Author: renate.dinu

“Orașul vorbește”: In three days the grass will grow… 

What is left when apparently there is nothing left? The 19th century archaeological excavations in Pompeii revealed voids formed by the decomposition of organic matter beneath layers of calcified ash. Once filled with plaster, a series of casts took shape – ‘stone bodies’ trapped as in an eternal sleep. Following the programmatic destruction of Uranus Hill in Bucharest in the 1980s, almost nothing tangible remained, but a few physical fragments. Yet, a vivid community keeps the memory of the erased districts alive. What is the potential of somatic and affective explorations to generate new relations to a traumatic historical past? 
In three days the grass will grow… oscillates between oblivion and remembering, erasure and recovery. Past spaces, objects and stories are brought into the present. Their reconfiguration generates new experiences that become in turn archival sources. The concept belongs to Ioana Marinescu, visual artist and architect. Performers: Smaranda Găbudeanu, Iulia Mărăcine, Katia Pascariu, Andreea David. In three days the grass will grow… will be presented on 20 and 21 April, at 19.30, at the Contemporary Art Space / SAC – Atelierele Malmaison.

Luana Pleșea spoke to actress Katia Pascariu and to dancer and choreographer Smaranda Găbudeanu.

Creator: Luana Pleșea
Producer: Gabriela Mitan

Dance Diary, part of the broadcast “Orașul vorbește”, is the result of a collaboration between the CNDB Academy of Dance and Performance and Radio Romania Cultural.

The Academy of Dance and Performance is part of the South-East European Dance Stations (SEEDS) project, coordinated by the National Center for Dance Bucharest and carried out in partnership with the Brain Store Project Foundation (Sofia) and Stanica – Service for Contemporary Dance (Belgrade) in the period between 2022 and 2025. The SEEDS project is co-financed by the European Union through the Creative Europe program. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

“Orașul vorbește”: What is a creative producer?

If you’ve already met producers at the beginning of their career, today we present a special “Dance Diary” episode, which has a professional at its center: Andreea Andrei, our wonderful colleague from Production.
Andreea Andrei has been producing since she finished her studies, and we don’t know what we’d do without her patience and acuity. Andreea has been working in the Romanian theatre and dance industry for 10 years. She has worked so far in public institutions, at the German State Theatre in Timisoara, and now at the CNDB, but she has also collaborated with independent associations. At the German Theatre she coordinated the European Theatre Festival Eurothalia, the largest project she has ever worked on, where she was in charge of the executive coordination and selection of the festival for 3 years. She is currently a producer at the CNDB where she is in charge of programming events, coordinating residencies, various CNDB projects, organising the contemporary dance season and the IRIDESCENT Festival.

Creator: Luana Pleșea
Producer: Gabriela Mitan
Host: Andra Petrariu

Dance Diary, part of the broadcast “Orașul vorbește”, is the result of a collaboration between the CNDB Academy of Dance and Performance and Radio Romania Cultural.

The Academy of Dance and Performance is part of the South-East European Dance Stations (SEEDS) project, coordinated by the National Center for Dance Bucharest and carried out in partnership with the Brain Store Project Foundation (Sofia) and Stanica – Service for Contemporary Dance (Belgrade) in the period between 2022 and 2025. The SEEDS project is co-financed by the European Union through the Creative Europe program. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

“Orașul vorbește”: the Producers Program at the CNDB Academy continues

From cultural policies, administrative and teamwork tools to networking sessions, mentoring and internships in relevant organisations. All this to become a professional producer, especially in dance and performance. The Academy’s Dance and Performance Producer Programme courses have reached the halfway point. And today you will meet Alexandra Manole and Anca Turtoi. Who already have experience in the production area. And yet they are now at the National Dance Centre Bucharest as students. What are they missing from their training as producers? What do they want to learn at the Academy? Find out in the new Dance Diary episode.

Creator: Luana Pleșea
Producer: Gabriela Mitan
Host: Andra Petrariu

Dance Diary, part of the broadcast “Orașul vorbește”, is the result of a collaboration between the CNDB Academy of Dance and Performance and Radio Romania Cultural.

