The National Center for Dance (CNDB) is one of the founding institutions of the Moving Balkans network together with 10 other partners from 8 countries in the region.
Moving Balkans is a European project started in 2024 as a platform that brings together contemporary dance organizations and spaces with the mission to promote internationally the dance scene in each partner country and to exchange practices between choreographers and dancers. Over three years the project proposes numerous activities and events for the general and professional public such as: festivals, tours, contemporary dance co-productions, VR productions, dance workshops, debates, artistic mobility initiatives and others.
This year, the National Center for Dance Bucharest (CNDB), within the Moving Balkans project, is organizing a choreography workshop, which will take place in Bucharest between 7 and 12 April. Twenty-five young choreographers and dancers from 12 countries (Bulgaria, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Albania, Greece, Northern Macedonia, Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo and Romania), selected from 85 applications, will participate. The program is designed as a masterclass and includes courses in interdisciplinary techniques, choreographic composition and text, visual dramaturgy and artistic research process. The participants’ mentors are Patricia Apergi (GR) – choreographer, director of Aerites Dance Company, Rita Góbi (HU) – choreographer, teacher, founder of Góbi Dance Company, Joana Leśnierowska (PL) – independent artist, curator, choreographer, visual dramaturg, producer, Mădălina Dan (RO) – choreographer, performer, dance teacher, Simona Deaconescu (RO) – choreographer and film director.
With this occasion, the CNDB organizes DANCEtalk, an event inviting the general public to a face-to-face dialogue about contemporary dance with dancers and choreographers from Greece, Poland, Hungary and Romania. The idea of movement as a form of knowledge will be debated, starting from the projects and experiences of special guests Patricia Apergi [Greece], Rita Gobi [Hungary], Joanna Leśnierowska [Poland] and Mihai Mihalcea [Romania]. The event takes place over four days from April 7-10 at the CNDB (Stere Popescu Hall) and is free of charge, subject to availability.
Between May 10 and May 13, 2025, the first edition of the Moving Balkans Contemporary Dance Showcase will also take place in Ljubljana (Slovenia), Rijeka (Croatia) and Zagreb (Croatia), presenting the newest and most relevant productions from the Balkan region. Among the 10 selected performances is BLOT – Body Line of Thought (by Simona Deaconescu and Vanessa Goodman, with Simona Dabija and Maria Luiza Dimulescu), produced by Tangaj Association from Romania.
For more details about the current and upcoming events of the Moving Balkans project, keep following cndb.ro and movingbalkans.eu.
Project implemented with the financial support of the Creative Europe Program of the European Union and the Bulgarian National Fund for Culture.
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Partners Moving Balkans
Albania Dance Meeting (AL), Art Link Foundation (BG), Contemporary Dance Association Slovenia (SI), Croatian Cultural Center Rijeka (HR), Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance (HR), DAN.C.CE UNITIVA (GR), EN–KNAP Productions (SI), Interart Culture Center (MK), Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture (SI), The National Center for Dance Bucharest (RO), Students’ Cultural Center Novi Sad (RS).
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