P.A.R.T.S. auditions for a new Training Cycle 2019 – 2022 in Bucharest
P.A.R.T.S. is looking for a new generation of talented dancers!
On March 30, WASP Working Art Space and Productions will host P.A.R.T.S. Audition pre-selection for the new training programme 2019 – 2022, dedicated to all interested young artists, between 18 and 23 years old who want to start a professional education to be a dancer or choreographer.
The audition process (parts.be/auditions) is divided in two steps:
1) The online registration for pre-selection in Bucharest until 25 March 2019, 8 a.m. / 9 a.m CET by filling the online form here https://pierrot.io/parts/
Registration fee is 10 €.
2) Only candidates who have passed the pre-selection will receive an official invitation with a detailed explanation of the final audition. The final audition process takes place in Brussels between April 9 until April 14.The entire full-week participation in this final stage of the audition is necessary to be selected for the Training, so block the dates now!
Entry requirements
➝ Candidates must have a secondary school diploma before the 1st of September 2019.
➝ The minimum age of entry for P.A.R.T.S. is 18, the maximum age is 23 (both ages on December 31 2019).
➝ Students at P.A.R.T.S. need to have a good level in English (B2 or higher in CEFT scales). This is essential for being an active participant in the programme.
Registration and tuition fees:
➝ The registration fee is € 4.500. This amount is due only once, irrespective of the number of years the student spends at P.A.R.T.S. and has to be paid before the start of the courses
➝ The tuition fee for Training Cycle is € 2.500 a year, with the daily lunch included
➝ To participate in the preselection, you will have to pay the obligatory sum of €10 at the online registration.
The study programme is available here: http://parts.be/
Scolarships and grants:
➝ Candidates are encouraged to apply for grants awarded by their local (municipal, regional, national) authorities or private foundations.
➝ P.A.R.T.S. can provide some scholarships to those students who do not have enough financial resources and have not succeeded in getting scholarships from other funding bodies. P.A.R.T.S. depends on external sources for scholarships, so nothing can be guaranteed. P.A.R.T.S. will only give scholarships to students who can prove they have undertaken serious attempts to obtain a scholarship elsewhere.
The pre-selection in Bucharest on 30 March 2019:
➝ The preselection will take a whole day; the doors will open at 09.00 am, the first class starts at 10.00 am. The results will be announced by the end of the day.
➝ Candidates should bring an ID (identity card or passport).
More details here: http://parts.be/faq
More about the former P.AR.T.S. students here http://parts.be/students
Contact:
P.A.R.T.S. – Performing Arts Research and Training Studios vzw
Avenue Van Volxemlaan 164, 1190 Brussels, Belgia
mail@parts.be
WASP – Working Art Space and Production
Str. Ion Minulescu nr. 67 – 93, Fabrica Flaros, corp E, etaj 2
Sector 3, București
coordination@4culture.ro
P.A.R.T.S. is an international school for contemporary dance, which offers a full-time training cycle to young dancers and choreographers. The school was founded in 1995 by Rosas and De Munt/La Monnaie and is directed by choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.
P.A.R.T.S. offers a full education programme in the field of contemporary dance and consists in a Research cycle and in a Training cycle.
More information about P.A.R.T.S. aici: http://parts.be/about
Image by Tine Declerck — with Tine Declerck.
« La Beauté intermittente » a poetique and performative festival curated by Wanda Mihuleac, at the Romanian Embassy in Paris
On Monday, 4th of March, starting 19:30, at the Byzantine Hall, at the Romanian Embassy in Paris, Wanda Mihuleac coordinates a multidisciplinary event, presented by Transignum Editions in the frame of the national french festival “Printemps de poètes” 2019.
Linda Maria Baros, whose poem will be featured by Swiss composer Jean-Luc Darbellay, in the interpretation of the trio led by Marc Sieffert and performed by Taiwanese Bonni Tchie Hy, with the portable objects of Tia Calli Borlase.
Doina Ioanid - poetic performance with Valentine Mizzi and saxophonist Philippe di Betta.
Eva Maria Berg - German poet translated into French and Romanian will be associated with the music created for this poem by composer Violeta Dinescu, performed by Marc Sieffert trio, performance by Alexandra Loewe.
The event is organized with the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute.
OPEN CALL for a danceWEB scholarship Programme at ImPulsTanz Vienna 2019!
The danceWEB Scholarship Programme is taking place from 10 July to 14 August 2019 in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival.
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+ filled in application pdf form (please fill it in with adobe reader version 8 or higher and respect the character limitations in the boxes)All documents need to be in English!
OPEN CALL: workshop and audition with Eszter Salamon in Bucharest
WASP Studios launches the first open call of this year and has the pleasure to invite Romanian professional female artists to participate to the workshop coordinated by the choreographer Eszter Salamon.
