National Dance Center Bucharest

Springback Academy Open Call 2019

#SpringbackAcademy is looking for 10 aspiring dance writers to be mentored in quality dance criticism in the action-packed environment of #SpringForward. @AerowavesEurope annual festival will be hosted by La Briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne near Paris (France), 5-7 April 2019. The participants will be mentored in critical writing by our lead critics including Donald Hutera (The Times), Sanjoy Roy (The Guardian), Kelly Apter (The Scotsman) and Laura Cappelle (New York Times). Apply before 7 January 2019! Good...

Winning CNDB projects – the forecast for 2019

We are happy to let you know that The National Centre for Dance Bucharest won AFCN financing for three projects that will take place in 2019 and for a multi-anual project that will take place in 2019 – 2020: ü CNDB in tournament ü ReeDans – Est-Europeans Dance Residencies ü Dance Archives – Open for (re) inventary ü Contemporary Dance Intensive Development Program 2019 – 2020 The forecast for 2019 is bright, we will have a full year in which we will continue to support independent artists and the development of contemporary dance. Keep close!

CNDB de ocupat! (post ocupat)

Update: post ocupat Vrei să faci parte din echipa singurei instituții publice de dans contemporan din regiune (inorogul dansului est-european, cum ne place nouă să zicem)? Vrei să lucrezi cu oameni veseli care ascultă muzică în birou în timp ce produc spectacole unul și unul, deslușesc hățișuri de contracte, navighează întortocheate cărări birocratice și tot rămân cu suficientă energie pentru dansat la petrecerile din weekend? Da?! Ești pe gustul nostru, ce să mai! Uite ce ne-am dori de la tine: Să devii CONSULTANT ARTISTIC! Atribuții principale: -...

Despre prezentul și viitorul Centrului Național al Dansului

Vă invităm joi, 4 octombrie, de la ora 18.00, la Sala Stere Popescu, Bld. Mărășești, nr. 80-82,la un schimb productiv de idei despre situația curentă a CNDB și a proiectelor sale,dar și despre cum va arăta Sala Omnia.

SOLICITĂRI MCIN

Vă prezentăm mai jos solicitările transmise de CNDB către Ministerul Culturii și Identității Naționale (MCIN) în cursul anului curent privind suplimentarea bugetului alocat realizării programului minimal pentru anul 2018. Menționăm că nu am primit până în prezent un răspuns argumentat și în scris din partea MCIN la aceste solicitări. Adresa nr. 232/28.02.2018 înregistrată la MCIN sub nr. 1178/01.03.2018 Adresa nr. 939/19.06.2018 înregistrată la MCIN sub nr. 3864/20.06.2018 Adresa nr. 1067/17.07.2018 înregistrată la MCIN sub nr. 4400/18.07.2018 Adresa...

Jurnal de camping (de dans)

Între 11 și 26 iulie, zece artiști din mai toate sferele artelor performative au trăit, studiat și dansat în cele două săli de spectacole ale Teatrului Național „Marin Sorescu” din Craiova, dar și pe coridoare, acoperiș și scările interioare, plus tot felul de alte cotloane ale venerabilei instituții. Cei zece - Andreea Belu, Elena Copuzeanu, Cătălin Filip, Smaranda Găbudeanu, Daria Ghițu, Cristina Lilienfeld, Oana Mureșan, Virginia Negru, Filip Stoica, Michael Tsouloukidse și Caglar Yigitogullari - au explorat individual și în grup teme care îi preocupă,...

BIDFF 2018 – [RE]TRACING – 6-9.09

„The fourth edition of the festival comes in a time in which we are forced to fight for normality, rethinking the coordinates of the past in order to understand the future. Dance and film meet on equal grounds to showcase stories about resistance, persistence and courage. We are on a search and find quest for ingenious means of archiving the collective memory, but also daring speculations about the future, through which we offer a context of repositioning of the in relation with , even though that means to willingly alter the . I think by positioning an individual against the...

Open Call for Choreographic Territories competition for a dance performance inspired by Pola Nireńska

Open call for a dance performance realized within the Choreographic Territories – New Paths for the Avant-Garde programme in 2019 The Adam Mickiewicz Institute, together with the Institute of Music and Dance, the Centre for Culture in Lublin and the Old Brewery New Dance/Art Stations Foundation, announce an open competition for creating and realizing a dance performance inspired by Pola Nireńska and her works, within the Choreographic Territories – New Paths for the Avant-Garde Programme in 2019. About the PROGRAMME: Choreographic Territories – New Paths for the Avant-Garde...

Don’t miss your chance to become an Aerowaves Artist, apply now!

Aerowaves is a hub for dance discovery in Europe with a network of partners in 33 countries. The network is looking for the next Twenty talented emerging choreographers based in geographical Europe. You can now apply to become a Twenty19 artist with a chance of having your work programmed at Spring Forward Festival next year in Val de Marne (Paris’ region) and by our partners. Around 100 performance opportunities are guaranteed by the partners and supported by Aerowaves each year. Sounds interesting? You must apply before Friday 14 September, but do it TODAY and you will grab the...

What are our RAP residents up to in Cluj?

This summer, choreographers Ruxandra Enache and Cosmin Vasile are the beneficiaries of the RAP (residencies, workshops, audience) program's sixth edition and have been working on new productions at the RAP Hall in Cluj. Cosmin Vasile, a graduate of the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London, conducted a workshop in June with students from the "Octavian Stroia" Choreography and Dramatic Arts High School. His residency will also include two public presentations of his new show "Dystopia", created by Cosmin within the RAP program alongside three other performers. "...

