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Private event hosted by the National Theatre in Bucharest. The responsibility for the quality and content of this event lies solely with the organizer!   The B. Dance Company is coming to Romania for the first time, at the 25th edition of the JTI Meetings, with the performance Alice, on June 20 and 21, 2024, at 7:30 pm, at the National Theatre from Bucharest and on June 24 and 25, 2024, at 8:00 pm, at the Ion Besoiu Cultural Centre, within the Sibiu International Theatre Festival (FITS). Alice came about as a result of the collaboration between B. Dance Company in Taipei, led by choreographer Po-Cheng Tsai, with Tanz Luzerner Theater, led by Kathleen McNurney. The performance reimagines the classical literary work by placing it in a fantasy world at the confluence of Zen master. According to the official website of the B. Dance Company, the show entices with breathtaking choreography, haute couture costumes and an elegant set design, in a "wonderland" with an ethereal and deeply psychological atmosphere. A labyrinth of mirrors, artistic projections and black-and-white ink drawings unite poetry and fairy tale, as well as Western and Eastern culture. "Po-Cheng Tsai's dancing is very dynamic. It combines East Asian dance styles with Western contemporary dance, ballet, hip hop, jazz, tai chi, martial arts, kung fu, Chinese folk dance. [...] The acrobatics complete the performance: the legs move like sharp razors, then again like flowing waves", writes Luzerner Zeitung about "Alice". Choreographer Po-Cheng Tsai graduated from the National Taipei University of Arts in 2009 and founded B. Dance and found his own choreographic language and aesthetic. The artist combines traditional Asian movements, martial arts and contemporary dance, pushing boundaries to bring together Eastern mysticism and fantasy in exciting, accessible performances. Po-Cheng Tsai has been named Choreographer of the Year 2018 by the German magazine Tanz. In 2019, B. Dance received the Mervyn Stutter "Spirit of the Fringe" award at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh. Awarded several times in international choreographic competitions, Po-Cheng Tsai has also created choreography for renowned dance companies such as Introdans, Tanz Luzerner Theatre, Gauthier Dance, Cloud Gate 2, Bern Tanzcompagnie and La Veronal. "We are delighted that the JTI Meetings are celebrating a quarter of a century. As the respected critic Dumitru Avakian says, the series of events under the Meetings has brought 'consistency to our artistic life'. Together with our long-term collaborators, Valerian Mares, president of the Art Production Foundation, and Silvia Ghiata, an undisputed authority in the world of dance, we have managed to be among the few supporters of this artistic genre and to bring to the country, year after year, premiere performances or companies that would not otherwise be seen by dance-loving audiences in Romania. Please join us for this 25th edition of the JTI Meetings!", said Gilda Lazar, Director of Corporate Affairs and Communications at JTI Romania, Moldova and Bulgaria. Tickets are available at the Bucharest National Theatre Box Office and online at Eventim.ro and tnb.ro. Inaugurated in 2000 by the famous ballet company Bejart Ballet Lausanne, the JTI Meetings have been dedicated to dance, hosting famous choreographers and companies, including Nacho Duato and the Compania Nacional De Danza, Joaquin Cortes, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Tango Pasion, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Sylvie Guillem and Russell Maliphant, Gigi Caciuleanu and the National Ballet of Chile, Alonzo King Lines Ballet, Vortice Dance Company, Maria Pagés and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Akram Khan Company, Gala-Mats Ek Quartet, Ana Laguna, Susanne Linke and Dominique Mercy. In 2017, Noism, the most important contemporary dance company in Japan, came to Romania, in 2018 the Martha Graham Dance Company, and in 2019 the IT Dansa Company from the Barcelona Theatre Institute. The 2020 and 2021 JTI Meetings have been postponed due to the pandemic taking place with a one-year delay. The 2020 edition, held in 2021, featured Wynton Marsalis, the greatest contemporary trumpeter, and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. In 2022, Jean-Claude Gallotta presented My Ladies Rock in Bucharest and at the Sibiu International Theatre Festival, and Aterballetto, Italy's largest dance company performed Don Juan. Last year we invited Ballets Jazz de Montreal with Dance Me, set to the music of Leonard Cohen.  JTI's Meetings with B. DANCE are organised, as usual, by the Art Production Foundation, with the artistic advice of Silvia Ghiata. General Producer: Art Production Foundation   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu 

