Other tiny dances …and theatre

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Other tiny dances …and theatre

…for the young and the old at the Excelsior Theatre

On Sunday 26 May at 11:30 at the Excelsior Theatre, you are invited from small to large to four dance and theatre performances. From adaptations of one of the best-known children’s stories to fantastic creatures and original choreography, you can explore the big worlds of the little ones!

The event is organised by the National Centre for Dance Bucharest (CNDB) and presented in a unique format by the repertory and theatre groups of the Performative School. This is the first local training and artistic education programme in contemporary dance and performing arts for children aged 6 to 14.

The CNDB is one of the few institutions that publicly presents its students’ results, in the form of performative moments, following the acquisition and deepening of the notions of contemporary dance, creation, theatre and improvisation during a school year.

Spectators are invited to a collage event comprising four artistic moments of dance and theatre, as follows:

Suddenly Deep in the Woods, after Amos Oz
The work is a stage adaptation by the children in collaboration with playwright Ruxandra Simion and coordinating teacher, director Alexandra Vieru. The story takes place in a magical forest and follows the adventures of children, more curious and brave than their parents, as they search for and rescue animals kidnapped by an evil spirit.

Dance of the fantastic creatures
This moment is prepared by the children together with the interpreter and choreographer Mariana Gavriciuc, who confesses that they worked on the basis of fairy tale principles: “We created fantastic creatures to which we gave unfamiliar names. We found movement qualities and behaviours that were unimaginable, which we incorporated to discover new possibilities of movement.”

About everything …that (moves) usThe work was built almost exclusively from movement sequences proposed by the children during the classes, together with Catrinel Catană and Andreea Belu, choreographers and coordinators. “The students acquired technical notions and concrete tools with which they practised managing

inner space, where kinaesthesia, introspection, decisions and emotions happen and create, as an effect, the personal way of movement.” (Andreea Belu)

Dance = freedom

The children together with the coordinating teacher and choreographer Eva Danciu prepared a choreographic moment through which the children could express themselves freely, as playfully as possible, in their own corporal discourse, by activating their corporal and visual imaginary.

Throughout the event both young and old spectators will explore the wonderful big world of the little ones.

The price for the event containing the four works is 30 ron and tickets can be purchased on the Excelsior Theatre website.

Coordinators: CATRINEL CATANĂ, MARIANA GAVRICIUC, ANDREEA BELU, EVA DANCIU, RUXANDRA SIMION, ALEXANDRA VIERU