SOFT INSIDEOUT Workshop, Valentina de Piante

29 October 2014 by Andreea Capitanescu with comment off

Movement workshop following the Feldenkrais method
My meeting with the Feldenkrais method has profoundly affected the way I dance, create and teach. In 2013 I started specializing at the Istituto per la Formazione Feldenkrais in Milan, founded by Mara Della Pergola, a direct student of Moshe Feldenkrais, and for many years I have been researching with different groups, from professionals to amateurs, the impact body study has on our personalities and on our way of being.

What is movement?
The Feldenkrais method starts by questioning the body.
It considers the movement as a powerful instrument of knowledge, a part of a complex phenomenon that encompasses emotions and thinking.
Changing the way we normally move actually means changing our thinking and emotional patterns.

How can we become more aware of ourselves through movement?
Each of us has a unique way of moving and holds an infinite potential of actions. Just that, in lack of constant exploration and body awareness, these possibilities of action never materialize.

We feel before we understand.
This method teaches us that creativity, movement and sensibility in what we do changes the way we think and behave.
For Feldenkrais thought, perception and emotion are all present while we act.

The workshop
The method relies on organic learning and addresses any person who wants to get to know themselves better: from young mothers, to fathers and grandparents, from dancers to psychologists and physiotherapists, from professionals of various specialties to athletes. Through a series of lessons that eviscerate the infinite combinations and components of action, we get to reinvent neuromotor habitual schemes through playful and creative exploration. In this deconstruction of action schemes, agonist and antagonist muscles find balance and once tensions disappear, emotions, images, ideas and other associations start to manifest themselves. In this context, everyone gets to free themselves from patterns, anxiety, conflicting emotional states, while accessing their own potential and a harmonious and positive way of being.

Objectives
The entire workshop will be as if we would learn, for a second time, in infinite ways, beyond our habits and the blockages we identify with. Without exterior models and through our sensations, we will become capable to free ourselves from unnecessary tensions, disorganized breathing, hurry, or the need to satisfy someone. Feldenkrais says:

“We don’t know ourselves. Actually, and you will realize this in a few minutes, the way we know ourselves doesn’t allow us to have real control upon ourselves. (…) You are not the ones who act out, but your pains, your illness, your inabilities, old learned habits, that you can’t even remember: these dictate your actions.”

Valentina de Piante Niculae is a choreographer and dancer, with a PhD in Performance Arts. She is Assistant Professor at the Choreography section of UNATC I.L. Caragiale in Bucharest. As a choreographer, she studies the co-present of different types of body intelligences, a route from the biological to the imaginary, that integrates different levels of consciousness: emotional, sensory, cognitive.

She participated in courses and workshops held by Lola Keraly, Yasuko Yokoshi, D.D. Dorvillier, Miguel Gutierrez, Ori Flomin, Gwen Welliver, Serenella Fonzar, Laura Aris, Odette Guimond, Mark Tompkins, Lisa Nelson, David Zambrano, Inge Kaindlstorfer, Yvan Wolf, Joseph Nadj, Anouk Van Dijk, Abbondanza-Bertoni, Roberto Galvan, among others.

She is a visiting professor at various universities and research institutes. In 2009 she participated in the TTT – Teaching The Teachers – Bucharest seminar, along Jan Ritsema, Bojana Cvejic, Jan Kopp and Jennifer Lacey. Starting the autumn of 2013, she began training in the Feldenkrais method at the Feldenkrais-Milan 8 Institute to become a practitioner of the method.

Useful information:
This module consists of 4 classes.
Enrollment tax: 200 LEI.
Enrollment tax for students: 150 LEI

Payment will be made in the first day of class.
It is possible for payments to be done in two installments: 50% in the first day of class, 50% in the 4th day of class.

Dates: November 17, 24 and December 8, 15, 2014, between 19:00 – 20:30.
Participants are required to bring along a thin mattress or a blanket.

