Celebrating Trouble. Choreographic Convention presents a program dedicated to performing and multidisciplinary arts.
Between October 4 and 8, in Timișoara, there will be dance and performance shows, exhibitions and panel discussions with speakers and performers active on the international cultural scene.
PROGRAM
Wednesday October 4
- Time: 7:00 pm
- Admission: free
- Location: Bastion 2 (Timișoara, 1 Hector Street)
- Artists Marilena Preda Sânc, Liliana Mercioiu Popa, Mălina Ionescu, Marius Jurcă, Natalia Silaghi, Andreea Medar, Maria Calotă, Mihai Toth
- Curators: Andreea Căpitănescu & Maria Oroșan Telea
- The ehxibition will take place between october 4 – 25
Man is not the measure of all things. This is the premise from which artists' research starts.
- Time: 8.30 pm
- Duration: 2 h
- Location: Cinema Victoria (2 Ciprian Porumbescu Street, Timișoara)
- Admission: free
- Curator: Anton Ovchinnikov
- Guest curator: Stanislava Ovchinnikova
A selection of contemporary dance videos made by Ukrainian choreographers and dancers, followed by a QA.
Thursday October 5
- Time: 4:00 pm
- Duration: 3 h (30 min. break)
- Location: FABER (Timișoara, 4-5 Peneș Curcanul Quai)
- Admission: free
- Speakers: Radu Apostol (theatre and film director, light designer, founding member of Asociația Culturală Replika, Romania), Viorel Cojanu (actor, founding member & president of Asociației Culturale Replika, Romania) Rok Vevar (dance historian & curator, Slovenia), Caspar Weimann (performer, professor & mentor, Germany), Stanislava Ovchinnikova ( interdisciplinary artist and curator, Ucraine & Germany).
- Moderator: Raluca Rădulescu (Radio România Cultural)
- Time: 8:00 pm
- Duration: 1 h
- Admission: by ticket
- Location: FABER (4-5 Peneș Curcanul Quai)
- Concept & direction: Arkadi Zaides
- Performers: Arkadi Zaides, Emma Gioia
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.
Friday October 6
- Time: 4:00 pm
- Duration: 3 h ( 30 min. break)
- Location: FABER (4-5 Peneș Curcanul Quai)
- Admission: free
- Speakers: Florian Malzacher (playwright & curator, Germany), Edit Kaldor (director & playwright Netherlands), Arkadi Zaides (coreographer & performer, France), Claudia Bosse (coreographer & director, Austria)
- Moderator: Simone Willeit (Uferstudios Berlin)
- Time: 8:00 pm
- Duration: 30'
- Location: FABER (4-5 Peneș Curcanul Quai)
- Admission: with ticket
- Time: 8:30 pm
- Duration 1 h 30'
- Location: Casa Tineretului
- Acces: registration
- Artists: Silke SILK Grabinger & G Dudas-Simo (asistent)
- Time: 21:00
- Duration: 30'
- Location: FABER (4-5 Peneș Curcanul Quai)
- Admission: with ticket
Saturday October 7
- Time: 1:00 pm
- Duration: 3 h (30 min. break)
- Location: Centrul de Proiecte (1. Vasile Alecsandri Street)
- Admission: free
- Speakers: Mihaela Michailov (playwright & performance art critic, Romania), Vladimir Us (artist & curator, Moldova), Enkidu Khaled (director & performer, Belgium)
- Time: 4:00 pm
- Duration 1 h 30'
- Location: Casa Tineretului
- Acces: registration
- Artists: Silke SILK Grabinger & G Dudas-Simo (asistent)
- Time: 5:00 pm
- Duration: 2 h
- Location: Centrul de Proiecte (1 Vasile Alecsandri Street)
- Admission: free
Presentation of the results of a creative workshop with local artists, coordinated by director and performer Enkidu Khaled.
An artistic production based on the "Working Method", a methodology developed by the artist. The performance approaches current themes through the prism of personal and cultural identity, under the motto "Theatre is a tool for survival, not a privilege."
- Time: 8:00 pm
- Duration: 1 h
- Location: ISHO Pavilion (50-52 Take Ionescu Blvd.)
- Admission: by ticket
Myriam Van Imschoot in collaboration with Caroline Daish, Irena Radmanovic, Lendl Barcelos and Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias & 20 local participants.
What is our relationship to breath, wind and the sounds of matter? A performance based on the exploration of the relationships between people and the sounds of the environment.
- Time: 9:30 pm
- Duration: 1 h
- Location: Isho Pavilion (50-52 Take Ionescu Blvd.)
- Admission: by ticket
- Artist: Alex Mirutziu
The performance explores how vulnerable our ability to connect with ourselves is through two different methods: intervention (how we interact with ourselves and others intimately) and testimony (how we share our experiences with others and inspire each other).
Sunday October 8
- Time: 12:00 pm
- Duration 1 h 30'
- Location: Casa Tineretului
- Acces: registration
- Artists: Silke SILK Grabinger & G Dudas-Simo (asistent)
- Time: 5:00 pm
- Duration: 1 h
- Location: Isho Pavilion (50-52 Take Ionescu Blvd.)
- Admission: by ticket
- Artists: Myriam Van Imschoot in collaboration with Caroline Daish, Irena Radmanovic, Lendl Barcelos and Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias & 20 local participants
What is our relationship to breath, wind and the sounds of matter? A performance based on the exploration of the relationships between people and the sounds of the environment.
- Time: 6:30 pm
- Duration: 1 h
- Location: Isho Pavilion (50-52 Take Ionescu Blvd.)
- Admission: by ticket
- Artist: Alex Mirutziu
The performance explores how vulnerable our ability to connect with ourselves is through two different methods: intervention (how we interact with ourselves and others intimately) and testimony (how we share our experiences with others and inspire each other).
Media Partners: Radio România Cultural, Modernism, Revista Zeppelin, Revista ARTA, Feeder, IQads, România Pozitivă, Revista Golan, Empower Art&Artists, Ziarul Metropolis, Happ.ro