Open doors: Narrative in motion
- Dance & performance
- Free entry
2 ore
Info
We invite you to attend the final presentation of the workshop “Narrative in Motion: Exploring Dance, Storytelling, and Creativity,” led by Funmi Adewole Elliott, as part of the Dance and Performance Academy Laboratories.
We are opening the workshop laboratory, which has been running for the past two weeks, to anyone interested in contemporary dance or simply curious about how the Academy’s courses are conducted. You will discover how dance intersects with storytelling, African dance techniques, and choreographic dramaturgy.
The meeting is structured in several stages. First, you will be introduced to Funmi Adewole Elliott’s artistic practice, inspired by African dance-drama and physical theater—forms of expression that combine movement with narrative construction. Then, together with the students of the CNDB Dance and Performance Academy, they will present the results of their collaboration.
The session ends with a participatory experience, in which you will explore, through practical exercises, the fundamental principles of movement found in numerous African dance styles.
Biography
Funmi Adewole Elliott is a performer, dramaturg, and researcher. She began her career as a media practitioner in Nigeria before relocating to England in 1994, where she transitioned into the world of performance. Over the course of a decade, she toured with companies specializing in African dance-drama, physical theatre, and visual theatre.
Her performance credits include work with Ritual Arts, Horse and Bamboo Mask and Puppetry Company, Artistes-in-Exile, Adzido Pan-African Dance Ensemble, Mushango African Dance and Music Company, and The Cholmondeleys, a contemporary dance company.
She taught for eight years in the Dance programme at De Montfort University, England. Her research interests include dance as a profession and Black choreographers in Britain. As a dramaturg, she works primarily with artists whose practices are interdisciplinary or cross-cultural. Funmi creates movement-based theatre and is currently presenting her solo work, The Blind Side (2022). She is also the founder of FAE Studios.
funmiadewoleelliott.com
The Academy of Dance and Performance Laboratories is a program organized by the National Center for Dance Bucharest (CNDB), now in its third edition. The current edition takes the form of laboratories, through a consistent program of practices that focus on the body, the production of knowledge, and contemporary creation. The Dance and Performance Academy Laboratories aim to intensively train artists who can generate and realize their own ideas and understandings of dance as an art form and propose new artistic contributions and perspectives. The Academy thus offers the opportunity to explore techniques, methods, and directions of creation related to relevant artistic themes or acute issues of the contemporary world.
The Academy of Dance and Performance Labs is a cultural programme co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund.
The programme does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary.
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