The number of participants is limited.

Registration: contact@waspmagazine.com, with e-mail subject: SOFT INSIDEOUT Workshop Registration.
Deadline: November 14, 2014.

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Tell Your Own Story! Workshop, Simona Deaconescu

29 October 2014 by Andreea Capitanescu with comment off

#dance #reality #picture #freedom

The purpose of a magician is to amaze his audience through tricks that create an illusion of the impossible. We know that magic is a mechanism, however, we love to be surprised. The same thing happens to dance nowadays: the stage becomes a picture in perpetual motion, bodies are augmented and distorted by the power of projection, coupled with technological innovations.

We are explorers by nature. If in the last decade dance served as a language interesting to explore in film, we propose the reverse of this ratio: cinema language serves movement, enhances body inventiveness and becomes accessible to all. The world is changing and thus, dance changes too.

Throughout our 8 sessions we will discover:

innovative dance techniques,

interesting camera movements,

improvisations that increase distributive attention,

angulations and projection surface of the most diverse kinds,

how we can use gravity to generate impossible movements and

how we can enhance these by using video effects.

The aim is that the image becomes an extension of the body, while the studio turns into a portal to parallel realities. The workshop structure is live action, relaxed, playful, and addressed to the curious.

During this workshop we will move a lot, courageously, in many places, at different tempos.

Simona Deaconescu studied choreography and film direction in parallel, her aesthetic approach being interdisciplinary and inspired by people with special abilities and bold ideas.

Simona is the artistic director of the Tangaj Dance collective and has created some of the most courageous choreographic pieces in the Romanian contemporary dance scene of the past two years: “0001 | the dream factory”, “Silent Places” and “0002 | birdville”, as parts of a serial project that researches dance in relationship with technological development. In the summer of 2014, Simona receives one of the most coveted European scholarships, the danceWEB scholarship offered by the Life Long Burning network in the frame of ImpulsTanz International Dance Festival Vienna and two artistic residences: one at WASP — Working Art Space and Production, offered by the 4 Culture Association and one in the Battery Dance Company New York studios, to complete the making of the Birdville choreographic interactive extravaganza, with a joint team of Romanian and American dancers, a show presented in the frame of eXplore dance festival #9.

Her desire to combine dance and film took shape in 2013, through the making of the Silent Places short, which enjoys a broad distribution at worldwide festivals of the genre. The film had its European premiere at “Loikka Dance Film Festival” (FIN), opened the “POOL – International TanzFilmPlattform” (DE), was projected as part of “Festivalul Filmului European” (RO), “International Screendance Festival” (USA), “Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema” (USA), “Ammutinamenti Film Festival” (IT) and will soon be projected at the “San Francisco Dance Film Festival” (USA) and the “Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival” (RO).

Until 2013, when her attention was directed entirely toward the development of an interdisciplinary artistic collective, Simona was a co-founder of the “Secția de Coregrafie” Association, along which she realized projects like “DNA” (the first online dance magazine dedicated to choreography arts) and “Cartierul de Dans” (a curatorial program dedicated to the young generation of choreographers and performers). Simona is actively involved in the development of contemporary art and is preoccupied by dissolving the barriers between various artistic approaches, in the fall of 2014 being part of the X Platform team (an new media arts exhibition, held at WASP — Working Art Space and Production).

Simona participates in workshops with both local and international choreographers, deepening innovative dance techniques and ways to stimulate creativity alongside Anne-Marie Cunningham, Ivonne Ramos, Natașa Murariu, Konstantin Mihos, Anna Wehsarg, Mat Voorter, Yael Orni, Kira Kirsch, Gerald Kurdian, Bruno Caverna, Ko Murobushi, David Wampach, Chris Haring, Doris Uhlich, Alva Noe, Saju Hari, Laura Aris, German Juaregui.

