NEDA RUZHEVA (BG)
- anjapiabiscak
- Dec 20, 2025
- 1 min read
Trevoga
Neda Ruzheva discovered contemporary dance at age eight and trained at the Academy of Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam, later continuing at the Sandberg Institute. In 2023, she co-founded Trevoga, a collective of Eastern European artists embracing a horizontal, co-creative process. Neda’s choreography fuses academic rigor with subcultural grit, blending theory, sculpture, industrial sound, and intense physicality to explore the commodification of desire, the aesthetics of decay, and the hidden vulnerabilities of contemporary life. Her trajectory – from early Bulgarian break battles to European stages – reflects a generational impulse to reclaim vulnerability as resistance and to use the body as a site of critique and communion.
Trevoga is a collective united by a desire to let contemporary anxieties be felt in the body. Their work transforms the stage into a space of visceral reflection, exposing the tension, desire, and cultural detritus of modern life. Rejecting conventional dance hierarchies, Trevoga treats the body not as a temple, but as a site to interrogate urban hyperreality, pop culture, and consumerist debris, creating performances that are unsettling, sensuous, and urgently alive.
Speaker: Kristina Aleksova
Photo: Giovanni Salice
