The international festival of contemporary dance and other reconfigurations of the sensible begins. The festival brings, for the first time, to Bucharest, relevant performances spotted on the international scene of the performing arts.
Amidst all the tensions and conflicts there is a subtle force that can bring us together: the courage to look at our vulnerabilities and move with them into territories not yet imagined. Movement, the body and the choreography of ideas give us the energy and inspiration to imagine new worlds. Better worlds, more generous spaces, warmer and more human gestures.
In November it’s time to (re)discover the transformative power of dance and ideas within IRIDESCENT – international festival of contemporary dance and other reconfigurations of the sensible. Come and see 10 international contemporary dance and performance shows presented for the first time in Romaniaguided tours and dance workshops.
In the context of the celebration of the 20 years of existence of the Bucharest National Dance Center, IRIDESCENT reached its third edition. IRIDESCENT is where dance, emotion and ideas can revolutionize, build and imagine better futures, all starting from an iridescent present where diversity in all its spectrum is truly valued.
During the month of November, you have the opportunity to explore more than 20 events that will take place both at the National Dance Center, the organizer of the festival, and at the Bucharest National Theatre, the Odeon Theater or CINETic.
PROGRAM SHOWS
BPM — Beats per Millennium (RO)
( by/with Simona Dabija) @ CNDB
The show presents the evolution of the clubbing scene in Romania and how the dance floor becomes a space for meeting and exchanging experiences, free of prejudices, where identity is reshaped and communities are built naturally.
Figuring Age (HU)
(concept, choreography and production: Boglárka Börcsök&Andreas Bolm) @ CNDB
An immersive performance located at the border between dance, theater and film, which shows how the aging body does not contain only one body. Rather, it is made up of multiple bodies layered in time and decay, in memories and experiences.
Memetics (RO)
(concept & choreography: Sergiu Diță) @ Bucharest National Theatre
A contemporary dance show inspired by digital culture, which proposes a fragmented, scrolling vision of reality with elements of pop, trends, internet slang and viral images promoted in the Web 2.0 era.
Credit photo: Volker Vornehm
Collective Cadence (RO)
(created and performed by Simona Deaconescu & Grigore Burloiu) @ CNDB
A performative lecture on the role of rhythm in capturing and disseminating collective desires and fears. Collective Cadence features undisciplined and unpredictable cadences that integrate Artificial Intelligence as a speculative tool for sound and text generation.
Transformability: Forever (partly musical) (BG)
(idea, direction, coregraphy: Willy Prager) @ CNDB
What is the relationship of consumer society, with its increasingly accentuated performativity, to dance in the context of capitalism? Starting from a philosophical text, the performers are placed in the conceptual framework of a progressive society, often moving on the edge of false happiness, leading to a state of impossible pleasure and complete exhaustion.
Photo credit: Teodora Simova
NOX (FR)
(choreography and performance: Léa Vinette) @ CNDB
NOX is an attempt to appreciate the lack of light and understand how darkness opens our doors to perception and introspection.
Terminal Beach (OF)
(choreography: Moritz Ostruschnjak) @ Odeon Theatre
Terminal Beach it creates the image of our speechlessness in the face of future times. In an imperceptible, opaque, black-as-night world, dancers cling to the familiar and wave their flags like revolutionaries…
Premiile CNDB x Warp Renderings (OF)
(concept, choreography, interpretation: Sergiu Matis) @ Bucharest National Theatre
The CNDB Awards Gala is an event to recognize those who have contributed and confirmed the value that dance and contemporary choreographic culture have in society. After the awards, the audience will see the show Warp Rederningswhich explores how aestheticized images of landscapes have distorted contemporary society’s relationship with the natural world.
You, me, Tituba…(FR)
(art direction and interpretation: Dorothée Munyaneza) @ CNDB
Tituba, the black witch involved in the Salem trials in the 17th century, is the starting point for this show, which addresses the issue of memory and legacy.
Unstable Comrades (RS)
(concept and choreography: Igor Koruga) @ CNDB
The performance explores and reflects on new ways of combating capitalism through the lens of fluid identities and interrogates the legacy of queer emancipation through a constant process of constituting and deforming resistance, influenced by both the values of Western “liberal” societies and socialist values for a fairer society.
- Other reconfigurations of the sensible
With the renovation and remodeling that will transform Hall All in the main headquarters of the Bucharest National Dance Center, will be organized guided tours open to the general public, an opportunity to connect the forgotten layers of recent history and the future of this institution. Participation in the tours is free, and they will be organized on November 2 and on the date of November 17.
On the date of November 5at CNDB, the public is invited to the performative installation Cyber-Body-Systems (artistic team: Daniela Brill, Cip Făcăeru, Raluca Ghiță, Andrei Raicu) to question how the digital affects our bodies. Stage for Digital, Contagious, and Networked Bodies and Code++ (made by artists Jorge Guevara and Naoto Hieda) is another performance that can be seen on November 8and the next day, November 9a multimedia dance installation can be explored, Temporal Spaces, (concept: Max Levy, Cosa Mentale – Célia Bétourné, Louis Cortes)at CINETic.
On the date of November 16 will take place Ideas for Planet Earth – Marathon of statements, messages and ideas @CNDB. Here, the audience has the opportunity to be inspired by a series of discourses based on principles from various disciplines, experiences or ideas about Planet Earth and how we can lead the present to a better future.
On the last day of the festival, November 27, the public is invited to the CNDB at the Miercurea Lejeră event – Ideas affirmed performatively (concept by Eduard Gabia and Maria Baroncea, presented in collaboration with Paul Dunca/Paula Dunker) and at the closing party of the festival with DJ Set Totally Spice.
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