CREDITS

Authors: Stanislav Genadiev & Violeta Vitanova
In partnership with El Vasileva & Marion Darova
Performer: Marion Darova
​Sound Environment: Stanislav Genadiev
Visual Environment: Iliana Kancheva
Light Design: Elina Ivanov, Stanislav Genadiev Concept Consultant: Stanislava Simeonova
Movement Consultant: Galina Borisova
Cinematography: Marin Kafedjiiski
Photography: Martin Atanasov
Produced by “Areality” Association
The project was implemented with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of Bulgaria and in partnership with club DOM – Sofia, Bulgaria

VR
Direction: Enya Belak
Filming and Post-Production: Igor Crnković
Sound recordist: Ivo Vičić
Technical Support: Sanjin Valić, Željko Dešić
Photography: Borut Brozović
Production Management: Hrvatski kulturni dom na Sušaku / Croatian Cultural Center (HKD)
In Collaboration with Ringside

Funded by the European Union in the frame of the Moving Balkans Contemporary Dance Platform

Filmed in VR 180° at The ship Galeb – City Museum of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

January 2026

ABOUT

The VR film will tour across the Moving Balkans network: Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, North Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Montenegro & Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Saline Nebula is a striking anti-utopia project that transforms the abstract into the tangible, and the unseen into the visible. Through choreography, it brings chaos, loneliness, and beauty to the forefront, turning shadows into images and form. This exploration of the primal human condition reveals a universe both alien and deeply human, capturing an ethereal world on the edge of the unknown.

Critic Mila Iskrenova describes Saline Nebula as “beautifully startling…a picture of insurmountable abandonment in a lonely and threatening world.” She observes that Violeta Vitanova and Stanislav Genadiev’s vision “delves deeply into the unconscious, generating images of primordial loneliness with a cosmic nature and dimension.” The piece offers audiences a raw, haunting glimpse into a universal void, balancing the surreal with the intensely human.