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CNDB Awards 2024 and Warp Renderings

The CNDB Awards Gala is an annual event, recognizing those who have contributed and confirmed the value that dance and contemporary choreographic culture have in society. Beyond any hierarchies, the CNDB Awards celebrate dance and the role of art for people and community.

Description Warp Renderings

In this new solo work, Sergiu Matis explores how aestheticized landscape imagery has distorted contemporary society’s relationship to the natural world – from European landscape painting traditions to photography, satellite imagery, CGI and virtual reality.

“Warp Renderings” proposes different ways of accessing the natural environment by re-examining and investigating the ideological twists to which it has been subjected in the past. These distortions are exaggerated to the breaking point, cracking and warping the canvas and screen, and creating fissures in the body, making it permeable and able to resonate with the natural elements it represents. Perhaps through this breaking of traditions – this conceptual vandalism – we can repair and restore our connection to nature, allowing it to flood us again, or at the very least, to return to the dancing body.

Concept, choreography, interpretation: Sergiu Matis
Music: György Ligeti, Emptyset, Hexorcismos, Simina Oprescu
Text: Sergiu Matis, Philip Ingman, Nichita Stănescu
Dramaturgic advice: Mila Pavićević
Technical management, sound design: Andrea Parolin
Lighting: Martin Pilz
Video projection: Calvin Lanz, Frank Manzano
Production: Philip Ingman
Co-produced by: Tanzfabrik Berlin
Supported by: Performing Arts Institute (InSzPer) Warsaw, as part of apap – FEMINIST FUTURES – a project co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union

Costumes and props consist of reused and recycled materials.

Where and when
Painting Hall of the National Theatre Bucharest (Bd. Nicolae Bălcescu, 2)
22 November, 19:00

Tickets
Purchase HERE

Supported by
Ministry of Culture, Aerowaves, Creative Europe, Starea Naţiei, Odeon Theatre, Bucharest National Theatre, CINETic (UNATC), LINOTIP – Independent Choreographic Center, Les Films de Cannes à Bucarest, Goethe-Institute Bucharest, Cinema Union, Cărturești, 1000 de Chipuri, 5 to go

Main media partner
Radio Guerilla

Media partners
Adevărul, Agerpress, Elle, Happ.ro, Liternet, TVR Cultural, Radio România Cultural, Revista Arta, The Institute, Zile și nopți, Zeppelin, ISCOADA, Revista Golan, Feeder, Visit Bucharest, Ziarul Metropolis, Scena9, IQads, Ceașca de Cultură, Modernism.ro