Author: renate.dinu

From 27 September to 19 October, the National Center for Dance Bucharest and Rezidența9 are organizing a large-scale exhibition dedicated to choreographer and dancer Miriam Răducanu and the impact she had on several generations of artists. The opening will take place on September 27 at 19:00 at Rezidența9, and until the end of the exhibition period, the public will have the opportunity to participate in a series of events.

The exhibition presents the artistic career of the choreographer over a period of half a century and brings together for the first time photographic and videographic documents, which have been recovered from public archives in Romania (TVR Archives, ANF and the archives of the Țăndărică Theater, Bulandra Theater, Jewish State Theater, Small Theater), as well as from the private archives of those who collaborated with Miriam Răducanu from the 1960s until today, such as Gigi Căciuleanu, Raluca Ianegic, Liana Tugearu or Ioan Tugearu, and from the choreographer’s personal archive.

The National Center for Dance in Bucharest (CNDB) and Rezidența9, in partnership with UNITER /UNITER, bring together, in the generous space at 32 I. L. Caragiale Street, the voices of over 10 artists from various cultural fields who have collaborated with Mrs. Miriam Răducanu.

The opening of the exhibition will take place at Residence9, on September 27, at 19:00, and during the exhibition period there will be a series of events: guided tours, film screenings, performances and presentations.

The video montage “Miriam’s SenZe”, based on a concept by director Alexandra Gulea, is among the works on show at the exhibition and is being premiered. On September 28, from 19:00 there will be a discussion with the director, and on October 5 the whole artistic team behind the video will be present.

On Friday, October 4, from 8pm, there will be a performative event (as part of the White Night of Galleries / NAG), a reconstruction of choreographer Miriam Răducanu’s piece “Genesis”. The reinterpretation by choreographer Mădălina Dan was commissioned and presented by the Present Institute in 2019 as part of the exhibition “24 Arguments. Early connections in the Romanian neo-avant-garde 1969-1971” (November 2019 – February 2020, National Art Museum of Romania). Idea and research: Alina Șerban; research and artistic direction: Ștefania Ferchedău. The performance is followed by a Q&A.

The documentary film “Without Expectations”, presented at the exhibition, will be accompanied by a Q&A with the director Mircea Sorin Albuțiu, on Sunday, October 6, at 19:00. The film is the culmination of an encounter between dancer and choreographer Miriam Răducanu and photographer Mircea Sorin Albuțiu, who spent eight months in 2017 working together on a jazz theme inspired by a 1959 Miles Davis video recording from Robert Herridge’s studio in New York.

To end the exhibition, on October 19, at 12:00, the round table “Miriam Răducanu. A distruge pentru a recrea” in the exhibition space (with the support of UNITER/ FNT), with special guests Gigi Căciuleanu, Mariana Mihuț, Raluca Ianegic, Vava Ștefănescu, and the discussions will be moderated by Michaela Michailov. The round table will be followed by the performance created by Miriam Răducanu, with Lari Giorgescu – Poezia visului (excerpts).
The whole event with the artist’s creation at the center will conclude with the performance NOCTURN, conceived by Gigi Căciuleanu, presented as part of the National Theatre Festival, on October 20, 9.30 pm – Izvor Hall.

For me, the art of dance has never for a moment been detached from senZe – Miriam Răducanu

“Before opening the window to Miriam Răducanu’s archive, I am grateful to choreographer Gigi Căciuleanu for this key to Miriam’s senZ, he is the one who put the point on senZ, revealing the concepts behind this saying:

«A word that keeps coming up in working with Miriam – everyone who has worked with her has heard it countless times! – is senZ. With a Z. At first I thought it was a mispronunciation. With time, however, I realized that this way of “saying” was an (perhaps?!) unconscious but (almost certainly!) revealing sum of two concepts: that of senS (“meaning”, but also direction, “vector”!) and that of senZation; but, why not, also of senZuality…»

For me, the encounter with Miriam Răducanu’s archive cannot be detached from this senZ, it is what I have been looking for in all the archiving activities of the documents I have researched. The exhibition is a reenactment of this archive with the senZ that Miriam leaves in photographic and videographic documents, in interviews, in the memory of those who danced with her, who learned from her or who watched her as spectators. This exhibition is a form of active archiving of this senZ. Searching for the senZ in Miriam Răducanu’s archive meant for me first and foremost to discover, as much as possible, the original and unalterable meaning of what Miriam pursued in her creation, the archive of ideas in her dance, but also to reveal aspects of the ephemerality and fragility of what is left behind in dance, of the role of archives in the lives of dancers and their potential in the present for other generations, about the memory of dance recovered in ways that matter for the present and the future. The documents are not mere traces, by researching them, they become traces charged with senZe.”– Corina Cimpoieru, curator

To dedicate an exhibition to Miriam Răducanu today means to make the gesture of inscribing her in the centennial links of modern dance, it means to look at her kaleidoscopically through different research perspectives, which rather than exhaustively revealing her artistic facts, aim to reflect on her artistic trajectory and to understand how her creation has not ceased to form breaches in the order of things and bodies in both dance and theater. It means realizing that the act of looking back is always charged with the present. The exhibition retrieves multiple fragments of meaning from Miriam Răducanu’s creation and signals their resonance with what today’s dance has very much alive in its artistic, critical dimensions and in the vivacity of the performative gesture and the thinking behind it. Miriam Răducanu joins the infinite library of choreographic art, indispensable to any continuation in the field of performing arts today.

The exhibition is the result of a monographic archival research and of some projects to reactivate the choreographic cultural heritage, dedicated to the dancer and choreographer Miriam Răducanu, realized in the last 15 years through individual or collective projects that the National Center for Dance Bucharest (CNDB) has constantly supported in order to recover and reactivate her artistic and pedagogical path.

The exhibition will open on September 27, 2024 and can be visited according to the Residency 9 program (Tuesday – Friday 16:00 – 20:00/ Saturday – Sunday 13:00 – 20:00) until October 19, 2024.

The exhibition schedule is available HERE.

