<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Director's Portfolio]]></title><description><![CDATA[Directors Portfolio]]></description><link>https://www.dzeparoski.net/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:28:54 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.dzeparoski.net/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The One Room]]></title><description><![CDATA[A quiet transmission from the laboratory I was told once that we are not the voice in our heads. We are the ones who hear it. The sentence arrived as a kindness. It sounded finished. I wrote it on a page and most likely forgot about it, which is what the mind does with any truth that would require it to step aside. Then, in the night, the voice came back. It did not argue. It handed me the script and called it my life. In that script the narrative is woven out of family lines, borrowed fears,...]]></description><link>https://www.dzeparoski.net/post/the-one-room</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a8f52bcd2a5268a5fb6a1c7</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:03:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c561cf_2b265fa200ea4fcb876aa1fb5177b5e6~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_784,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Stefan Dzeparoski</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is VERBUM]]></title><description><![CDATA[A quiet transmission from the laboratory There is a place that does not appear on any map and yet every true work begins and ends there. It is not a room. It is not a technique. It is the still centre from which the performer—whether on stage, in the edit, or in the ordinary hours of a life—becomes the absolute observer of what is already happening. From that centre, impulse arises. To that centre, every finished action returns. Without it, presence remains only a performance. With it,...]]></description><link>https://www.dzeparoski.net/post/what-is-verbum</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a83527b6f644c8dfb4637af</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:33:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c561cf_eab5faaf8b4e4c78bcbf5ca212355009~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_784,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Stefan Dzeparoski</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[                      The Quiet Place]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every true action begins and ends in the same place. I call it the Quiet Place. It is not a corner of the room. It is a construct of the mind, linked to the center each of us must discover inside the body. In the Quiet Place there is nothing left to achieve. No need to act, no need to fill the silence, no need to prove. From there the performer becomes the absolute observer of what is happening around them and to them. Every impulse starts there. Every finished action returns there. This is...]]></description><link>https://www.dzeparoski.net/post/the-quiet-place</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a8095470184b89c47f8e1a6</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:42:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c561cf_7aaaa096a14f41b28d4bb56f9a2cfd53~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_784,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Stefan Dzeparoski</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Is Gold?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alchemy, Jung, and the Work of Becoming There are certain images that refuse to leave you. For years the alchemical vessel has been one of those for me: a closed space in which something ordinary is subjected to heat until it can no longer remain what it was. The longer I stayed with that image, the clearer it became that the alchemists were never really looking for gold. They found something far more precious. For centuries they worked in shadowed chambers, hunched over flickering light,...]]></description><link>https://www.dzeparoski.net/post/where-is-gold</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a77d59c7e238b0b8ae1e0e3</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 01:26:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c561cf_6bb7b7feffc14745a7c53bed5a57c5da~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_784,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Stefan Dzeparoski</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[DIGITAL DREAM SOCIETY]]></title><description><![CDATA[Media is the ritual. Meditation is the source. We live in a time that keeps asking artists to produce faster, louder, thinner. Digital Dream Society was born from the opposite impulse: to create from a deeper coherence, where the inner practice and the outer work are no longer separate rooms. It is a conscious media company and a creative meditation practice under one roof. We make films, stories, and cultural experiences that carry light and meaning. At the same time we teach the method that...]]></description><link>https://www.dzeparoski.net/post/digital-dream-society</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6bfc705cf1d22b8d73fbac</guid><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:40:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c561cf_34a030b02fdf48db987559d4b7d56924~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_768,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Stefan Dzeparoski</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE SEVEN CYCLES OF YOU]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is not a manual. It is not another book that promises to fix you. It is the quiet return to the instrument you already are. I have spent years in studios watching the same mystery unfold: a performer who is present becomes dangerous in the best possible way. Breath, memory, walk, stillness, space — these are not techniques layered on top of the body. They are the body remembering itself. Everything else is decoration. The Seven Cycles of You grew out of that room. Seven movements, each...]]></description><link>https://www.dzeparoski.net/post/the-seven-cycles-of-you</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6bfb4d3e0c16484ff0ff20</guid><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:34:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c561cf_7048b992724946c094fc10dd6d6d32de~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_832,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Stefan Dzeparoski</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salvete - Welcome]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thank you for stepping into this space. My name is Stefan Dzeparoski. I am a director and creative producer based in Toronto, working at the intersection of theatre, film, and the quieter practices of presence and self-creation. Over many years I have shaped stories on stage and screen—from the visceral intensity of the macabre and the psychological landscapes of contemporary drama to multimedia experiments that refuse to stay neatly inside one medium. This site, and this blog in particular,...]]></description><link>https://www.dzeparoski.net/post/salvete-welcome</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6aaf94cd8d822ee17b63bb</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 02:03:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c561cf_76d429a4bffb4aa9aea915cf20aab14c~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Stefan Dzeparoski</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>