The Exit Is a Myth 👉 Contemporary Dance Performance by Derida Dance Center / Ðerida Company
🟢 Choreographer: Jivko Jeliazkov
🟢 Dancers: Simona Todorova, Adreana Vaseva, Kalina Valchanova and Deniz Chakar
🟢 Visual artist: Ivelina Ivanova
🟢 Composer: Ivan Shopov
🟢 Actor’s voice: Juan Carlos Tirado Águilar
🟢 Graphic designer: Cepe Arts
🟢 Producers: Mira Georgieva and Atanas D. Maev
🎙️ THE EXIT IS A MYTH is a contemporary dance performance that delves into the depths of human psychology, isolation, and identity. Inspired by Jorge 📚 Luis Borges’ short story “The House of Asterion”, the performance reimagines the myth of the Minotaur – not as a monster, but as a consciousness trapped in a labyrinth of fears, prejudices, and solitude.
Through the physical expression of movement, the performance embodies the sensation of entrapment 👉 an endless cycle of expectation and rejection. The labyrinth is no longer just a mythical space but a psychological state, a world where the boundary between the external and the internal is torn apart by social stigmatization.
Engaging with 💭 real-life testimonies from members of the LGBTQIA+ community, the performance weaves together fragments of lived isolation, fear, and the longing for acceptance. The body becomes a vessel for untold stories, for the unspoken questions: When do we become monsters? Who draws the walls of our labyrinth? And is there truly an exit, or is it merely a myth?
🔥 THE EXIT IS A MYTH is more than a performance – it is an emotional exploration of vulnerability, resistance, and the strength to be different.
The Dancing Histories project is co-funded by the Creative Europe of the European Union and the Национален фонд „Култура“/ National Culture Fund, Bulgaria.
🇪🇸 Spanish partners: 71 Festival International de Teatro Clasico de Merida 2025 Festival de Teatro Clásico de Mérida, the headquarter of the Consortium of the Monumental City of Merida, Estudios De Danza Ascensión Ramos and La Kabilia Studios and Aei Cluster Turismo Extremadura.
