Between February 2 and 26, the National Center for Dance Bucharest (CNDB) will host rehearsals for the graduation performances of fourth-year students in the Performing Arts – Choreography program at UNATC “I.L. Caragiale.” Emotions are running high, ideas are taking shape, and the end of an important stage is naturally turning into a new beginning.
The good news for the public: from February 27 to March 1, some of these graduation performances will be available to view free of charge at the CNDB – Stere Popescu Hall. This is an open invitation to discover a new generation.
The coordinator of the practical and theoretical work is lecturer Dr. Andreea Duță, and the class consists of 10 students, whose graduation projects will be hosted not only by CNDB, but also by other venues, such as Linotip – Independent Choreographic Center and UNATC (Atelier Hall).
CNDB schedule of performances *:
February 27
Neuitare (Unforgettable), by Ioana Goia | 7:00 p.m.
Pre-Party, by Dana Silco | 8:00 p.m.
February 28
Definitely Knot a Kiss, by Andreea Groșanu | 7:00 p.m.
Clara, by Andra Coșeru | 8:00 p.m.
March 1
Beautifully Broken, by Alexandra Coman | 7:00 p.m.
Grandparents Are Getting Smaller and Smaller, by Andra Muntenașu | 8:00 p.m.
*More details about the performances will be announced soon.
Coordinator Andreea Duță speaks emotionally about this generation and describes their shared journey as an adventure inspired by the world of Lewis Carroll:
“We are, once again, at that moment when we talk about endings and beginnings, about a new generation that will change the world. Another generation for whom one reality is ending and another, new one is beginning… Young voices that I hope will have the strength to carry on, to change, to leave their mark on the world of choreography and art. At the beginning of our journey together, we looked for a name to personalize the group we communicate with. It seems that at that moment, of all the possible worlds, Lewis Carroll’s world won. The group was named “Mrs. Duță’s Rose Garden” and everything became an adventure. They became a multiplied Alice, with different personalities and paths, in a Wonderland that was slightly dusty in reality, but alive and effervescent when imagination began to move everything. The rose garden became a place of meeting and play, a place of unfulfillment and mistakes, a place where everything was possible and allowed. Our place.
Now our place becomes your place. From now on, you will be able to enter the worlds they have conceived and materialized, and I ask you to do so with respect, with a desire to understand their way of thinking and their reality, the reality in which they live and create. Their performances are about how they see the world, about their explorations and discoveries. They reflect the transformations they have undergone and their hopes for the future.
Presenting these performances on the CNDB stage makes graduation a very special moment. Encountering a professional performance space brings with it a reality that instills responsibility, but also becomes a time of immersion in the concrete that will mediate the encounter with the audience. Students whose shows are hosted by the CNDB have the opportunity to develop the final stage of their work right on the stage, which makes the practice and artistic process much richer and more varied.”
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