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02.07.2019

Moonlight Invasions

Moonlight Invasions is a theater and dance performance devised by Italian artist Francesca Krnjak; in it, a surrealist universe is created by means of spectacular costumes, live music, and light design. Strange creatures invade the streets of the city and they enchant the passers-by with their dance which resembles a magic ritual. During the invasion, the acrobats on stilts and the acrobats from Parolabianca mingle with the crowd and they interact with young and old alike, creating spectacular living paintings. As the night approaches, the lunar invasion becomes a light show generated by the mysterious characters’ costumes and accessories.

Urban Imbalance

Modern harlequin Karcocha will come to Bucharest with his latest project “Karcocha & Kumilintu”, after having travelled for ten years to thirty countries and hundreds of cities with his street shows. With his outfits in neon colours, with his catching humour and his inborn curiosity, the clown who communicates only with the whistle seems to have found his artistic soul mate in the “living doll” called Kumilintu. A subtle combination of innocent comedy, irony and elegance, the two Spanish artists’ show, Urban Imbalance, found the perfect balance between clownery, juggling, improvisation, and acrobatics.

History of Dance

“The History of Dance” is a show authored by Mihai Mălaimare; it takes us to the ancient Egypt, to the 16^thcentury ballroom dances, to the madness of rock-and-roll, to the frenzy of the Latin dances and of the disco rhythms. Each of the twelve paintings created with the technique of living statues shows a representative stage in the history of dance.

02.07.2019

Barbarossa Samba Group

Barbarossa Samba Group is the winner of a Romanian TV show, and the first percussion band and samba in the country. It was founded in 2012 by musician Felix Mircea Moldovan (drummer in Spin, Blue Nipple Boy, Madame Hooligan), and it is a small “orchestra” made of fifteen artists passionate about the energy of Brazilian rhythms. They participated in some important festivals and events such as Street Delivery, Balkanik Festival, B’estfest, Untold Festival, and Incubator107.

La Grande Phrase

Didier Théron French company will bring the street show Gonflés/Véhicules to Bucharest, a show which was awarded the First Prize at “Setouchi” International Triennial of Contemporary Art in 2013 in Japan. An original project based on air, which becomes the main element of the creation. Gonflés/Véhicules presents dancers dressed up in costumes full of air, which interact with the surroundings in a strange way. The air in the latex structures of the costumes generates a special dynamics and thus it becomes the creator of a new type of interaction with the public space, with the architecture of the city, and with its dwellers.

After having participating in prestigious festivals and events in Australia, Asia, the United States, and Europe, the artists of the company Didier Théron will come to Bucharest to put on two out of the three performances of the show Gonflés/Véhicules: “La Grande Phrase” and “Air”. Created in 2009, the dancing show “La Grande Phrase” is a colourful invasion of the city, in which “inflated” characters explore the city as well as…its dwellers.

Captive

“Captive” is extremely demanding from a physical point of view and emotionally intense; it mixes elements of contemporary dance and acrobatics in an original show, inspired by the poem “The Panther” by Rainer Maria Rilke. At an alert pace, the four British dancers explore the topic of captivity in the limited space of a steel cage.

“From the beginning of the piece, when the performers strain against their recent captivity with disbelief and raw emotion, to the final unsettling resolution (which I won’t give away here), there is as much to trigger your thought process as there is to mesmerize your eyes.” (Herald Tribune)

Les Flamants Roses

Inspired by the grace of the mating rituals of the flamingos, the French company Cie Remue Menage created a carnival-like show-parade. Pyrotechnist-dancers and djembe musicians, dressed up as Berbers, accompany the strange giant-birds that dance and wonderfully light up the night. A flying machine guides the musical caravan that moves slowly on the streets of the city and it uses dance, music, and acrobatics to present the story of the migration of the flamingo birds to the land of deserts and of the nomad tribes. Cie Remue Menage is well-known around the world for its shows focused on visual impact, shows which create oneiric universes by means of play of lights, circus elements, dance, and music.

Magnolia

Sol’Air will bring to Bucharest the air acrobatics show “Magnolia”, which has been awarded important international prizes. Full of poetry and grace, “Magnolia” is a unique solo show, entirely held on a tissue trapeze, developed by the protagonist of the show, Sylvia Idelberger.

