Arriving into the Touch
Sep 26 — Sep 27 · 12:00 — 14:30
A two-day Contact Improvisation base class on arriving into touch: falling, landing and meeting another body through contact.
Program Lines
Explore the festival by practice lines: classes, laboratories, performances, family work and shared dancing spaces.
Contact Improvisation
Intensives, classes and embodied practice spaces around contact, listening, weight and relation.
CI as ArtSport
Sep 28 — Sep 30 · 10:30 — 13:30
A three-day Contact Improvisation intensive where athletic training becomes responsive, poetic dancing.
Dynamic Flying
Sep 28 — Sep 30 · 10:30 — 13:30
A three-day Contact Improvisation intensive on lifts, momentum and the shared timing that makes flight possible.
Bodywork as Dialogue
Sep 30 · 15:30 — 18:30
A workshop moving from bodywork into contact dance and JAM, asking how inner organization can make interaction clear, light and effective.
Risk, Play & Flight
Oct 1 — Oct 2 · 10:00 — 13:30
A two-day Contact Improvisation intensive where risk becomes play and falling becomes a way to meet the unknown.
Way in and Way Out
Oct 3 · 10:00 — 13:30
A CI class around entering and leaving relation: solo, duet, trio, and the way back to solo.
Performance Labs
Laboratory formats where movement becomes research, composition and performance material.
Shared Awareness
Sep 26 — Sep 27 · 12:00 — 14:30
A two-day class exploring Contact Improvisation as communication, somatic language and shared awareness in relation to others and the space.
Choice as Bodily Experience
Sep 28 — Sep 29, Oct 1 — Oct 2 · 15:30 — 18:30
A performance laboratory where choice becomes conscious physical action, shaped through improvisation, relation and shared presence.
Touching Stories
Sep 28 — Sep 29, Oct 1 — Oct 2 · 15:30 — 18:30
A performance laboratory where touch becomes a source of stories, memory, movement material and shared composition.
Seeing and being seen
Oct 1 — Oct 3 · 10:00 — 13:30
A three-day performance laboratory on how video imagery and live streaming can enter into dialogue with the moving body.
Performances & Film
Stage works, showings and film / presentation moments inside the festival frame.
Performative Space
Sep 28 · 19:30 — 20:00
An open platform for spontaneous artistic encounters during the festival.
ENSŌ
Sep 29 · 19:30 — 20:00
A solo performance built around painting an invisible circle with water, body, attention and a traditional brush.
Descent
Sep 30 · 19:30 — 21:30
A solo theatre performance by Daniel Kearns moving inward and downward into childhood wonder, tenderness, memory and the quiet territories of the subconscious.
Light from the Shadow
Sep 30 · 19:30 — 21:30
A multimedia theatre performance by Voices Dance Company where contemporary dance, music, spoken text and projections trace the life, love and creative journey of a 19th-century poet and writer.
FIELD
Oct 1 · 19:30 — 21:30
A contemporary dance performance by DUNE Dance Company about deep listening, shared attention and the invisible forces moving between bodies.
Voice Under the Skin
Oct 1 · 19:30 — 21:30
A choreographic performance by Fantezia Dance Theatre where personal stories, structured choreography and live improvisation meet questions of shadow, vulnerability and identity.
Performance Lab Showing I
Oct 2 · 18:30 — 19:30
A first public sharing of material developed inside the festival laboratories.
Teachers Performance
Oct 2 · 19:30 — 20:00
A short performance program by invited teachers and artists of the festival.
Outside/Inside (Norway)
Oct 3 · 15:30 — 17:00
A film / presentation of Samovarteateret’s Outside/Inside, an interdisciplinary work on how outer tensions enter inner life, followed by a conversation with Nikolay Shchetnev.
Performance Lab Showing II
Oct 3 · 18:30 — 19:30
A second public sharing of laboratory material developed during the festival.
Family & Youth
Classes and conversations for children, parents, young people and family participation.
Little Curiosity: Family + Baby (<6)
Sep 26 · 10:00 — 11:30
A Family & Youth class for connected play between parents and very young children.
Youth Dance Class
Sep 26 — Sep 27 · 10:00 — 11:30
A dance class for young movers built around play, coordination, imagination and the discovery of movement as something personal.
The Wild One
Sep 26 · 18:30 — 19:30
A family acro-theatre performance around playful curiosity, presence and the blurred border between imagination and reality.
Little Curiosity: Family + Kids (6+)
Sep 27 · 10:00 — 11:30
A Family & Youth class for connected play between adults and children.
Family Time & Discussion
Sep 27 · 11:30 — 13:00
A facilitated space for families to pause, share impressions and talk about the Family & Youth experience.
Jams & Gatherings
Open dancing and gathering spaces that hold the festival socially and physically.
Registration
Sep 26 · 10:00 — 14:00
Festival check-in and arrival time.
First Meetings JAM
Sep 26 · 19:30 — 22:30
The first jam of the festival.
Welcoming Open Circle & JAM
Sep 27 · 17:00 — 22:00
The festival opening gathering and jam.
JAM
Sep 28 — Sep 29, Oct 2 · Evening
An open evening jam for integrating the day’s practice through dancing.
Bodywork as Dialogue
Sep 30 · 15:30 — 18:30
A workshop moving from bodywork into contact dance and JAM, asking how inner organization can make interaction clear, light and effective.
Fire Party & Live Music
Sep 30 · 21:30 — 00:00
An evening gathering with fire, live music and dancing.
After Party / JAM
Oct 1 · 21:30 — 00:00
A late evening continuation of the festival through dancing and informal gathering.
Celebration JAM
Oct 3 · 20:00 — 00:00
A celebratory final jam for the main festival days.
Closing Circle
Oct 4 · Daytime
The formal closing moment of the festival.
Dancing in the City
Oct 4 · Daytime
A closing-day movement experience where the city becomes a partner.
Discussions
Oct 4 · Daytime
A reflective space for sharing impressions, questions and discoveries from the festival week.
Farewell JAM
Oct 4 · Daytime
A final open dancing space to gather what the festival has opened.
National Wine Day in Chișinău
Oct 4 · Afterwards
An optional city celebration after the formal festival closing.