CNDB Archive

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The CNDB’s Contemporary Archive brings together materials documenting contemporary dance performances and recurrent actions produced/co-produced/hosted by the National Center for Dance Bucharest, from its official establishment (2004) to the present. The beneficiaries are mainly professionals in the field – choreographers, dancers, critics – and those interested in the study of performing arts, history and theory of this field – students, researchers, journalists, independent artists.

The materials come from different sources – internal documentation, collaborations with external photographers/ videographers/ journalists, inter-institutional partnerships – and are structured in 3 funds:

– Photo collection – over 50,000 documentary and artistic images in digital format

– Video collection – video material in analogue and digital format documenting over 500 performances and performance actions

– Media Fund – more than 600 posters, flyers, brochures and other information material in both print and digital format

The documents are inventoried and can be consulted at the CNDB Archive, Stere Popescu Str., Bd. Mărășești 80 -82

Contact: 0758101941

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Access rules for users:

1. The categories of users who have access to the archive resources are: performing arts professionals (choreographers, dancers, critics, etc.), students, master’s students, doctoral students and teachers from higher and pre-university education institutions, researchers and specialists in various fields of culture. Access to the documentary resources of the CNDB Archive will be allowed only for cultural, scientific and educational purposes, within the limits and with the responsibilities laid down by the legislation in force.
2. The documentary resources of the CNDB Archive can be consulted at the Media Library in Bdv. Mărășești 80-82, opening hours are Tuesdays from 11-13 and Thursdays from 13-17.
3. Access to the CNDB Archive will be by appointment by filling in a Request for Consultation of CNDB Archive materials (← click here) which you can send to
4. On the basis of the received request, the curator of the archive will register the request and will schedule the visit to consult the documents in the archive during opening hours. The materials can be consulted directly, in physical format (if their condition allows it) or in digital copy at the Media Library.
5. The requested documents will be consulted by the user in the presence of the archive custodian, who is responsible for ensuring access conditions by providing the user with the appropriate devices for consulting documents in digital copy (laptop, television, headphones, etc.) and for providing protective measures for direct consultation of old documents (gloves, protective film, mask).
6. Users are obliged to make appropriate use of the documentary resources and other assets of the CNDB Media Library and Archive without damaging them.
7. Photography or photo-scanning is prohibited.
8. Users wishing to reproduce documents from the Archive are obliged to request this service from the custodian of the Media Library and to pay the corresponding fees (← click here). 9. The use of documents will only be allowed for scientific, cultural and educational purposes, based on a Request for Use of Documents from the CNDB Archive, which must be approved by the Archive Manager and the Institution Manager. Once this request is approved, the documents will be handed over to the user, in digital copy with the archive watermark, after payment of the corresponding fees, on the basis of a handover-receipt protocol stipulating the obligations of the parties.

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The CNDB archive contains a historical fund of unpublished documents on the history of Romanian contemporary dance in the 20th century, which recovers important parts of the work of choreographers, dancers, choreographic artistic collectives and maps the institutions that produced, hosted and promoted contemporary dance performances.

The materials in the documentary collection are owed to the efforts made by the National Center for Dance Bucharest through a series of research projects, partnerships with institutional or private archives, by searching for the best solutions to archive, recontextualize and reflect on the updating of the history of Romanian contemporary dance. Private archives of choreographers and dancers such as Stere Popescu, Miriam Răducanu, Ioan Tugearu, Trixy Checais, Lizica Codreanu, Vera Proca-Ciortea, Iris Barbura or Floria Capsali re-create the history of modern dance in Romania.

The documentary collection contains various types of documents from 1900 to 2004:

• Fund of photographs of choreographers, dancers, dance performances.
• Video collection – archive films about the audio-visual history of Romanian dance.
• Fund of programme notebooks, posters and dance recitals reviews.
• Fund of official documents and documents on artistic activity: contracts, castings, repertoires, correspondence.
• Fund of scripts and pedagogical collections of dance theory and practice – courses, manuals and analytical programmes.

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