AkaTaMuS (1988)

It's the tenth-year anniversary of the music, dance and poetry academy AkaDaMuS. New people on stage bring in a fresh burst of improvisation. Love is both reality and an act of creating art. As in the Pygmalion myth, we see the dance choreographer En En and his trainee Agnessa bringing together the two opposing principles of Apollo and Dyonisus, eternity and transience, matter and spirit, art and kitsch. The film references a range of poets and playwrights such as Moliere, Shaw, Debelyanov, Valery Petrov, Marko Ganchev, Konstantin Pavlov. Dances feature famous Bulgarian rhythmic gymnasts such as the champion Lilly Ignatova as the female lead.