Three-day laboratory – fourth edition

Intersections
Invitation based participation

December 12, 13 and 14
10:00 – 15:30

Info

Between 12 and 14 December 2022, the National Center for Dance Bucharest is organizing the fourth edition of the “Three-Day Laboratory”, a program designed to maintain and intensify the dialogue and the collective process of reflection, while supporting artists (especially young ones) in their creative process. The Laboratory proposes an extension of the dialogue with the performing arts community through presentations by several specialists from different disciplines and areas of activity.

In this year’s edition we propose the following theme/issue for discussion and collective reflection: Art and communities. Within this broad theme, the Laboratory will address the following issues:

What is a community? What are the defining features of a community?
How does a community develop/grow?
What types of communities exist?
What is community art?
Community art projects: case studies
Ethics, representation, power dynamics in the context of community art
Interactions between art and civil society
Collaborative and participatory practices in community art

Through the proposed program, the current edition of the three-day laboratory places the need to stimulate and develop critical thinking at the center of attention and calls for the need to realize that “all art is political”, in the sense that art implies having a critical perspective on society and social realities, creating directly or indirectly public discourse and consciously participating in the transformation of power relations in society. The workshop will be attended by Veda Popovici – political artist, committed theorist and activist, Constantin Vică – Lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Bucharest and Deputy Director of the Centre for Research in Applied Ethics, Rucsandra Pop – writer, anthropologist and activist, Ionela Pădure – teacher of Romanian language and activist. The workshop includes, in the first part of each day, a movement workshop coordinated by choreographer Beniamin Boar.

SCHEDULE

Monday, 12 December 2022
10:00 – 13:00 – Practical movement session with choreographer Beniamin Boar
13:00 – 14:00 – Break
14:00 – 15:30 – The power of community – from needs to resources. How can a community grow through art? – workshop by Rucsandra Pop

Tuesday, 13 December 2022
10:00 – 12:00 – Practical movement session with choreographer Beniamin Boar
12:00 – 12:30 – Break
12:30 – 14:00 – Pink triangle and black square. Political art and artistic representation in social movements – presentation by Veda Popovici
14:10 – 15:30 – “Community art in Vizurești – from available resources to concrete results” – presentation by Ionela Pădure, followed by open dialogue with participants.

Wednesday, 14 December 2022
10:00 – 13:00 – Practical movement session with choreographer Beniamin Boar
13:00 – 13:30 – Break
13:30 – 14:30 – Moral community (work in progress) – presentation by Constantin Vică
14:40 – 15:30 – Open dialogue between participants and conclusions at the end of the lab.

Special mentions

Participation is free and by invitation only from the CNDB team.

12.12.2022

Monday

10:30

Monday

10:30