BAZA space for choreographic research in Sofia, Bulgaria NOW OPEN

What is BAZA

BAZA is the home of choreographer and improviser Zornitsa Stoyanova and her company BodyMeld. A dream come true, this space focuses on choreographic research, interdisciplinary inquiry, and improvisation. The first private space in Sofia to have a sprung dance floor, Zornitsa hopes it will become a home for local and international independent artists and communities curious and interested in exploring dance, movement, text, and sound.

About BAZA space

BAZA is located on the 2nd floor of an old communist administrative building in Mladost 4, Sofia, Bulgaria. Within 10 min. walking from two red line subway stations, we are easily accessible by buses 76, 305, 413, and 213. Purchased in April 2025, the space underwent extensive renovation to make it into a dance and interdisciplinary space and welcome international and local communities.
In November 2025, Zornitsa and her husband built the only sprung dance floor in Bulgaria that is available to the independent dance scene. On Nov. 29th, we had our first event in the space.

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BAZA’s Mission:

At BAZA space and BodyMeld, we are dedicated to supporting the work of choreographer Zornitsa Stoyanova while fostering collaboration and conversation within the local and global dance performance community. We are dedicated to interdisciplinary dance and performance practices that engage the body as a political, social, and poetic site.

What We Value

Interdisciplinary practice
We believe in crossing genres, methodologies, and artistic languages. Dance does not exist in isolation—it is in constant conversation with sound, text, visual art, theory, activism, and lived experience.

The body as a political site
We recognize the body as shaped by power, history, labor, gender, class, migration, care, and resistance. Our work actively engages questions of bodily autonomy, visibility, precarity, exhaustion, pleasure, and survival—especially within complex and often hostile political climates.

Rigorous research and experimentation
We value deep artistic research, long-term experimentation, and process-driven practices—both in performance making and in how organizations function. We support risk, uncertainty, and unfinished thinking as necessary tools for artistic and political imagination.

Exchange of ideas and methodologies
We create spaces for sharing practices, tools, failures, and questions through workshops, residencies, conversations, and informal encounters. Knowledge is collective, embodied, and constantly evolving.

Community and sustainability
We care deeply about building a sustainable dance ecosystem—one that acknowledges the realities of independent artists’ lives and labor. We aim to support each other not only artistically, but structurally and emotionally.

Multiplicity of identities
We believe in the multifaceted nature of each individual.

Audience experience and accessibility
We value the audience as an active participant in meaning-making. Through our programs, we aim to make experimental and contemporary performance more accessible, legible, and inviting—without simplifying its complexity.

We believe that dance has the power to thrive even in challenging circumstances, and we aim to create an accessible space for contemporary and experimental dance. Through our partnerships with organizations like Movement Research (NYC), Arts Station Foundation (Poland), Műhely Alapítvány (Hungary), and various Philadelphia, USA, and Sofia, Bulgaria, arts institutions, we seek artistic exchanges that elevate our collective creativity. We strive for a sustainable dance community committed to innovation in both performance and organization.

BAZA platforms

research

We support different kinds of interdisciplinary and dance/movement-related research in the form of residencies.

We offer three tracks:

Local artist residency – 40h FREE space for a local to Bulgaria artist with in progress showing and 2 feedback visits with invited guests and choreographer Zornitsa Stoyanova.

One International Choreographer – FREE one week stay at BAZA over the summer with ability to share in progress showing.

Subsidized/Paid residencies – OPEN to all subsidized residencies at reduced rate we can nagotiate. Alternatively, 550 Euro per 7-day stay at BAZA with exclusive 24h access to the space.

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education

Our education platform includes all BAZA-sponsored workshops and classes with Zornitsa Stoyanova and guess artists. Our space is focused on contemporary dance, experimental and authentic movement, improvisation and performance research.
Baza space is also open to teachers who might want to teach their own workshops or intensives through renting our space or a partnership with BAZA.

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events

At BAZA we plan on producing events, in progress showings, screendance nights, open meetings and gatherings as well as sober dance parties. We are still working on our full programing and we will publish it as soon as we have more information. We do not plan on hosting private parties, unless they are co-produced by us. If you have an idea or a question about our events, don’t hessitate to email us.

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RENT BAZA

BAZA is available to rent for rehearsals and events related to dance, dance practices, movement practices, interdiciplinary practices, anything to do with performance and performing art, literature readings and art screenings!

Rent BAZA

Our Prices

We are doing something different! Offering our rent prices at the best possible rates, and also having different prices depending on the time of day you are renting the space.
*NOTE – minimum 4-hour rental at a time could be split over two days or one evening rent.
All prices include tax.

For rental inquiries, email Zornitsa Stoyanova directly at baza.space@outlook.com
or call or send a Viber message to her at +359 879225799

Time	WEEKDAY	WEEKEND
6:00 – 10:00	9 Euro per hour	9 Euro per hour
10:00 – 16:00	11 Euro per hour	12.50 Euro per hour
16:00 – 21:00	12.50 Euro per hour	15 Euro per hour
21:00 – 00:00	9 Euro per hour	10 Euro per hour

A four(4) hour event that has a public showing or a public presentation that sells tickets and happens after working hours, and would require special cleaning after the event is 200лв./100 Euro