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”Celebrating Trouble. Choreographic Convention” presents a program dedicated to performance and multidisciplinary arts. Between October 4th-8th 2023, in Timișoara, will take place dance and performance shows, exhibitions, film screening, panel discussions, with international guests.
While the sky is falling over our destiny, can we still celebrate, dance, sing? Celebrating Trouble - ChoreoCon transforms theatre into an arena for our becoming as humans, an invitation to reflection, dialogue and artistic action.
**Program**
4 OCTOBER
Exhibition Opening: Co-Creating our environment
Time: 19:00 * Location: Bastion 2 (Str. Hector, no. 1) * free entrance.
Artists: Marilena Preda Sânc, Liliana Mercioiu Popa, Mălina Ionescu, 13m10j, Natalia Silaghi, Andreea Medar, Maria Calotă, Mihai Toth
Curators: Andreea Căpitănescu & Maria Oroșan Telea
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Let The Body Speak contemporary dance short movies
Time: 20:30 * Location: Cinema Victoria (Str. Ciprian Porumbescu, 2) * free entrance
A selection of contemporary dance short films created by Ukrainian choreographers and dancers, followed by a QA with Stanislava Ovchinnikova (curator and interdisciplinary artist from Ukraine).
Curator: Anton Ovchinnikov | Guest curator: Stanislava Ovchinnikova
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5 OCTOBER
Panel discussion: Shaping (public) opinions
Time: 16:00 * Location: FABER (Spl.Peneș Curcanul,nr. 4-5) *Free entrance.
The information and education are the fundamental requirements for participating into social life. Who are the right ones to take part in the biggest decisions? What are the social media platforms and mass-media methods used to manipulate?
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Necropolis, Performance
Concept & direction: Arkadi Zaides, Performers: Arkadi Zaides, Emma Gioia
Time: 20:00 * Location: FABER (Timișoara, Spl. Peneș Curcanul, nr. 4-5)
Tickets here: https://shorturl.at/yBQ68
Cost: 50 ron/ adult, 30 ron/student
Necropolis is a documentary and choreographic investigation that examines the concept of collective responsibility and focuses on commemorating the thousands of anonymous refugees who unfortunately failed to reach Europe safely.
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6 OCTOBER
Panel discussion: Theatre as a public space
Time: 16:00, with 30 min. break * Location: FABER (Spl. Peneș Curcanul, no. 4-5) * free entrance
Can theater projects propose a public space that facilitates both the radical imaginary and pragmatic utopias?
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Precedents to a potential future, solo lecture performance
by & with Anna Biczók
Time: 20:00 *Location: FABER (Spl. Peneș Curcanul, no. 4-5)
* Evening Ticket ( valabil pentru ambele reprezentații). Se poate achiziționa de aici: https://shorturl.at/qsNX6
Cost: 50 ron/ adult, 30 ron/student
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LANDSCAPE/S, lecture performance
by & with Claudia Bosse
Time: 21:00 * Location: FABER (Spl. Peneș Curcanul, no. 4-5)
* Evening Ticket ( valabil pentru ambele reprezentații). Se poate achiziționa de aici: https://shorturl.at/qsNX6
Cost: 50 ron/ adult, 30 ron/student
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7 OCTOBER
Panel discussion: Art as a way of survival
Time: 13:00, with 30 min break * Location: Center for Projects (Str. Vasile Alecsandri, no. 1) * free entrance
How important can the art be for our human being development? The question ”What meaning does the art have?” becomes a call to action, for an artist who lives in an area affected by crises, when every day can bring danger.
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Working Method, showing, showing
presentation of the creation lab results, local artists coordinated by the theatre director and performer Enkidu Khaled
Time: 17:00 * Location: Center for Projects (Str. Vasile Alecsandri, no. 1) * free entrance
The representation tackles current themes through a personal and cultural identity, under the quote ”theatre is an instrument of survival, not a privilege.”
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A Song For Everyone, performance
With Myriam Van Imschoot, Caroline Daish, Matteo Mureddu, Irena Radmanovic, Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias, Lendl Barcelos, Marcus Bergner. Sound assistance & Lights: Mihai Răzvan Trăsnea, Silviu Alexandru Neagoe. Production: newpolyphonie
Time: 20:00 * Location: Pavilionul ISHO (Bd. Take Ionescu, 50-52)
* Evening Ticket ( bilet valabil pentru ambele reprezentații).Se poate achiziționa de aici: https://shorturl.at/knzV9
Cost: 50 ron/ adult, 30 ron/student
What is our relation with breathing, wind and the sounds of matter? A performance based on the exploring of relations between people and the sounds of the environment.
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INTERVENTION IS ENOUGH EVIDENCE. Finally, performance
by Alex Mirtuziu, performers: Lukáš Zahy, Eva Urbanová, Marta Blašková
Time: 21:30 * Location: Pavilionul Isho (Bd. Take Ionescu, 50-52)
* Evening Ticket ( bilet valabil pentru ambele reprezentații). Se poate achiziționa de aici: https://shorturl.at/knzV9
Cost: 50 ron/ adult, 30 ron/student
This performance explores how vulnerable is our capacity to connect with ourselves .
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8 OCTOBER
A Song For Everyone, performance
With Myriam Van Imschoot, Caroline Daish, Matteo Mureddu, Irena Radmanovic, Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias, Lendl Barcelos, Marcus Bergner. Sound assistance & Lights: Mihai Răzvan Trăsnea, Silviu Alexandru Neagoe. Production: newpolyphonie
Time: 17:00 * Location: Pavilionul Isho (Bd. Take Ionescu, 50-52)
* Evening Ticket ( bilet valabil pentru ambele reprezentații). Se poate achiziționa de aici: https://shorturl.at/knzV9
Cost: 50 ron/ adult, 30 ron/student
What is our relation with breathing, wind and the sounds of matter? A performance based on the exploring of relations between people and the sounds of the environment.
More details about the event here
INTERVENTION IS ENOUGH EVIDENCE. Finally, performance
by Alex Mirtuziu, performers: Lukáš Zahy, Eva Urbanová, Marta Blašková
Time: 18:30 * Location: Pavilionul Isho (Bd. Take Ionescu, 50-52)
Ticket for the evening's double bill can be purchased here: https://shorturl.at/knzV9
Cost: 50 ron/ adult, 30 ron/student
This performance explores how vulnerable is our capacity to connect with ourselves .
More details about the event here
Hip-Hop Contemporary Dance with Silke SILK Grabinger
with artist Silke SILK Grabinger și G Dudas-Simo (assistant)
Data de desfășurare: 6 -8 octombrie * Locație: Casa Tineretului (Str. Arieș,nr. 19)
*Participation in this workshop is free and is based on registration. More details here
„Celebrating Trouble. Choreographic Convention” is organized and curated by: 4Culture Association, in collaboration with DanceWeb.
Media partners: Radio Guerrilla, Modernism, Revista Zeppelin, Revista ARTA, Feeder, IQads, România Pozitivă, Revista Golan, Empower Art&Artists, Ziarul Metropolis, Happ.ro, Radio România Cultural
The project is part of the national program “Timișoara – 2023 European Capital of Culture” and is financed through the European Echoes program, run by Timișoara Project Center, with funds allocated from the state budget, through the Ministry of Culture.
Part of the European cooperation project Life Long Burning (LLB) - Futures Lost and Found (2023-2026), funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the EACEA can be held responsible for them.
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