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

Co-Creating Our Environment, Opening

  • 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.

Let The Body Speak, Video

  • 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

Panel: Shaping (Public) Opinions

  • 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)

Necropolis, Performance

  • 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

Panel: Theatre as Public Space

  • 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)

Precedents to a Potential Future, performance by Anna Biczók

  • Time: 8:00 pm
  • Duration: 30'
  • Location: FABER (4-5 Peneș Curcanul Quai)
  • Admission: with ticket

HIP-HOP Workshop with Silke SILK Grabinger

  • Time: 8:30 pm
  • Duration 1 h 30'
  • Location: Casa Tineretului
  • Acces: registration
  • Artists: Silke SILK Grabinger & G Dudas-Simo (asistent)

Landscape/s, performance by Claudia Bosse

  • Time: 21:00
  • Duration: 30'
  • Location: FABER (4-5 Peneș Curcanul Quai)
  • Admission: with ticket

Saturday October 7

Panel: Art as Means of Survival

  • 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)

HIP-HOP Workshop with Silke SILK Grabinger

  • Time: 4:00 pm
  • Duration 1 h 30'
  • Location: Casa Tineretului
  • Acces: registration
  • Artists: Silke SILK Grabinger & G Dudas-Simo (asistent)

Working Method Lab

  • 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."

A Song For Everyone, performance

  • 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.

Intervention Is Enough Evidence. Finally, performance

  • 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

HIP-HOP Workshop with Silke SILK Grabinger

  • Time: 12:00 pm
  • Duration 1 h 30'
  • Location: Casa Tineretului
  • Acces: registration
  • Artists: Silke SILK Grabinger & G Dudas-Simo (asistent)

A Song For Everyone, performance

  • 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.

Intervention Is Enough Evidence. Finally, performance

  • 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

The project is part of the national cultural programme "Timișoara – European Capital of Culture in 2023" and is funded through the European Echoes Timișoara 2023 programme, implemented by the Center for Projects Timișoara, with funds allocated from the state budget, through the budget of the Ministry of Culture.

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