The pilot edition of the RE//Dance Regional Choreography Biennale in Bucharest starts in November 2016. Innovative performances and shows from Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, and Hungary will be presented over the 6 days of the festival, in addition to debates and round table discussions about modern dance in the central-eastern Europe region. The programme was created with the cooperation of all the festival's partners. The biennale was curated by Iulia Popovici, assisted by Marta Keil and Goran Injac. Iulia Popovici says:
For this week-long meeting we are going to tell each other stories: about the ephemerality of the body, about how modern choreography was born, dance groups and individual performers, about public space and space for performance, of what modern dance is for its performers and the audience. It will be a biennale in which we experience the choreography of community.
The organisers of the pilot edition of the event are the National Centre for Dance in Bucharest (CNDB) and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, as part of its East European Performing Arts Platform (EEPAP) project. The institutional partner of the Biennale is Mladinsko Gledališče Ljubljana (Slovenia).
Agata Siniarska is a dancer, choreographer, performer, actress and film producer. Her works have been presented at many festivals in Europe. The subjects of her art are pain, agony, sickness, and love. She received the prestigious Dance WEB scholarship in Vienna. In 2009 she had to suspend her choreographic studies because of her political commitments. She is a co-creator of ‘female trouble’ – a collective based on friendship, whose actions concern the subjects of identity, body, feminism, pleasure, affirmation and love.
Event programme
1st November, 7:30 p.m.: Roberta Again (Croatia), Roberta Milevoj
2nd November, 7:30 p.m. : Total Damage (Bulgaria), Ani Vaseva (Metheor Group)
3rd November, 7:30 p.m.: COREGRAFIE DE GRUP/ GROUP CHOREOGRAPHY (Romania), Mihaela Dancs
4-6th November, between 10 a.m. and 9:30 p.m, with a break from 2 P.M to 3:30 p.m.: The Stranger Gets a Gift Service – Interruptor (Czech Republic), Cristina Maldonado
4th November, 7:30 p.m.: performance/game How to Make a Biennial Festival with 100 Euros and 1.000.000 Euros, Ivana Vaseva and Biljana Tanurovska–Kjulavkovski
5th November, 5:00 p.m.: East European Performing Arts Platform/EEPAP round table with Iulia Popovici
5th November, 7:30 p.m.: Mothers of Steel (Poland/Romania), Agata Siniarska and Mădălina Dan
6th November, 5:00 p.m.: Performative lecture by Agata Siniarska (Poland)
6th November, 7:30 p.m.: There’s an Elephant in Every Room... (Hungary), László Fülöp
6th November, 9:30 p.m.: concert/performance The Great Scheme Of Things (Romania), Fierbinţeanu
All the events will take place in Stere Popescu Hall, Mărăşeşti Boulevard 80-82, Bucarest. Tickets cost 15-25 Romanian Lei; entrance to additional events is free. Tickets also available online: www.kompostor.ro.