem Company. Produced by the Mayhem Company and Royal Court Theatre. Funded by the Arts Council and the Future Trust.
Ill Met by Moon light by Moon Fool Theatre: Set and Costume Design for Ill Met by Moon light- a devised theatre performance by Moon Fool Theatre. Director- Ian Morgan. Co production with Trestle Theatre Company
The Glass Mountain by Trestle Theatre Company: Set and Costume Design for The Glass Mountain- a Trestle Theatre Production. Directed by Emily Gray. National Tour 2009
Burning Black- devised performance by Katherina Radeva and Alister Lownie: 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.
Fallen Fruit- devised performance by Katherina Radeva: Fallen Fruit -now you are here- now you are gone is a solo performance piece about building and destroying the walls that are between us, the walls that are around us and the walls that are imposed onto us. Fallen Fruit -now you are here- now you are gone has in its background a loose tie to last year’s 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. With this in mind Fallen Fruit- now you are here- now you are gone is a piece about what happened behind the Iron Curtain in the late 80’s examining the actual wall which divided a city/ country and continent and walls featured in stories of personal barriers and physical obstructions. “very strong performance language, very unique, very modernist in a way, i like that! it kind of grabs you, and then you are captured... also i loved you interaction with the audiences, very gentle, non-imposing... and it worked.... the whole set design and playfulness with it and words on boxes - that were already there - worked really well... lovely presence, some beautiful writing, your narrative... overall, it was brilliant, so full, and so captivating and so touching and so you - what a different world you created and sustained it so well. Lena Simic, The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home on Fallen Fruit now you are here- now you are gone ( work in progress) at the Blue Coat, Liverpool May 2010
Native Birds- devised performance by Katherina Radeva: Native Birds examines what is to be free. Based loosely on the story of the five Bulgarian medics who were wrongly imprisoned in Libya from 1999-2007 for allegedly infecting children with HIV, this work also presents a personal journey of a yaoung Eastern European woman living in the west. Native Birds is a performance using elements of Bulgarian folklore, simple actions, movement, text and video in a space filled with thousands of paper birds. “Katherina Radeva’s Native Birds was shown as a work in progress at Toynbee Studios in May 2009. I was moved by the work by both the content – the loss of freedom, the joys of travel and migration, scapegoating “others”, and the false notion of the foreigner as an virus infecting the host. The visual design of the work was beautiful, particularly the 1007 origami birds that covered the stage. Radeva took risks and pushed the boundaries of her practice to write and perform a work that included extensive use of text, spoken word and animation. As a writer, she has great potential. She is also a wonderful performer who captivated my attention. We are pleased that she was awarded an Artsadmin Artists Bursary in 2006.” Manick Govinda- Senior Artist’s Advisor at Artsadmin on Native Birds