Concept: Corina Cimpoieru and Vava Ștefănescu
Curators: Corina Cimpoieru, Suzana Dan
Curator theater activity: Mihaela Michailov
Guest artists: Alexandra Gulea (video-montage), Vlaicu Golcea (sound restoration & music), Mircea Albuțiu (film), Gigi Căciuleanu (round table), Mădălina Dan (performance), Ștefania Ferchedău (presentation), Lari Giorgescu (performance)
Visual identity: Andrea Nastac
Special thanks: Gigi Căciuleanu, Raluca Ianegic, Denisa Badea (TVR Archive), Gabi Fiter (TVR Archive), Miruna Simion (Țăndărică Theatre Archive), Mihaela Popescu (Teatrului Mic Theatre Archive), Dan Druță (Jewish State Theatre Archive), Mirel Leventer (photographer), Ștefan Theodorescu (Bulandra Theatre), ANF, CNC, Uniter and FNT

With the support of
Foundation 9 | BRD – Groupe Société Générale, Administration of the National Cultural Fund (AFCN).

In partnership with
UNITER/ National Theatre Festival (FNT).

MIRIAM RĂDUCANU: an exhibition – archive with “senZ” is a cultural project co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund – AFCN. The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the grantee.

Institutional Partners
Romanian Television, National Center of Cinematography, National Film Archive, Jewish State Theater, Țăndărică Animation Theater, Bulandra Theater, Little Theater, National University of Theater and Cinematographic Art “I.L. Caragiale” in Bucharest (UNATC), Cinema Union

Media partners
Radio Guerilla, Scena 9, Adevărul, Agerpres, Revista Arta, Zile și Nopți, ELLE, Ziarul Metropolis, Happ.ro, The Institute, ISCOADA, Revista Zeppelin, Agerpres, LiterNet, Radio România Cultural, Revista Golan, Feeder, Visit Bucharest, Empower Art & Artists

The latest music documentaries at DokStation: September 18-22 in Bucharest

Now in its eighth edition, DokStation Music Documentary Film Festival, the only festival in the country dedicated to music documentaries, takes place from September 18-22, in several venues in Bucharest: Control Club, Apollo111, Expirat and Grădina cu Filme.

This year’s selection features 29 documentaries, most of them national premieres, with and about music legends: The Rolling Stones, Simple Minds, José Feliciano, Neil Young, Freddie Mercury, Bruce Springsteen, ABBA, Cyndi Lauper, Mogwai, Pete Doherty, The Black Keys, Blur and many others, as well as concerts with Fulu Miziki (afro-futuristic punk, Congo) and Liraz (electro pop, Iran).

The program of screenings and related events is available at: www.dokstation.ro

Tickets are available through Eventbook.

Wednesday, September 18 – the first day of the festival brings six national premiere music documentary screenings: Simple Minds: Everything Is Possible (2023), about one of Scotland’s most acclaimed bands, and This Is a Film About The Black Keys (2024) – screening followed by Q&A with director Jeff Dupre – at Control Club. Cyndi Lauper: Let The Canary Sing (2023) and Teaches of Peaches (2024) talk about music and activism from a feminist perspective at Apollo111 Theater. The evening ends with two documentaries about two rock music legends, Neil Young and Zucchero, at the Movie Garden.

Thursday, September 19 – DokStation continues at Control Club with a screening of the documentary Éthiopiques Suite Magnétique (2023) about the largest collection of Ethiopian music, followed by a concert by Congolese band Fulu Miziki, known for their Afro-futuristic punk sound and energetic live shows using instruments improvised from recycled objects in search of new sounds. At Apollo111, we see the lesser-known side of ABBA’s success in the latest documentary about the famous Swedish band, followed by Michel Gondry’s feature-length film Do It Yourself (2023) about the music video wizard. At the Film Garden, rock legends Bruce Springsteen and The Rolling Stones tell their stories in two national premiere documentaries, while fans of Blur are expected at Expirat – Carol Halls. The evening concludes with the screening of the documentary Free Party: A Folk History (2023) about the biggest illegal raves in British history – from 20:30 at Expirat.

Friday, September 20 – the third day of the festival brings documentary screenings of the beloved bands Efterklang and Mogwai – at Control Club – and the controversial Die Antwoord – at Expirat. At the Film Garden, the documentary 35,000 Watts – The Story of College Radio chronicles the adventures of the visionaries and rebels on American campuses who changed the course of musical history and left a powerful cultural imprint. The evening concludes with a must-see documentary about legendary Puerto Rican-born musician José Feliciano. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Helen Murphy.

Saturday, September 21 – DokStation continues with documentaries on British rocker Pete Doherty (The Libertines) and Swedish musician José González at Expirat, while fans of stars Céline Dion and Freddie Mercury are expected at the Movie Garden. At Apollo111, an evening dedicated to the music and pop culture of the 90s, with documentaries about iconic artists of the period: Vanilla Ice (screening + Q&A) and Milli Vanilli. The evening concludes with a concert by Liraz – the queen of Persian electro-pop, for the first time in Bucharest – at 9pm at Control Club.

Sunday, September 22 – the last day of the DokStation Music Documentary Film Festival brings documentaries about musicians and iconic moments in alternative culture – S/He Is Still Her/e: The Official Genesis P-Orridge P-Orridge Documentary (2024) and Electronic Body Movie (2024) – at Control Club, an evening dedicated to jazz music – The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit (2024) and They All Came Out to Montreux (2024) – at Apollo111, as well as an event in memoriam Nicu Covaci at the Film Garden: the screening of the documentary Phoenix. Har/Jar (2022) followed by a Q&A with director Cornel Mihalache and his guests Mircea Baniciu and Mircea Florian.

The DokStation Music Documentary Film Festival is designed to attract a diverse audience passionate about two of the most popular arts – film and music – through music documentary film screenings, live concerts and related events in buildings with history and tradition, as well as in unconventional spaces.

The 8th edition of the DokStation Music Documentary Film Festival is organized by Wearebasca and DokStation Association and presented by Orange.

A cultural project co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund and the National Film Center.
The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the grantee.

Partners: Capital City Hall through creart – Garden with movies, Control Club, Apollo111, Expirat, Cărturești. Media partners: RockFM, Scena9, GLAMOUR magazines, Zile și Nopți, Ziarul Metropolis, IQads, AaRC, MovieNews.ro, Happ.ro, Munteanu, AIVI Media Hub.

The performing school for children announces the pre-selections for the new school year at CNDB! They will take place on September 13, 14, 15 for the dance groups and on September 17 for the theatre groups. Parents of interested children are kindly requested to send an e-mail to cursuri@cndb.ro mentioning the name and age of the child, as well as the preferred pre-selection day (only one pre-selection day per discipline is sufficient). The children declared admitted after the pre-selection will start school the week beginning September 23.

