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CNDB Awards Gala & Masterwork For Six Dancers
The CNDB Awards Gala is an annual event that recognizes those who have contributed to and confirmed the value of contemporary dance and choreographic culture in society. Beyond any hierarchy, the CNDB Awards celebrate dance and the role of art for people and the community.
The event is followed by the performance Masterwork For Six Dancers (by En-Knap, Emese Cuhorka & Csaba Molnár from Hungary), which is part of the IRIDESCENT program. International festival of contemporary dance and other reconfigurations of the sensible, now in its fourth edition.
Unfolding through a series of vignettes – borrowing inspiration from the philosophy of Bauhaus and the Triadic Ballet – Masterwork for Six Dancers (2023) explores the ways in which the body sheds cultural symbols and societal meanings projected upon it over time. By using objects as costumes that impede movement and give it a mechanical tinge, the body reshapes its autonomy in a flurry of functional obstacles. Its functions slip between the concrete and the abstract into choreography. Each and every body is a masterpiece in its own right, emerging from the entanglement of the self and the environment. By modifying the body, by “objectifying” it and extending it into space and surroundings, by submitting and submerging the body, a paradoxical freedom and autonomy emerge – that of art and artifice.
Bodies without organs. The image conjures up anatomy, but this is about autonomy. Imagine the body, its parts and props, their movements, breaking down and breaking away, performing functions beyond their common functionality. The functions answer only to themselves. The body, its parts and props, their movements become objects (of dance), objects of becoming, and use objects, props to become objects (of dance), objects of becoming. The body, its parts and props, their movements take on a life of their own, become a world in and of themselves. This “objectification” is no alienation, it is agency, spooky action at a distance. Freedom of potential, freedom from limit. An endless play, a play as an end. A sensibility, more than a sense. A surplus. This “objectification” is no imitation, zero sum game, it is autonomy. If anything, it is reverse imitation; life is art, object is dance. Did someone say “camp”? “Cray–cray”.
The work has been presented at tanzmainz festival #5 (Staatstheater Mainz, DEU, 2025).
Created by: En-Knap, Emese Cuhorka & Csaba Molnár
Performed by: En–Knap Group (Mattia Cason, Tina Habun, Fiona MacBride, Matija Franješ, Carolina Alessandra Valentini, Nika Zidar)
Music: Ábris Gryllus
Light design: Leon Curk (based on the original design of Kata Dézsi)
Costumes: Emese Cuhorka, Csaba Molnár, Katarina Markov (Atelje d.o.o.)
Production: Zavod En–Knap / En–Knap Productions
Photography and video: Sara Rman, Sašo Podgoršek
Where and when
Studio Hall of the National Theater Bucharest (2 Nicolae Bălcescu Bd.)
November 26, 19:00
Tickets
Purcahse HERE
Institutional partners
Ministerul Culturii, Aerowaves, Moving Balkans, MODINA, Creative Europe, Teatrul Național București, Cinema Union, Cărturești, Terapie pentru Mișcare, UrbanEye Film Festival. Liceul de Coregrafie “Floria Capsali”
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Radio Guerrilla
Media partners
Scena9, Zile și Nopți, Adevărul, Agerpress, Elle, Happ.ro, Liternet, TVR Cultural, Radio România Cultural, Revista Arta, The Institute, Zeppelin, ISCOADA, Revista Golan, Feeder, Visit Bucharest, Ziarul Metropolis, IQads, Ceașca de Cultură, Modernism.ro, Daily Magazine, Munteanu Recomandă, Haute Culture Magazine
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