Alienation or the desire for intimacy | Durational Performance

Contemporary Dance DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE

From 16:30 at MARe/Muzeul de Artă Recentă / MARe/Museum of Recent Art
 15 Primăverii Blvd., Sector 1, Bucharest
Acces included in the museum entrance ticket (18 lei/person). For reservations: giftshop@mare.ro

MOVEMENT | MUSIC | VIDEO gravitating around 3 keywords: ALIENATION | DESIRE | INTIMACY

Concept & Coreography: Benno Voorham
Performers: Simona Baciu, Smaranda Găbudeanu, Cristina Lilienfeld
Music: Andrei Petrache
Video: Benno Voorham, Razvan Bumbes

CONCEPT:
How can we get closer to others when we don’t let others get closer to us?
How is shame touching desire touching intimacy touching your body touching your soul?
Can I overcome the alienation I often experience between me, myself, and you?
How to be intimate in a virtual world?

A poetic, visual, moving journey into the underworld of our desires, an intimate journey to what motivates us to be with ourselves and with others. The body and its capacity to reveal through movement what we cannot put into words will be the starting point. We will integrate video to support or contradict the body messages by zooming in to the smallest details, approaching the camera to reveal what is otherwise hidden from the eye, removing it to place the body in a broader context.

𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙘𝙮 is part of a larger international project among artists from Romania, Sweden and Northern Ireland. Although the idea for this project was first developed a year ago, we could not imagine how much this theme has become pressing, as well as universal today in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is a project that stubbornly moves forward through continuous reinvention and adaptation despite the current restrictions. Initially, we had to finalise it with our partners, Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company, and have the first performance in Derry, Northern Ireland, but it was impossible to go there. Therefore Echo Echo is producing its own short video on the same theme, while we adapted locally, this being the first in a series of 3 events.

COMING UP NEXT:

 the PREMIERE + an artist talk, LIVE-STREAMED from unteatru stage in Bucharest, on 7.11, at 20:00 / FREE ACCESS
 the TRIPLE ONLINE launch on 18.11, from 20:00 / FREE ACCESS
• of the FILM made @Rezidența BRD Scena9
• of the SHORT VIDEO “CONNECTION” made by Zoe Ramsey and Antonina Sheina of Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company
• and of the DOCUMENTARY “CLOSE ENOUGH” made by Cătălin Munteanu

𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙘𝙮 is produced by PETEC in partnership with Lava-Dansproduktion.
More about this project on pe www.petec.ro

PETEC (The Cultural Association For Theater And Books) is active in the field of contemporary art since 2013 developing cultural projects and programs focused on interdisciplinary and dialogue.Since 1997 Lava-Dansproduktion has been involved in numerous teaching and performance projects in Sweden and various Eastern European countries.The project is co-financed by The Administration of the National Cultural Fund (AFCN) and Konstnärsnämnden / The Swedish Arts Grants Committee

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𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘍𝘶𝘯𝘥. 𝘈𝘍𝘊𝘕 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵’𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘳𝘺.

Cover graphic design: Oana Băluță / Photo: Cătălin Munteanu

Cultural Partners: Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company (Derry, Northern Ireland), unteatru, MARe/Muzeul de Artă Recentă, Rezidența BRD Scena9, Centrul Naţional al Dansului Bucureşti (CNDB)

Main Media Partner: Radio România Cultural

Media Partners: CorPoetica (Milano, Italy), PerfocraZe International Artist Residency -p IAR (Kumasi, Ghana), Ruban Production ITP (Kyiv, Ukraine), MOVE2Collective (Belgrade, Serbia), Munteanu, FEEDER.ro