CNDB organizes The Contemporary dance camp at Craiova

The contemporary dance camp 2018 is a choreographic research and individual and collective artistic exploration project which aims to offer, via a summer camp, practice residencies and contexts for reflection to choreographers who have created at least 2 personal works.
Organised in Craiova, between July 9 and July 26, 2018, the summer camp will become an educational and artistic framework for applied choreographic development, focused on the educational-creative dimension of the work process for artists who wish to engage in a creative and assessment dialogue with important names from the Romanian and international contemporary choreographic scene.

Formative benefits of the contemporary dance camp:
– A top educational framework for performers

The artistic process will include several stages: developing an idea for a show, structuring a concept, defining the proposed work’s own dramaturgical approach and articulating a discourse that would accompany the work (press release, short description, longform description, wide ranging presentation, artistic statement). The campus therefore becomes a fluid context for artistic sharing, a mobile educational framework which will favour the diversity of choreographic approaches and exploratory formation, defining itself in accordance with the needs and concrete proposals of each participant.
The participants will take part in body training sessions, will debate concepts, ideas and practices from the biographies given to them by the mentors and will submit for discussion books and shows that had an important part to play in their education.
– Notable mentors will guide the formative process
The general framework proposed by the creative formats will focus on the structure and analysis of the contemporary choreographic discourse. The mentors – Jan Burkhardt, Mădălina Dan, Mihaela Michailov, Sandra Noeth, Constanze Schellow – will adapt their workshops‘ concept to the artistic development necessities of the participants, serving as both practice and discourse coaches and mentors for the intimate creative laboratory.
– European-level formative and performative dialogue
Taking place in Craiova, in partnership with the „Marin Sorescu” National Theatre, the project answers the needs for education and professional development identified within both the Romanian and the international artistic comunities, as part of cooperative projects undertaken within the Dance Roads network, the AEROWAVES meeting, or with the occasion of the Regional Choreography Biennale, in the 2016 pilot edition, that showcased works by artists and contemporary dance companies from Central and Eastern Europe.

All the workshops will take place in English.

Organisational info:

The participants’ selection (a maximum of 12 people) will be made by the mentors and the CNDB team.
The organisers offer food and lodging, while each participant must pay for his/her transport fees.
The participation fee is 300 euros. CNDB offers two scholarships that cover the cost of the participation fee.

All those wishing to take place in the choreographic summer camp are kindly invited to send the following documents to office@cndb.ro, subject line RE: Application for educational framework July 9-26, 2018 – Craiova:
– one artistic bio (English),
– two personal texts (English, max. 2000 characters each) about two recently finalised or soon to be finalised works,
– a description of the work they wish to develop (English, 1000 characters), along with an argumentative text (English – max. 1000 characters) and
– two photos with the images they see most often every day.

The deadline for sending the applications is May 3. The results will be announced on June 1.