The workshop will take place between 11 and 16th of February 2019, from 10 am to 3 pm at WASP Working Art Space and it is dedicated to the professional female artists in the contemporary or classical dance field, with good physical technique, experience in using their voices or open to work on voice.
Four artists, will be selected after the workshop to participate on the last performance produced by Eszter Salamon – MONUMENT 0.8: Manifestations. The production will be developed during 2019 with rehearsals in Bucharest and Brussels, followed by world premiere in Brussels and an international tour.
Manifestations is a dance and choral performance built on the “embodiment” of documentary images and sound, as a concept and as a practice. Enlisting the collaboration of historians of Feminist History as well as four female performers, the work aims to reactivate gestures that could be witnessed as part of public demonstrations in the context of historic women’s movements.
Technologies for embodying movement will be developed in collaboration with the artists. The vocal score and techniques of modulating sound will be developed with the help a vocal/singing coach.
An opportunity for different ages of professional women artists in the field of contemporary and classical dance, open for body and vocal experiments, available to participate for a new international production.
For subscriptions please send a biography and a work portfolio, in English and Romanian to contact@waspmagazine.com, until 6th of February 2019.
The confirmation for participation will be sent until 8th of February. The workshop has free admission.
Eszter Salamon is a choreographer, dancer and performer who lives and works in Berlin. Since 2001, she has been creating solo and group works that have been presented in performing arts venues and festivals throughout the world including Centre Pompidou, Avignon Festival, Ruhrtriennale, The Kitchen New York, HAU Berlin, Berlin Documentary Forum, Kunstenfestivaldesarts Brussels, Kaaitheater Brussels, Festival dʼAutomne Paris, Tanzquartier Wien, Holland Festival, Kampnagel Hamburg, steirischer herbst graz, Dance Triennale Tokyo a.o.
She is frequently invited to present her work in museums, including MoMa, Witte de With, and Fondation Cartier.
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The workshop is organized in the frame on Manifestation project, produced by WASP Studios and 4Culture Association.
Cultural project co-funded by the National Cultural Fund Administration (AFCN)
The project does not necessarily represent the position of the National Cultural Fund Administration. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or the way the project results can be used. This is entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.
First edition of Bucharest Arts and Public Space Festival starts on 15th of December 2018!
„The increasing of the social dynamics, as a result of people’s mobility and the new urban contemporary communities, brings also a lack of knowledge about what our cities can offer, their history and potential for every citizen or tourist. During the first edition of Bucharest Arts and Public Space Festival, artists from Romania, Germany, USA and Belgium are invited to bring a contemporary view on urban space, starting with the cultural heritage – monuments, statues, parks, public gardens, through an artistic approach, including performances, installations and workshops”, declares Andreea Capitanescu, 4Culture artistic director.The festival will start on 15th and 16th of December at 19:00, with Duet-C Eliade, a participative performance in which the belgian artists Roel Heremans creates choreographic mental experiences using abstracts properties of the medium radio. He uses location-specific, architectural patterns to create temporary spaces in which sound stimulates thought processes and changes visual perception. Heremans examines how a system of collective thinking relates to the specific place in which that system is located. For Bucharest Art and Public Space, Roel delved into the late philosophical works of Mircea Eliade and developed an interactive imagining choreography that deals with Eliade’s idea of cyclical time. During the festival you will be able to experience his participatory-performative work for 2 up to 8 people at a time.
On Monday, 17th of December, at Galateca Gallery, Michael Douglas Kollectiv & Dana Caspersen invites participants to join a new kind of public interaction to examine the question: How do we as individuals impact the level of violence in the world? During The Exchange performance, participants move through a terrain of action that is brought to life by their motion and is shaped by their experience and beliefs. The performance utilize simple physical actions, such as walking, gesturing, and physical imagination as tools of exchange for engaging in this collective examination.
The Romanian artist Sergiu Matiș, who lives and performs in Berlin, will present on 18th of December at WASP Working Art Space and Production, the solo performance Nocturne for broken vocal cords. Nocturne for broken vocal cords is part of Sergiu Matis’s Noise Nocturnes, a series of performances and texts that revisit the romantic genre in its fascination for the night and darkness, imitating nature of recycled texts spoken at high speed or shouted, constitute the dense score of the nocturne. Choreographic tools applied to movement and voice make navigation possible through the overload of glitches and fragmented moves and sounds, by supporting chaos with coherence.
