Performance Dance

Alexandra Pirici lets movement become, transform, exist in a type of gradual character that modifies not only her state of mind, but also her direction of action. A direction without a precise purpose, without a precise aim.

There is no dynamic of creation when you feel comfortable

Manuel Pelmuş defies the visible movement. Preview, the most recent show created by him, played on February the 20^th at the National Centre of Dance Bucharest, gives to the movement you expect to see exploding in a dance show, a test of alchemy.

Sasha Waltz was the protagonist of the first meeting dedicated to the artists who will be invited at the Romanian National Theatre Festival 2009.

During the period March 15th - March 25th, at the National Centre of Dance Bucharest the Europe in Motion dance festival takes place in which will participate 12 young choreographers from Great Britain, the Netherlands, Romania, 3 institutions from Europe-Springdance (Netherlands), Dance 4 (Great Britain) and CNDB - they are the partners of this project in which participate Amy Raymond, Giulia Mureddu, Jaakko Toivonen and Liat Magnezy from the Netherlands, Hetain Patel, Chris Dugrenier, Zoi Dimitriou and Robin Dingemans from Great Britain, Cătălina Gubandru, Paul Dunca, Andreea Novac and Mihaela Dancs from Romania.

Last week I was talking to you about a festival - Europe in Motion (15th - 25th of March) - that was organised in a manner that would bring as much public as possible. There is in this type of organisation both an advantage and a danger.

At age 14 (1987), the Iranian refugee Hooman Sharifi settled in Norway. In 2000 he created "The Impure Company", with which he is present at the most important festivals in the world. Hooman Sharifi makes socio-political choreography.

The Platform of Contemporary Dance (17th - 20th of September) is an identity manifest through which the representatives of a phenomenon that has constantly been deprived of authority reclaim the most democratic right: the right to socio-cultural representation. A right which, no matter how absurd it would seem, was denied to the domain of artistic action in which the debate of the fundamental concepts of the contemporary art would be best placed.

The Platform of Contemporary Dance was opened on September 17th by Mihai Mihalcea, the director of the National Centre of Dance in Bucharest, Vava Ştefănescu, artistic director NCDB and by the Minister of Culture, Theodor Paleologul, whose question - "Hey you ephemeral is it referring to me?" - was among the few good jokes of a minister who wants to have humour at any costs and who, often, screws it up.

Mihai Mihalcea, performer, choreographer and director of the National Centre of Dance Bucharest, pulls a Lebanese out of his hat, sets his residence in Bucharest, and questions the double status of the artist-manager. Mihai Mihalcea puts up a double performance.