She started choreographing at 21, realizing the university projects: “Time Quartet” (an adaptation after Requiem, by Hanoch Levin), a project realized under the high patronage of the Royal House, “Alice în țara minciunilor”, presented at CNDB and at the “Ludovic Spiess” Experimental Studio for Opera and Ballet of the Romanian Opera in Bucharest, for which she receives the prize for the best choreographer in the UNATC Graduated Gala, as well as her masters piece, “Undeva. Cândva”. She realized the choreography for the “Omega Rose” feature film (directed by: Alexandru Dorobanțu), the “Maia” short (directed by: Adela Cotimanis) and the “1940” personal experiment (supported by Media Pro Pictures studios), collaborating in parallel as a screenwriter with the Media Pro and Intact Media trusts.

At the invitation of curator Igor Mocanu, she realizes a choreographic lab in 2014 – “Border Body” (presented at the Allegra Nomad Gallery), along some of the most beloved performers in Bucharest, as well as the visual artist Dilmana Yordanova. Currently, Simona focuses on developing the Tangaj Dance collective.
http://www.tangajdance.com
http://www.danscontemporan.net

Useful information:
There is no need for prior experience in dance, but a good state of mind and a will to try out something new. Through the complex structure of the class, it is recommended equally to those who have previously attended contemporary dance classes, to those who take interest in different other dance styles, to performance art students, to performers and to any other group of people eager to discover contemporary dance from a fresh perspective.

This module consists of 8 classes.
Enrollment tax: 300 LEI.
Enrollment tax for students: 200 LEI.

Payment will be made in the first day of class.
It is possible for payments to be done in two installments: 150 LEI in the first day of class, 150 LEI in the 4th day of class.

Dates: November 19, 21, 26, 28 and December 3, 5, 10, 12, 2014, between 19:00 – 21:00.

The number of participants is limited.

Registration: contact@waspmagazine.com, with e-mail subject: Tell Your Own Story! Workshop Registration.
Deadline: November 17, 2014.

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Contemporary Dance Fusion Workshop, Judith State

29 October 2014 by Andreea Capitanescu with comment off

This workshop is addressed to all those passionate about exploring contemporary dance and its adjacent forms.

“While working at WASP throughout the past year with people who had started their meeting with dance from point zero, and observing in them a remarkable capacity of adaptation and evolution, I decided to continue this series of workshops with a new module in which the material will be structured progressively, having a more intense approach, which will be finalized with a public presentation. Participation in the final presentation will be optional, however participants will be encouraged to experiment what could be their “first meeting with the audience”.

The workshop will include technical, improvisation, freedom of expression, play, relaxation and breathing exercises, combining contemporary dance with jazz, hip-hop and musicality elements, which will bring the dancers in front of their own selves, free, stripped of thoughts and ready to express their feelings through movement.”

Judith State is a professional dancer whose mentality is directed towards a complex and diverse approach of movement, as well as a harmonious fusion between these diverse and apparently contradictory components, musicality and interiorisation. Permanently searching for new experiences, she is interested in traveling, meeting and working with various choreographers whose styles vary from contemporary to jazz, street jazz and hip-hop, training both in New York (Broadway Dance Center), London and Gothenburg, as well as in Romania.

She is the founder of DaDans, a program throughout which professional contemporary dancers have access to an intensive yearly training program led by international choreographers. Among the choreographers she was lucky to work and train extensively with, Massimo Gerardi, Brice Mousset, Dana Foglia, Travis Wall and Billy Bell are to be named, while Luam, Jared Grimes, Jared Jenkins, Derrek Mitchell, Candace Brown, Derrell Bullock, Neil Schwartz, Hollywood and Joanna Numata are to be mentioned in relation to the street-jazz and hip-hop styles.
http://www.judithstate.com

Useful information:
This module consists of 8 classes.
Enrollment tax: 300 LEI.
Enrollment tax for students: 200 LEI

Payment will be made in the first day of class.
It is possible for payments to be done in two installments: 150 LEI in the first day of class, 150 LEI in the 4th day of class.

