Joro-Boro was born in Bulgaria.
He established himself as the resident DJ in the Bulgarian Bar (Mehanata), in New York City. There he "oversaw the birth of a scene that, on any given night, might see young European jet-setters dancing next to hip-hoppers dancing next to drag queens and people in traditional Bulgarian dress." (Summerstage)
Joro-Boro has hosted the premiere parties for Divan (Palinka Pictures) and Holy Land (Cavu Pictures), co-produced the 'New York GypsyMania' compilation CD and the New York Gypsy Festival and recently became subject of the documentary Body Without Organs. He has shared stage with Philip Glass, Balkan Beat Box, Tinariwen, Frank London, Golem!, Fermin Muguruza, Slavic Soul Party!, Hungry March Band, Ozomatli, Babylon Circus, Filastine, and Luminescent Orchestrii among others. In 2007 he left his residency at the Bulgarian Bar, and developed the artist/charlatan alter ego Joro De Boro. As Joro De Boro he has extensively collaborated with choerographer and performance artist jill sigman/thinkdance. In 2008 Joro De Boro founded the XAYC/House art collective with visual artist Daniela Kostova and curator Natalia Mount. In 2008 he also hosted the Montage Sessions - Strategic Alchemy of the Metropolis Subconscious on London's WirelessFM. Each broadcast was a laboratory presenting exprerience rather than representing music. The Montage Sessions were part of his Radio Nomadi Munidial residency. RNM is to "world music" what Molotov Cocktail is to Rakia.
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1. "We have long put our faith in an energetic concept of motion: there is an external point of support, which implies that the body is the origin of its own movement. Running, setting one's weight in motion, etc. involves effort, resistance, with a starting point, a leverage. But we observe that the motion nowadays defines itself less and less on the basis of the use of a fulcrum. All new sports - surfing, wind-surfing, delta-wing flying [...] - are of the type 'meshing into an existing wave'. That means no longer having a source of effort as the starting point, but a way of coming into a trajectory. The way you allow yourself to be swept up in the motion of a big wave or of a rising column of air, 'arriving between' instead of being the origin of the effort, that is fundamental" (emphasis added) |
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