The Bucharest National Dance Center (CNDB) announces the performance program for May. One of the crucial events of the month is the premiere of the contemporary dance show Memetics, choreographed by Sergiu Diță, followed by three CNDB productions – BLOT, Bodies on The Line, Patosfera and Casual Wednesday (Miercurea Lejeră). This project presents unique and unrepeatable ideas on stage in a performative form.
The events take place at the Stere Popescu Hall (Bvd. Mărășești 80-82), as follows:
BLOT
Wednesday, May 8 | 7:30 p.m
BLOT – Body Line of Thought
the invisible links with the microorganisms in our body
BLOT explores movement from the perspective of our relationship with the bacteria in our bodies. The show simultaneously looks at the human body as an interconnected system, solid and fragile. Stripped of the social meanings defined by language, the body is redefined through a continuous dialogue based on the principle of coexistence. On and off stage, choreographers Simona Deaconescu and Vanessa Goodman created a performative system based on seemingly invisible connections, but without them, the human body could not function.
MEMETICS
Saturday – Sunday, May 11-12 | 19:30 | premier
MEMETICS – a viral show. Not on the Internet, but on stage
After the successful show MANual, Sergiu Diță, a rising choreographer, returns to CNDB with a new premiere. Memetics is a contemporary dance performance inspired by digital and pop culture, from memes, in a performative space of hyperlinks transferred to the body, on which the author intervenes through actions of remixing and re-contextualization. The generation and spread of information online, analogous to the spread of viruses, changes the perception of reality and is transferred to the mode of cultural production.
BODIES ON THE LINE
Tuesday, May 14 | 7:30 p.m
BODIES ON THE LINE – do you exist if no one sees you?
The show, choreographed by Ioana Marchidan, is based on a text written by the performers in collaboration with the playwright Mihaela Michailov. Bodies on The Line compresses the time of personal stories and dilates the pressure of the times we live in, dominated by the alienating flight after overlapping projects, burn-out and the trap sensation that if you are not seen, you do not exist.
CASUAL WEDNESDAY
Wednesday, May 15 | 7:30 p.m
CASUAL WEDNESDAY – ideas affirmed performatively
Casual Wednesday, one of the most famous programs in the history of CNDB, continues. Casual Wednesday – ideas affirmed performatively is an open platform where anyone can test, on stage, the ideas they have. Anyone can participate, regardless of age, profession, education and training. The stage thus becomes a democratic and accessible space for everyone, which creates the conditions for meetings and dialogues without borders beyond disciplines, environments, and experience. Spectators’ entry is free, with a reservation of seats in advance.
PATOSFERA
Sunday, May 26 | 7:30 p.m
PATHOSFERA – spherical, atmospheric, biological, strong
Patosfera – concept and artistic direction: Mădălina Dan – is a synthesis of various influences such as luminosity, fitness classes, cosmology, trap music, the study of ants, the study of effects, urban space and technology, which merge, intercalate, and overlap. The show brings to life a fragile and brilliant universe, interconnected and coexisting, specific to ecological thinking and decentred from the human perspective, where reality is only one of the versions of our gaze, and survival is, implicitly, interdependence. Tickets here.
On May 30 and June 1, CNDB hosts several events within the Rokolectiv Festival. On May 30, two performances resulting from the Atopia residencies will be presented, in which two artists who are part of the SHAPE+ platform, Petra Hermanova and Bela, were invited to work in Bucharest together with the Apparatus 22 collective, respectively with Mihai Mihalcea and Olah Gyarfas. Performances combine stage movement, installation, design and music elements, ranging from contemporary autoharp compositions to recontextualized Korean folklore. On June 1, Rokolectiv presents the performance „Wartakawarsa: Rites of the Souls” (part of the „Chack-chak-chack! Re-reading rituals” project) by the Indonesian duo Bintang Manira Manik and Gilang Anom M. M. The show is based on a Javanese ceremonial ritual meant to purify the memories of a dark colonial past.