The Academy of Dance and Performance is part of the South-East European Dance Stations (SEEDS) project, coordinated by the National Center for Dance Bucharest and carried out in partnership with the Brain Store Project Foundation (Sofia) and Stanica – Service for Contemporary Dance (Belgrade) in the period between 2022 and 2025. The SEEDS project is co-financed by the European Union through the Creative Europe program. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

“Orașul vorbește”: Reverse Discourse, body politics and vulnerability

The center is where you dance. The center can be anywhere. Linotip – Independent Choreographic Centre presents a double bill on 31 March: the performances Outcome and Reverse Discourse. Learn more about Linotip’s invitation and especially about Reverse Discourse, a performance by and with Ioana Marchidan, from her meeting with Luana Pleșea. We’ll tell you just that Reverse Discourse is a performance about body politics and vulnerability. And the choice to construct the performance in this form, an empty back in a space that oscillates from dark halo to video projections, implies vulnerability. About Outcome, a CNDB production, we tell the story in a future issue of Dance Diary.

Creator: Luana Pleșea
Producer: Gabriela Mitan

Dance Diary, part of the broadcast “Orașul vorbește”, is the result of a collaboration between the CNDB Academy of Dance and Performance and Radio Romania Cultural.

The Academy of Dance and Performance is part of the South-East European Dance Stations (SEEDS) project, coordinated by the National Center for Dance Bucharest and carried out in partnership with the Brain Store Project Foundation (Sofia) and Stanica – Service for Contemporary Dance (Belgrade) in the period between 2022 and 2025. The SEEDS project is co-financed by the European Union through the Creative Europe program. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

“Orașul vorbește”: the CNDB Media Library, the space for books on performace in the city

The CNDB Media Library is a primary source and resource for documentation, research and artistic education in contemporary choreographic history and theory, an open and active space for dialogue of informational and performative diversity, bringing together interdisciplinary discourse practices and events, fluidifying the boundaries between choreographers, dancers and theorists from different creative fields. The CNDB media library includes a collection of books and periodicals and a collection of international dance videos (international productions by choreographers, dancers and dance companies working in the field of contemporary performing arts, video art, dance cinema films, etc.). Corina Cimpoieru, artistic consultant, is in charge of the media library.

Creator: Daria Ghiu
Producer: Gabriela Mitan
Host: Andra Petrariu

Dance Diary, part of the broadcast “Orașul vorbește”, is the result of a collaboration between the CNDB Academy of Dance and Performance and Radio Romania Cultural.

The Academy of Dance and Performance is part of the South-East European Dance Stations (SEEDS) project, coordinated by the National Center for Dance Bucharest and carried out in partnership with the Brain Store Project Foundation (Sofia) and Stanica – Service for Contemporary Dance (Belgrade) in the period between 2022 and 2025. The SEEDS project is co-financed by the European Union through the Creative Europe program. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Willy Prager and the graduates of the Academy of Dance and Performance invited to Tanzhaus NRW!

The performance “Less might be more but sometimes less is just nothing”, created by Bulgarian choreographer Willy Prager together with the students of the first edition of the CNDB Academy of Dance and Performance, has been invited to Tanzhaus NRW in Dusseldorf, where it will be presented on 17 and 18 March.

The performance is inspired by the disco band Zoom, founded in 1973 in Spain, and explores the relationship between visual art and disco dance culture. Willy Prager, the artist who conceived the show, is interested in processes of transformation in the context of social, political, economic and cultural change and has developed a working method based on procedures of translation and reformulation of pre-existing performance material.

In the context of the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, which have reduced communication, interaction and participation, the performance “Less might be more but sometimes less is just nothing” explores whether less is still more or whether it is nothing. At a time when contemporary art followed the modern principle of “less is more”, this performance challenges this thesis and explores the boundary between “less” and “nothing”.

The invitation to Tanzhaus NRW is a recognition of the value and originality of the performance, and of the talent of the students CNDB Academy of Dance and Performance who participated in its creation.

For more information and tickets, click here.

The call for contributions to the online speculative fiction platform, Possible Worlds, is now open!

Below is the press release issued by the Quantic Cultural Association announcing the opening of the call for submissions for the online speculative fiction platform, Possible Worlds:

Starting today you can send us literary, visual or sound creations until April 20, 2023!

We’re looking for original creations, unpublished somewhere else, that explore speculative fiction genres through an intersectional lens. We want speculative fiction to be a radical tool for emancipation, reflection, and changing the status quo.

Through visionary fiction we want to construct a space of reclaiming power and self-determination for historically dispossessed people.

