Event hosted by Teatre /Theatres, PETEC şi alţi 3
Duration: 4 days
Public 
𝙹𝚞𝚗𝚎 𝟷𝟸–𝟷𝟺, 𝟼 𝙿𝙼, Masca Theatre
Dancing with (queer tango without steps) – 3 day workshop with Krõõt Juurak, open access, register at theatresteatre@gmail.com. Last day open to the public.
𝙹𝚞𝚗𝚎 𝟷𝟻, 𝟽 𝙿𝙼, Teatre/Theatres, Schitu Măgureanu 21
Lesson – performance -, by Krõõt Juurak, with Juurak and Luca Büchler.
𝗞𝗿õõ𝘁 𝗝𝘂𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗸 (ES/AT) comes back to Bucharest for The Chamber Performance Festival within The Institution of Performance, a program by artist Adriana Gheorghe, happening between June and October 2025.
The Chamber Performance Festival of the Institution of Performance seeks to question the absence of such an institution and to expand the space and meaning of a room and of an institution by hosting works that can take place inside a 16 sqm room, as well as activities that could never take place within 16 sqm and therefore require alliances with partner institutions, like Masca Theatre, that allow themselves to be permeated.
In this context, Krõõt Juurak's practice—specialized in continuously transforming the limitations of their own life—functions as a resonance box that amplifies the queerness already present within seemingly clear-cut conventions like tango, stand-up comedy, therapy, school, and performance.
Starting on June 12th, from 6PM, Krõõt will teach a three-day workshop called "Dancing With (queer tango without steps)" at Masca Theatre, open to everybody by registration at theatresteatre@gmail.com. Duration: 90 min. Last day will happen in the amphitheater outside and will be open to the audience as well.
"As contemporary dancers, actors and performers we are typically conditioned to please audiences, we orient ourselves visually towards the outside. in this workshop I will turn things around and ask you to try and impress yourself first. This workshop is about radically prioritizing the way things feel against how they look. Learning Argentine tango will be a method to look for and find what and how we desire, and the discipline of joy. Previous experience with dance or couple dance is not necessary, a wish to learn something new or to unlearn something old is necessary." (K.J.)
On June 15th, from 7PM, Krõõt will perform their work called "Lesson", together with Luca Büchler, their assistant, at Theatres, on Schitu Măgureanu 21. Duration: cca. 75 Min.
"«Lesson» oscillates between stand-up comedy, therapy session and school. A «lesson» with a theater audience–not to learn something, but to do time, as is so often the case at school. I take on the role of the teacher, not to teach, but because I simply play this role for the duration of the performance.
The original title of the work was «Performance Therapy»: psychoanalysis sessions from more than two years became the process and research material for the performance." (K.J.)
The Chamber Performance Festival hosts a series of activities unfolding within a 16 sqm chamber (the size of the Teatre/Theatres space on Schitu Măgureanu 21, Bucharest), as well as activities that can in no way take place within a 16 sqm room but in an partner institution like Masca Theatre that allows itself to be permeated by the Institution of Performance.
An implicit critique of the lack of such institution and a plea for the force of performance to institute the structures we need, The Institution of Performance is a background gesture that turns all participants into protagonists, while preserving something of the tidal movement of a way of being together unfettered by outside means, respecting individual needs for difference, dissent and constant rearticulation. Its texture is acoustic and reflexive.
𝗞𝗿õõ𝘁 𝗝𝘂𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗸, born in 1981 in Tallinn, Estonia, is an artist, performer, stand-up comedian, and dancer based in Vienna. They studied choreography at ArteZ and Fine Arts at the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam. Krõõt has a penchant for self-sabotage, for getting caught up in the awkwardness of the moment, trusting far more the dramaturgy of the endeavour than its actual success. Juurak has taken workplace conflicts and put them on the stage, performed for pets, and even assigned the role of director to their one-year-old child. Juurak regularly premiers their work at Tanzquartier Wien, including most recently Lesson (2023), SCHOOL (2023, with PARASOL) and CODOMESTICATION (2019, with Alex Bailey) and tours with PCCC* – The Politically Correct Comedy Club.
𝗟𝘂𝗰𝗮 𝗕ü𝗰𝗵𝗹𝗲𝗿 (CH/AT) is a performer, choreographer, and visual artist. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Zürich University of the Arts and is currently studying in the Transmedia Art class at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. His practice revolves around the body and its entanglement in norms and social structures, temporality and power, and ranges from performance to installation and sculpture. His performative and installation works have been shown at Kunstverein Gartenhaus (Vienna), Cabaret Voltaire (Zürich), Les Urbaines (Lausanne), Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Salzburger Kunstverein, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Laurenz, Vienna, and Spoiler, Berlin, a.o. As a performer, he has worked with Krõõt Juurak and Olivia Erlanger, among others.
Graphics: Sebastian Danciu
Photo: Maria Ziegelböck from the most recent performance by Kroot Juurak – Dancing with – that just premiered last month in Viena.
The Institution of Performance is produced by Teatre/Theatres and PETEC and co-financed by AFCN.The project does not necessarily represent the official position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN shall not be held liable for the project's content or any use to which the project outcome might be put. These are the sole responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.
The workshop is being graciously supported by Austrian Forum in Bucharest and Masca Theatre.