Sylvia Indelberger has a nineteen-year experience in air acrobatics; in 2003 she set up Sol’Air company for which she has been developing a rich repertoire of solo shows, in duet or in group, on the trapeze, elastics, rope, or circles. The German artist always seeks a way to connect to the public through the shows she creates.

Flag Wavers from Rome

In Medieval Europe, affected by wars, the flags with the emblem of various cities were taken on the battlefields as symbols of the noble houses. In peaceful times, the flag wavers of a community met in order to establish the rituals for starting the fight. Throughout time, these rituals became more and more sophisticated until they turned into genuine shows. This is how the street performances inspired by the Italian traditions of the fight flags appeared.

Founded in 1976, the group Flag Wavers from Rome puts on a show based on century-old chorographical techniques, live music, and acrobatics. Made of young acrobats, Flag Wavers from Rome carries on the tradition of the old competitions between flag wavers by participating in numerous national and international street theater festivals.

Zéro Degré

Zéro Degré is considered a mixture of social action, artistic project, and sports performance show; it is inspired by the new forms of artistic expression generated around the freerunning movement, the art of free movement in the urban space.Zéro Degré is an invitation to the free exploration of a place, a city, a context; it discovers invisible spaces and it challenges the citizens’ perception on space by moving from one roof to another, defying gravity with minute precision and impressive physical ability. With Zéro Degré shows, the company La Fabrique Royale puts forth an urban art performance in which the movements of the freerunners and the projected images build a new story of the public space.

Marcel Cyclette

Marcel Cyclette is a clown, juggler, and cyclist who interacts with the passers-by while riding his hybrid bicycle, decorated with fantastic accessories. With an arched mustache and always dressed up to the nines…and two stilts, Marcel Cyclette is considerate to female spectators and he befriends children by juggling with colourful balls. He likes to make people smile, and to light fierce fires in his giant pipe and in his spectators’ hearts.

Marcel Cyclette is the character created by Belgian Sven Roelants, an artist on stilts with twenty years of experience in street theater and circus shows.

Bite!

Since 2014 Stefaan van Uden and his colleague Ferry Melis have been traveling around the world to put on MaTTO street theater shows. Highly acclaimed for their humour and for being popular with children, the two Dutch artists will come to Bucharest with their newest project, BITE!, an interactive street theater show which turns the spectators into possible victims of the two pranksters. BITE! urges the passers-by to take the bait of the two artists dressed up as fishermen who are above the crowd and throw a line in the “water”. The two fishermen’s interaction with the public is very funny, both for the children, who always let themselves caught, and for the parents and the by-standers.

Indian Pipes and Drums

Indian Pipes and Drums, the first Scottish band made up of Indian instrumentalists, was founded in 1972, in London, and today it has two hundred fifty members in the Unites States, Kenya, the Great Britain, and India. Known for their philanthropic activity, the pipers and the drummers of Indian Pipes and Drums performed in events around the world, from the anniversary of the Golden Jubilee and of the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen Elisabeth the 2^nd, in London, to the fund raising for the 2015 earthquake in Nepal, and to the campaign they organized against elephant hunting in Africa. Dressed up in traditional military Scottish outfits, the musicians of Indian Pipes and Drums play Scottish traditional songs, patriotic hymns, and international hits.

Fuente de Agua

The Spanish artists of Fuente de Aqua use a sophisticated choreography to imitate the show of the water in a fountain. The fluid movements, the acrobatics, the live music, and the well-thought-out costumes make Fuente de Agua a fascinating street theater performance, with a strong visual impact. The dance of the members of Fuente de Agua uses many nuances to describe the water flow and it manages to recreate the translucent playof the water in a fountain.

Toys

The toys of our childhood come to life at FITSB in the performance of the artists of Cie Remue Menage. The dolls in the musical boxes grew in size and they dance waltzes on the streets of Bucharest, while the toy soldiers got out of line and they march on marching band music. The show is authored by Remue Ménage, a French street theater company renowned for its productions with a strong visual impact and for the way in which it combines circus elements with dance, music, puppetry, and masks.

Moonlight Invasions

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