Possible Worlds is an online platform for radical speculative fiction.

Lumi Posibile hosts and celebrates a myriad of forms of creative expression: literature, essays, visual art, sound art, and anything else we can imagine.

Lumi Posibile encompasses various genres of speculative fiction: from science fiction, to horror, to fantasy and any other similar existing or future genres.

Our Possible Worlds include people with diverse identities and histories. We see speculative fiction as a tool for marginalized communities to forge a gentler, more revolutionary future, to explore the present and the past through fantasy, and to exorcise social injustices through an imaginary of chaos and the monstrous. We can build the world we want to live in, a world our ancestors have already begun to work on.

Possible Worlds rejects the binary and purity of literary-artistic genres. We encourage and celebrate mixture, hybrid forms, all that is strange, strange and hard to define..

Our Possible worlds are sensitive and curious, emotional and undisciplined, poetic and analytical; they are affected by everything that touches and affects them in turn. Our Possible Worlds are body, idea, sensation and thought in the same breath, which together are always transforming.

Our Possible Worlds are queer, Roma, feminist, anti-capitalist, anti-speciesist, neurodivergent, anti-abolitionist.

We welcome any form of speculative fiction, such as:

  • Science fiction (utopias, dystopias, solarpunk, cyberpunk, post-apocalyptic, cosmic exploration, etc.).
  • Horror (body horror, gothic, supernatural, monstrous, etc.)
  • Fantasy (fairy tales, mythology, superheroes/heroines, etc.)
  • Magical realism
  • Alternative Histories
  • Any other genre we can imagine

You can send us the following artwork:

  • Literature (prose, poetry, essays)
  • Visual arts (video poem, video essay, short film, comic strip)
  • Sound art (narrative podcast, music mix, song)
  • Submissions can be sent to lumiposibile@gmail.com along with a description of yourself of about 50 words.

Material published on the website will be remunerated.

Partners: Accept Association, National Dance Centre Bucharest, Intersect Community Centre, ArtHub, Art200 Queer International Film Festival, CUTRA Magazine, Echinox, SUPER Film Festival, AIVImedia.hub, Radio Romania Cultural;

The project “Possible Worlds” is run by Quantic Cultural Association and is a project co-financed by AFCN. The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of 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.

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Citofonare PimOff 23/24 – residencies programme for contemporary dance

Citofonare PimOff reaches its 9th edition and as every year it launches an international call for contemporary dance projects in phase of creation, that have never debuted, in Italy or abroad, and have never been presented to the public in finished form. It will be possible to send applications from 15th March to 30th April 2023.

The winners of Citofonare PimOff are assigned a period of artistic residency up to maximum of 15 days from February to May 2024, which includes: the use of the theatre room and its equipment; accommodation; financial support up to a maximum of € 3,000; technical assistance; organizational, communicative and promotional support. The goal of the residency is not the staging of an accomplished show, but the artistic research. Precisely for this reason, each residency ends with a sharing of the project, a fundamental moment of encounter and exchange between artists and the audience.

Initially designed as an open call addressed to every sector of the performing arts, during its editions, Citofonare PimOff has defined its focus on dance, a sector that in the Italian context is among the most sacrificed. However, there remains a trace of its original form and of the heterogeneous activity of PimOff: these traces reflect in a broad concept of dance, a perspective that considers hybridization between knowledges and arts as an indispensable resource for reporting the complexity of our time.

PimOff is a member of dance card, the network of dance in Lombardia.
In collaboration with Fondazione Accademia Teatro alla Scala –Photo Video and New Media course and with Afol Moda – Afol Metropolitana – Costume Designer course for Theatre and Entertainment. Patrocinated by Municipio 5 of Comune di Milano.

SUBSCRIPTION to the JOTFORM LINK

Website www.pimoff.it
Facebook @PIMOFF
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    ©CITOFONARE
“Orașul vorbește”: discussion with Mihaela Michailov about feminist approaches in the performative area

Mihaela Michailov was the next guest on Dance Diary as part of “Orașul Vorbește“, where she opened a series of questions on feminist approaches in the performance area.

How do we represent a body on stage? What are the stories that appear represented, given that the performing arts audience is predominantly female?

 In the performing arts, especially in theatre, representations of women are quite problematic. Either they’re accessorized or they’re hypersexualized representations.

