Event hosted by PETEC, ZIZ – Art and Social Area şi Contact Bucharest Festival
ZIZ – Art and Social Area
Duration: 4 hours
Public 
𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙚𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩, 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 | 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙄𝙢𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 Workshop with 𝘼𝙙𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙖 𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙨𝙠𝙖
August 10, between 16:00 – 20:00 (2h30 workshop + 1h30 jam session)
Location: ZIZ – art and social area, Cluj, Romania.
Participation is free, but registration via this form is required, as places are limited to 20.
FORM: https://forms.gle/zzpxxkvKGhigdpDN6
Language of instruction: English | Open to all levels.
About the workshop:
This workshop is inspired by the principles of 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙄𝙢𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 and Capoeira. We will start with practicing skills that protect the body in falls, support our own weight and that of our partners, and organize body structure during transitions from one movement to another. Once this foundation is established, we will then explore playful ideas and ways to challenge our movement partners and develop an attentive, alert, and responsive physicality.
About the trainer:
𝘼𝙙𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙖 𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙨𝙠𝙖 is a Polish dancer, choreographer, and facilitator currently based in India, where she co-directs within the InContact Collective—an initiative that supports local dance communities through residencies, workshops, and performances. A graduate of the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK (BA in Dance and Culture, Cum Laude), Adrianna specializes in improvisation and interdisciplinary collaboration. She has taught and facilitated Contact Improvisation workshops internationally, including at the Kayan Festival (UAE), Warsaw Flow (Poland), the EIX and LaReunion festivals (Spain), among others. Her portfolio of works on Contact Improvisation and dance practice has been published in Resistance and Support (2024) and other platforms. She was also a resident artist at the CI@50 conference in the USA. With training from DanceAbility International and Siobhan Davies Studios, Adrianna focuses on collaborative, community-based approaches to contemporary dance, performance, and reflective movement practices.
The workshop is part of the project Skin, flesh, bones, ideas, which supports the notion that dance cannot be reduced merely to practice or execution of movements devoid of theoretical and philosophical assumptions. Movement, gesture, and physicality each reveal something about the thinking that initiates them and gives them resonance.
Skin, flesh, bones, ideas proposes a series of workshops and artistic laboratories, followed by the publication of Art Zines containing texts from participating dancers, two performative presentations, and a show. Through participation, reading, and listening, the general public as well as groups of professionals, dedicated amateurs, and especially seniors—who in our socio-cultural environment often believe that dance is no longer for them—will be invited to reconsider the relationship between thought and movement, between the immaterial and the material, to refresh the joy of dancing while deepening their understanding of this ancient art form.
The workshops will take place in Bucharest, Iași, Sibiu, Brașov, Cluj, and Timișoara and aim to disseminate and practically contextualize the methods of Contact Improvisation and Poetic Movement. They will be led by the extended PETEC artistic team, in collaboration with local contemporary dance artists and facilitators from related fields. The focus is on the quality of attention, on movement as a space for relationship and spontaneous composition, as well as on the performer's ability to create meaning through presence and listening.
Through a pedagogy that does not start from the "correct" form but from context, intention, and composition, the workshops become spaces for bodily research and artistic dialogue. Each workshop will be adapted to the local context, addressing both experienced dancers and artists from other disciplines, as well as emerging practitioners. This stage contributes to strengthening a sensitive, reflective choreographic practice network connected to diverse audiences, emphasizing inclusion and dialogue.
Contact Improvisation, as a form of dance, has developed and evolved as an ongoing process of inquiry in movement, generating a distinct attitude and a choreographic language inseparable from thought. This approach turns dance into a continuous dialogue between body, reflection, and affect, where interaction among dancers, theoretical perspectives, and the redefinition of the concept of dance become just as important as the practice itself.
This project is a co-production of PETEC and Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company, co-financed by AFCN.
Partners: Asociația Spațiul de Artă Contemporană, Asociația Zi de Bine, Centrul Național al Dansului București, Centrul Cultural Reduta Brașov, MIMA Muzica, Topic Hub
Media partners: Agenția de cArte, Bookhub, Ceașca de cultură, Contacte Culturale, CVLTARTES, Happ.ro, Iscoada, LIFE.ro, Litera 9, Liternet, Matca Literară, Observator Cultural, Palindrom, Radio România Internațional, Subversiv, The Institute.
The project does not necessarily represent the position of the National Cultural Fund Administration (AFCN). AFCN is not responsible for the project content or the way its results may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding beneficiary.