Little Curiosity: Parent + Child (<6)
A Family & Youth class for connected play between parents and very young children.
Schedule
A practical vertical view of the festival program, organized by days and time.
Sep 26 — Oct 4 · Chișinău
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Saturday
Sep 26
Arrival / first meetings 10:00 — 11:30
10:00 — 12:00
Partnering and Movement
A partnering class exploring spirals, momentum, trust and communication between two bodies.
10:00 — 14:00
Registration
Festival check-in and arrival time.
12:00 — 14:30 Parallel sessions
Arriving into the Touch
A two-day Contact Improvisation base class on arriving into touch: falling, landing and meeting another body through contact.
Sharing Presence
A two-day Contact Improvisation & Performance class on presence as a meeting point for communication, perception and collective creation.
14:30 — 15:30
Lunch Break
A daily pause for food, rest and informal conversation.
18:30 — 19:30
The Wild One
A family acro-theatre performance around playful curiosity, presence and the blurred border between imagination and reality.
19:30 — 22:30
First Meetings JAM
The first jam of the festival.
Sunday
Sep 27
Festival opening 10:00 — 11:30
Little Curiosity: Parent + Child (6+)
A Family & Youth class for connected play between adults and children.
10:00 — 12:00
Movement in Flow and Deep Listening
A contemporary dance class for young movers exploring flow, weight, momentum and deep listening through movement.
11:30 — 13:00
Family Time & Discussion
A facilitated space for families to pause, share impressions and talk about the Family & Youth experience.
12:00 — 14:30 Parallel sessions
Arriving into the Touch
A two-day Contact Improvisation base class on arriving into touch: falling, landing and meeting another body through contact.
Sharing Presence
A two-day Contact Improvisation & Performance class on presence as a meeting point for communication, perception and collective creation.
14:30 — 17:00
Lunch Break
A daily pause for food, rest and informal conversation.
17:00 — 22:00
Welcoming Open Circle & JAM
The festival opening gathering and jam.
Monday
Sep 28
Deepening the practice 09:00 — 10:00
Morning Practice
A soft morning practice to arrive in the body before the main program.
10:00 — 13:00 Parallel sessions
CI as ArtSport
A three-day Contact Improvisation intensive where athletic training becomes responsive, poetic dancing.
Dynamic Flying
A three-day Contact Improvisation intensive on lifts, momentum and the shared timing that makes flight possible.
13:30 — 15:30
Lunch Break
A daily pause for food, rest and informal conversation.
15:30 — 18:30 Parallel sessions
Choice as Bodily Experience
A performance laboratory where choice becomes conscious physical action, shaped through improvisation, relation and shared presence.
BARÉLIEF — Practicing Togetherness
A performance laboratory exploring how individuality and collectivity can meet through freedom, support and embodied togetherness.
18:30 — 19:30
Dinner Break
An evening pause for food, rest and transition.
19:30 — 20:00
Performative Space
An open platform for spontaneous artistic encounters during the festival.
20:00 — 23:00
JAM
An open evening jam for integrating the day’s practice through dancing.
Tuesday
Sep 29
Practice / research / jam 09:00 — 10:00
Morning Practice
A soft morning practice to arrive in the body before the main program.
10:00 — 13:00 Parallel sessions
CI as ArtSport
A three-day Contact Improvisation intensive where athletic training becomes responsive, poetic dancing.
Dynamic Flying
A three-day Contact Improvisation intensive on lifts, momentum and the shared timing that makes flight possible.
13:30 — 15:30
Lunch Break
A daily pause for food, rest and informal conversation.
15:30 — 18:30 Parallel sessions
Choice as Bodily Experience
A performance laboratory where choice becomes conscious physical action, shaped through improvisation, relation and shared presence.
BARÉLIEF — Practicing Togetherness
A performance laboratory exploring how individuality and collectivity can meet through freedom, support and embodied togetherness.
18:30 — 19:30
Dinner Break
An evening pause for food, rest and transition.
19:30 — 21:30
Descent
A solo theatre performance by Daniel Kearns moving inward and downward into childhood wonder, tenderness, memory and the quiet territories of the subconscious.
21:30 — 00:00
JAM
An open evening jam for integrating the day’s practice through dancing.
Wednesday
Sep 30
Performance night 09:00 — 10:00
Morning Practice
A soft morning practice to arrive in the body before the main program.
10:00 — 13:00 Parallel sessions
CI as ArtSport
A three-day Contact Improvisation intensive where athletic training becomes responsive, poetic dancing.
Dynamic Flying
A three-day Contact Improvisation intensive on lifts, momentum and the shared timing that makes flight possible.
13:30 — 15:30
Lunch Break
A daily pause for food, rest and informal conversation.
