Friends and dancers around the world, this year we are pleased to invite you to join us a few days before and after our Contact Improvisation Festival in Bucharest, for new dance events, more city time and more of Romania landscape:

// 13-16 June - PRE-FESTIVAL - performances & masterclasses
// 17-24 June - FESTIVAL - intensives, labs & jams ++
// 25-30 June - POST-FESTIVAL - dance retreat in wild nature (Transylvania)
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This structure is designed to offer you the possibility to participate only in ONE part, if you wish so, since we cannot offer the option of partial participation in the masterclasses, intensives and workshops inside each part.
// EARLY BIRD tickets are available until 1st of April on the site:
http://contactimprovisation.ro/
!! please note that each part has a maximum numbers of participants that it can contain !!
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PRE-FESTIVAL - we invite you earlier to take time to VISIT BUCHAREST, to watch TWO PERFORMANCES with dancers that use CI and improvisation practices on stage, participate and learn from them in TWO MASTERCLASSES, join a LECTURE on the practice of Poetic Movement and dance in a JAM SESSION where you will get to know some of romanian dancers that might not be present in the festival.
// ARTISTS: Stephen Batts (Ireland), Alexandra Soshnicova and Sergey Golovnea (Moldova)
(20 participants)

FESTIVAL - One week of CI intensive classes, video-making and a performance laboratories, jam sessions, discussions and meals together + towards the end, open events for public: street performance// video projection of the films created in the festival // participants performance // teachers performance.
// TEACHRES: Scott Wells (USA), Mirva Birgitta M?kinen (Finland), Elisa Ghion (Italy), Stephen Batts, (Ireland), Claus Springborg (Denmark) +surprise guest teachers.
(50 participants)

POST-FESTIVAL - five days in a secluded place in Transylvania, including twelve hours intensive workshop, walking trips, relaxing, eating, singing by the fire, individual practice space, jam sessions, camping space +all nature can offer.
The place is at kilometers away from any road or village, on top of a hill, bordered by an enchanted forest, merging wilderness and civilization, solitude and communion.
// TUNING SCORES - Instant composition workshop
in nature setting with Nora Hajos (HU/USA).
(20 participants)

Please find more details about teachers, classes, performances, schedule, prices and REGISTRATION on our site: http://contactimprovisation.ro/
For questions please send us an e-mail on: contactbucharestfest@gmail.com

Be present ;)