Continuing the series of the last three years of projects exploring environmental issues with artistic means, the artistic group Plastic Art Performance launches “Eco Movements”, a choreographic investigation project on the impact that pollution and waste have on daily and collective life.
In the current context, deeply marked by the environmental crisis (the crisis of the relationship with the environment), climate anxiety is increasingly common. The term “eco-anxiety” has taken shape in the field of psychiatry since 2017. Addressing these concerns, Plastic Art Performance proposes choreographic/performative movement methods and techniques, which can be adopted on an individual level and can become a resource for acquiring climate resilience.
The “Eco Movements” project will translate the vision, the conceptual framework and the eco-performance method into a choreographic plan, focusing on interconnectivity, the fusion between the natural environment and the body as two inseparable dimensions of the choreographic creation.
The eco-performative-choreographic research will be declined in a series of artistic products, the most important being four eco-performative choreographic installations and an ecovideoperformance, which will be presented in Bucharest, Timișoara, Brașov – physically and online, as well as in Portugal, with the support of the international partner AgitLab.
Equally, the project will support the development of new skills and practices for young people at the beginning of their journey in the field of performing arts, who will participate in workshops and come into direct contact with the method and vision of ecoperformance.
“Eco Movements” is the artistic manifesto of the performer-dancers: Alina Tofan (concept director & ecoperformer), Alina Ușurelu, Ioana Buraga, Wura Moraes and choreographer Momo Peter Sanno. They are joined by GCV (costume & set design), Gabriel Durlan (cinematography), Alexandru Claudiu Maxim (video editing), Teo Rădulescu (sound design), Sebastian Dobrescu (workshop trainer).
The first live-performing with live-sound will take place at Modul Cărturești, on July 7 at 7 p.m., followed by the second performance on July 15, 6:30 p.m., in the garden of the National Museum of Natural History “Grigore Antipa”.
The project is coordinated by the Plastic Art Performance Collective, an artistic group developed by the Macaia Cultural Association, which draws attention to collective waste and themes such as: the environmental crisis, plastic pollution, industrial pollution, climate change, abusive interventions such as illegal deforestation.
The project is co-financed by the AFCN National Cultural Fund Administration.
The project does not necessarily represent the position of the National Cultural Fund Administration. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.