Dates: November 11, 13, 18, 20, 25, 27 and December 2nd and 4th, 2014, between 19:00 – 21:00.
Final presentation: December 5, 2014.

The number of participants is limited.

Registration: contact@waspmagazine.com, with e-mail subject: Contemporary Dance Fusion Workshop Registration.
Deadline: November 10, 2014.

Ex/tensionS, work-in-progress

29 October 2014 by Andreea Capitanescu with comment off

31.10.2014 / 19:30 / WASP
work in progress presentation + feedback session

From her first solo, A l’endroit…, five years ago, Caroline Grosjean has been holding herself back from falling, traveling through different perceptions, paying close attention to people around while technically focusing on her body, finding support by investing stories or zooming in on small details, moving from inside to outside and from outside to inside. Since then, she has carried on creating pieces that actively involve the body, even when the movement is invisible. Through her work, Caroline creates multiple images that stay, remain or move, putting different actions, times, intensities and roles into perspective.

Through Ex/tensionS, she interrogates the idea of endless falling again, continuing to shift references and working in different spaces — from the neutrality of a dance studio to the effervescence of a city. An abstract of her work so far, the performance will not occur on stage, but will exist by shifting the gesture in different spaces and through new media. Photos and videos authorize playing with a lot of different scales, zooming and opening the frame. They also can transform the position of the mover(s) and the main action, so it no longer is what we think it is. Thus, working on suspended or moving images, each protocol starts with a body exploration and transforms itself into a small piece that will be performed in many different ways.

Caroline Grosjean was born in 1976 and educated in ballet and modern dance as a child. She discovered contemporary dance in Lyon, by joining a “danse-études” program and going to university. She later went on being a trainee at the CCN in Montpellier in 1999 and obtained a scholarship in the Martha Graham dance school. Ever since then, she has been working as a professional contemporary dancer for several companies in France, Belgium and Austria. She was invited to participate to danceWEB in 2004, passed the state diploma to teach dance with success in 2007 and got a university diploma in Art, Dance and Performance in 2012. Her own works number the A l’endroit… (2009) solo, Eastern (2010) — a trio for two dancers and a gambist, PARTITIONS (2012) — a performative proposal for public spaces and Héroïnes (2013), where dance and art are meeting. She has also lead a lot of social and cultural activities in schools and theaters, and was invited by the scene nationale in Besançon to constitute a group of non professional dancers, that she has been training for two years now. She recently was one of the choreographers invited to the Abbaye de Royaumont, where she just presented a new project, along with the new Appel group.
http://www.compagniepiecesdetachees.com

The final presentation of the Life Long Burning residency offered by 4Culture Association in partnership with CCN de Montpellier L-R to French choreographer Caroline Grosjean. A project hosted by WASP – Working Art Space and Production, as part of the 2014 residencies & productions programme. A cultural project financed by: Life Long Burning, with the support of the European Union’s Culture 2007-2013 Programme, the Ministry of Culture, AFCN – The National Cultural Fund Administration, The Bucharest City Council Centre for Cultural Projects and ARCUB — București 555 Program.

eXplore dance festival #9 Programme

23 September 2014 by Andreea Capitanescu with comment off

eXplore dance festival brings once more in front of its audience an intense and concentrated program, questioning the movement and the body presence, testing the limits of technology versus conceptual art and performance, developing moving stories for a wide public.

The 9^th edition of the festival is a reflection of the international residency and production programs developed in the last year, in Bucharest, by 4Culture and WASP, encouraging creative experiments beyond artistic borders, searching for new formats of trans-disciplinary art.

PERFORMANCES

eXplore dance festival #9 performances program consists of a selected number of works, introducing to the audience strong voices of nowadays European dance scene. Using a variety of artistic directions and aesthetic influences, the program aims of building a new and necessary dialogue about contemporary body, with all its political, emotional and social messages. A body drained of meaning, looking for a new, upgraded content in a consumerism era. A body without any reference points then its own brain.

