Resting Among Nerve Endings

Dance & Performance
Recommended age: All Ages
Language: English
Part of the “At Home in the Body” project

75 min.

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“At Ease Among Nerve Endings” is a contemporary dance performance about displacement, belonging, and the search for a “home” through the relationship between the body, territory, and memory.

Four performers explore, through movement, voice, and imagery, how experiences of alienation are inscribed in the body and in its relationship with territory: in tensions, breath, and internal rhythms. The performance investigates the politics of belonging and how certain bodies feel “at home,” while others are perceived or treated as strangers.

By integrating somatic practices such as Body-Mind Centering® into the creative process, the performance views the body as our primary territory and as a space for encountering the other.

A journey between fragility and resilience, between the need to belong and the possibility of finally finding peace in who we are.

The performance emerged from choreographic research conducted during two residencies: at the self-sustaining Plantamor community in Tenerife, Spain, and at the Improvise and Organize residency in Alta Vila Park in Águeda, Portugal. The process is also supported by somatic workshops at social service centers where the choreographer worked alongside a psychotherapist with homeless individuals.

Concept and choreography: Cristina Lilienfeld
Created and performed in collaboration with: Dorota Michalak, Wura Moraes, Maelle Laurent
Dramaturgy: Andreea Novac
Live sound: Maelle Laurent
Visual elements: Alina Ușurelu

Biogrphy

𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐋𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐝 studied choreography and psychology, constantly seeking the point where the two disciplines intersect. In recent years, she has collaborated and continues to work with various choreographers and dancers, as well as visual artists and musicians, as part of several interdisciplinary artistic groups.
Her performances and collaborations have been presented on stages in Bucharest, throughout Romania, and internationally. Over the past 15 years, she has presented, researched, performed, and taught in countries such as Portugal, Ghana, Italy, France, Germany, the UK, Serbia, the U.S., Luxembourg, Norway, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, and China. She is currently a co-founding member of the 𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐋 Collective (www.arealcolectiv.ro), and from 2015 to 2020 she was a member of the PETEC Association.
In 2024, Cristina began training in Body-Mind Centering®, a comprehensive somatic method created by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. www.bodymindcentering.com
In the workshops she leads, Cristina strives to highlight the authenticity inherent in every situation. www.cristinalilienfeld.ro

Resting Among Nerve Endings is part of the “At Home in the Body” project. This is a cultural project co-funded by the National Cultural Fund Administration.
The project does not necessarily reflect the position of the National Cultural Fund Administration. The National Cultural Fund Administration is not responsible for the content of the project or for how the project’s results may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the grant recipient.