Miriam Răducanu – Rigor and senZe
- Film screening
76 min.
Info
On October 17, choreographer Miriam Răducanu turns 101. We celebrate her with gratitude for the immense contribution she has made over time to the art of choreography in Romania. On this occasion, we are organizing a special screening of the film Miriam Răducanu – Rigor and SenZe.
For me, the art of dance has never for a moment been detached from senZe. – Miriam Răducanu
About the film
A black-and-white portrait of the centenarian artist who transformed dance into a language of the soul and opened new horizons for movement and creation in Romania – Miriam Răducanu. She explored diverse music through movement – from Handel and Messiaen to Maria Tănase and Johnny Răducanu, bringing depth and expressiveness to every gesture. The film visually and aurally reconstructs her life and artistic journey, guiding the viewer not through a chronological history, but through a cinematic experience of her choreographic thinking, reflecting her creative spirit, between rigor, improvisation, and “movement without movement.” A cultural legacy that continues to inspire entire generations of artists.
Made on the occasion of the centenary of choreographer and dancer Miriam Răducanu, the film brings together for the first time archival documents that reconstruct the artist’s biographical and creative journey, revealing the extraordinary way in which Miriam Răducanu combined dance, music, and poetry. The film was selected for the competition section of the Astra Film Festival in Sibiu.
Concept, direction: Alexandra Gulea
Audio restoration, sound design, music: Vlaicu Golcea
Research and archive consultant: Corina Cimpoieru
Script consultant: Vava Ștefănescu
Editing/graphics consultant: Ciprian Cimpoi
Colourisation: Andrei Oană
Biographies
Alexandra Gulea
Born in Bucharest, after studying visual arts in Paris and documentary film in Munich, Alexandra Gulea works in the field of documentary, fiction, and experimental film as an author, editor, and visual artist. Her films are at the intersection of visual arts and cinema. She lives and works between Bucharest and Berlin.
Vlaicu Golcea
Audio-visual artist and performer Vlaicu Golcea works in various sectors of syncretic and interdisciplinary arts: theater music, documentary film, feature and short films, animation, multimedia installations, AI generative video production and editing, interventions in public spaces, and performances. He is the co-founder of the Postnațional Interfonic Theater, an independent platform and community dedicated to other types of artistic expression, with a particular focus on new contemporary dramaturgy, interdisciplinarity, and syncretism in the arts, as well as young talents in acting and the performing arts.
Corina Cimpoieru
Corina Cimpoieru studied cultural anthropology and is currently a researcher and coordinator of the Media Library and Archives at the National Dance Center in Bucharest. In recent years, she has devoted her time to recovering documents on dance and performance, researching both private and institutional archives with the aim of reviving the history of dance and performance through archiving practices that reconfigure their potential for contemporary projects: performative reenactments (“Reenacting Lizica Codreanu,” “Tribute to Iris Barbura,” “Invisible Bodies and Stories”), dance and performance exhibitions (“Museum of Modern and Contemporary Dance,” “Dance Archives: Open for (Re)Inventory(ies)!” “Time Dance Connection,” etc.), editorial projects (including coordination of “Radical Bodies in Contemporary Performances” by Mihaela Michailov; coordination of the translation of the book “The Exhaustion of Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement” by André Lepecki.
The most recent research was dedicated to choreographer Miriam Răducanu, to whom the CNDB dedicated an extensive project to revive her choreographic activity by organizing an exhibition at Rezidența9 (“Miriam Răducanu – an exhibition-archive with senZ,” 2024), producing a film ( “Miriam Răducanu – Rigor and senZ,” directed by Alexandra Gulea, 2024) and a catalog, which presents the choreographer’s artistic career over a period of half a century and brings together for the first time photographic and videographic documents that have been recovered from public archives in Romania (TVR Archives, ANF Archives, and the archives of the Țăndărică Theater, Bulandra Theater, the State Jewish Theater, the Mic Theater), as well as from the private archives of those who collaborated with Miriam Răducanu from the 1960s to the present day, such as Gigi Căciuleanu, Raluca Ianegic, Liana Tugearu, and Ioan Tugearu, as well as from the choreographer’s personal archive.
Producers: National Center for Dance Bucharest-CNDB and Romanian Television (TVR), with the support of the National Center for Cinematography (CNC) and DACIN SARA.
Film made as part of the MIRIAM RĂDUCANU: an exhibition-archive with senZe project, co-funded by the National Cultural Fund Administration and the 9 | BRD – Groupe Société Générale Foundation.
Institutional partners
Televiziunea Română, Centrul Național al Cinematografiei, Arhiva Națională de Filme, DACIN SARA, Teatrul Evreiesc de Stat, Teatrul de Animaţie Țăndărică, Teatrul Bulandra, Teatrul Mic, Universitatea Naţională de Artă Teatrală și Cinematografică „I.L. Caragiale” din București (UNATC), Cinema Union
Media partners
Radio Guerilla, Scena 9, Adevărul, Agerpres, Revista Arta, Zile și Nopți, ELLE, Ziarul Metropolis, Happ.ro, The Institute, ISCOADA, Revista Zeppelin, Agerpres, LiterNet, Radio România Cultural, Revista Golan, Feeder, Visit Bucharest, Empower Art & Artists, Daily Magazine, Munteanu Recomandă IQads, Ceașca de Cultură