Date	Hour	Name	Location
3.10.2014	19:00	Absolute Helligkeit, Naoko Tanaka (JP/DE) – performance installation\| 40’	WASP
3.10.2014	20:00	Treasured in the Dark, Thiago Granato (BR/DE) – work in progress \| performance \| 25’	WASP
3.10.2014	21:00	Score #21 – Method of Elimination, Thomas Steyaert (BE) – dance performance \| 50’	WASP
3.10.2014	22:00	Official Opening & nicecream.fm DJ set	WASP
4.10.2014	19:00	Drifting Towards Non-Existence, Julia Danzinger (AT) – preview \| performance \| 30’	WASP
4.10.2014	20:00	An Un-Folding Process, Isabelle Schad (DE) – dance performance \| 50’ followed by an artist talk	WASP
5.10.2014	18:00	CLIMAX, Yasmeen Godder (IL) – dance performance \| 180’	MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art
7.10.2014	19:30	0002 \| birdville, Simona Deaconescu (RO) – premiere \| dance performance \| 50’ followed by an artist talk	WASP
8.10.2014	19:30	0002 \| birdville, Simona Deaconescu (RO) – premiere \| dance performance \| 50’ followed by an artist talk	WASP
10.10.2014	19:30	DEEP DISH, Liquid Loft/Chris Haring (AT) – a real time choreographic film \| 70’	WASP
11.10.2014	19:30	Black, Mette Edvardsen (NO/BE) – performance \| 25’	WASP
11.10.2014	20:30	No Title, Mette Edvardsen (NO/BE) – performance \| 40’ followed by an artist talk	WASP
12.10.2014	19:30	STAFF, Andreea David & Ingrid Berger Myhre (RO/NO) – performance \| 50’ followed by an artist talk	WASP
25.10.2014	17:00	CRITICAL PRACTICE — public debate on the theme: Contemporary performing practices, including non-professional performers in shows distribution and young audiences	WASP
25.10.2014	18:00	DANCE FILMS SCREENINGS A Cinedans Film Festival — Point Taken 3 selection: One Man Without A Cause — Director: Arno Dierick, Choreography: Emio Greco & Pieter C. Scholten Egon — Director: Michiel Van Jaarsveld, Choreography: Thom Stuar Harvest — Director: Chaja Hertog & Nir Nadler, Choreography: Aitana Cordero Vico What’s Unfolding — Director: Leendert Pot, Choreography: Hillary Blake Firestone Off Ground — Director: Boudewijn Koole, Choreography: Jakop Ahlbo	WASP

*Tickets will be on sale 1h before the start of the performances at the venue.
**Please be aware that seats are limited, so we encourage you to reserve your free ticket in advance at office@exploredancefestival.ro. Reservations made in the same day as the performance will not be taken into consideration.

EXPLORE DANCE FESTIVAL TICKET: 20 RON/performance
STUDENT TICKET: 10 RON/performance

FESTIVAL PASS: 150 RON
FESTIVAL STUDENT PASS: 90 RON

MASTER CLASSES

Date	Hour	Name	Location
3.10.2014	11:00 – 13:00	Master Class: Isabelle Schad (DE)	WASP
11.10.2014	11:00 – 13:00	Master Class: Stephanie Cumming / Liquid Loft (AT)	WASP
12.10.2014	11:00 – 13:00	Master Class: Mette Edvardsen (NO)	WASP

*MASTER CLASSES Registration will be made at: workshops@exploredancefestival.ro, by sending a CV and letter of motivation before October 3rd. Selected participants will get free access to all Master Classes within the festival.

STAGE & PLAYGROUND

A special, unique and non-conventional program dedicated to children, youth and family, including performances and workshops of dance, theater, new-media, creative drawings and games. Contemporary art seeks for a future open mind audience. And what better context for exploring it?