– Mihaela Michailov (playwright and performing arts critic)

You can listen to Mihaela Michailov in the latest episode of Dance Diary.

Creator: Luana Pleșea
Producer: Gabriela Mitan
Host: Andra Petrariu

Dance Diary, part of the broadcast “Orașul vorbește”, is the result of a collaboration between the CNDB Academy of Dance and Performance and Radio Romania Cultural.

The Academy of Dance and Performance is part of the South-East European Dance Stations (SEEDS) project, coordinated by the National Center for Dance Bucharest and carried out in partnership with the Brain Store Project Foundation (Sofia) and Stanica – Service for Contemporary Dance (Belgrade) in the period between 2022 and 2025. The SEEDS project is co-financed by the European Union through the Creative Europe program. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Sigal Zouk is here!

The Berlin-based dancer and artist continues Fountains of expressive flow at the Academy of Dance and Performance, a module started by Jan Burkhardt. The focus is again on opening up and shaping the full range of expressiveness through the use of rigour and lightness.

Sigal Zouk graduated from Emek Israel Dance School and was a member of the Batsheva ensemble from 1994-1996. After moving to Berlin (1997), she became a member of Sasha Waltz and Guests (1999-2004). In 2005 she began collaborating with Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods, and in 2007 with Laurent Chetouane, with whom she created 10 dance and theatre pieces for the stage.
She has worked with numerous artists (including Boris Charmantz, Zeirkratzer, Simone Aughterlony, Ian Kalerl) and teaches in several European dance institutions and departments (such as HZT, Tanzfabrik Berlin, DDSKS Copenhagen, Cullberg Ballet Stockholm, Ponderosa). Sigal holds the “Best Performer” award at the 2010 Dortmund Festival and was named “Dancer of the Year” by Tanz Magazine in 2011.

  • © Tanstueck #2 - Laurent Chetouane, photo: Oliver Fantitsch
    © Tanstueck #2 – Laurent Chetouane, photo: Oliver Fantitsch
Discover CNDB Itinerant. <strong>The center is where you dance.</strong>

The CNDB Itinerant performance season presents choreographic works and performances created by artists and produced by independent structures not only at our headquarters in Bd. Mărășești, but also in other venues in Bucharest or in the country.
Discover the calendar of performances scheduled in the next period.

1 & 8.03 | moving [m]others @ ARCUB

Some things seem obvious, but they still need to be underlined. March 1 and 8 are not about making women strong. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way we perceive that power, about taking ownership and freedom of choice.

Not at all by chance, on 1 and 8 March, the CNDB presents moving [m]others at ARCUB., a layered, cumulative and unpredictable performative installation, a question-driven journey that embraces the chaos and foreboding of motherhood.

4.03 | Luați de VAL…s @ HEARTH

Luați de VAL…s is a dance piece performed in the Kerim House and inspired by its architecture and history. In addition to the house in Parfumului 19, Alexandra Mihaela Dancs and Vlad Benescu let themselves be carried away by the waves of the Black Sea during their long surf sessions.

Being carried away by the waves thus becomes an artistic practice.

Admission is free, reservation by email to asociatiahearth@gmail.com or by phone, 0724293708.

The capacity of the space is 15 seats.

12.03 | Less might be more, but sometimes less is just nothing @ CNDB 

Less might be more, but sometimes less is just nothing is a work by Bulgarian choreographer Willy Prager inspired by the disco band Zoom, founded in 1973 in Spain.

The performance, at the intersection of visual art and disco dance culture, questions the principle of modernity in contemporary art by proposing “less is more”.

The restrictions of the pandemic that have brought less communication, less interaction, less interpretation, less criticism, less demonstration, fewer participants, less… makes this performance question this thesis and explore whether less is still more or whether it is nothing.

26.03 | Humans | Bodies | Images @ CNDB  

Drawing on choreographer Ioana Marchidan’s personal experience at ballet school, Humans | Bodies | Images questions how we relate to the body in art, fashion, media, education and within the family, offering a broader perspective on the impact of body shaming today.

31.03 | Double-bill: Outcome & Reverse Discourse @ LINOTIP

Outcome, by Manuel Pelmuș, is one of the most daring choreographic works to appear in the early 2000s in Romanian contemporary dance, by its proposal to short-circuiting the typical aestheticism of the time. Almost 20 years after its premiere, the piece was revived in the CNDB Academy of Dance and Performance in 2020.

