Author: renate.dinu

Following the partners meeting, Aerowaves announces Twenty23 artists. The 2023 line-up includes works from 16 countries and showcases an exciting and diverse selection of emerging dance makers working across Europe.  
The selection process took place during Romaeuropa Festival at Mattatoio in Rome (Italy), hosted by Francesca Manica from 27 – 30 October. Aerowaves partners and dance professionals gathered in person to discuss hundreds of submitted works on video.

The Aerowaves Twenty23 artists are:

• Ioanna Paraskevopoulou with MOS, Greece
• Olga Dukhovnaya with Swan Lake solo, France
• Eva Recacha with Because I Can, UK
• BRABA plataform with Atlas da Boca (Atlas of the Mouth), Portugal
• Loraine Dambermont with Toujours de 3/4 face!, Belgium
• Boglárka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm with Figuring Age, Germany/Hungary 
• Sebastian Abarbanell with HOME, Germany
• United Fall | Emma Martin with Birdboy, Ireland
• Leïla Ka with To cut loose, France
• Camilla Monga & Emanuele Maniscalco with In the Moment, Italy 
• Structure-Couple with Believe, France 
• Lovísa Ósk Gunnarsdóttir with When the Bleeding Stops, Iceland 
• Ching-Ying Chien with Vulture, UK
• Mélissa Guex with Rapunzel, Switzerland
• Dominik Więcek with Café Müller, Poland
• Deyan Georgiev with Wired, Bulgaria
• Company Les Vagues with W̶E̶L̶COME, France
• Laura Cemin & Bianca Hisse with How the Land Lies, Finland & Norway
• Tamara Gvozdenovic & Kangding Ray with METRONOMIJA, Serbia
• Jean-Baptiste Baele with Nabinam, Norway

Save the date! The Twenty23 artists will present their work at the Spring Forward Festival from 27 – 29 April 2023 in Dublin (Ireland).

Applications open for the Netherlands Choreography Competition – NCC

The Netherlands Choreography Competition is looking for emerging choreographers worldwide, who are willing to present their work and compete among other young talents with the chance of winning up to 1500 euro research fee.

To apply, choreographers must submit the following:

• a video sample of their work (choreography does not have to be finished)
• application form: https://www.danceinart.nl/netherlands-choreography-competition/
• application fee: 25 euro
• an updated CV
• a letter of motivation explaining your rationale for wanting to participate in NCC

E-mail: info@danceinart.nl
Deadline: 27 November 2022

Full details available here.

Galina Borissova’s module is over, and the Academy of Dance and Performance is left with the fresh memory of two weeks of playful searching.

It is on this guiding energy that Laura Aris starts working with the students today, a workshop in which, stirred, creative impulses will find new opportunities for expression. Laura Aris is a performer, choreographer and contemporary dance teacher. She has been leading workshops worldwide since 2001. Currently, she is working as a freelance artist, developing her own creative practices, commissioned works, several solos, and many collaborative performances. Her performing experience includes a decade as a member of Wim Vandekeybus’s dance company Ultima Vez, Juan Carlos García’s Lanònima Imperial and General Elèctrica artists collective (1996-1999). In the past years, she has been Wim Vandekeybus’ assistant choreographer and movement coach in several performances directed by Ivo Van Hove (at Dutch National Opera & Ballet in 2017, Comedie Francaise in 2019, and International Theatre Amsterdam in 2021). More infor here.

Double nominee for the Ikar Prize for Performance, gold medalist at the Serbian Solo Competition, with over 50 stage projects (from Sweden to the USA and everything in between), the second teacher at the Academy of Dance and Performance wants to train students in releasing excessive tension. Dance imagery, experimenting with different movement qualities and a lot of hard work. Тhe workshop offers basic body training that addresses anatomical functions in a context that promotes personal expression and full psycho-physical functioning as an integral part of total body mobilization. 

Galina Borissova is a dancer and choreographer whose work has a strong theatrical aspect. She first made a significant impression at the American Dance Festival’96 where she was participating in the International Choreographers Residency Program. In 1998 she received the first prize for her performance “A Never Ending Story” in Groningen/Holland at the International Choreographer’s competition. Galina is an author of the book “Dance Images and Artistic Preferences” published by New Bulgarian University.
She is an active blogger writing criticism and dance texts, you can read her blog here.