The courses are for children aged 6 to 14 in a new format: classes focusing on the study of contemporary dance technique, games, improvisation and diction for the theater groups. At the Performing School, classes are structured in 5-week modules and run throughout the school year, taking into account vacations and public holidays. Throughout the year some of the children will be selected for the development of choreographic/theatrical moments that will constitute the repertoire of the Performing school.

Pre-selections
The pre-selections for the formation of dance groups take place according to the following program:
-September 13, Friday: 17-18:30 – category 6-9 years, 18:30-20:00- category 10-14 years;
-Sept. 14, Saturday: 12-13:30 – category 10-14 years, 13:30-15:00 – category 6-9 years;
-September 15, Sunday: 12-13:30 – category 10-14 years, 13:30-15:00 – category 6-9 years;

For the theater groups, pre-selections will be held on September 17: 17:00-18:30 – category 6-9 years, 18:30-20:00 – category 10-14 years.

Classes

• Mondays: 17:00- 18:30 -Yoga for children: 6-14 years (Eva Danciu)*
• Tuesday: 17:00-18:15- Contemporary dance technique: 6- 9 years (Eva Danciu) Available places: 8 places
• Tuesday: 18:30-20:00- Contemporary dance technique: 10-14 years (Catrinel Catană& Andreea Belu)** Places available: (12 places total)
• Wednesday: 17:00- 18:30- Theater games and exercises: 6-9 years (Alexandra Vieru). Places available: 7 places
• Wednesday: 18:30- 20:00- Games and theater exercises: 10-14 years (Alexandra Vieru). Available places: 6 places
• Thursday:17:00-18:15- Contemporary dance technique: 6- 9 years (Mariana
  Gavriciuc). Available places: 10 places
• Thursday: 18:30-20:00- Contemporary dance technique: 10-14 years (Catrinel Catană& Andreea Belu)** (12 places total)

*Classes are drop-in and open to all children enrolled in the Performing school.
**The course is designed for attendance 2 times a week.Attendance on both days is encouraged and recommended.

Running period: module 1 (September 23 – October 25)

Registration
The children enrolled in the courses will be those who have been admitted following the pre-selections on September 13, 14, 15 (dance) or on September Registration for the pre-selections can be done at cursuri@cndb.ro, specifying the name and age of the child as well as the pre-selection day chosen.

From July 28 to August 6, 2024, the artistic residency “Panoramic Banana” will take place in Bucharest, a project of MK in collaboration with CNDB, realized with the support of IIC Bucharest.

There is no place for the exotic; it is pure representation. But its hollowness can certainly be a real space, a container for collecting a catalog of dances untethered from any verisimilitude, an evocation of an environment that holds fast to a single savage principle: mingling, proximity, the incomprehensible euphoria of a world only imagined. While ethnologists finally reconvert to examining the last stainless tribe still around – the tourist tribe – and anthropologists go rogue dealing with television series, wild thought is forgotten by entertainment but proliferates undisturbed in the haze, without proclamations of redemption but for that very reason absolutely crucial to the future of humanity. Sonic, aquatic, tropical future, 40-degree-shaded, epidemic, balsamic, anatomical and humid future. 

mk’s new production is a kaleidoscope of dances and images immersed in a hybrid sound, hot as a furnace; an incessant production of choreographic systems that seem to refer to a new folklore, evocative of a world to come, in which the disorder of things is the rule, and the environment becomes cloudy and pulsating, finally undisturbed in its desire for ‘rewilding’.

Grupul mk lucrează în coregrafie și performance din 2000 și gravitează în jurul unui nucleu original de interpreți și proiecte comune și transversale, inclusiv colaborarea constantă cu muzicianul Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch. Grupul a fost imediat invitat la cele mai importante festivaluri ale noii scene din Italia și din străinătate. Printre producțiile din ultimii ani, Veduta (2016) oferă o investigație imersivă a peisajului și a perspectivei, adaptabilă oricărui orizont urban. Bermudas, o lucrare despre mișcare perpetuă și mișcare pură cu peste 60 de spectacole la activ, a primit premiul Danza&Danza ca cea mai bună producție italiană 2018 și premiul UBU 2019 ca cel mai bun spectacol de dans în versiunea Bermudas_forever. Spectacolul EDEN, conceput în 2020 de Festivalul BolzanoDanza/Tanz Bozen, cu coregrafia lui Carolyne Carlson, Michele Di Stefano și Rachid Ouramdane a primit premiul special Danza&Danza al anului și a evoluat independent într-o serie de programe site-specific, inclusiv versiunea concepută pentru instalarea sculpturii côté cour / côté jardin de Eva Jospin în Reggio Emilia – Festivalul APERTO în 2021.

With: Mr Biagio Caravano, Sebastiano Geronimo, Luciano Ariel Lanza, Flora Orciari, Laura Scarpini, Francesca Ugolini
Choreography and atmosphere: Michele Di Stefano
Live modular system: Biagio Caravano
Music: by The Creatures
Lighting: Giulia Broggi
Video: Lorenzo Basili
Management: Carlotta Garlanda with Silvia Parlani
Cast: Jean François Mathieu

Co-produced by: mk/KLm, LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura (CH), Triennale Milan, Théâtre du Briançonnais (F), Bassano OperaEstate
With the support of: The Italian Institute of Culture Bucharest (RO)
In collaboration with: USI Academy of Architecture Mendrisio (CH) – project coordinated by arch. Riccardo Blumer – and CNDB National Dance Center Bucharest (RO)
With the support of: KOMM TANZ/PASSO NORD residency project Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni in collaboration with Comune di Rovereto, ORBITA /Spellbound Centro Nazionale di Produzione Danza in collaboration with ATCL Circuito multidisciplinare del Lazio – Spazio Rossellini
Thanks to MIC – Italian Ministry of Culture

“Balkan Ballerinas”, a multidisciplinary artistic project dedicated to Balkanism! “Balkan Ballerinas” will include a regional touring performance, a documentary film and an anthropological study.

Starting in August, choreographers & performers Anca Stoica, Sergiu Diță, Sofia Sitaru-Onofrei and Andreea Vălean start working on Balkan Ballerinas, a multidisciplinary project investigating the Balkan identity & the situation of the Balkan dancer and aiming to dispel stereotypes associated with the idea of Balkanism.

Initiated by Platforma 13, an artistic collective founded by Anca Stoica and Sergiu Diță, the project includes a dance performance, a documentary film and an anthropological study.

