Fantastic Futures (FF) is Aleksandar Georgiev’s latest choreographic work, part of a continuing line of research including The Power of S, SCREENSAVER, and ATRÁS. These works are shaped by queer nostalgia, radical softness, and the lens of anal politics, where reading from behind becomes a method of resistance.
In FF, nostalgia is taken not as a trap in the past but as a speculative tool for building collective queer futures. It challenges the idea that history is fixed, offering instead a reconstruction through desire, sentimentality, and imagined memory. This is not about reclaiming space, but acknowledging that it has always existed, queerly. From this premise, the piece moves with softness, slowness, and radical tenderness as a new kind of punk gesture.
FF extends Aleksandar’s exploration of anal politics, building an anal body seen from 360º, untied from productivity or identity categories, able to hold multiple selves and relations. Anal politics here is not a metaphor but a grounded and poetic alternative to frontal, reproductive, heteronormative, liberal frames. It offers caress instead of conquest, presence instead of performance. In this, FF becomes a political dance of co-existing bodies, holding each other with strength and vulnerability, on the edge of the fantastic.
Bio
Aleksandar Georgiev (Ace) works with and around choreography, activating poetics of aroundness, not about or of, but circling, holding, and co-existing with phenomena. Since 2019, he has been developing the CO-series, an imaginative PhD research project exploring queer nostalgia, anal politics, and structures of care and co-imagination. Works emerging from this series include The Power of S, SCREENSAVER, ATRÁS, Anal Body/Anal Politics, and Fantastic Futures (FF).
In 2018 Aleksandar co-founded STEAM ROOM and the Imaginative Choreographic Center (ICC) with Darío Barreto Damas and Zhana Pencheva. He also curates, produces, and co-runs cultural programs, festivals, and institutions in Skopje, Sofia, and Tenerife.
He moves within choreographic practices that challenge meritocratic and extractivist logics, embracing queer relationality, collective authorship, and soft infrastructures. He considers his work as choreography, even when it looks like something else.
Synopsis
FANTASTIC FUTURES (FF)
FF unfolds as a deeply familiar and entirely unknown journey. It is a ride through landscapes that shift beneath our feet as we mold and are molded by them. This is not a space of shapeshifting but of transformability — a kinetic state where transition is both the method and the meaning.
FF proposes blueprints for coexisting, born from lived practices, from the stubborn desire to share space, to breathe side by side. These are not utopias to be consumed, but decisions—soft, porous, transparent, and dynamic—that invite you to be a protagonist of shared becomings.
FF is a choreographic contemplation on possible futures not made for one or two, but for more than us.
This work explores the entanglement of queer nostalgia and anal politics, glitching hegemonic subjectivities and offering fantastic alternatives.
Credits
A production by Aleksandar Georgiev.
Choreography: Aleksandar Georgiev.
Performers: Darío Barreto Damas, Caterina Varela, Martín Los Arcos and Aleksandar Georgiev
Music and sound: Tsvetan Momchilov.
Vocals: Daniela Belcheva.
Stage design: Hector León León.
Light design: Grace Morales.
Poster design: Gjorgji Despodov.
Producers: Beatriz Bello, Darío Barreto Damas and Viktoria Kostova.
Co-producers: One Dance Festival, Toplocentrala – Regional Center for Contemporary Art in Sofia, Bulgaria, LAV-C Laboratorio de Artes Vivas y Ciudadanía de Canarias (Canary Islands).
Funding: Cabildo de Tenerife, ICDC Instituto Canario de Desarrollo Cultural Gobierno de Canarias, National Cultural Fund of Bulgaria.
Support: Teatro El Sauzal (Tenerife), Teatro Paraninfo (Tenerife).
Collaboration: Garage Collective – NGO (Sofia), Teatro Victoria (Tenerife).