Reverse discourse is a performance about body politics in which Ioana Marchidan identifies and brings to the surface deeply rooted gestures, in order to unravel and decompose them through a bodily glide towards an abstract choreography. The piece proposes cataloguing and re-editing the memory of the submission, of the suppression and repression of the meanings of gestures, and integrates the audience as participants in the dialogue, as submissive observers.

20.04 & 21.04 | In three days the grass will grow… @ SAC

In three days the grass will grow… oscillates between oblivion and remembering, erasure and recovery. Past spaces, objects and stories are brought into the present. Their reconfiguration generates new experiences that become in turn archival sources.

22.04 | Humans | Bodies | Images @ CNDB

Drawing on choreographer Ioana Marchidan’s personal experience at ballet school, Humans | Bodies | Images questions how we relate to the body in art, fashion, media, education and within the family, offering a broader perspective on the impact of body shaming today.

23.04 | Double-bill: Outcome & Reverse Discourse @ LINOTIP

Outcome, by Manuel Pelmuș, is one of the most daring choreographic works to appear in the early 2000s in Romanian contemporary dance, by its proposal to short-circuiting the typical aestheticism of the time. Almost 20 years after its premiere, the piece was revived in the CNDB Academy of Dance and Performance in 2020.

Reverse discourse is a performance about body politics in which Ioana Marchidan identifies and brings to the surface deeply rooted gestures, in order to unravel and decompose them through a bodily glide towards an abstract choreography. The piece proposes cataloguing and re-editing the memory of the submission, of the suppression and repression of the meanings of gestures, and integrates the audience as participants in the dialogue, as submissive observers.

05.05, 08.05 & 21.05 | Pathosphere

The Pathosphere – is the sphere of pathos (emotion), the sphere/medium in which contradiction, contrast, overlapping, deformation, the fabric of paradoxes, seen both micro – biologically and psychologically – and macro, in relation to the surrounding reality and universe, cohabit. Mădălina Dan proposes an artistic universe structured around a unitary bodily composition, in which individualities, dynamics and affective subjectivity form an extended body

13.05 & 14.05 | BLOT – Body Line of Thought

BLOT proposes a series of performative situations that explore movement from the perspective of the relationship we have with the bacteria in our bodies. The performance looks at the human body as an interconnected system, powerful and fragile at the same time. Stripped of the social meanings defined by language, the body redefines itself through a continuous dialogue, at the basis of which lies the principle of coexistence. On stage and off, choreographers Simona Deaconescu and Vanessa Goodman have created a performative system based on seemingly invisible links, but without which the human body could not function.

19.05 | Luați de VAL…s @ HEARTH

Luați de VAL…s is a dance piece performed in the Kerim House and inspired by its architecture and history. In addition to the house in Parfumului 19, Alexandra Mihaela Dancs and Vlad Benescu let themselves be carried away by the waves of the Black Sea during their long surf sessions.
Being carried away by the waves thus becomes an artistic practice.

The center is where you dance. The center can be anywhere.

New mentor at the Academy of Dance and Performance: Noa Zuk!

A teacher of the Gaga movement language since 2007, Noa Zuk is holding a repertory workshop with us in which she will be incorporating material from choreographies she has created over the years. Her goal will be to show students how to increase the volume of a sensation and how to connect to the needs of each movement.

Noa Zuk has danced for 9 years in Batsheva, in all of Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin’s creations since the early 2000s, while working with artists such as Mats Ek, Sharon Eyal, Yasmeen Godder and Inbal Pinto. She left the company in 2009 to focus on his own work as a choreographer (early works include O.M.S., A Droom Come Tree and the Boxerman trio).

She has worked for Bern Ballet (Speakers, 2012), Groundworks Dance Company of Cleveland (After Chorus, 2012), Repertory Dance Theatre of Utah (By the Snake, 2014), Frontier Danceland-Singapore, and Inbal Dance Company-Israel.

