{"id":2104,"date":"2024-08-31T17:08:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T17:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4culture.ro\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2024-08-31T17:15:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T17:15:16","slug":"intimate-choreographies-in-premiera-la-stockholm-fringe-festival-2024-si-gothenburg-fringe-festival-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4culture.ro\/en\/intimate-choreographies-in-premiera-la-stockholm-fringe-festival-2024-si-gothenburg-fringe-festival-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Intimate Choreographies\u2019 will make its debut at Stockholm and Gothenburg Fringe Festival 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"
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4Culture Association is delighted to announce Romania\u2019s participation in the Baltic Nordic Fringe Festival (BNFN) network. This network aims to provide touring opportunities for artists applying to one or more Fringe festivals in the Baltic-Nordic region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BNFN is the only touring network of its kind in the region and is part of the World Fringe Network (WFN), which includes over 300 Fringe festivals worldwide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result, 4Culture Association has been nominated to participate in two major festivals within the Baltic Nordic Fringe Network: the Gothenburg Fringe Festival 2024 and the Stockholm Fringe Festival 2024, with the performance \u201cIntimate Choreographies.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stockholm Fringe Festival:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dates: August 27 & August 29, 2024<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time: 3:30 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Location: Stadsmuseet Stockholm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gothenburg Fringe Festival:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dates: 31 august & 1 septembrie 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time: 3 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Location: Olof Palmes Plats<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stockholm Fringe Festival <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Stockholm Fringe Festival (STOFF) is a seven-day multidisciplinary arts festival that provides a vibrant platform for both local and international artists. The festival celebrates innovation and creativity, showcasing a diverse range of works, from captivating performances to impressive art installations. Each year, the festival attracts approximately 2-3 million participants, similar to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Adelaide Fringe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gothenburg Fringe Festival <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gothenburg Fringe Festival was born out of the need to create a platform that offers artists new opportunities for presentation, development, and collaboration. Since its inception in 2016, Gothenburg Fringe has grown into a community of artists and performing arts enthusiasts, hosting 150 events featuring artists from 20 countries worldwide. This has helped shape and develop the festival into an international showcase network, making it a highly anticipated event for the residents of Gothenburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intimate Choreographies<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIntimate Choreographies\u201d achieved remarkable success in 2023, being showcased at the international performance and performing arts festival, Magdalena Festival, in Montpellier, France, with support from the Romanian Cultural Institute through the Cantemir 2023 program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concept and artistic direction of the performance were created by Andreea C\u0103pit\u0103nescu, a choreographer and cultural manager. The performative installation explores the idea that a surveillance space can generate emotional intimacy through collective choreographic interventions. Once integrated into the installation, this intimacy undermines the detached and uneven power structure of technology. The audience is guided towards collective choreographic actions, incorporating moments of individual reflection through poetic fragments written and recited by the artistic team. The choreographic and dramaturgical construction involves an individual audio system (headphones and silent disco receiver) accessible to each participant. Andreea C\u0103pit\u0103nescu<\/strong>, coregraf\u0103 \u0219i manager cultural. Instala\u021bia performativ\u0103 exploreaz\u0103 ideea c\u0103 spa\u021biul de supraveghere poate genera, prin interven\u021bii coregrafice colective, intimitate emo\u021bional\u0103. Aceasta, odat\u0103 transpus\u0103 \u00een cadrul instala\u021biei, submineaz\u0103 structura de putere deta\u0219at\u0103 \u0219i neuniform\u0103 a tehnologiei. Publicul va fi ghidat c\u0103tre ac\u021biuni coregrafice colective, integr\u00e2nd momente de reflec\u021bie individual\u0103 prin fragmente poetice redactate \u0219i recitate de echipa artistic\u0103. Construc\u021bia coregrafic\u0103 \u0219i dramaturgic\u0103 presupune un sistem audio individual (c\u0103\u0219ti \u0219i receiver silent disco) la care fiecare participant va avea acces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The aim of this performative intervention is to explore intimacy in a public space, against a backdrop of audio fragments that speak about collective resilience and solidarity in the face of oppressive structures, appealing to our connection with ourselves and others, regardless of the challenges that divert us from deep interaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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4Culture Association<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Founded in 2010, the 4Culture Association engages in contemporary arts activities, including dance, performance, visual arts, and multidisciplinary projects. Through its projects and programs, 4Culture aims to contribute to the development of contemporary art audiences in Romania, support continuous professional development, and promote young artists by providing scholarships, organizing workshops, and offering research and coaching programs, residencies, production, presentation, and dissemination opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through its activities, 4Culture highlights the role of art in promoting intercultural dialogue, tolerance, human rights, and social cohesion by advocating for socially and politically engaged artistic creation. The developed projects facilitate meetings between artists from various fields and contribute to opening cultural institutions (museums, cultural centers) to the educational environment (communities, high schools, and universities) at both national and European levels. With recognized international experience, the projects implemented by 4Culture over its 10 years of activity have been carried out in partnership with important institutions and artists, receiving public appreciation in the cultural and creative fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2012, 4Culture Association has been operating in the contemporary art space WASP Working Art Space and Production in Bucharest, as a co-founder of the space along with WASP Studios. An abandoned industrial hall, with an area of 500 m\u00b2 within the Flaros factory, was completely renovated and transformed by the founding members into a contemporary art center for production, education, and research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This project is organized with the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Stockholm and UNITER.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Asocia\u021bia 4Culture are deosebita pl\u0103cere s\u0103 anun\u021be participarea Rom\u00e2niei \u00een cadrul re\u021belei<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,15,27,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4culture.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4culture.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4culture.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4culture.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4culture.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/4culture.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2106,"href":"https:\/\/4culture.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions\/2106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4culture.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4culture.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4culture.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4culture.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}