Double bill: Belonging Bodies & TESERACT
- Dance & Performance
- Recommended age: 12+
- Language: English / Romanian
- Free entry upon reservation
1h 30min.
Info
Belonging Bodies
Belonging Bodies explores, through text and movement, the feeling of belonging to an unfamiliar space and the ways in which the body can recognize a place before the mind can understand it. Starting from the experience of an inexplicable sense of familiarity with a place visited for the first time, the work investigates the questions: How can an unfamiliar space feel more like home than one’s own home? and How does the sensation of “home” manifest in the body?
The piece explores the relationship between belonging to a space and belonging to one’s own body, creating a dialogue between memory, perception, and presence. By combining text and movement, the work reflects on the boundary between the familiar and the unknown, and on the ways in which the body can discover a new sense of “home.”
The work also questions the choreographer’s own sense of belonging within the artistic field, raising questions about the criteria required for an artist to be considered a “true” artist and about the role assigned to them.
Concept, choreography, text, performance: Teodora Tudose
Special thanks: Marius Costache, Iulia Andro
Music: Robert Stanislav + Alice Smith, I Put a Spell on You
Mentor: Mădălina Dan
Lighting: Dragoș Mărgineanu
TESERACT
TESERACT is the concluding performance work of the Dance and Performance Academy’s Laboratories at the National Dance Centre Bucharest.
Combining text, movement, music, and performativity, the performance transforms memory into a space where past and present meet, and where intimate experiences are reconfigured through the body. Inspired by the narrative structure of Kafka’s Eleven Sons, with texts by Iustin Danalache and reinterpretations of extracts from Mircea Cărtărescu’s Solenoid, yet rooted in a deeply personal process, the work reflects on the ways in which identity is shaped by the traces left by our relationship with the father figure, seeking to make visible the processes through which these traces continue to exist within us.
Drawing from a personal archive of memories, experiences, and biographical fragments, the work constructs five embodiments of the same “son,” each representing a distinct way of relating to emotional confusion, stress, psychological exhaustion, rebellion, and bodily fragility.
Concept, choreography, sound creation, and performance: Iustin Danalache
Text: Iustin Danalache, with excerpts from Mircea Cărtărescu
Costume: Șteff Chelaru
Visual Dramaturgy: Cristina Tudor
CNDB Mentor: Mădălina Dan
Participation
Admission is free, subject to registration using the form available HERE.
Biographies
Teodora Tudose is a choreographer and performer, holding both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Choreographic Art from the “I. L. Caragiale” National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest. She is also the founder of Imprevizibil.
She is interested in dramatic and poetic writing, seeking to organically combine movement and words in her creative work. As a movement style and means of expression within contemporary dance, she places an emphasis on the use of gestures and evocative visual imagery, an approach she continues to explore and develop in her work.
Her most recent project is Femina – Dancing Communities, which culminates in the performance Femina Vox, for which she is responsible for the concept, choreography, and text.
Other significant works she has choreographed include Best Regards, Wishing You Well, Iubește-mă cinci minute, Trebuie să vorbim, and Influențe.
She has collaborated extensively with various associations, theatres, and institutions both nationally and internationally, gaining broad experience in the field of contemporary dance.
Iustin Danalache is an actor, dancer, and performer, a graduate of the “I.L. Caragiale” National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Acting, as well as of the third edition of the Dance and Performance Academy at the National Dance Centre Bucharest. He collaborates on various theatre and dance productions by theatres in Bucharest and Constanța, presented both locally and on national and international tours. His artistic practice is interdisciplinary, bringing together acting, dance, choreography, beatboxing, and music, which he explores and redefines from one project to another.
His work includes performances created alongside directors and choreographers such as Andrea Gavriliu (Opturi Supranaturale, Double Fiesta, Rave de Ravel), Andrei Măjeri (Cine l-a ucis pe tata, The Cherry Orchard), Mariana Gavriciuc (on poetics of touch), Edda and Dan Coza (Emaus, for which he was nominated for Best Debut at the UNITER Awards), Vlad Furtună (Tehnici de a sugruma un câine maidanez), Tamara Găgeatu (Femina), Andrei Huțuleac (The Great Gatsby), and Radu Afrim (Gro(o)ve).
He has also signs the choreography for TESERACT, a performance work produced as part of the Dance and Performance Academy at the National Dance Centre Bucharest, and for Orlando. O cameră doar a ei, a theatre production directed by Andrei Măjeri and produced by Teatrul Metropolis.
This event is part of the project “Emerging Movements, New Grammars”. A cultural project co-funded by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund.
The project 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.
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Ministry of Culture · Aerowaves · Moving Balkans · European Union · Onassis Stegi · Greek Embassy in Bucharest · Hellenic Union of Romania · Italian Cultural Institute in Bucharest · MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art of Romania · “I.L. Caragiale” National Theater · “Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History
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