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I realized that the best way to grow as a person is to confront myself with new situations.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Locals are the key to get a deeper understanding of the social life in a city, without them every trip will be a superficial tourist experience.

Interests

I love dancing to electronic music (techno, house, acid, idm, ambient etc.) as a way of emotional expression to reach ecstasy without using drugs.

Also I am in love with food. I enjoy dancing in my kitchen while boiling some water and cutting some vegetables.

I like discussing about culture, politics and society.

I'm involved in a group of Urban activists which is doing (artistic?) performances in public spaces to promote citizens' participation and the 'right to the city'

Post-socialist cities and Eastern Europe

I'm interested in Gender Studies (especially in masculinity/patriarchy and queer theory). Some people might call me a feminist.

I take a lot of pictures with my beloved analogue camera. Mostly of weird urban places showing hidden sides of cities. I'd love to picture people as well, but often I have no idea how to approach strangers that catch my interest. There was just a few photo projects that I spend enough time with people to get close enough to them to portrait them.

I played theater a while which was amazing. Sensitive and quiet characters are not my strong part, I rather prefer some screaming psychopath.

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: House and Techno, Darkwave, Synthpop, Noise, Shoegaze, Post-Punk, Indie Rock, Experimental stuff
Favourite live performances: The Soft Moon, Молчат Дома and Yasmine Hamdan

Movies: "No One Knows About Persian Cats" (Iran),
"When The Earth Seems To Be Light" (Georgia),
"Eastern Plays" ("източни пиеси", Bulgaria),
"The Beast is still alive" ("Звярът е още жив", Bulgaria)
"Ave" (Bulgaria),
"Stolen Eyes" ("Откраднати очи", Bulgaria)
"120 BPM" (France),
"Berlin Calling" and "Victoria" (both German movies).
Most of my favorite movies are about identity of youth cultures around the world.

Books: Hermann Hesse - Siddartha, George Orwell - 1984, Aldous Huxley - Brave New World, Tobias Rapp - Lost and Sound, Robert W. Connel - Masculinities

Photography: Danila Tkachenko, Richard Mosse

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Giving free Workshops for young people to learn dancing to electronic music but much more to get a new feeling for their body and to feel more comfortable in it.

Curating my own art exhibition about the diversity of Bulgaria and being interviewed about it on Bulgarian national TV.

Visiting a Roma community regularly to socialize and to get an entirely different picture about a group of people living segregated of society.

Being a model for the Bulgarian designer Stefan Kartchev.

Supporting unknown underground musicians in my radio show.

Supporting an artist/ activist group to build a Holocaust Memorial in front of the house of a famous far-right politician.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to dance! :D

Learning is an on-going process, it is happening all the time. I am excited for what comes next. However these days learning social/ emotional abilities seems to be more desireable to me than the cognitive/ academic ones.

What I Can Share with Hosts

a dance, food, thoughts and memories.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bulgaria, Germany, Jordan, Ukraine