  • © Noa Zuk, photo: Philipp Zinniker
    © Noa Zuk, photo: Philipp Zinniker
“Orașul vorbește”: moving [m]others

Who is a good mother? Who is a bad mother? If I hold you too tight, does your soul come out? What do you do when you stick your tongue out? Have you ever seen your mother cry? What do you want to be when you grow up? How were you born? A delicate and powerful performance about motherhood, moving [m]others is a performative and unpredictable installation, born from the collective research of a mixed group of artists. Mothers, daughters and colleagues, they invite you for three hours into a performative and participatory territory, like the earth that attracts, sustains, vibrates, creates, nourishes us and opens up. A map of desires, a game where you discover the rules and follow your own needs. A journey guided by questions. Interview with Alexandra Bălășoiu, choreographer of the show, about moving [m]others.

Creator: Luana Pleșea
Producer: Gabriela Mitan
Host: Andra Petrariu

Dance Diary, part of the broadcast “Orașul vorbește”, is the result of a collaboration between the CNDB Academy of Dance and Performance and Radio Romania Cultural.

The Academy of Dance and Performance is part of the South-East European Dance Stations (SEEDS) project, coordinated by the National Center for Dance Bucharest and carried out in partnership with the Brain Store Project Foundation (Sofia) and Stanica – Service for Contemporary Dance (Belgrade) in the period between 2022 and 2025. The SEEDS project is co-financed by the European Union through the Creative Europe program. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

“Orașul vorbește”: CNDB performing school for children

The CNDB performing school for children classes have resumed! Launched by the National Center for Dance Bucharest in March 2018, it is the first local training and artistic education programme in contemporary dance and performing arts and is aimed at children aged 6 to 14. This year’s programme becomes more complex and brings new features: rhythm classes within each course module and a new course focused on creation – the emphasis will be on working on choreographic moments, which will be staged this year.

Creator: Luana Pleșea
Producer: Gabriela Mitan
Host: Andra Petrariu

Dance Diary, part of the broadcast “Orașul vorbește”, is the result of a collaboration between the CNDB Academy of Dance and Performance and Radio Romania Cultural.

The Academy of Dance and Performance is part of the South-East European Dance Stations (SEEDS) project, coordinated by the National Center for Dance Bucharest and carried out in partnership with the Brain Store Project Foundation (Sofia) and Stanica – Service for Contemporary Dance (Belgrade) in the period between 2022 and 2025. The SEEDS project is co-financed by the European Union through the Creative Europe program. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

“Orașul vorbește”: “If we each do our job well and show that dance is important, we can attract funding.”

If we each do our job well and show that dance is important, we can attract funding.

Daniel Dragomir

The Producers Program, part of the Dance and Performance Academy, has begun. From February to May, participants will study theory, but will also follow internships in different cultural institutions. The 7 trainees have different professional backgrounds – management, cultural production, film directing, curating, education. What attracted them to this programme?
Today you will meet Daniel Dragomir and Dan Iliuță and their expectations.

Creator: Luana Pleșea
Producer: Gabriela Mitan
Host: Andra Petrariu

Dance Diary, part of the broadcast “Orașul vorbește”, is the result of a collaboration between the CNDB Academy of Dance and Performance and Radio Romania Cultural.

The Academy of Dance and Performance is part of the South-East European Dance Stations (SEEDS) project, coordinated by the National Center for Dance Bucharest and carried out in partnership with the Brain Store Project Foundation (Sofia) and Stanica – Service for Contemporary Dance (Belgrade) in the period between 2022 and 2025. The SEEDS project is co-financed by the European Union through the Creative Europe program. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

“Orașul vorbește”: “In the contemporary approach to dance, it is important to be true.”

In the contemporary approach to dance, it is important to be true.

Bogomil Menchise

The CNDB Dance and Performance Academy also includes two artists from Bulgaria: Nelly Georgieva and Bogomil Menchise, both graduates of the National School of Art Dance in Sofia, both recipients of internships and training workshops, both cast in Sofia Opera performances. Listen to the story of the two trainees in the freshest episode “Dance Diary”.

Creator: Luana Pleșea
Producer: Gabriela Mitan
Host: Andra Petrariu

Dance Diary, part of the broadcast “Orașul vorbește”, is the result of a collaboration between the CNDB Academy of Dance and Performance and Radio Romania Cultural.

The Academy of Dance and Performance is part of the South-East European Dance Stations (SEEDS) project, coordinated by the National Center for Dance Bucharest and carried out in partnership with the Brain Store Project Foundation (Sofia) and Stanica – Service for Contemporary Dance (Belgrade) in the period between 2022 and 2025. The SEEDS project is co-financed by the European Union through the Creative Europe program. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.