A (literally) moving talk on the importance of flow in commitment and in building your dreams

"Vava Ștefănescu was our May guest and we totally loved her buoyant presence. Watch a (literally) moving talk on the importance of flow in commitment and in building your dreams" - CreativeMornings Watch the full video here.

Images from the Contemporary Dance Camp in Craiova

11th - 26th of July @ National Theatre 'Marin Sorescu', Craiova (RO). The contemporary dance camp 2018 is a choreographic research and individual and collective artistic exploration project which aims to offer, via a summer camp, practice residencies and contexts for reflection to choreographers who have created at least 2 personal works. Organised in Craiova, between July 11 and July 26, 2018, the summer camp will become an educational and artistic framework for applied choreographic development, focused on the educational-creative dimension of the work process for artists who...

Too soon, too late in contemporary dance. And on the National Centre for Dance as an institution

13 years after the founding of the National Centre for Dance in Bucharest (CNDB), in the year of the Centenary – a centenary of the entire Central and Eastern Europe, of the continent in itself (considering the trauma of the First World War and the major impact of its consequences on a continental level) -, Romanian contemporary dance was presented in Brussels, as part of a collective multinational project meant to move, in a big way, the needle from political-identitary (the formation of the new nation-states) towards a reflection on the avantgarde’s heritage and the...

BIDFF launches two open calls for this year's edition

Bucharest International Dance Film Festival launches two open calls: one for short dance films for the Official Competition and one for their brand new regional dance film development lab. BIDFF takes place in Bucharest, between September 6th - 9th 2018 and will showcase works that mix movement and cinematography and reframe repressed historical realities or redefine uncertain present facts. Directors, choreographers and artists are invited to submit their dance films to the fourth edition of BIDFF. The competition is open for short dance films (fiction, documentaries and animations)...

K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg residencies for young choreographers

K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg provides three eight-month residencies to choreographers, who are currently at the beginning of their career and have produced some choreographic work of their own. Deadline for the application is August 13th 2018. The residency starts in August 2019 and runs until April 2020. It includes a monthly grant, production budget, and dramaturgical support, as well as participation in training, courses. In 2007, K3 began its main residency programme, which each year provides three choreographers with a chance to work on site for eight months. This internationally unique...

SE CAUTĂ ACTORI / PERFORMERI

Proiectul 153” face un apel către studente, studenți, artiste, artiști din domeniul artelor spectacolului, dans, muzică, performance, interesați să apară în spectacolul 153”. Proiectul vorbește despre incendiul din Colectiv, iar la el muncește o echipă amplă formată din supraviețuitori ai incendiului, regizori, muzicieni, poeți, psihologi și jurnaliști. Vei avea 5 zile de repetiții în luna iulie, cu o vizionare în data de 28 iulie, iar premiera va avea loc în luna octombrie. Vei avea transportul urban decontat și o masă la prânz, în zilele cu repetiții...

„Reenacting the Dance Archive” la Universitatea de la Salzburg

Vești bune pentru prietenii CNDB și iubitorii dansului din Austria. Corina Cimpoieru, cercetător și coordonator al Compartimentului de Cercetare/Documentare/Mediatecă va participa în perioada 12 -16 iunie 2018 la un stagiu academic de cercetare privind practicile de arhivare și metodologiile de cercetare și valorificare in domeniul istoriei dansului, în cadrul Derra de Morroda Dance Archives, de la Universitatea din Salzburg. Cu această ocazie, în data de 13 iunie, ora13.00, va susține, în cadrul Departamentului de Istoria Artei, Muzicologie si...

Aerowaves Twenty19 Open Call

Apply now to become an Aerowaves Artist Aerowaves is a hub for dance discovery in Europe with a network of partners in 33 countries. The network is looking for the next Twenty talented emerging choreographers based in geographical Europe. You can now apply to become a Twenty19 artist with a chance of having your work programmed at Spring Forward Festival next year in Val de Marne (France) and by our partners. Around 100 performance opportunities are guaranteed by the partners and supported by Aerowaves each year. Sounds interesting? Apply before September 14th....

Four More Choreographers! 2018 Contemporary Dance Camp

We have good news about our 2018 Contemporary Dance Camping, our individual and group research and exploration project on choreography and artistic development (it is a summer camp with practical and theory workshops for choreographers with at least 2 personal creations). So, we are looking for four more candidates, free of charge, with meals and accommodation provided between July 11th and 26th, in Craiova, Romania. The applications will be accepted in the order they arrive at office@cndb.ro. The deadline for submitting is June 25th. Your mentors will be Jan Burkhardt, Mădălina...

Remembering 1918 / European Dreams of Becoming Modern, 25-28 mai 2018, Bruxelles

În anul dedicat Centenarului Marii Uniri, Centrul Național al Dansului București – CNDB, în parteneriat cu Institutul Cultural Român – Bruxelles participă la evenimentul „Too Soon Too Late. Performative dialogue”, parte a proiectului de cooperare europeană „Remembering 1918 / European Dreams of Becoming Modern”, cu reconstrucţia scenică a spectacolului Ciocanul fără Stăpân, realizată de Florin Flueraş şi Brynjar Badlien. Inițiat și organizat de către Arts and Theatre Institute, Cehia, „Remembering 1918 / European Dreams of Becoming Modern” va...