Krassen Krastev

Krassen Krastev is a Bulgarian dancer, performer and choreographer. Graduated at the National Dance School of Sofia and Rudra-Béjart, in Lausanne. He is founder (together with Teodora Popova and Lilia Stefcheva) of the first contemporary dance company in Bulgaria, « Amarant Dance Studio » in 1993. Krassen Krastev has worked with Company Linga , as a dancer and artistic assistant and after he has created few short dance pieces, presented in a different festivals across Europe. He is a 2004 DanceWeb scholar, where he has worked with Alain Buffard / PI :ES (Paris) and performed in his piece « Mauvais genre ». Krastev's collaboration with Brice Leroux / Continuum (Brussels), began in 2005, first as a dancer and then also as artistic assistant, and after he has worked with Nicole Seiler, Manolis Tsipos and Yan Duyvendak. Since 2011, Krassen Krastev is collaborating with the Romanian performer Paul Dunca.