GALATECA Galerry – 2 – 4 C. A. Rosetti Street, district 1, Bucharest***
Bucharest Arts and Public Space Festival Program
15.12.2018, WASP – Working Art Space and Production
19:00 – 20:30
▪ Duet C – Eliade // Roel Heremans (BE)
performance
▪ Body and architecture in the urban space // Maria Balabaș, Andreea Căpitănescu (RO)
live sound performance sonor live with Maria Balabaș, video-sound installations16.12.2018, WASP – Working Art Space and Production
19:00 – 20:30
▪ Duet C – Eliade // Roel Heremans (BE)
performance
▪ Body and architecture in the urban space // Maria Balabaș, Andreea Căpitănescu (RO)
video-sound installations
20:00 – 21:00
▪ The Exchange // M & D Kollectiv & Dana Caspersen (DE/USA)
performance18.12.2018, Simina FILAT Design Studio
15:00 – 17:00
▪ Contemporary design workshop with Simina Filat for high-school students19:30, WASP – Working Art Space and Production
▪ Nocturne for broken vocal cords // Sergiu Matiș (RO/DE)
performance
▪ Multimedia installations – 4Culture & WASP Studios productions
19:30 – 21:00
▪ Listening to Sculptures // subREAL (Călin Dan and Iosif Király)
photo-video installation
▪ 2565 main [Relative Position] // Ciprian Ciuclea and Cătălin Crețu
▪ Multimedia installations – 4Culture & WASP Studios productions***Event organized in the frame of „Bucharest Arts and Public Space”.
A cultural project financed by the Municipality of Bucharest, through The Administration of Monuments and Touristic Heritage.
Co-producer: WASP Studios
Partners: The Order of Architects in Romania – Bucharest Branch, National Heritage Institute, Galateca Gallery
Media partners: Radio Romania Cultural, Modernism, Zeppelin, Arta Magazine, Feeder
(Ro) Centenarul prin imagini și cuvinte
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We Are Still Watching, created by Ivana Müller, is played for the first time in Romania, within eXplore festival #13
eXplore festival – Bucharest International Contemporary Dance and Performance Festival presents on Saturday, October 20, 2018, the play We Are Still Watching, created by Ivana Müller in collaboration with the choreographer Andrea Bozic, artist and theatre director David Weber-Krebs and the dramatist Jonas Rutgeerts. The play has the form of a “reading rehearsal” in which spectators encounter each other while reading a script together. During approximately an hour spent in the company of each other, they create and perform a community, making decisions individually and collectively while «simply» reading a text that someone else has written for them.
We Are Still Watching is a piece in which the idea of “spectacle” slowly shifts to where the public least expects it. Something that for a moment could look like a bad theatre play becomes an invitation to look beyond what is being scripted and leaves place for something “real” to happen.
Strongly acclaimed, the play has been played in many countries so far
An article published in Libération in 2014 mentioned that «the excellent ‘We Are Still Watching’ is an exception to the rule. (…) Let’s pass on the finesse of the writing (it requires quite some talent to imagine the reactions of the different spectator profiles when facing such a dilemma), it’s the device itself of this smart and self-reflective piece that surprises by its evocative power».
Asked later by Wilson Le Personnic, the editor-in-chief of Maculture.fr, about the liberating feeling and at the same time the difficulty of working without actors, because no rehearsals can be made during the creative process, Ivana declared in 2015: «during the period of writing, the four of us were anticipating and “incarnating” different voices that started to be formulated in the script. Those imaginary persons were sometimes based on people we knew, both personally or culturally, and they helped us to constitute a sense of “characters” in some cases. One of the most complicated, but also the most exciting, elements of the script is that we never know who will read which role. This decision is made either by chance either by the choice of spectators. So, there is no type casting possible here. We don’t know if the reader will be a man or a woman, a native speaker or a foreigner, a young person or an elderly spectator, person that everybody recognizes or a totally anonymous person».
Played in several countries, such as the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Austria, Italy, the United States, and now Romania, the play is really different every time, depending on each performance. Furthormore, the artist points out in the same interview that «any piece performed in different context brings different reactions of the audience. Even performed on a different night in the same theatre a piece can have a totally different reception. That condition is inherent in how live-art (and probably any art) works. But maybe with this piece the difference is more visible because the reactions are visible both in how the piece is performed and how it is watched. I work on the piece for every new performing occasion, taking the specificity of the socio-cultural context into account. We also always translate and adapt the piece in the language of the community that performs it. This transfer into a new language already brings a lot of changes. It is very flagrant that different cultures have a different relationship to the idea of “speaking in public” and also to the idea of how to “perform” theatre. [...] Weather a performer or a spectator you have to be physically invested to be a part of it, you have to be present. This fabulous condition gives us a space for experimentation, curiosity and engagement.”
Known to the Romanian public due to her presence at the eXplore festival in Bucharest with the show “While We Were Holding It Together”, Ivana Müller is one of the most powerful voices on the European stage of contemporary dance and performance.
Her play, We Are Still Watching, translated in Romanian by The Dutch House, marks the end of this year’s edition of the festival, being scheduled to take place on October 20, at 19:00 and 21:00, at WASP Working Art Space and Production.
Based on an increased degree of interactivity, it challenges the participants to become the protagonists of the work themselves and to experience theatrical art in a much more personal manner through direct engagement. Here are two testimonials of those who took part in the show in other parts of the world: