Ecoperformance workshop

Coordinated by Maura Baiocchi and Wolfgang Pannek

June 12-14, 10:00-14:00

13.06.2024

Thursday

10:00

CNDB – Stere Popescu hall (Bd. Mărășești 80)

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The National Centre for Dance Bucharest, in partnership with Plastic Art Performance Collective, through the organizer Alina Tofan, announces the Ecoperformance Workshop run by Taanteatro Company from Brazil, to which Romanian artists interested in the symbiosis between art and ecology are invited to apply. The workshop will be led by Maura Baiocchi and Wolfgang Pannek – artists of the Taanteatro Company, originally from Sao Paolo and will take place within the first edition of the Ecoperformance Film Festival organized in Romania (fourth internationally).

The Taanteatro Ecoperformance Workshop is an invitation to artists who strive to go beyond the excessively anthropocentric concepts and practices of the performing and audiovisual arts. Guided by a symbiotic practice-theory approach, Maura Baiocchi and Wolfgang Pannek will provide a conceptual overview of ecoperformance within the methodological framework of taanteatro, and will give an introduction to practices that benefit and intensify environmentally oriented states and dynamics of performative perception, presence and interaction. Integrating awareness, training, theory and creation, the practitioners will propose psychophysical exercises such as “Mandala of Body Energy” and “Conatus (Effort)” and will address the concepts of tension, ecoporality, schizophrenia, ecoperformance and symbiosis-scene. The meeting will culminate in a collective performative improvisation based on the workshop programme.

Registration
FREE participation, maximum 20 people.
Wanted: dancers, actors, performers, artists interested in movement and ecology.

Participants should send a motivation letter explaining why they want to participate, their experience as an artist and their interest in being part of this workshop by 9 June at 00:00 to

Biographies

Maura Baiocchi
Brazilian choreographer, dancer, director and actress Maura Baiocchi is the founder-director of Taanteatro (*1991) in São Paulo and the creator of taanteatro or choreographic theatre of tensions. She is the author of several books (with Wolfgang Pannek) on her approach to the performing arts, including Choreographic Theatre of Tensions: Forces & Forms (2020) and founder-director of the International Ecoperformance Film Festival. Baiocchi’s career began in the 1970s in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil. In the late 1980s, she became a pioneer of butoh dance in her country, and in 1995, she wrote the first book about butoh in Portuguese (“Butoh Dança Veredas D’Alma”). Baiocchi then focused on developing taanteatro and her company. The award-winning artist has created over eighty choreographies, plays and performances and has presented her work in Argentina, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Mozambique, Russia and the United States. She has also performed in feature films and short films. Baiocchi works temporarily at the National University of Brasília and holds a Master’s degree in Communication and Semiotics from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo – PUC.

Wolfgang Pannek
German author, director, performer, producer and editor Wolfgang Pannek began his career in Bremen. In 1992, following Brazilian choreographer Maura Baiocchi, he moved to São Paulo, where he and Baiocchi have worked ever since as director of Taanteatro Companhia. Pannek has directed major Taanteatro stage productions and created and coordinated international projects, including the Butoh and Research Theatre Festival (1995), Artaud 100 Anos (1996), Conquest (1996/96), Mazola-Brazil Cultural Exchange (2005), Hans-Thies Lehmann Brazil Tour (2010), Artaud Occupation (2016), Deleuze Occupation (2017), Antonin Artaud’s The Theatre and the Plague (2020), APOKÁLYPSIS (2021) and Ecoperformance Expedition (2022). Since 2021, Pannek is the production director of the Ecoperformance International Film Festival. Together with Baiocchi, he has co-authored several books on taanteatro. Pannek has also starred in series and films produced by HBO Brazil, TV Globo and Amazon Prime. He holds a master’s degree in philosophy, psychology and literature from FernUniversität Hagen, Germany.

The workshop is part of the Local Theatre Movement / co-funded by Theatre in Palm / collaboration with Homemadeculture.

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