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The National Center for Dance continues the Performing art school for children. The programme is aimed for children aged 6 to 14 and includes creative classes and repertoire in contemporary dance, theatre and movement. In addition to developing creativity, expressivity, technique and body language specific to contemporary dance, the Performing school for children stimulates artistic creation by working on choreographic moments to be staged by the end of the programme.
Launched by the National Centre for Dance Bucharest in March 2018, the Performing art school for children is the first local training and artistic education programme in contemporary dance and performing arts. The Performative School runs throughout the school year and integrates courses in contemporary dance, creation and improvisation, as well as other workshops and artistic education activities for children.
“Taking on a children’s art education program involves a ritual of directing attention to the body on a regular basis. The assumption has a double meaning: parents and children on the one hand and teachers on the other. The multi-component programme is not intended to produce specialists in one discipline, but to develop the ability to convey multiple types of information and artistic body training.
The school of performance provides the framework to generate an individual type of acuity of observation and use of bodily resources, the development of pleasure in using the intuitive baggage with which all children are endowed, the activation of the child’s bodily and visual imagination in structuring an artistic discourse of their own, but also a complex bodily training that relates to other artistic fields and current cultural expressions.
What distinguishes dance from sport is the ability/capacity to create artistic communicative meanings, in which mind and thought are one with the body; the cultivation of bodily skills serves a type of performance that has the vocation of communicating ideas.
Dance as a form of knowledge, of adaptation to the context, to the world”.
Vava Ștefănescu, Manager CNDB
At the end of August (August 18-29), the National Dance Center is organizing an intensive performance school for children. The program is aimed at children aged 6-14 who attended the performance school for children during the previous school year and includes courses in contemporary dance technique, theater, and forms of expression.
An intensive module will be organized between August 18-29. Classes will be held Monday through Friday from 6-8 p.m. and are open to all children who wish to deepen their study of contemporary dance, regardless of age. There will be nine sessions on contemporary dance technique and one on theater and forms of expression.
The sessions will last 2 hours, including a break.
Teachers
Eva Danciu, Mariana Gavriciuc, Ana Turos, Catrinel Catană
Location
The National Center for Dance Bucharest, Stere Popescu Hall, 80-82 Mărășești Boulevard
Calendar
August 18-29 (Monday-Friday)
Time slot 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
Fees and discounts
5-session subscription: 400 lei
10-session subscription: 720 lei
Children can participate in all sessions of the module or half of them.
Registration
Registration is open until August 15, 2025, by sending proof of payment to the email address .
Subscriptions can also be purchased at the venue, in cash at the first class, or online at kompostor.ro until the starting day of the course.
The Performing art school for children – Module 2 (March 31 martie – June 2, 2025)
The National Center for Dance is running the Performing art school for children again this year. The program is aimed at children aged 6 to 14 and includes classes in contemporary dance technique, theatre and body expression.
Structure
The module runs from March 31 to June 2 and consists of 7 weeks of courses.
open hours: 26 May – 2 Jun
courses: 31 Mar – 17 Apr
holiday: 18 Apr – 5 May
courses: 5 May – 25 May
Classes
Tuesday: 17:00-18:15- Contemporary dance technique: 6- 9 years (Eva Danciu)
Tuesday: 18:30-20:00- Contemporary dance technique: 10-14 years (Catrinel Catană & Andreea Belu)*
Wednesday: 17:00- 18:30- Theater games and exercises: 6-9 years (Alexandra Vieru)
Wednesday: 18:30- 20:00- Theater games and exercises: 10-14 years (Alexandra Vieru)
Thursday:17:00-18:15- Contemporary dance technique: 6-9 years (Mariana Gavriciuc)
Thursday: 18:30-20:00- Contemporary dance technique: 10-14 years (Catrinel Catană & Andreea Belu)*
*The course is designed for attendance 2 times a week. It is recommended to attend both days, but weekly attendance is also accepted.
Teachers
Catrinel Catană, Eva Danciu, Mariana Gavriciuc, Alexandra Vieru, Andreea Belu
Fees and discounts
Subscription 7 sessions : 560 lei
Subscription 14 sessions: 980 lei*
*A discount applies to participants who opt for more than one course or for children from the same family enrolled in the program.
Ticket for one session of dance technique / theater and forms of expression: 85 lei
Subscriptions can also be purchased at the venue, in cash at the first class, or online at kompostor.ro until the starting day of the course.
Registration
Registrations can be made at , specifying the name and age of the child as well as the name of the chosen courses.