11 fresh works – Part II

  • Dance & performance
  • Academy of Dance and Performance Laboratories
  • Free entry

cca. 105 min

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The Academy of Dance and Performance Laboratories, an intensive training program initiated by the National Center for Dance in Bucharest (CNDB), concludes with public presentations of the 11 performance and choreographic works created by this year’s participants on August 7, 21, and 22. These three days of non-stop performances mark the end of a process of research, experimentation, and creation that has unfolded over the course of an academic year and offer the public the opportunity to discover emerging artistic voices that have taken shape within the program.

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IN/HER/IT 

Concept, choreography, and performance: Ana Costache

IN/HER/IT is an exploration of memory that neither begins nor ends with us. The body becomes a space for archiving and transmission, bearing traces of the stories, gestures, and silences that circulate from generation to generation. The piece I have created is an investigation into how transgenerational heritage is inscribed in the body and how it can be brought to the surface, consciously, through movement and words.

Built around the micro-movement technique created by Rebecca Journo, with whom I had the opportunity to work at the Academy, the performance offers a close look at detail. Almost imperceptible movements become carriers of meaning, and subtle transformations of the body reveal tensions, memories, and echoes that cannot always be expressed through broad gestures.

Voice Legacy

Concept, choreography, and performance: Alexandra Necula

Voice Legacy is a performative research project that explores the relationship between voice, memory, and the body. The work is based on the idea that the voice is not an exclusively personal element, but rather a territory shaped by influences, songs, gestures, accents, and ways of being passed down over time. The voice emerges as an emotional archive, a place of transformation and cultural belonging, a living legacy, and a space of resonance. It is a place where the past and the present coexist, transform, and respond to one another—a meeting point between the past and the present, between what we receive and what we choose to carry forward.

Through movement practices, live voice, and choreographic composition, this research explores questions such as: What does it mean to find your own voice? What is inherited and what is chosen? How does a voice transform as it passes through time and the body? What do we preserve? What do we let disappear? What continues to live on through us?

ICSPRES IORSELF 

One-woman show: Daiana Sargan

An Eastern European woman attempts to put together a stand-up comedy show in English about what she believes might pique the interest of local and international audiences, concluding with the following lines, rewritten from Yosa Buson:

biutiful uăman luching aut
for șeri blosomz
spring iz gon end șe iz hangri 

Biographies

Ana Costache began dancing at the age of five, when movement became a natural form of expression for her, and since then, contemporary dance has been her primary language—the space where she learned to transform emotions and thoughts into clear and authentic gestures. She also practiced competitive dance, an experience that instilled in her rigor, discipline, and a different kind of physical precision.

Alexandra Necula is an emerging performer and choreographer. She began her artistic journey in theater, and since body language was the form she felt closest to, she naturally “drifted” toward physical theater. Contemporary Creative Dreamers, Alemar Capoeira, Cuibul Artiștilor, Cadre & Forme (Unfold Motion), Kalamata Dance Festival, LINOTIP, and UNATC are just a few of the valuable experiences that have shaped her as a dancer. She believes that the art of movement is a living process of discovery and transformation, a space where the body and emotion become tools for exploration and connection.
She is currently studying choreography at UNATC “I.L. Caragiale” in Bucharest.

Daiana Sargan was born in Sibiu and, for a long time, worked with the written word in its various forms—theory, poetry, etc. In 2017, in Rome, she began acting in short films, after which, for several years, she traveled to the places where the dancers she admired worked, hoping to understand what dance is. She became more attuned to Japanese sensibilities, which led her to train intensively in Nagoya (JP).

Produced by
The National Centre for Dance Bucharest

A cultural program co-funded by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The program does not necessarily reflect the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or for how the program’s results may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the grant recipient.

With the support of: Austrian Cultural Forum Bucharest, Goethe-Institut Romania, French Institute in Romania, Polish Institute Bucharest