16.11.2014 / 19:00 / WASP
Free entrance.
WASP — Working Art Space and Production supports young creators, UNATC students and graduates, by involving them in various programs and projects, as well as by offering free necessary space for creation and presentation.
Thus, we invite you to discover the newest, most motivated and willing to perform generation of UNATC choreography graduates in the Romanian cultural space. The three performances are UNATC productions, developed under the coordination of univ. dr. Raluca Ianegic and prof. dr. Valentina de Piante Niculae.
Human Nature (20’)
Choreography: Georgeta Corca
Distribution: Georgeta Corca, Denis Bolborea, Simona Dabija, Andrei Iancu
Sound Design: Denis Boborea
Scenography: Cristian Stănoiu
Human Nature is a performance that confronts human social and metaphysical nature on one side, and the animal nature on the other, in a trial to unveil human fundamental characteristics everywhere. Which are the ways of thought, feeling and action that people have the natural tendency of having, independently from the influence of culture? Perhaps, what separates us most from other species is the instinct to transcend. Dreams, art, magic, dance, love, mysticism — all witness this fundamental instinct of human nature.
The performers seem to be controlled from the outside, by the means of a remote control or, contrary, moved by inner, organic forces. In search of their own nature, they suddenly teleport from one moment to the other, from one space to another, from one character to another.
The performance won the best choreography award in ALT — The National Contest of Choreography 2014 and at the UNATC Alumni Gala 2014.
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Now (20’)
By: Alexandra Bălășoiu
With: Georgeta Corca, Alexandra Bălășoiu, Silviu Mititelu, Denis Bolborea/Vlad Pavel
Now is a performance that speaks about perception and about how each creates their own, unique world, about the world as it is seen and interpreted as a succession of games that do not escape the rules of perception. Now is created from a “dance of the beholder’s senses and mind” and talks about a world lived as such.
This performance was born from the need of bringing the invisible on stage and was built through both searching and denial processes at the same time. It asks a series of fundamental questions about human existence and is far from claiming to have found an answer.
The performance speaks:
• About the truth that lays in the sincerity of the invested emotion,
• About the fact that some things cannot be understood or explained,
• About the naivete that enriches us and that we do not want to let go,
• About the fact that we are capable of anything,
• About the beauty that lays in the eyes of the beholder and in his power to change reality,
• About the fact that we are not a fixed form and we cannot be comprised in definitions,
• About listening to your own intuition, body and the messages it sends here and now, as an anchor and means of orientation in the confusion of thoughts.
The performance received the prize for best choreography at the UNATC Alumni Gala 2014.
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Birthday Suit (20’)
Direction and choreography: Anita Polici
Distribution: Andreea Anghel, Alexandra Bălășoiu, Georgeta Corca, Anita Polici
Sound Design: Vlad Radu
Scenography: Alexandru Nimurad
We made a pact, packed our bags and left running for identities. We tried on many, we were walking from shop to shop and from street to street; everything was heavenly, she was beside me in all those moments, of either loneliness, ecstasy, confusion or shame. When she was upset, she would hold me close and I knew that she was right… sometimes I despised her, but I wanted to accept her with each of her scars…
The majority of us people, identify with our own mirrored reflection, with the physical body wrapped in its skin, over which a new story imprints itself with each day that goes by. Thus, we can watch our bodies by reading the stories that they evoke! But what about that feeling of estrangement, when you can’t find yourself and feel as if participating in a marathon, sometimes sprinting, without reaching any finish line? In this continuous fugue, in this social game, you wake up in a different “shell” each time, becoming part of a different picture, accompanied by different characters, each of them “dancing” you through all the feelings, offering you new identities. Each of us either heard, thought or said the saying “put yourself in my skin”!
The fierce desire to find our own identity, uniqueness, makes us experience these “shells” in the hope that we will achieve the archetypal shape / model / mold of creation.