We are pleased that this year’s programme of the National Theatre Festival, held under the theme Fragile Borders. Fluid Histories includes two CNDB co-productions:

OMISSION POSSIBLE documentary by Mutual_Loop (Martina Tritthart/Holger Lang, Austria)
6 November | 16:00
National Theatre “I.L.Caragiale” in Bucharest, Sala Atelier

The film was made following the eponymous installation at SalaOmnia, a site-specific light and media intervention in which local artists were invited to participate with recordings (audio, video or photos) about the city. The event was developed in the framework of the s[a]it{life} project, in partnership with CNDB and with the support of the Austrian Ministry of European and International Affairs and the Austrian Cultural Forum in Bucharest.
More details here.

(anti)aging.after 10 years – concept, choreography and performance: by Mădălina Dan & Mihaela Dancs
12 November | 19:00
CNDB-Stere Popescu Hall

(anti)aging is a performance-archive in permanent construction, created in 2011 and conceived to have successive stages, over 30 years, until 2041, a framework performance in which time, the natural evolution of a 30-year collaboration and the course of personal/professional lives become performative material.
More details about the show and the two artists here.

Read also the article published in Scena9 by Oana Stoica here.

Borders. Risks. Emergencies – performative marathon
13 November | 15:00
CNDB-Stere Popescu Hall

Artists and writers from different areas will have an intervention of maximum 10 minutes, in which they will address an issue they consider urgent for their area of artistic interest.
More details about the event here.

We appreciate the argument of the curators of FNT 2022 – Mihaela Michailov, Oana Cristea Grigorescu and Călin Ciobotari for the nuanced lens through which they have assumed a selection “attentive to the capacity of the performances to question, in multiple ways, the present, taking the risk of unsettling and abandoning the predictable reflexes of easy entertainment.”

The Academy’s first invited teacher graduated with honors from the Paris Conservatory, danced at the Opéra Garnier, has performed on stages all over the world, from Morocco and Japan to Germany and the USA, and teaches top dancers from major national companies in South Africa, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Hong Kong, Israel, Scotland, Tahiti, Taiwan.

At our invitation, Lucas spends the whole month of October with the students of the Academy, to whom he proposes a workshop based on the most precise awareness of the body and its dynamics in space.

My teaching approach is based on the Jooss-Leeder method, developed by Hans Züllig and Jean Cébron, with a contemporary barre at the barre followed by a middle.

The precise consciousness of one’s body in space and its dynamics are the ground of this approach. The technical work at the barre allows the upper side of the body and the arms to flow by being well aware of the weight, the swing, the possible oppositions and dissociations. The center of the body is in the continuity of the barre. This technique uses both the movement quality and sensations, the objective being to master sensations for a better precision and understanding of movement.

Lucas Viallefond

More info about the Academy of Dance and Performance 2022-2023 here.

The second edition of the Academy of Dance and Performance, an intensive education and training program in contemporary dance for emerging dancers and producers, has been launched. The project’s mission is to integrate young artists and producers into the European professional circuit through intensive and long-term training. The Academy of Dance and Performance 2022-2023 is open to participants from Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and the Republic of Moldova.

This week, from Monday to Friday, we invite you on Radio Romania Cultural or on www.radioromaniacultural.ro, between 12:00-12:30. You can also access the broadcasts here.

Photo: Vlad Bâscă

23 September – 1 October 2022

In the framework of the European project RELAY – Thinking Artistic Material in Music and Dance (2021-2024), the National Center for Dance, together with the National University of Music Bucharest and the National University of Theatre and Film “I.L. Caragiale” Bucharest, organizes an Urban Camping for 18 participants from Denmark, Germany, Greece and Romania, including new students of the Academy of Dance and Performance. The Camping program includes workshops, presentations, visits, mentoring sessions and jam sessions.

Teachers/trainers: Mihai Mihalcea, Cătălin Crețu, Andreea Duță, Rasmus Ölme, Vera Sander, Jan Burkhardt, Konstantinos Tsakirelis

Guests: Dan Dediu, Floriama Cândea, Marian Zamfirescu, Ladislau Csendes, Lucian Zbarcea

RELAY is an interdisciplinary research and training project focusing on artistic and educational development in dance, choreography and music/composition, bringing together multiple interlinked perspectives:

THE ARTISTIC PERSPECTIVE – Inspired by the premise that movement can be a lens for investigating the supposed dualism between the material and immaterial, the project explores how dance and music can find common ground in such an approach.

THE PEDAGOGICAL PERSPECTIVE – Arts education has innovative potential in student-driven learning environments. This is pursued at the same time by investigating how principles of sustainability can be found and/or applied in the field of artistic research, teaching and art production.

SUSTAINABILITY – Dance and music are artistic practices that are independent of linguistic codes and therefore have immense potential for globalization, and their practitioners travel frequently. RELAY also offers participants a framework to explore how to work in a climate-conscious way with transnational and intercultural exchanges, which are fundamental elements in the development of these art forms.

MULTITUDENESS OF PERSPECTIVES – Geographically, RELAY brings together partners from northern, central, eastern and southern Europe, and also brings a difference in the form of organization that partners represent, mixing academic institutions with independent organizations.

All these are geared towards sustainable conditions for the work-life balance and career longevity of the practitioner, as well as greater awareness of local contexts and situated knowledge.

During the Olympics in Rio 2016 the Japanese team unexpectedly won the silver medals in the men’s 4×100 meter relay final. The surprising part was that individually all team members ran slower than their competitors and the secret to their success was instead due to their work with optimizing the hand overs of the baton from one runner to the next, saving them precious seconds in the tight race.

The above story is a good analogy to the purpose of the RELAY project: to foster collaboration, intermediary relationships and transmissions between partners, the artists involved, and the audience they come into contact with.

RELAY - Thinking Artistic Material in Music and Dance is a project co-funded by the European Union and supported by the ERASMUS+ programme "Cooperation Partnerships".

To find out more details regarding the whole period of the project, please visit the dedicated section here.

“Reverse discourse”, created and performed by Ioana Marchidan, produced by Linotip –  Independent Choreography Centre Bucharest, is presented at MOLDOVA DANCE FESTIVAL CONTACT+, 2022 with the support of the National Centre for Dance Bucharest.

“Reverse discourse” is that what the title suggests. An inverted speech. Depersonalized. Offered naked. Fragile. Intimate. A performance about body politics in which Ioana Marchidan short-circuits the collective body memory, identifying and bringing to the surface deeply rooted gestures, in order to unarchive them and decompose them through a body slide towards an abstract choreography. This cataloging and re-editing of the memory of submission, of the suppression and repression of the meanings of gestures, integrates the public as a participant in the dialogue, as a submissive observer.

In “Reverse discourse” I wanted to provoke emotion without mediating the gaze. To challenge the public to recall their own experiences or those transmitted and retransmitted, perpetually perpetuated by external factors, whether we are talking about people or the media. I used the body as a means of visual connection to an absurd dialogue. A bodily dialogue exposed in lines with distinct temporalities, which almost never intersect. An organic dialogue that exposes the dominator-submissive perspectives in multiple hypostases that outline the past and the present. A somatic dialogue that animates the traumas stored in our collective and individual memory. A visceral dialogue about the assumption of power and its exploitation in predominantly dictatorial, manipulative directions.

– Ioana Marchidan

The initial idea of the project was developed by Ioana Marchidan and Hermina Stănciulescu, in 2018 within the framework of the creative residency EMOȚIONAL – initiated by Cosmin Manolescu in Lisbon, in partnership with Forum Dança, as part of a project co-funded by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund

Concept, choreography and performance: Ioana Marchidan
Sound design: Alexandru Suciu
Video projections and poster: Hermina Stanciulescu
Light design: Hermina Stanciulescu

On 22 September, from 7 pm, at the Luceafărul Theatre (Chișinău, Veronica Micle Street, 7).

PACT Zollverein offers creation and production residencies in 2023 (January – June). Running throughout the year since 2002, the residency programme is at the heart of PACT Zollverein’s daily work. Open to professional artists from home and abroad working in the fields of dance, performance, media arts or music, and closely linked to PACT’s other two main strands of activity – presenting work and facilitating research and development – the programme is a key element in PACT Zollverein’s profile as a House of Artists supporting the lively exchange between practice and theory.

While occupying their own designated space and working essentially independently, residents can choose to benefit from various types of production support such as dramaturgy, technical assistance, project management, and press and publicity.

Application deadline: September 15 2022

Complete information and announcement source here.