Activities organized by 4Culture, in the frame of “+0 dans”, cultural project financed by ARCUB – Center for Cultural Projects of Bucharest Municipality, through the Cultural Program București 555.

Workshops for children, youth and family

Date	Hour	Name	Location
13.10. – 19.10.2014	18:00 – 20:00	BODY & ANIMATION WORKSHOP — live cinema-performance workshop Karla Kracht & Andrés Beladiez (DE/ES)	WASP
18.10. – 19.10.2014	10:00 – 11:00; 11:30 – 12:30	CREATIVE DRAWING WORKSHOP – exercises of drawing improvisation Laura Leonte (RO)	WASP
20.10. – 26.10.2014	17:00 – 19:00	DANCE & PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP Colette Sadler (UK)	WASP
25.10. – 26.10.2014	10:00 – 12:30	IN FRONT OF THE BLOCK WORKSHOP — generation Y games Vlad Tomei & Mihai Gheorghe (RO)	WASP

Performances addressing to children, youth and family

Date	Hour	Name	Location
16.10.2014	19:30	Domestic Products, Ioana Păun (RO) – avant-premiere \| theatre \| 18+	WASP
17.10.2014	19:30	Domestic Products, Ioana Păun (RO) – premiere \| theatre \| 18+	WASP
18.10.2014	19:00; 20:30	Zoomwooz, Karla Kracht & Andrés Beladiez (DE/ES) – live-cinema performance \| 11+	WASP
19.10.2014	10:00; 11:30	Creative Drawing, Laura Leonte (RO) – public presentation \| 5+	WASP
19.10.2014	19:00	Body and Animation, Karla Kracht & Andrés Beladiez (DE/ES) – premiere \| live-cinema performance with children 11+	WASP
19.10.2014	20:00	Habemus Bebe, Robert Bălan (RO) – theatre \| 18+	WASP
25.10.2014	19:30	Domestic Products, Ioana Păun (RO) – premiere \| theatre \| 18+	WASP
26.10.2014	19:00	Ghost (A Real Cartoon), Colette Sadler (UK) – premiere \| dance production with children 8+	WASP

*STAGE AND PLAYGROUND Performances and workshops: FREE entrance, upon reservation.
**The Domestic Products and Habemus Bebe performances are subject to the standard ticket rates, and will be charged 20 RON/full ticket and 10 RON/student ticket, per performance.

X Platform

This year eXplore dance festival will present selected works from the X Platform exhibition, resulted from the newest international art residency for the research and production of interactive, new and trans media projects in Bucharest, hosted by WASP – Working Art Space and Production. X Platform exhibition is curated by Olivia Nițiș. Mentors: Marilena Preda-Sânc, Ciprian Ciuclea, Jan Eugen and Cosmina Chițuc.

Organized by: 4 Culture Association, WASP – Working Art Space and Production, Tangaj Dance & Life Long Burning, with the support of the Culture Programme 2007 — 2013. With the support of Experimental Project.

A cultural project financed by: AFCN — The National Cultural Fund Administration and The Bucharest City Council Centre for Cultural Projects, ARCUB — București 555 Program.
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Artist name	Work
100ideas + Collective East (NL/RO)	APEIRON
Livia Mateiaș (RO)	Teleportal
Lola Bezemer (NL)	Colouring Space
Łucja Grodzicka (PL/UK)	Between
Marius Jurca (RO)	INTROSPECTION_2014

Useful Addresses:

Festival venue and offices: WASP – Working Art Space and Production
Ion Minulescu street, no. 67-93, E building, 2nd floor, Bucharest.
Access: Subway station Timpuri Noi.

MNAC – The National Museum of Contemporary Art
Izvor 2-4, Parliament Palace, building E4, Bucharest. Entrance from Calea 13 Septembrie. Buss lines: 136, 385.