The eponymous performance will center on a body reactive to borders, prejudices and normative models, will explore the various Balkan subcultures in post-communism and will enjoy a regional tour, as follows:

September 2 / Bucharest: National Center for Dance Bucharest
September 4 / Sofia: Toplocentrala
September 7 / Belgrade: Magacin
September 13 / Timisoara: Hungarian State Theater “Csiky Gergely”
October 6 / Sfântu Gheorghe: “Andrei Mureșanu” Theater

Open call
To begin with, the team of artists is launching an open call to students and professionals in contemporary dance and performing arts. The latter are invited on August 5, 6 and 7 at the National Center for Dance in Bucharest for informal meetings designed as movement workshops.

The performative exchange of ideas on the 5th, 6th and 7th will open the movement trails that will form the basis of the performance. Details here.

A multidisciplinary & on-going project
Following the tour, the multidisciplinary project will be completed in October with two other related events: the documentary film Balkan Ballerinas and the anthropological study.

Directed by Mihnea Toma and with Beatrice Păun as cinematographer, the documentary will present the entire journey of the artistic team in the project, from research and rehearsals to the tour and the Q&A sessions with the audience at each performance.

The anthropological study will be conducted by anthropologist Laura-Maria Ilie, who will accompany the dancers in their performative research and publish the resulting material in ISCOADA.

Unique in the field of performing arts, the project consolidates the residency on the same theme carried out by Anca Stoica and Sergiu Diță at AREAL in 2023 and aims to be a framework for a broader conversation:

“The body is closely linked to society. We hold and react to all the social mores we are brought up with. So the society we live in also conditions the way we move. That on the one hand; on the other hand, the project also gives an x-ray, through dance, of the cultural point in which we find ourselves, of the interests that exist in the artistic world. But perhaps more than anything, Balkan Ballerinas asks a question about our cultural identity: how does the way we move show who we are?” – Anca Stoica

More information about Balkan Ballerinas can be found by following Platform 13.

Institutional partners: National Book Center – Romanian Cultural Institute, National Center for Dance Bucharest, “Andrei Mureșanu” Theatre Sfântu Gheorghe, Hungarian State Theatre “Csiky Gergely” Timișoara, KC Magacin, Toplocentrala Center for Contemporary Arts

Media partners: ISCOADA, Happening, Teatrul Azi

The project is co-funded by the National Cultural Fund Administration. The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund Administration. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the project results can be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary.

Applications are now open for the first edition of the Totally Spice Academy: showcasing female presence and expression in the electronic music scene! The call open until July 8 is launched to emerging female, female identified and non-binary female musicians who want to go through a training program including intensive dj-ing and production workshops and public events, for 4 months in Bucharest, between July and November 2024.

Totally Spice is a female duo taking the Bucharest music scene by storm and working to build a community centered around women, people with feminine & non-binary identities, where confidence, resilience and unapologetic spirit work together. The project provides the tools and knowledge to foster a new generation of female artists in the local Bucharest music scene. The initiative addresses key needs towards gender equality, inclusion and diversity. Running for four months, the project consists of a series of workshops, mentoring and training sessions and public events for 6 participants selected following an open call. The collective of artists involved, Suce Fraga, DJ Admina, Miss I, Miss I, Chlorys and Ion Dumitrescu, together with Totally Spice, will go through the principles of music production and specific mixing techniques with the participants. The closing of the project involves 5 diverse public events: a feminist education workshop, 2 radio shows and 3 parties, as well as 2 collaborative music productions.

Deadline: July 8, 2024

Where can you apply and how?

Apply using the form available in the link in bio.

Selection will be based on:

• A playlist / mixtape made on youtube or soundcloud, accompanied by a short presentation of the submitted selection.
• A cover letter of maximum 400 words in which you position your current practice and your intentions to participate in the program.

ich you position your current practice and your intentions to participate in the program.

What do we offer?

• A series of intensive bi-monthly workshops in mixing techniques, digital and analog, and music production.
• A feminist education and empowerment workshop in the form of a public discussion
• 3 public events in different locations: an outdoor party at the National Dance Center Bucharest (CNDB), a party in the Contemporary Art Space/SAC gallery space and a party at the Club Guesthouse. Paid events.
• Realization of 2 collaborative musical productions
• Appearance on two shows on an international online radio station (Vandelay Radio UK)
• Open space for rehearsals and assisted coaching throughout the project.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for 6 participantsx who will form a new generation of artists on the local music scene in Bucharest. The call is open to all participants who feel it is necessary to address the current dynamics of representation within the local electronic music scene and who wish to go through a training program that offers visibility and affirmation in this regard. Previous experience is not required and is not a selection criterion.

About Totally Spice Formed in 2023, Totally Spice! is a female DJ duo composed of Lidia Ilici & Renate Dinu who are rapidly consolidating on the Romanian club scene. Gliding between techno, euro-trance, pop gems, broken beats, uk garage, rave anthems, forgotten Romanian r’n’b hits and a hint of reggaeton, they are working on creating a community centered on female presence, which through a contagious enthusiasm inspires all the local bubbles. Their presence in the local scene creates a vibrant environment that inspires and energizes, transcending the boundaries of musical genres, reconfiguring existing power dynamics where cultural systems and networks are still predominantly patriarchal. https://soundcloud.com/totally5pic3
https://www.instagram.com/totally5pic3/
Contact: totally5pic3@gmail.com

Project facilitated by: Totally Spice Coordinators: Suce Fraga, DJ Admina, Miss I, Chlorys, Ion Dumitrescu and Totally Spice

About Totally Spice Formed in 2023, Totally Spice! is a female DJ duo composed of Lidia Ilici & Renate Dinu who are rapidly consolidating on the Romanian club scene. Gliding between techno, euro-trance, pop gems, broken beats, uk garage, rave anthems, forgotten Romanian r’n’b hits and a hint of reggaeton, they are working on creating a community centered on female presence, which through a contagious enthusiasm inspires all the local bubbles. Their presence in the local scene creates a vibrant environment that inspires and energizes, transcending the boundaries of musical genres, reconfiguring existing power dynamics where cultural systems and networks are still predominantly patriarchal. https://soundcloud.com/totally5pic3
https://www.instagram.com/totally5pic3/
Contact: totally5pic3@gmail.com

Partners: Polish Institute, Goethe Institut, CNDB, CNDB, SAC, CUTRA, Matka, ISCOADA, FILIA Center, Club Guesthouse

Co-financed by
Administration of the National Cultural Fund.
The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the grantee.

