The project “Movement, Digital Intelligence, and Interactive Audience” (MODINA), which ran for three years and in which the National Dance Center Bucharest was a partner, is coming to an end. The project was co-financed by the European Union’s Creative Europe program with €1 million (70% of the total project budget). The total amount attracted by the CNDB in the project was €189,383.
We were delighted to participate in the project over these three years, hosting artistic residencies and performances, with MODINA promoting our presence in Iridescent – an international contemporary dance festival – and other reconfigurations of the sensibility of some of the productions created within the project. We are talking about performances that challenged us through their discourse and models of research and understanding of technology in relation to contemporary dance, in a world where digital and artificial intelligence-based approaches are increasingly questioned by contemporary artists.
The project partners were three academic institutions and five dance centers from six countries, namely:
- Universitatea din Tallinn (Estonia), coordinator
- Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava (Estonia)
- Hochschule Düsseldorf (Germany)
- tanzhaus nrw (Germany)
- ITI, IST-ID, University of Lisbon (Portugal)
- Kino Siska (Slovenia)
- Trafo (Ungary)
- The National Center for Dance Bucharest – CNDB (Romania)
The results of the project were: new dance pieces; performances, workshops, and seminars; new software tools for contemporary dance performances; new theories and best practices for dance and technology; increased experience, knowledge, and opportunities for artists; and an improved and expanded audience for dance.
MODINA concludes at tanzhaus nrw (Düsseldorf, Germany) with a series of events organized by MIREVI – Mixed Reality and Visualization: performances, a symposium, and an exhibition on January 23, 24, and 25. CNDB will be represented at the event by Mihai Mihalcea, Ana Papadima, Simona Deaconescu and Grigore Burloiu.
The showcase includes the following performances:
January 23 This is Unreal (Pierre Godard & Liz Santoro)
January 23–25 nino (Ruth Gibson & Bruno Martelli)
January 24 Baby (Hollow: Viktor Szeri, Tamás Páll & Gyula Muskovics)
January 24–25 Still Moving (Liis Vares & Taavet Jansen)
Symposium:
January 24 Dancing in the Digital Age (at LAVAstudio, participation is by registration only)
Exhibition:
January 23–25 Emerging Bodies, Emerging Systems
With: Laurenz Ulrich x MIREVI, Charlotte Triebus; Naoto Hieda & Jorge Guevara; Norbert Pape & Simon Speiser; Philipp Dilchert x MIREVI; Uroš Krčadinac & Marko Milić
The project will continue from 2026 to 2029 with new Creative Europe funding as “MOVIDA.”