Additional information and ticket reservations can be requested at office@exploredancefestival.ro.
Phone: +40 31 105 3143

eXplore dance festival #9

23 September 2014 by Andreea Capitanescu with comment off

poster-explore copy Dates: October 3^rd – 26^th
Venues: WASP – Working Art Space and Production & MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art

Once more eXplore dance festival brings an intense and concentrated program to its audience, questioning movement and body presence, testing the limits of technology versus conceptual art and performance, and developing moving stories for a wide public.

The 9^th edition of the festival is a reflection of the international residency and production programs developed in the past year, in Bucharest, by 4Culture Association and WASP, encouraging creative experiments beyond artistic borders, searching for new formats of trans-disciplinary art.

eXplore dance festival #9 performances program consists of a selected number of works, introducing strong voices of nowadays European dance scene to the audience. Using a variety of artistic directions and aesthetic influences, the program aims at building a new and necessary dialogue concerning the contemporary body with all its political, emotional and social messages. A body drained of meaning, looking for a new, upgraded content in a consumerist era. A body without any reference points other than its own brain.

A special, unique and non-conventional program dedicated to children, youth and family, including performances and workshops of dance, theater, new-media, creative drawings and games. Contemporary art seeks for a future, open minded audience. And what better context for exploring it?

This year eXplore dance festival will present selected works from the X Platform exhibition, resulting from the newest international art residency for the research and production of interactive, new and trans media projects in Bucharest, hosted by WASP – Working Art Space and Production. The X Platform exhibition is curated by Olivia Nițiș. Mentors: Marilena Preda-Sânc, Ciprian Ciuclea, Jan Eugen și Cosmina Chițuc.

Powered by: 4Culture Association and WASP – Working Art Space and Production.
A cultural project financed by: AFCN – The National Cultural Fund Administration, The Bucharest City Council Centre for Cultural Projects, ARCUB — București 555 Program, The Romanian Cultural Institute.
With the support of: Goethe Institut Bukarest, INTPA, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, The Embassy of Israel in Bucharest.
Media partners: 121.ro, Art Act Magazine, Art Clue, Art Out, B365, Ceașca de Cultură, Citadinul, Cooperativa Urbană, Decât O Revistă, Designist, Feeder, Getlokal, Gingergroup, înFestival, Modernism, nicecream.fm, Orașul Meu, Postmodern, sub25, The Institute, Think Outside The Box, Veioza Arte, Weart, Zeppelin, Ziarul Metropolis, Zile și Nopți.

Find more info on:
www.4culture.ro
www.exploredancefestival.ro

eXplore dance festival #8

5 September 2013 by WASP Magazine with comment off

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Asociatia 4 Culture in parteneriat cu WASP – Working Art Space and Production anunta organizarea editiei a 8-a eXplore dance festival – Bucharest International Contemporary Dance and Performance Festival.

Perioada: 28 septembrie – 3 noiembrie 2013

Aflat la cea de-a 8-a editie, eXplore dance festival s-a impus ca unul dintre cele mai importante evenimente culturale de anvergura desfasurate anual in Bucuresti si singurul festival international de dans contemporan si performance din Romania.

Tema editiei din acest an este “eXchange”, regasindu-se atat in programarea spectacolelor, cat si a celorlalte activitati, precum workshop-uri, concerte, filme, discutii. Timp de 5 saptamani peste 100 de artisti din Romania si strainatate isi vor prezenta cele mai recente creatii, vor sustine ateliere si participa in diferite formate de lectures si artist talks.

Printre cele mai asteptate evenimente din acest an se numara prezenta la Bucuresti a coregrafului german Raimund Hoghe, cel care timp de un deceniu a fost dramaturgul Pinei Bausch, iar ulterior si-a creat propria companie, cucerind cele mai importante scene ale lumii.

Un eveniment de succes al anului 2012, Platforma Romaneasca de Dans Contemporan si Performance - initiat de catre Asociatia 4 Culture si WASP, va avea loc in perioada 30 octombrie – 3 noiembrie 2013. Editia a 2-a a Platformei va cuprinde peste 12 productii romanesti realizate in ultimii doi ani, cooperari internationale si premiere.

