Ana Vaseva

Ana Vaseva, PhD, is a Lecturer at the Department of Cinema, Advertising and Show Business at New Bulgarian University (NBU). She is also a co-director of the MfA Dance Program at Hollins University (USA) since 2023. Her academic work intersects theater, cinema, and visual arts, with a focus on interdisciplinary forms and contemporary dance. She has authored four books and contributed to numerous articles in journals like "Problemi na kustvo" and "Teatar."

• Education: PhD in 2014 from the Institute for Art Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (dissertation on contemporary dance forms).
• Career: Guest lecturer at NBU since 2014; taught theater history and theory at ТК "Любен Гройс" (2015–2018), co-teaching an acting class with Leonid Yovchev.

Her research spans interdisciplinary art practices, contemporary dance theory, and hybrid projects like video spectacles. She pioneered the "video spectacle" genre, with works such as Daruma (2020) and Atlantis (2023), blending theater, film, and digital media.

Ana Vaseva has co-written TV and film scripts, including episodes of the TV series With a River of the Heart (2022) and adaptations of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (2019). She is a producer at "Meteor," a platform for theater, educational projects, and international collaborations.

Her academic and artistic work has been showcased at institutions like ACUD Theater (Berlin), Gallus Theater (Frankfurt), Whitechapel Gallery (London), and Sofia City Art Gallery. She has lectured in cultural institutions across Sofia, Vienna, Tokyo, London, Berlin, and Zagreb.

• Books:
  • Theatre of Miracles (Sofia: Meteor, 2023)
  • Meteor. Theater of the Impossible (Sofia: Meteor, 2022)
  • Theater and Truth (Sofia: Meteor, 2020)
  • What is Contemporary Dance? (Sofia: Meteor, 2017)

At "Meteor," she has produced dozens of theater, video, and educational projects, emphasizing innovation and cross-disciplinary collaboration.