ECOPERFORMATIVE PRESENCE

Plastic Art Performance Collective invites you this month to a series of eco-performative events, together with the ECO MOVEMENTS dance project team.

The week of October 19-24 will be dedicated to conferences and workshops through which the Bucharest public will have the unique opportunity to come into direct contact and work alongside one of the founders of the international ecoperformance artistic movement.

Choreographer, director, dancer, actress and performer, with a career spanning 30 years, the renowned international artist Maura Baiocchi arrives in Bucharest for the first time, at the invitation of the first group that promotes and develops the ecoperformance methodology in the artistic environment of the country. Director and founder of the Taanteatro Company from Brazil and creator of the working formula of the “choreographic theater of tensions”, director-founder of the International Ecoperformance Film Festival, author of over 80 choreographies, plays, performances and co-author of numerous titles, including the first book about butoh dance in Portuguese, Maura Baiocchi will bring her work experience to the Romanian scene:

On October 21, at 5 p.m., at Modul Cărturești (Str. Academiei 18-20) – it will host the “Performative (eco)Presence” conference. The event will be accompanied by the premiere of the video performance “Eco Movements” (Gabriel Durlan, Alina Tofan), a dance project that explores inter-species links through movement as a model of climate resilience. The free event is open to the general public.

During the residency in Bucharest, another series of actions is dedicated to professionals in the field: movement workshops in various spaces in the city for performers, choreographers, dancers, visual artists; as well as a conference dedicated to UNArte students – through this, Eco Movements supports the development of new skills and practices for young people at the beginning of the road in the field of performing arts, who will come into direct contact with the method and vision of ecoperformance.

Main partners and hosts: Cărtureşti Libraries, Bucharest University of Arts.

Plastic Art Performance Collective is an artistic group formed under the Macaia Cultural Association, which draws attention to collective waste and themes such as: the environmental crisis, plastic pollution, industrial pollution, climate change, illegal deforestation – themes addressed through the arts.

The project is co-financed by the AFCN National Cultural Fund Administration.

The project does not necessarily represent the position of the National Cultural Fund Administration. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.