”Celebrating Trouble. Choreographic Convention” presents a program dedicated to performance and multidisciplinary arts. Between October 4th-8th 2023, in Timișoara, will take place dance and performance shows, exhibitions and panel discussions, held by speakers and performers from the international cultural area. Celebrating Trouble. Choreographic Convention is organized and curated by: 4Culture Association, in collaboration with DanceWeb.
While the sky is falling over our destiny, can we still celebrate, dance, sing? CelebratingTrouble - ChoreoCon transforms theatre into an arena for our becoming as humans, an invitation to reflection, dialogue and artistic action.

**Free access**

5th of OCTOBER

🟣 Shaping (public) opinions
Time: 16:00
Duration: 3 h (30 min. break)
Place: FABER (Spl.Peneș Curcanul,no. 4-5)
16:00 - 16:30 - Lecture Caspar Weimann (performer, professor & mentor, Germania)
16:30 - 17:00 - Lecture Rok Vevar (historian of dans & curator, Slovenia)
17:30 - 19:00 - Panel discussions: Radu Apostol (theatre and film director,light designer, founder of Replika Cultural Association, Romania), Viorel Cojanu (actor, founder & president of Replika Cultural Association, Romania), Rok Vevar (dance historian & curator, Slovenia), Caspar Weimann (performer, professor & mentor, Germania), Stanislava Ovchinnikova( interdisciplinary artist & curator, Ukraine/Germany).
Moderator: Raluca Rădulescu (cultural journalist, Romania)

About: Access to information and education are the fundamental requirements for participating into social life. What kind of collective education and information spreading platforms are accessible and to what type of target public? What kind of steps towards building an alternative platform or transdisciplinary collaboration are there? Who are the ones considered right to take part in the greatest decisions or on the contrary, pushed away from the historical context? Last, but not least, it will be discussed the manipulation of social media, the right wing radicalization and anti-feminist in the online and the tactics of manipulation on these kind of social platforms, that can be the germinative action for radicalization.

6th of OCTOBER

🟣 Theatre as a public space
Time: 16:00
Duration: 3 h (30 min. break)
Place: FABER ( Spl.Peneș Curcanul,no. 4-5)
16:00 - 16:30 - Lecture Florian Malzacher (dramaturg & curator, Germany)
16:30 - 17:00 - Lecture Edit Kaldor (theatre maker & writer, Hungary/Netherlands)
17:30 - 19:00 -Panel discussions: Claudia Bosse (choreographer & director, Austria), Edit Kaldor (theatre maker & writer, Hungary/Netherlands), Florian Malzacher (dramaturg & curator, Germany), Arkadi Zaides (choreographer & performer, France). Moderator: Simone Willeit (Uferstudios Berlin)

About: Can theatre projects propose a public space that facilitates both the radical imaginary and the pragmatic utopias? What kind of projects can inspire the political action and thinking to get over the artistic sphere, succeeding to extend the theatre sphere of action, to stimulate the ways and possibilities to find a way to engage in the social issues of the present time? This approach is meant to interrogate the structures - social, political and economic - that give a certain framework to the existence of each of us.

7th of OCTOBER

🟣 Art as means of survival
Time:13:00
Duration: 3 h (30 min. break)
Place: Centrul de Proiecte (Str. Vasile Alecsandri no. 1)
Time: 13:00 - 13:30 - Mihaela Michailov (dramaturg & performance art critic,co-founder of Replika Cultural Association, Romania)
Time: 13:30 - 14:00 - Vladimir Us (artist & curator, Moldova)
Time: 14:30 - 16:00 - Mihaela Michailov (dramaturg & performance art critic, Romania), Vladimir Us (artist & curator, Moldova), Enkidu Khaled (theatre director & performer, Iraq/ Belgium), artists from the "LifeBoat" residency: (H)anna Kyrychyshyn (Ukraine) and Rita Lira (Ukraine).

About: How important can the art be for our human being development? The question ”What meaning does the art have?” becomes a call to action, for an artist who lives in an area affected by crises, when every day can bring danger. Then, the artistic act it is not just a privileged choice, but an instrument of survival. Ephemeral nature of the body and the human capacity to facilitate or prevent the recovery of the interior conflict. A discussion about the artistic ways used to strengthen both individual and collective initiatives.

Media partners: Radio Guerrilla, Modernism, Revista Zeppelin, Revista ARTA, Feeder, IQads, România Pozitivă, Revista Golan, Empower Art&Artists, Ziarul Metropolis, Happ.ro,Radio România Cultural.

The project is part of the national program “Timișoara – 2023 European Capital of Culture” and is financed through the European Echoes program, run by Timișoara Project Center, with funds allocated from the state budget, through the Ministry of Culture.

Part of the European cooperation project Life Long Burning (LLB) - Futures Lost and Found (2023-2026), funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA).
Neither the European Union nor the EACEA can be held responsible for them.