Iskra Prodanova (1988) is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher with a background in choreography, movement-based practices, and performance art. She focuses on liminality, slowing down, (un)learning, and listening, to embrace new ways of being.
Iskra graduated as a choreographer-pedagogue from Varna Free University "Chernorizets Hrabar" in 2011, after which she developed her career thanks to many workshops, intensive programs, casualties, events, and encounters with numerous artists. Some of them include Diego Agullo (Body and Event; Dangerous dance); Doris Uhlich (More than naked); Philippe Saire; David Zambrano; Nigel Charnock (DV8); Leslie Baker (Six Viewpoints); Adi Weinberg (GAGA movement); Iztok Kovac (En Knap); Christian Bakalov, Sasha Waltz.
Iskra was part of Derida Dance Center's residency programme in 2013, where she explored the topic of ‘copy and the original’ through an audio-visual performance with the visual artist Neno Belchev and the sound artist Angel Simitchiev. She has also been part of similar opportunities at Radar Festival Beyond Music in 2017 and Radar Sofia 2021. In 2025, she was invited to Slavs and Tatars' two-month Residency Program designed for artists, curators, researchers, and scholars from the collective's Eurasian remit.
Over the years, she has been creating solo stage works, video works, and has participated in group artistic projects, exhibitions, and performances in various contexts and festivals. Among them: VIDEOHOLICA International Festival for Video Art; DA fest - International Festival for Digital Art; RADAR- Festival Beyond Music; ACT Independent Theatre Festival; VERTIGO Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance; Process Space Art Festival; WATER Festival for Contemporary Art; ATOM Choreographic Series; CAMP Festival for Visual Music; International Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance Antistatic; HOT ROOM / sharing practices and POETIC BODIES / research program in the context of ICC, and many others.
In 2016, Iskra, together with Svetlozara Hristova, initiated the Moving Body platform.
In recent years, Iskra has been busy with solo and collective participatory and choreographic stage works, with her own artistic works, and with dancing for other choreographers and artists.
She shares: “I’ve always been fascinated by liminal spaces, by what happens in-between. In-between cultures, people, systems, and spaces. Because that’s often where the most creative ideas come from. It’s why I first gravitated to the liminal concept — for it describes the magic of the in-between — a transitional space in flux, and full of possibility.”
Her artistic pursuits surround the questions: Where we are moving to? What drives us to move? How do we move from an individual towards a collective body? How do we move in a time of Catastrophe?
These questions are implemented in the way she makes her works and in the way she moves the Moving Body platform, together with her creative partner and cultural manager Svetlozara Hristova, under the motto The Way We Move Matters (TWWMM).
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