Dear friends,

We hope your summer has started perfectly. We are getting ready for vacation, but first, we are making plans for autumn. Therefore, we are coming to you with one of our favorite messages of the year: Iridescent is happening again!

From 1 to 30 November, we will be meeting at CNDB with performances, conferences and workshops for professionals. In a world marked by crises and inequalities, Iridescent aims to celebrate those narratives and subjectivities that can be liberating. Therefore, we offer you multiple and diverse voices, surfaces and contours in different lights and colors, different faces of the reality of the world we live in.

At the 3rd edition of Iridescent – International Festival of Contemporary Dance and Other Reconfigurations of the Sensible, we will see performances by Boglárka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm, Simona Dabija, Simona Deaconescu & Grigore Burloiu, Sergiu Diță, Jorge Guevara & Naoto Hieda, Igor Koruga, Sergiu Matis, Dorothée Munyaneza, Moritz Ostruschnjak, Willy Prager, Léa Vinette, Max Levy & Cosa Mentale.

More information and tickets will be available soon. 
Save November for dance!

Submissions for the 10th anniversary edition of the Bucharest International Dance Film Festival are now open! Filmmakers, dance artists, animators, visual artists and digital art makers are invited to submit their works for the International and Romanian Short Film Competitions of the festival that will take place between September 5 – 8, 2024, under the theme of “Mapping Bodies”.

The 10th anniversary edition of BIDFF, “Mapping Bodies”, aims to create a space for dialogue and exchange of experience, mapping bodies in different cultural or socio-political contexts and presenting new perspectives on the contemporary world, touching on its emotions, concerns and topics of reflection. Contemporary dance is created in the present time, with means of the present. It infuses other art forms with new meanings, it has a major potential to transform our relationship with the body and it enriches the way we communicate and express ourselves. Over the four festival days, dancers, choreographers, visual artists, directors, virtual reality creators, theoreticians and producers are engaged in more than 20 events structured in five sections characterised by diversity, multiplicity and openness. Interconnected, they form a dance map with artistic journeys from various contexts.

Deadlines
→ Regular: June 14 2024
→ Late: July 12, 2024
All applicants will be informed about the outcome of their submission by July 31, 2024.

How to Apply
→ Submit your film on FilmFreeway: https://filmfreeway.com/bidff2024
→ Find more information on our website: https://www.bidff.ro/open-call-2024 

Awards & Prizes
BIDFF awards excellence, novelty and courage in filmmaking with a prize pool of 1500 euros.
Awards:
→ Best International Film
→ Best Romanian Film

Rules & Terms
The competitive section is dedicated to short films only and is divided into International and Romanian. The board will take into consideration fiction, documentary and animation films that either use movement to explore an idea or speak about issues related to the body and the world of dance and performance. We also highly encourage you to apply if you have a short film that explores the future of art, questioning issues related to the ethics of collaboration, communication, and co-existence.

We are looking for:
→ short dance films of a maximum of 20 minutes, produced in the last two years;
→ short dance films in the genres of dance film, screen-dance, dance for camera and musical, animation, fiction or documentary shorts about the body or the world of dance, experimental shorts conceptually oriented around the idea of movement;
→ short dance films with a minimum quality of Full HD (1920 x 1080);
→ each director can submit a maximum of two films.

We are NOT looking for:
→ music videos, trailers or recordings of performances, films already submitted in the previous years to BIDFF, one-minute films, commercials, home-made videos.

We offer:
→ money awards for Best International Film and Best Romanian Film;
→ free entry to all the events of the festival, excluding workshops that require a previous application.

BIDFF is organized by the Tangaj Collective Association.

“Bucharest International Dance Film Festival, the 10th edition” is a cultural project co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund – AFCN. 

The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the project results can be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.

The partners and hosts of the festival are: the French Institute (Cinema Elvire Popesco), Grădina cu filme – Cinema & More, Peasant Museum Cinema, Masca Theatre, Roaba de Cultură, /SAC @ MALMAISON, the National Center for Dance Bucharest, Linotip – Centru Independent Coregrafic, Centrul Rezidențial pentru persoane vârstnice „Amalia și Șef Rabin Dr. Moses Rosen”, ADO – Asociația Artă pentru Drepturile Omului.

About BIDFF

Bucharest International Dance Film Festival is a platform for exquisite films that use movement as their main language or the body as their main subject. Faced with the camera lenses, the body becomes the main focus of cutting-edge arthouse films with a sometimes transparent, sometimes coded meaning, but always challenging the viewer to a playful exchange of information about social life, politics, extreme emotions, interesting places and oddly beautiful aesthetics. The festival takes place each year in September, in multiple locations from Bucharest, Romania. Besides film screenings, BIDFF organizes panels, exhibitions, public presentations and film production labs.
Contact details: contact@bidff.ro

Moving Balkans Contemporary Dance Platform dedicated to supporting contemporary dance and bringing together dance organizations from the Balkans, is pleased to announce the successful closure of its first open call for artists, which ran from 4 April to 2 June 2024. The open call has received an impressive total of 173 applications.

The artistic board which consist of all the Artistic Directors of the network will review all submitions and select the Top10 applicants, which will be announced in September 2024. There will be three phases of the process:

Phase 1: Filtering all eligible works.
Phase 2: The artistic board along with two international experts selecting 15 works.
Phase 3: Voting for the final 10 works.

The Top10 applicants will be presented on the first edition of the Moving Balkans Contemporary Dance Showcase that will take place from 10 May to 13 May 2025 in Ljubljana (Slovenia), Rijeka (Croatia), and Zagreb (Croatia). It will offer artists and audiences a unique opportunity to meet, exchange ideas, interact, and become part of a vibrant new artistic network. Selected performances will be presented across the three host cities, engaging both the general public and international professionals in the field of contemporary dance. Additionally, the works will benefit from our network touring scheme, allowing for broader exposure and continued artistic exchange.

For more information about Moving Balkans, please visit our website or contact us at info@movingbalkans.eu.

Email: info@movingbalkans.eu 
Website: www.movingbalkans.eu

The project is co-funded by the European Union.

The third edition of Ecosistem International Performing Arts Festival is launched! The festival offers 3 creation grants and launches a national open call.

The Ecosistem International Performing Arts Festival continues in 2024 with its 3rd edition, taking place from 24 August to 1 September in Bucharest, in multiple locations.

