October 20th | 21:30 – Bulandra Theatre, Liviu Ciulei Hall
The Nocturnes, performances initiated by Miriam Răducanu at the equally courageous proposal of Margareta Niculescu, the emblematic director of the Țăndărică puppet theater in Bucharest, have represented for us, the artists, as well as for the spectators, moments and opportunities of escapism.
Those Nocturnes, perhaps even more than a series of cultural performances, are a metaphor, if not of freedom, at least of liberation.
A road that I keep going along, TO/BACK, with each dance, each performance, poem or drawing: FROM THE METAPHOR, that of poetry, to the countless METAPHORS of movement. (Gigi Căciuleanu)
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Idea, concept, script, directing and performing: Gigi Căciuleanu
Choreographers: Miriam Răducanu, Gigi Căciuleanu
With:
Lari Giorgescu, Lelia Marcu-Vladu, Alina Petrică & soprano Oana Berbec
With the exceptional participation of maestro Virgil Ogășanu
Consultant: Silvia Ghiață
Producers: Art Production Foundation & Gigi Căciuleanu Romania Dance Company
Supported by: JTI, RCI (Romanian Cultural Institute)
Duration: 1h 30 min
“The first choreographies “on my own”, I can say, even if this may sound a bit strange, that I did them on the radio…
It was before the Nocturne. Miriam had gone to the US for a while, and I had stayed… on my own! And then I had the opportunity to participate in some recitals. To dance.
Which I did. “All out”. To lines by great poets, spoken by great actors… In a series of poetry events staged at the Radio Hall by Elena Negreanu. It was then that I got my first taste, in a “professional” way, of what freedom is. A freedom of creation which, on top of that, was also super-well received by an extremely special audience.” (Gigi Caciuleanu)
It was also then that I started to write my first texts, to sketch on everything I could get my hands on, drawings and words. Trying to answer the first questions about what was happening to me: creation, dance, CHOREO-GRAPHY….
Then Miriam came back and the Nocturnes started! For me, one more step on the ladder of freedom….
A nocturne is a metaphor for escape. At night the doors and windows of dreams open.
But even when one does not take refuge in the dream, but simply feels like “going out dancing”, it is not only out of a desire to party. Moreover, this represents, even if only unconsciously, the search for a certain honesty with oneself.
A dancing body does not lie. Neither do the adventures a man has in the freedom of his dreams.
The Nocturnes, performances initiated by Miriam Răducanu at the equally courageous proposal of Margareta Niculescu, the emblematic director of the Țăndărică puppet theater in Bucharest, have represented for us, the artists, as well as for the spectators, moments and opportunities of escapism.
Those Nocturnes, perhaps even more than a series of cultural performances, are a metaphor, if not of freedom, of at least liberation.
I was lucky enough to be with Miriam from the first Nocturne through the sixth.
I was not dancing with a dancer or a choreographer, let alone a teacher, I was dancing with an idea, with a METAPHOR, in the Brancusian sense, with a Master. Miriam Răducanu.
The Nocturne not only “opened” my mind but also “unlocked” my corporeality. Since then, I have always integrated the idea that the body and the verb/speech are instruments at the service of the same type of metaphors.
Right from the beginning, Nocturnes – treated Dance as both Poetry and Dream.
A “kinship” that not only suited me, to which I not only adhered but also shaped me as an artist.
It is not by chance that the most recent performance Miriam has created for and with “my” dancer-actor, Lari Giorgescu, at O! very independent UNTEATRU on the verses of actor-poet Emil Botta, is called: Dream Poetry. A creation of facture, and in continuity, Nocturnes.
A road that I keep traveling, TO/BACK, with each dance, with each performance, poem or drawing: FROM THE METAPHOR, that of poetry, TO that of countless METAPHORS of movement.” (Gigi Căciuleanu)
Photo: Ciprian Zinca