15:30 — 18:30
Bodywork as Dialogue
A workshop moving from bodywork into contact dance and JAM, asking how inner organization can make interaction clear, light and effective.
18:30 — 19:30
Dinner Break
An evening pause for food, rest and transition.
19:30 — 21:30
Light from the Shadow
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
A solo performance built around painting an invisible circle with water, body, attention and a traditional brush.
21:30 — 00:00
Fire Party & Live Music
An evening gathering with fire, live music and dancing.
Thursday
Oct 1
New intensives / performance night 09:00 — 10:00
Morning Practice
A soft morning practice to arrive in the body before the main program.
10:00 — 13:30 Parallel sessions
Risk, Play & Flight
A two-day Contact Improvisation intensive where risk becomes play and falling becomes a way to meet the unknown.
Seeing and being seen
A three-day performance laboratory on how video imagery and live streaming can enter into dialogue with the moving body.
13:30 — 15:30
Lunch Break
A daily pause for food, rest and informal conversation.
15:30 — 18:30 Parallel sessions
Choice as Bodily Experience
A performance laboratory where choice becomes conscious physical action, shaped through improvisation, relation and shared presence.
BARÉLIEF — Practicing Togetherness
A performance laboratory exploring how individuality and collectivity can meet through freedom, support and embodied togetherness.
18:30 — 19:30
Dinner Break
An evening pause for food, rest and transition.
19:30 — 21:30
IN BETWEEN
A choreographic premiere from Moldova exploring “between” and the ways it appears in our lives.
LUA /Moon/
A choreographic premiere from Bulgaria: a space for one dancer and a solitary ritual about the impossibility of moving forward.
REFLECTIONS
A choreographic premiere from Moldova and Ukraine about the reflections we find in voice, body, memory, fear and love.
21:30 — 00:00
After Party / JAM
A late evening continuation of the festival through dancing and informal gathering.
Friday
Oct 2
Lab showings / teachers performance 09:00 — 10:00
Morning Practice
A soft morning practice to arrive in the body before the main program.
10:00 — 13:30 Parallel sessions
Risk, Play & Flight
A two-day Contact Improvisation intensive where risk becomes play and falling becomes a way to meet the unknown.
Seeing and being seen
A three-day performance laboratory on how video imagery and live streaming can enter into dialogue with the moving body.
13:30 — 15:30
Lunch Break
A daily pause for food, rest and informal conversation.
15:30 — 18:30 Parallel sessions
Choice as Bodily Experience
A performance laboratory where choice becomes conscious physical action, shaped through improvisation, relation and shared presence.
BARÉLIEF — Practicing Togetherness
A performance laboratory exploring how individuality and collectivity can meet through freedom, support and embodied togetherness.
18:30 — 19:30
BARÉLIEF — Performance Lab Showing
A public sharing of BARÉLIEF — Practicing Togetherness, the laboratory led by Olga Zitluhina.
19:30 — 20:00
Teachers Performance
A short performance program by invited teachers and artists of the festival.
20:00 — 21:00
Dinner Break
An evening pause for food, rest and transition.
21:00 — 00:00
JAM
An open evening jam for integrating the day’s practice through dancing.
Saturday
Oct 3
Film / showings / celebration 09:00 — 10:00
Morning Practice
A soft morning practice to arrive in the body before the main program.
10:00 — 11:30
Explosive Movement
A playful physical workshop where young movers explore confidence, coordination, strength and new movement possibilities.
10:00 — 13:30 Parallel sessions
Seeing and being seen
A three-day performance laboratory on how video imagery and live streaming can enter into dialogue with the moving body.
Way in and Way Out
A Contact Improvisation class exploring freedom, commitment and how a shared dance can emerge without losing individual presence.
13:30 — 15:30
Lunch Break
A daily pause for food, rest and informal conversation.
15:30 — 17:00
Outside/Inside (Norway)
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.
17:00 — 18:30
Dinner Break
An evening pause for food, rest and transition.
18:30 — 19:30
Choice as Bodily Experience — Performance Lab Showing
A public sharing of Choice as Bodily Experience, the laboratory led by Alexandra Soshnicova and Sergey Golovnea.
20:00 — 00:00
Celebration JAM
A celebratory final jam for the main festival days.
Sunday
Oct 4
Closing day / dancing in the city 10:00 — 11:30
Explosive Movement
A playful physical workshop where young movers explore confidence, coordination, strength and new movement possibilities.
Daytime
Dancing in the City
A closing-day movement experience where the city becomes a partner.
Farewell JAM
A final open dancing space to gather what the festival has opened.
Discussions
A reflective space for sharing impressions, questions and discoveries from the festival week.
Closing Circle
The formal closing moment of the festival.
Afterwards
National Wine Day in Chișinău
An optional city celebration after the formal festival closing.