An awards edition

Among the few festivals in Romania that are active on the international performativity scene, Ecosistem III is a place for collaborative dialogue between artists, an accelerator dedicated to professionals at the beginning of their career and a platform through which people from all over the world – creators and audiences – meet and enjoy together the variety of current forms of performing arts.

This year, Ecosystem addresses the theme of Public Skin, and opens a political and poetic conversation about identity and autonomy in the context of climate crisis and pandemics, war and migration.

The current edition artistically tenses the phenomenon and proposes a sensitive approach: through the festival programme, Public Skin focuses on vulnerable bodies, reflections on the exteriority of the person and the social ecosystem, courageous approaches and innovative spirit.

Bringing for the first time to Bucharest some of the most outstanding European performance works on the theme of identity and the body, Ecosistem 2024 brings together performances and workshops, workshops and debates, installations and networking sessions, friendly evenings and parties. It is a festival of intersections, of the dynamisation of the city from the periphery to the centre, but also of gestures of compassion towards the differences that make us unique.

Opportunities for artists

NATIONAL OPEN CALL

In order to facilitate the access of the local performance scene to the global context, Ecosistem opens its programme with two opportunities for artists.Î

Deadline înscrieri: 10 iulie

3 BURSE DE CREAȚIE

Fiindcă Ecosistem sprijină deopotrivă rezultatele spectaculare și procesele care iau timp, festivalul înaintează 3 burse pentru profesioniștii emergenți. 

În perioada 1 august-1 septembrie, cei 3 bursieri (sau cele 3 echipe de bursieri) vor beneficia de resurse financiare și mentorat spre a crea un work-in-progress în siajul temei Public Skin. 

Beneficiarii burselor, în valoare de 500€ fiecare, vor lucra în spațiul partener al Teatrului Luni de la Green Hours și vor avea o reprezentație cu public în 1 septembrie. Formularul de înscriere se regăsește aici.

First, a national open call. By applying with an application form that can be accessed here, artistic teams from all over the country can propose their show to be included in the festival programme.

The selected show will be performed on 25 August at the Masca Theatre, one of Ecosistem’s supporters. In partnership with Masca, Ecosistem is offering the team of the chosen project a remuneration of €1000. The team will be guaranteed rehearsal time on the 24th and 25th, and 2 nights’ accommodation in the theatre’s accommodation facilities, limited to three rooms, if necessary.

Application deadline: 10 July

3 CREATIVE SCHOLARSHIPS

As Ecosystem supports both spectacular results and time-consuming processes, the festival is advancing 3 scholarships for emerging professionals.

From 1 August to 1 September, the 3 fellows (or 3 teams of fellows) will receive financial resources and mentoring to create a work-in-progress on the Public Skin theme.

The scholarship recipients, worth €500 each, will work in the Luni Theatre’s partner space at Green Hours and have a performance with an audience on 1 September. The application form can be found here.

Ecosystem returns in July with a festival programme and new surprises.

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The Ecosystem Festival is produced by the Sangri-La Artistic Ground Association.

Partners: UNICAT & co, Masca Theatre, CREART – Teatrelli, Metropolis Theatre, National Centre of Dance Bucharest, National University of Theatre and Cinematographic Arts “I.L. Caragiale”, Goethe Institut, Liszt Institute – Hungarian Cultural Centre Bucharest, French Institute of Romania, Green Hours, Insula 42, Teatrul Azi – Cultural Foundation “Camil Petrescu”, ACCEPT Association, Beatrice Von Babel, RHEA Artistic Exploration Platform, ETAJ artist-run space, /SAC, The Fool, Apollo 111, OBOR AMOR, Augmented Space Agency, Legal Resources Centre, Residential Centre for the Elderly “Amalia and Chief Rabin Dr. Moses Rosen”, Băneasa Educational Centre, Children’s Club Sector 5, Urban Collectors, Kaya Holistic, Vizurești Popular Research and Documentation Centre, Bright Future Autism Centre.

Main media partners: ELLE, Happening, Observator Cultural, The Institute, Să fiți cuminți.

The project is co-financed by the National Cultural Fund Administration. The project does not necessarily represent the position of the National Cultural Fund Administration. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the grantee.

OPEN CALL for duos of European-based dance artists and creative technologists
Deadline to apply: 4/August

ABOUT MODINA 

The project MODINA (Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience) aims to expand the creative possibilities for contemporary dance performances, and augment the experience for the audience, using digital technology – with an emphasis on exploring artificial intelligence (AI) and audience interaction. MODINA is a 3-year Creative Europe cooperation project, co-financed by the European Union.

Within the intersection between contemporary dance and technology, increasing attention is being given to AI (computers as creative partners) and to audience interaction (a shift from passive spectators to active participants). This creates interesting challenges for dance artists and creative technologists: how to integrate computational systems and audience members in a performance as co-creators, in a way that enhances the artistic work?

ABOUT MODINA RESIDENCIES

In the scope of MODINA, we are opening a Call for Artist Residencies for multidisciplinary duos, encompassing competences in dance and in technology (particularly related to computational creativity and audience interaction), for example: a dancer/choreographer and a creative technologist. Following the successful first edition of the MODINA residencies, we are organizing 5 more residencies of 8 weeks, across 5 performance centers: CNDB (Romania), Kino Siska (Slovenia), STL (Estonia), tanzhaus nrw (Germany), and Trafo (Hungary). From these 5 residencies, 2 are ‘General’ and 3 are ‘Regional’ (more below under ‘General and Regional Tracks’). These residencies will receive the mentorship from academic partners, from 3 universities: Hochschule Düsseldorf, Tallinn University and University of Lisbon. 

The five 8-week residencies will take place between January and May 2025.

For information regarding eligibility, requirements and selection click HERE.