Parteneriatul cu Cinedans – Dance on screen Festival (Amsterdam) va aduce si in acest an la Bucuresti peste 20 de filme de dans – documentare si scurt-metraje. O selectie speciala de filme va fi dedicata aniversarii centenarului Stravinsky – Sacre du Printemps.

Cele peste 10 workshop-uri si master-class-uri din festival vor oferi sansa tinerilor profesionisti, dar si publicului larg, de-a descoperi unii dintre cei mai importanti artisti internationali ai momentului (Jefta van Dinther, Thiago Granato, Eszter Salamon, Colette Sadler, Angela Vadori, printre altii).

Programul Meet the Next Generation – dedicat sustinerii si promovarii celor mai tineri coregrafi si dansatori, va continua si in acest an prin coaching-uri si activitati de cercetare si productie coregrafica, conduse de 3 importanti coregrafi internationali.

eXplore dance festival este primul si singurul festival din Romania ce beneficiaza de o finantare europeana multi-anuala (2011-2013), unul din cele 18 festivaluri europene de artele spectacolului (teatru, dans si muzica) selectat de catre expertii europeni din cele 674 de aplicatii din intreaga Europa.

eXplore dance festival este realizat cu sprijinul Programului Cultura al Uniunii Europene.

Proiect cultural finantat de Administratia Fondului Cultural National

Cu sprijinul Goethe Institut Bucharest si Primaria Sectorului 1

Acest proiect a fost finantat cu sprijinul Comisiei Europene. Aceasta comunicare reflecta numai punctul de vedere al autorului, iar Comisia nu este responsabila de utilizarea informatiilor continute de aceasta comunicare.

Contemporary Fusion @WASP – Curs deschis cu Judith State

19 August 2013 by WASP Magazine with comment off

Contemporary Fusion – curs deschis condus de Judith State / 24 & 25 august, 20:00- 21:30 / WASP – Working Art Space and Production

Cursul se adreseaza tuturor celor interesati, cu sau fara experienta in dans si se va desfasura la WASP sambata, 24 august si duminica, 25 august, in black box. Participarea este gratuita.

“Mi-a placut intotdeauna sa experimentez si sa aprofundez stiluri noi, sa ma provoc continuu si, in acelasi timp, sa ma joc si sa ma bucur de rezultate. Asta propun si prin acest curs: o joaca. O combinatie intre dans contemporan, influente de jazz si hip-hop si muzicalitate, care sa il aduca pe dansator in fata propriei persoane, liber, dezbracat de ganduri si pregatit sa isi exprime sentimentele prin miscare.” (Judith State)

Judith State este un dansator profesionist a carui mentalitate este directionata catre o abordare cat mai complexa si diversificata a miscarii si stilurilor de dans si o fuziune armonioasa intre aceste componente diverse si aparent contrare, muzicalitate si interiorizare. Dorindu-si permanent experiente noi cauta sa calatoreasca, sa cunoasca si sa lucreze cu diferiti coregrafi al caror stil variaza de la dans contemporan la jazz, street jazz si hip-hop, pregatindu-se atat in New York (Broadway Dance Center), Londra si Gothenburg cat si in tara.
Fondeaza DaDans, program prin intermediul caruia dansatorii profesionisti de dans contemporan au acces anual la un program intensiv de pregatire cu coregrafi internationali. Printre coregrafii de dans contemporan cu care a avut bucuria sa lucreze si sa se pregateasca sustinut se numara Massimo Gerardi, Brice Mousset, Dana Foglia, Travis Wall si Billy Bell, iar Luam, Jared Grimes, Jared Jenkins, Derrek Mitchell, Candace Brown, Derrell Bullock, Neil Schwartz, Hollywood si Joanna Numata pe stilurile street-jazz si hip-hop.