Do you like to party? Do you need a change in your life and get out of the comfort zone? Do you want to discover your emotional body? Then join us for a night-long dance event led by Cosmin Manolescu, a dance maker and curator based in Bucharest. 
Following a series of successful international European projects & exchanges led across Europe, Japan and USA, Cosmin Manolescu is returning to Sofia after 16 years with a workshop-performance-party. PARTYING with the emotional body is a night-long dance event, focusing on the exploration of the emotional body, based on a working method developed by Cosmin during the "E-Motional " programme.
Participants are invited to (re)discover their body through a series of exercises and working sessions with closed eyes, improvisation and performative games. Touch, exploration and wandering sessions, working with the lights and the imagination are key elements of this dance encounter. The event will start with a short introduction & warm up session in which all the participants will be invited to introduce themselves. The workshop-performance will be held in English and is open to dance makers, dance students, contact-improvisation lovers as well as local audience - who are encouraged to join our special event.
Cosmin Manolescu is choreographer, curator and artistic director of the Serial Paradise Company/Gabriela Tudor Foundation. Since 1997, he played an important role in the development of contemporary dance in Romania. . His artistic work was successfully presented in important festivals and venues in New York, San Diego, Paris, Lyon, London, etc. He was the co-founder and co-organiser of the Balkan Dance Platform (2001-2011). He is also the initiator of Gabriela Tudor fellowship in cultural management dedicated to the memory of Gabriela Tudor, co-founder and President of the Foundation between 1997-1999. In 2010-2011 he initiated the Moving Dialogue, a Bucharest/New York dance exchange in which over 15 artists from both countries participated in series of workshops, residencies and sharing practice sessions. Between 2011-2015, in collaboration with Stefania Ferchedau, he directed E-Motional (www.e-motional.eu), a European mobility, artistic research, exchange and co-production project developed in different phases in various European countries.In 2013 he initiated “Eastern Connection” – a three-year programme of exchanges and collaboration between Romania and Japan. In the last years he received several prizes as a recognition of his work in the cultural field offered by public institutions in Romania like National Dance Center (2014) the Administration of the National Cultural Fund (2017). Cosmin Manolescu is currently interested in cross-cultural collaboration and exchange, experiment and artistic innovation, creating projects, performances and workshops that challenge the participants. In October 2017 we will premiere in Bucharest his new durational artistic project called dans#wanderer (www.danswanderer.ro).
video:
what is contemporary dance - https://vimeo.com/143612198 (short documentary on Eastern Connection)
wings - https://vimeo.com/183795933 (short video created by Gemma Riggs following a workshop in Timisoara)
[fragile] - https://vimeo.com/109679722 (teaser of the last performance created by Cosmin Manolescu)
internet links:
www.e-motional.eu | https://zonadstudio.wordpress.com/ | www.danswanderer.ro
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✓ Coffee, tea and sweets & fruits will be provided by the organisers, but people are also invited to bring their own drinks.
✓ The reservation has to be made in advance by September 30 at http://www.derida-dance.com/qs/en/component/seminar/?task=3&cid=212 . Please mention in your email if you are an artist or an amateur and the level of your experience in contemporary dance (beginner, advanced, first time).
✓ Tickets: For reservations made by 25th September – 30BGN; after 25th September – 40BGN. You can pay in the day of the workshop at the reception desk at Derida Dance Center.
✓ The event will start at 21:00 and will finish at sunrise (or when the last participant leaves) but the access is open only until 22.00.
✓ The workshop-performance will be is open to max. 40 people.
PARTYING with the emotional body is an event part of the programme "Dance-Collage" organized by Gabriela Tudor Foundation to celebrate 20 years of activity, jointly organised in collaboration with Derida Dance Center. Cultural project co-funded by the Administration of National Cultural Fund.
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