IMPORTANT DATES

• Apply until: 4/August (23:59 CEST/Brussels time)
• Decision by: 17/September
  • including which of the residencies the selected candidates will be matched to (based on availability and overall fit)
• Kick-off event in Lisbon: 15-16/January
• Residencies: Between January and May 2025
  • CNDB, Bucharest: 20/Jan – 16/Mar 2025
  • Kino Siska, Ljubljana: 20/Jan – 16/Mar 2025
  • tanzhaus nrw, Düsseldorf: 24/Feb – 20/Apr 2025
  • Trafo, Budapest: 24/Feb – 20/Apr 2025
  • STL, Tallinn: 31/Mar – 25/May 2025
• Further showcases (to be agreed later): in late 2025 / early 2026

INFO SESSION, 28/JUNE, 11AM CEST/Brussels time (ZOOM)

• Register to info session by 25/June
  • Link to register to info session:
    https://forms.gle/zk7mBXEhFfqaSnGn7 
  • Zoom link will be shared to registered participants on 26/June

APPLY HERE BY 4/AUGUST (23:59 CEST/Brussels time)

• Link to application form:
  https://forms.gle/RRNxchXRr9aWt63m9 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• For additional information, write to:
  modina.europe@gmail.com

Cyber-Body-Systems Open Research, the first stage of the Cyber-Body-Systems project, invites the audience in June (23 – 30) at the National Center for Dance Bucharest (Mărășești 80-82 Boulevard), to take part in a series of tests designed to investigate our relation with technology and the process of sensemaking based on these interactions. Our multidisciplinary team has also prepared multiple exercises based on different VR/XR/EEG experiences and sensors, and will collect feedback from all participants. 

Artists Daniela Brill (Columbia) and Ciprian Făcăeru (România), curators Dr. Claudia Schnugg (AT) and Andrei Tudose (RO), alongside scientific consultant Alexandra Sofonea (RO), will talk about their project and the way this research can help us understand the impact of technology in our lives at a deeper level, exploring human-technology interactions through performative exercises, and how can art reflect these experiences and can be used in future performative endeavors.

During the Open Research stage, the team will showcase different technologies used in the DIGI-Sense project developed at JKU Linz and some new proposals, in order to investigate the relationship we have with the ever-so-present technology around us, in order to assess its impact on how we relate to and connect with our surroundings (both digital and non-digital) through the means of trans-disciplinary artistic research, developing new understandings of what interactivity means in art, its role both in artistic creation as well as exhibiting artworks, and creating a potential reference model for artist to further develop for new media artworks.

Open Research is a free access event! We encourage the general audience and also the professionals to come, enjoy and participate! Facebook event HERE.

About Marginal Association
Marginal Association is a non-profit cultural organization that aims to support, promote and extend bridges between artists and various agents from other fields, with a focus on the humanities, i.e. the implications of science and technology in socio-cultural structures.
Sabina Suru, post-digital artist, together with Andrei Tudose, cultural manager and curator, constitute the core team of Marginal, whose aim is to aggregate a collaborative network that (re)unites fields not always associated with art – such as science and technology – and the public, in a participatory way, questioning current societal issues and the still present paradigm of the audience-viewer.

WEBSITE  –  FACEBOOK –  INSTAGRAM

About the Cyber-Body-Systems project team

Daniela Brill (CO/ AT) – artist
Daniela Brill Estrada, artist and researcher from Bogotá, lives in Vienna. Interested in the complexity of science and the aesthetics of non-hierarchical structures, she explores the origin of life, astrobiology and the physics of life. She uses the changing subject matter to discuss Western culture’s taxonomies of life and non-life.

Ciprian Făcăeru (RO) – artist
Ciprian Făcăeru, research assistant at CINETIc, UNATC and co-founder of Augmented Space Agency, studies scenographic design for interactive and XR media technologies. Virtual space architect and new media artist, his research focuses on emerging new media technologies and their social impact.

Alexandra Sofonea (RO) – scientific consultant
Alexandra Sofonea, multidisciplinary researcher and psychologist, collaborates with LDCAPEI. She addresses actor psychology and psycho-emotional health in her PhD and uses methods from neuroscience and psychology. She works as a neuroscience research assistant and NET facilitator with adolescents.

Dr Claudia Schnugg (AT) – co-curator
Dr Claudia Schnugg, independent researcher and curator, is an ArtScience expert at the Joint Research Center, Ispra. Specializing in art & science projects, she explores artistic interventions in social and organizational contexts. She has collaborated with institutions such as Science Gallery, European Space Agency and Ars Electronica.

Andrei Tudose (RO) – co-curator
Andrei Tudose, curator and cultural manager, co-founder of Marginal and VAGon. He develops projects at the intersection of art, science and technology, promoting positive societal change. With a transdisciplinary approach based on marketing, sociology and visual studies, he facilitates artistic exploration and critical discussion of contemporary issues.

Cyber-Body-Systems is co-financed by the National Cultural Fund Administration – AFCN.

The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund.
AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the results of the programme may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the grantee.

Partners: National Dance Centre Bucharest, Johannes Kepler University Linz – Institute of Business Informatics – Data & Knowledge Engineering, National University of Theatre and Cinema “I.L. Caragiale” Bucharest, Austrian Cultural Forum, Augmented Space Agency.

Media partners: Radio România Cultural, Zile și Nopți, Curatorial, Mindcraft Stories, Munteanu

“Starting from my research focused on club culture and nightlife in different countries, I discovered the book TEN CITIES, which panoramas music and club culture in 10 cities in Africa and Europe from the 1960s to 2020, before the pandemic.

The book became an inspirational basis for my future project. The cities and the socio-political contexts they traverse are an informational roller-coaster. The choice of these locations is no accident; they are vibrant territories with a strong identity expressed by thousands of people dancing in unison.

These cities, less known for their club culture, reveal their need to assert their identity. I discovered dance types and musical personalities that influenced and changed crowd dynamics: this is where my Spotify playlist benefited 🙂

The book offers an engaging retrospective of the club scene in 10 cities that will make your imagination vibrate with every story. The journey begins in Nairobi…

I’ll share a few notes that have stuck in my mind:

“A club venue does not have physical and visible walls. The sound establishes the space. CLUB – shorthand for the totality of sound spaces people set up with dance music, get together and dance.” – INTRO MUSIC/SPACES

“Music and dance in the various African communities was inseparable from life and was almost everywhere attached to every activity. It defined the people’s culture in as much as it was markedly utilitarian(…). Music and dance were in most cases learned informally as part of one’s growing up to become a member of the society.” – NAIROBI

“In the 70’s a group of music lovers started to exchange or sell records. While a record was pretty expensive at the time, there was a low cost alternative for the masses: flexy discs that were usually printed on x-ray photos and were called music on the edges or music on the bones.”  – KYIV”

Aerowaves Twenty25 Open Call – Apply now to become an Aerowaves Artist

Aerowaves is a hub for dance discovery in Europe with a network of partners in 34 countries, among which the CNDB. The network is looking for the twenty emerging choreographers based in Europe.

You can now apply to become a Twenty25 artist with the opportunity to have your work presented at the Spring Forward festival next year in Gorizia (Italy), and also by many of our Aerowaves partners around Europe.

