Dance

The National Dance Centre - Bucharest (CNDB)

We can't talk today about The National Dance Center - Bucharest (CNDB) without mentioning that in the year of its foundation, in Romania there was no other institution dedicated to the art of contemporary dance, no place which could regularly host performances, rehearsals, dance classes and workshops. The shows created and performed by Romanian artists were more easily seen on stages abroad.

The National Dance Center - Bucharest was founded in July 2004, as a result of an intense campaign meant to draw the attention of the Romanian authorities, a campaign supported over more than five years by the independent dance scene in Bucharest.

Finally, the house of dance was placed in the proximity of the “Kilometer Zero” of the freedom gained in University Square in 1989. Romanian contemporary dance obtained in this way its official recognition.

May 24, 2007, Tanzquartier Wien, 19:30

Manuel Pelmuş was born in 1974, in Bucharest. He graduated from the “Floria Capsali” ballet school in Bucharest and Hamburg Opera Dance School. His performances were financed and co-produced by institutions such as Centre National de la Dance - Paris, Hebbel Theater ( Berlin), Tanz Quartier ( Vienna), Akademie der Künste ( Berlin). His latest works, “Outcome” and “Fixed Point” were presented in festivals and events organized by institutions such as : Tanz im August (Berlin), De Singel Arts Center (Antwerp), Judson Church (New York), Centre National de la Danse (Paris), PICA (Portland), Global Dance (Düsseldorf), Tanz Tendenzen (Greifswald). In 2006 he created together with Isabelle Schad and Frederic Gies the work “Still Lives”, presented in Essen, Halle and Bucharest.

Preview

A piece by: Manuel PELMUŞ

Duration: 40 min

Produced by: BANDLIEN/PELMUŞ

“Preview” is the latest piece of the choreographer Manuel Pelmuş, presented to the public at the end of last year and produced with the support of important European cultural institutions. After the performances in March at the NCDB the piece will be presented in Hamburg, Dubrovnik and Zagreb, at the Tanzquartier Festival in Vienna and at the Dance Festival in Sibiu.

May 24, 2007, Tanzquartier Wien, 20:30

Florin Flueraş has a degree in Psychology and he is at present studying ballet at UNATC (National University of Theatrical Art and Film) - Bucharest. He participated in courses and workshops led by choreographers such as: DD Dorvillier, Claudia Mader, Georg Blaschke, Nita Little, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Alicia Grayson, Kurt Kogel, Brynjar Bandlien, Martin Sonderkamp. His own projects include: Solo+1, A little more real than necessary and Process in progress (NCDB productions), Toast Sensation (together with Iuliana Stoianescu for eXplore Dance Festival). He has worked as a psychologist, social worker, web designer, he attended courses in film directing, he was a glider pilot in the Romanian national team.

One - One

With and by: Florin Flueraş

I try to perform on a stage and on a football ground at the same time, opening a door to an imaginary world, with quite clear and well-defined rules and ways of perception. I test to see how fine the passage between the two can be, how a whole imaginary world connected to football can be activated and what meaning it can get in a performance context. I didn’t start from zero, just as the spectator does not start from zero either. I think all of us have a whole history connected to football, be it one of dislike, or one of indifference.

Starting from my own history, I followed a process of personalization - I brought closer and internalized this game down to its present shape. At first, a certain experience, a structure was necessary and only after that did I look for its meaning. I felt, in a way, a spectator to my own game. I would be glad if my piece were substantial and meaningful in itself, so that there would be no need to translate what one can see in the message. It would be nice, if it activated only a certain form of sensitivity, necessary to understand things in their own language.

May 25, 2007, Tanzquartier Wien, 20:30

The Map of Thoughts

From my point of view, The Map of Thoughts - Last concern about fitting into the world is also a drill in choreographic composition. For every performance I create a new dance language. A dance for thoughts. What would it be like, for you to think like this, in this way, the way you see it now?

Maria Baroncea

Maria Baroncea graduated from the “Floria Capsali” Dance High School and the National University of Theatrical Art and Film Bucharest, the Ballet Department. She participated in contemporary dance workshops led by European and American choreographers among which Milli Bitteli, Mark Tompkins, Nuno Rebelo, Ivan Wolfe, Laura Simi, Damiano Foa, Vera Mantero, Andrew Harwood. She was an alumnus of the international festival Internationales Tanzfest Berlin - “Tanz im August” and of the International Dance Festival in Vienna “Impulzdanz”. In 2005 she participated with the piece The Map of Thoughts - Last concern about fitting into the world in the Balkan Dance Platform in Skopje - Macedonia. She has worked as a dancer with choreographers like Frankfurter Kuche, Mihai Mihalcea, Manuel Pelmuş.

May 25, 2007, Tanzquartier Wien, 20:30

“I.L. Caragiale” National Theatre and Film University (NTFU) is one of the oldest institutions of high education in Romania.

A complex training in an art university can no longer be an empty word, or a mere snobbish choice. Horizons open, interact, are populated through reading, culture, various types of experience, through images, spaces, people, stories, colours, sounds, gestures, patterns.

May 4-6; 14-16; 25-26, 2007, KarntnerStrasse, 16:00-22:00

Karlsplatz& Prater, 12:00-20:00
May 4-5, 14-16, 2007, Museums Quartier, 16:00-18:00