Ventcislava

Bits of process with @emmapoyer 📹🌀✨ #behindthescenes #dancefilm #movement #immersiveart

Channel - Walk - Stop - Turn - Channel - Walk - Stop - Turn - Channel - Walk - Stop - Turn I read this somewhere. This is a research post. Right now I feel more like a person and less like a machine.

Cycles (2025) an immersive 360° virtual reality dance film Ventcislava Nekova (@ventciii / @ventciful )as a part of MA Digital Direction (@rca_digitaldirection ) The bodies we bring into virtual environments, our physical, social, and present selves, carry with them the norms and rules of the material world, shaping how we move, interact, and perceive within immersive spaces. With Cycles, we explore how dance and immersive technology can reveal the invisible structures of control that shape movement and identity in a setting known by everyone: the dining table. The project combines dance, projection, and sound to surface internalised power structures and reimagine digital space as a site of embodied resistance. Rooted in feminist theory, performance studies, and immersive tech, it questions how familiar domestic settings like the dining table become sites of discipline and repetition. Developed collaboratively with dancer Emma Poyer (@emmapoyer ), Cycles invites audiences into an intimate, affective encounter with control, memory, and transformation. This was made using Unity, Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Adobe Audition, filmed on a Black Magic 4K camera. Technical support by Rodrigo Canas, Kitty Choi, Charlotte Raymen, Kyle Ramsay, and Joe Hirst. The work premiered on 2nd July 2025 at Frameless Gallery. #VRArt #ImmersiveDance #360Film #EmbodiedResistance #DigitalPerformance #FeministArt #Biopolitics #CyclesVR #FramelessLondon #RCADigitalDirection #DegreeShow2025

Last week, Cycles premiered at @framelessldn ! Thank you to my absolutely unique friend, talent, performer, muse, supporter, angel of a person @emmapoyer for making this piece with me and bringing it to life. Thank you to @rca_digitaldirection for facilitating the event and for the amazing people it brought to me this year. We presented the live performance of Cycles (there is also a VR version of it) tracing how habitual movements keep gendered power in motion, and how the bodies we carry into virtual worlds drag those same rules with them. The work asks new technologies not to replicate those internalised structures but to interrupt them so the cycle can finally break. Stay tuned to witness the project and the processes unfold!

Ventcislava Nekova is an artist and movement director working across dance, immersive technology, and digital storytelling. Her work explores how bodies absorb, internalise, and resist systems of control, particularly in digital and domestic spaces, using choreography as a language to expose what often goes unseen. Currently completing her MA in Digital Direction at the Royal College of Art, Ventcislava also takes part in the Women@Dior & UNESCO mentorship programme. Her practice spans performance, installation, and moving image, often developed through close collaboration with dancers, technologists, sound designers, stylists, and other artists. Her work aims to create spaces where stories are physically felt. Her approach is research-led and politically engaged, drawing from feminist theory, biopolitics, and embodied storytelling. She is particularly interested in how immersive tools like digital projection, 360° film and VR can both reinforce and challenge the systems that shape us. In 2023, she presented her short film Echoes of Connection at Shoreditch Arts Centre and worked as a movement director on multiple theatre and dance-led productions. Her latest project Cycles, developed with choreographer @emmapoyer and Sound Designer @zlatamech , will be shown at Frameless London on 2nd of July as part of the RCA Festival of Communication. Set around a dining table, it invites viewers to reflect on how family dynamics, routine, and gendered habits shape our understanding of power, care, and identity.

Hello! I’m crowdfunding the production of my performance project Cycles. It’s a piece about the conventions, rules, systems we internalise, the power of the dynamics we have around while growing up and how we resist them. Through dance and immersive technology, Cycles explores these themes and invites reflection. If you can give £1, it really helps! (more if you want) Link in bio. Thank you and I really appreciate your help! On the poster: my lovely and talended collaborator performer and choreographer @emmapoyer #contemporarydancer #digitalperformance #womeninart #danceandtechnology #performanceart #bodypolitics #immersiveart #emergingartists

An exploration of bodies, spaces, being digital and what connection could be. Our project “Rewiring Intimacy” will be exhibited on the 10 & 11 of April at the RCA Battersea Hangar space. After months of researching, experimenting, prototyping and iterating, I’m so grateful and proud of the work we have done! You are the best: 1.3.0 : @benalexroe @b_ernice @justjmina @yamariichi Performers: @emmapoyer @makkorda

In our Ethereal Maison recap, we are so happy to showcase the amazing works of our first exhibition "Éter Space" In this post we have the works by @martha_bealey_art in a nook with the matching Lamp @summermorrison and her animation @ventciii with her ceramic workshop @marina.com.m with her tiny pieces in the library about her past And @_madamelala 's reverses love story as Polaroids inside the table glass Photos by @yvanr0d and @nunajal

Research, research, research, research…

We are so happy to host @ventciful @ventciii specially since her work on this exhibition wilk experiment with other different media than she is used to, clay. Ventci’s work usually revolves around the theme of body/mind connection and the creation of community. She motion tracks her own movement and applies it to digitally created 3D avatars of peers. By offering this visualisation, she aims to encourage them to engage in the physical activities she executes. When transferring the dance digitally, she offers a new experience of our perception of ourselves and our surroundings. 🌪️🥞🌿

We are delighted to have out tenth artist @ventciii @ventciful work with us on Èter Spaces. 🌿🌪️🥞 Ventcislava Nekova is a research-based, kinaesthetic communication designer. Believing that movement is essential to our society, she incorporates physical movement and bodily experiences as a means of visual communication. Her practice explores moving-image, performance and user-experience design in order to translate the link between our bodies and our environment. Ventcislava collaborates with professional dancers and various designers in the creation of her work. Looking forward to her participatory pieces during our exhibition.

We are presenting our tenth artist @ventciful @ventciii For this first exhibition of Ethereal Maison she is going to to turn her space for the exhibition into a communal space, where both herself, the viewers and the other artists participating in the project are invited to mould from clay objects and extensions. The project aims to provide a meditative experience, a sensory and playful environment for unscripted performance. She works with body, movement and experimentations is processes. The last pictures are snippets of her amazing dissertation. We are very happy to host her participatory pieces at Èter Spaces in Ethereal Maison. 🥞🌪️🌿 First photo by the amazing @annitoyah