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 · 10:00 — 13:00
A three-day Contact Improvisation intensive where athletic training becomes responsive, poetic dancing.
CI Intensive
Sep 28 — Sep 30 · 10:00 — 13:00
A three-day Contact Improvisation intensive led by Petya Stoykova.
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 Contact Improvisation class exploring freedom, commitment and how a shared dance can emerge without losing individual presence.
Performance Labs
Laboratory formats where movement becomes research, composition and performance material.
Sharing Presence
Sep 26 — Sep 27 · 12:00 — 14:30
A two-day Contact Improvisation & Performance class on presence as a meeting point for communication, perception and collective creation.
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.
BARÉLIEF — Practicing Togetherness
Sep 28 — Sep 29, Oct 1 — Oct 2 · 15:30 — 18:30
A performance laboratory exploring how individuality and collectivity can meet through freedom, support and embodied togetherness.
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.
Discussion: Contact Improvisation & Performance
Sep 27 · 19:30 — 20:30
An open conversation on the meeting points between Contact Improvisation and Performance.
Performative Space
Sep 28 · 19:30 — 20:00
An open platform for spontaneous artistic encounters during the festival.
Descent
Sep 29 · 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.
ENSŌ
Sep 30 · 19:30 — 21:30
A solo performance built around painting an invisible circle with water, body, attention and a traditional brush.
Reflections
Oct 1 · 19:30 — 21:30
A choreographic premiere from Moldova and Ukraine about the reflections we find in voice, body, memory, fear and love.
LUA /Moon/
Oct 1 · 19:30 — 21:30
A choreographic premiere from Bulgaria: a space for one dancer and a solitary ritual about the impossibility of moving forward.
In Between
Oct 1 · 19:30 — 21:30
A choreographic premiere from Moldova exploring “between” and the ways it appears in our lives.
BARÉLIEF — Performance Lab Showing
Oct 2 · 18:30 — 19:30
A public sharing of BARÉLIEF — Practicing Togetherness, the laboratory led by Olga Zitluhina.
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 — 18:00
A film / presentation of Samovarteateret’s Outside/Inside, an interdisciplinary work on how outer tensions enter inner life, followed by a conversation with Samovarteateret artist Nikolay Shchetnev.
The Sea (Sweden)
Oct 3 · 15:30 — 18:00
A black-and-white dance film by Douglas Rosenberg, tracing ageing, intimacy and camaraderie through movement and the Baltic landscape of Fårö.
Choice as Bodily Experience — Performance Lab Showing
Oct 3 · 19:30 — 20:30
A public sharing of Choice as Bodily Experience, the laboratory led by Alexandra Soshnicova and Sergey Golovnea.
Family & Youth
Classes and conversations for children, parents, young people and family participation.
Little Curiosity: Parent + Child (<6)
Sep 26 · 10:00 — 11:30
A Family & Youth class for connected play between parents and very young children.
Partnering and Movement
Sep 26 · 10:00 — 12:00
A partnering class exploring spirals, momentum, trust and communication between two bodies.
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: Parent + Child (6+)
Sep 27 · 10:00 — 11:30
A Family & Youth class for connected play between adults and children.
Movement in Flow and Deep Listening
Sep 27 · 10:00 — 12:00
A contemporary dance class for young movers exploring flow, weight, momentum and deep listening through movement.
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.
Explosive Movement
Oct 3 — Oct 4 · 11:00 — 12:30
A playful physical workshop where young movers explore confidence, coordination, strength and new movement possibilities.
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 — 22:00
The first jam of the festival.
Open Circle
Sep 27 · 17:00 — 17:45
A shared opening moment for gathering the group and entering the festival together.
Opening JAM — Part 1
Sep 27 · 18:00 — 19:30
The first part of the festival's opening JAM, beginning the shared dance after the Open Circle.
Opening JAM — Part 2
Sep 27 · 21:00 — 23:00
The second part of the festival's opening JAM, continuing the shared dance after the discussion.
JAM
Sep 28 · 20:00 — 23:00
An open evening jam for integrating the day’s practice through dancing.
JAM
Sep 29 · 21:00 — 00:00
An open evening jam for integrating the day’s practice through dancing.
JAM
Oct 2 · 21:00 — 00:00
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.
After Party & Live Music
Sep 30 · 21:30 — 00:00
An evening gathering with 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.
Closing Circle
Oct 3 · 20:30 — 21:00
The formal closing moment of the festival.
JAM
Oct 3 · 21:00 — 23:00
A final JAM for the main festival days.
Celebration JAM
Oct 4 · 12:30 — 14:00
A celebratory open dancing space for the closing day.
Meeting at Festival Studio
Oct 4 · 15:30
A meeting point before Dancing in the City.
After-party JAM + Potluck
Oct 4 · After Dancing in the City
A closing after-party JAM and potluck after Dancing in the City. Please bring treats or snacks to share with everyone.
Dancing in the City
Oct 4 · Following the meeting
A closing-day movement experience where the city becomes a partner.
National Wine Day in Chișinău
Oct 4 · Afterwards
An optional city celebration after the formal festival closing.