Deadline: 31 July 2024, at 5pm CEST.

Sounds interesting?

Find more information and the application form HERE.
For further queries, please contact us: info@aerowaves.org.

Pop elements, trends and internet slang – a new premiere at the National Center for Dance Bucharest.

After “MANual”, the show that filled every performance at the National Dance Centre Bucharest (CNDB), Sergiu Diță, a choreographer on the rise, returns with a new premiere. Audiences are invited to “Memetics”, a contemporary dance performance inspired by digital culture, on 11 and 12 May. A show that will go viral, but not on the Internet, but on stage.

Memetics is an archive of digital culture, a performative space of hyperlinks transferred into the body, on which the author intervenes by remixing and re-contextualising.

The generation and spread of information online, analogous to the phenomenon of spreading viruses, changes the perception of reality and is transferred into the mode of cultural production. Starting from memes, the performance aims at the hybridization of bodies, placed between the real and the virtual plane of the avatar. As a technique, Memetics proposes juxtapositions of transgressive, critical and post-ironic elements that blur the boundary between public and private. The show proposes a fragmented, scrolling vision of reality with pop elements, trends, internet slang and viral images promoted in the Web 2.0 era. Tickets for the Bucharest performances are already on sale and can be found HERE.

A young choreographer with a strong and recognizable voice

Sergiu Diță is a young choreographer on the rise, but has already built up a recognisable choreographic language. In his performances, Sergiu Diță uses the “manifesto-collage-recitative” technique, which involves critical exposition of the subject, collage of quotations, socio-cultural clichés and text. His research involves recycling, sampling and remixing processes. “I integrate pop culture in a maximalist way into my practice to re-contextualise and hybridise already familiar images, movements and aesthetics. This kind of accessibility presented in a form with variations provides contexts for cultural reset. Pop culture supports the collage of diverse formats (musically, textually, movement-wise and in the presentation of an artistic act). Pop culture is usually associated with the industrial, the artificial and capitalist means, but I use it to critique cultural production itself.” (Sergiu Diță)

A co-production between two state institutions with different profiles

The show is co-produced with the Andrei Mureșanu Theatre in Sfântu Gheorghe and is the Grand Prize of the DbutanT Festival-competition, organized last year by TAM and the Constanta State Theatre, in partnership with CNDB and won by Sergiu Diță. “The DbutanT Festival was born out of the acute desire and need to invest in the young generation. We have been investing in them for 9 years now and the results never cease to amaze us”. (Anna Maria Popa, TAM manager)

Memetics is an important project for both co-producing institutions, as it is one of the few collaborations of its kind in the field of contemporary dance. “TAM and CNDB were co-producers of the DbutanT edition dedicated to choreography. It was clear that the co-production that will represent the DbutanT grand prize would also be a close and extremely important collaboration for both institutions. Both for the audiences in the two cities and for the artistic team, this show is a challenge, but also a great achievement and a source of pride.” (Anna Maria Popa)

About Sergiu Diță’s presence in the repertoire of the CNDB and about this collaboration between two institutions with different specificities, but linked by the desire to constantly promote artistic experimentation, Vava Stefanescu, manager of the National Center for Dance, said: “Sergiu Diță deserved the top prize in the most recent edition of the DbutanT Festival, organized by the Andrei Muresan Theatre, Sf. Gheorghe, with the performance Manual. This award is a double joy for us: first, we are eager to see a new work of the young choreographer on our stages, second, the co-production with TAM is an old wish for CNDB. Because there are few theatres in Romania that produce contemporary dance performances, that understand to include contemporary choreographic performances in their repertoire, and more than that, they programmatically dare to offer young people at the beginning of their career the chance to have all the means for a new performance.”

One of the challenges of the show is that the team is mixed, with performers from both cities. The cast includes Eva Danciu, Sofia Sitaru-Onofrei and Anca Stoica from Bucharest, and Oana Jipa and Fatma Mohamed, actors from TAM. About the challenges of this collaboration, choreographer Sergiu Diță said: “It is challenging for me to work with people who do not have the same artistic background (actresses and dancers) because we have different references and languages, including body language. That’s why it was necessary to question and recalibrate my way of working, to perform a linguistic mash-up and to rethink the body between theatricality, performativity and choreographic composition. In terms of space, the process was equally challenging, but raised questions about adaptability and how a work modulates when transplanted. Conceptually, I think this way of working and the artistic team chosen helped the desired hybridity in Memetics.”

In 2024, the CNDB celebrates its 20th anniversary, being the only national institution whose main mission is the development of choreographic culture in Romania and which operates as a producer and host of performances, while assuming equally important missions such as research, documentation and archiving, as well as the development of programs and projects for artistic education and professional training.

Main media partner
Guerilla Radio

Media Partners
Radio Romania Cultural, TVR Cultural, Adevarul, Arta Magazine, Zile și Nopți, ELLE,Happ.ro, The Institute, ISCOADA, Zeppelin, Feeder, Agerpres, LiterNet, Golan Magazine, Metropolis Newspaper, Visit Bucharest

“Dance is the universal language of human expression. It transcends cultural and linguistic boundaries, connecting us in an authentic way. Today we mark International Dance Day and the beneficial impact it has on everyone’s lives. Let us all celebrate this art that has the power to communicate through expression.

I congratulate all Romanian dancers and choreographers who put the world in motion to make it more beautiful. Through their creations they contribute to the development of the Romanian cultural scene, through their creativity and enthusiasm they offer the public new experiences, and through their energy and courage they have a positive impact on society. In this context, I am happy to wish the Bucharest National Dance Centre to continue with enthusiasm the extraordinary work it has been doing for 20 years. The role of this institution is essential for the development of national choreographic culture and for facilitating the participation of the local scene in the international cultural landscape. The CNDB is a strategic cultural point, including at the European level, all the more so as it will have a new headquarters, the Omnia hall, a true House of Dance, which will provide the space and resources necessary for the development of contemporary dance and will become an important meeting place between artists and the public.

Through its programmes (Season of performances, Iridescent – International Festival of Contemporary Dance and Other Reconfigurations of the Sensible, The CNDB Academy of Dance and Performance or the Performing art school for children), the CNDB ensures uninterrupted support for contemporary choreographic culture and at the same time promotes the courage to speak through dance about freedom.

Happy anniversary to dance and the freedom to move, think and transform the world through art!”

-Raluca Turcan, Minister of Culture