the beach and other stories (book)

2026
publication

A Danse-Cité production 
With the financial support of Caisse Desjardins de la Culture

Texts: Maria Kefirova and Michael Martini
Graphic Design: Sydney (Syd) McManus 
Advisory committee: Lara Oundjian, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, Michael Martini 
Photos – Source: Bulgarian Visual Archive – Olivier Tulliez
Promotional photos: Kinga Michalska 
Photos from the show: Vanessa Fortin 
Printing and Binding: Graphiscan
5.5 x 8 inches
64 pages
Edition of 150 copies
materials: recycled paper

A warm thanks to Maria Kefirova's mother, Mira Nyagolova.
And thanks to the FTA - Festival TransAmériques and the MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) for their support. 

This book holds the text from the performance the beach and other stories by Maria Kefirova. The book acts as an agent to hold on to the perfromance and allow Maria’s work to continue to circulate, to be read, seen, and discovered. We hope that those who knew her will find in these pages something of what they shared with her. And that those discovering her for the first time will encounter, through her work, both the artist and the person she was.