Private event hosted by the National Theatre in Bucharest. The responsibility for the quality and content of this event lies solely with the organizer!   The B. Dance Company is coming to Romania for the first time, at the 25th edition of the JTI Meetings, with the performance Alice, on June 20 and 21, 2024, at 7:30 pm, at the National Theatre from Bucharest and on June 24 and 25, 2024, at 8:00 pm, at the Ion Besoiu Cultural Centre, within the Sibiu International Theatre Festival (FITS). Alice came about as a result of the collaboration between B. Dance Company in Taipei, led by choreographer Po-Cheng Tsai, with Tanz Luzerner Theater, led by Kathleen McNurney. The performance reimagines the classical literary work by placing it in a fantasy world at the confluence of Zen master. According to the official website of the B. Dance Company, the show entices with breathtaking choreography, haute couture costumes and an elegant set design, in a "wonderland" with an ethereal and deeply psychological atmosphere. A labyrinth of mirrors, artistic projections and black-and-white ink drawings unite poetry and fairy tale, as well as Western and Eastern culture. "Po-Cheng Tsai's dancing is very dynamic. It combines East Asian dance styles with Western contemporary dance, ballet, hip hop, jazz, tai chi, martial arts, kung fu, Chinese folk dance. [...] The acrobatics complete the performance: the legs move like sharp razors, then again like flowing waves", writes Luzerner Zeitung about "Alice". Choreographer Po-Cheng Tsai graduated from the National Taipei University of Arts in 2009 and founded B. Dance and found his own choreographic language and aesthetic. The artist combines traditional Asian movements, martial arts and contemporary dance, pushing boundaries to bring together Eastern mysticism and fantasy in exciting, accessible performances. Po-Cheng Tsai has been named Choreographer of the Year 2018 by the German magazine Tanz. In 2019, B. Dance received the Mervyn Stutter "Spirit of the Fringe" award at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh. Awarded several times in international choreographic competitions, Po-Cheng Tsai has also created choreography for renowned dance companies such as Introdans, Tanz Luzerner Theatre, Gauthier Dance, Cloud Gate 2, Bern Tanzcompagnie and La Veronal. "We are delighted that the JTI Meetings are celebrating a quarter of a century. As the respected critic Dumitru Avakian says, the series of events under the Meetings has brought 'consistency to our artistic life'. Together with our long-term collaborators, Valerian Mares, president of the Art Production Foundation, and Silvia Ghiata, an undisputed authority in the world of dance, we have managed to be among the few supporters of this artistic genre and to bring to the country, year after year, premiere performances or companies that would not otherwise be seen by dance-loving audiences in Romania. Please join us for this 25th edition of the JTI Meetings!", said Gilda Lazar, Director of Corporate Affairs and Communications at JTI Romania, Moldova and Bulgaria. Tickets are available at the Bucharest National Theatre Box Office and online at Eventim.ro and tnb.ro. Inaugurated in 2000 by the famous ballet company Bejart Ballet Lausanne, the JTI Meetings have been dedicated to dance, hosting famous choreographers and companies, including Nacho Duato and the Compania Nacional De Danza, Joaquin Cortes, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Tango Pasion, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Sylvie Guillem and Russell Maliphant, Gigi Caciuleanu and the National Ballet of Chile, Alonzo King Lines Ballet, Vortice Dance Company, Maria Pagés and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Akram Khan Company, Gala-Mats Ek Quartet, Ana Laguna, Susanne Linke and Dominique Mercy. In 2017, Noism, the most important contemporary dance company in Japan, came to Romania, in 2018 the Martha Graham Dance Company, and in 2019 the IT Dansa Company from the Barcelona Theatre Institute. The 2020 and 2021 JTI Meetings have been postponed due to the pandemic taking place with a one-year delay. The 2020 edition, held in 2021, featured Wynton Marsalis, the greatest contemporary trumpeter, and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. In 2022, Jean-Claude Gallotta presented My Ladies Rock in Bucharest and at the Sibiu International Theatre Festival, and Aterballetto, Italy's largest dance company performed Don Juan. Last year we invited Ballets Jazz de Montreal with Dance Me, set to the music of Leonard Cohen.  JTI's Meetings with B. DANCE are organised, as usual, by the Art Production Foundation, with the artistic advice of Silvia Ghiata. General Producer: Art Production Foundation   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu 

Private event hosted by the National Theatre in Bucharest. The responsibility for the quality and content of this event lies solely with the organizer!   The Vienna Children's Theatre brings to the stage the famous play "The Servant of Two Masters" by Carlo Goldoni. In a captivating performance that concludes a series of performances this season, on April 15, 2024, at 7:00 pm, the talented children of our theatre company offer to the audience an adapted interpretation of this timeless classic of universal comedy. "The Servant of Two Masters", Goldoni's signature comedy, is a charming blend of intrigue and amusing disguises, setting a highly dynamic playing field for a character-filled tableau of incomparable humor. Pantalone, a Venetian merchant, must suddenly change his plans: his long-dreamed-of son-in-law, the wealthy Federigo Rasponi, appears to have been stabbed. So Pantalone quickly betroths his daughter Clarice to Silvio, the son of an honorable lawyer.  The wedding that should have taken place immediately is postponed by Truffaldino, a servant, who brings news that his master, Federigo, is paying an unannounced visit. Clarice and Silvio are panic-stricken, but Pantalone is happy in his heart that his future son-in-law is still alive. However, the reality is different: Federigo is Beatrice's brother, and she disguises herself as her brother in order to find her lover, Florindo. With the help of the innkeeper Brighella, the only one who detects the disguise, Beatrice sets her plan in motion, unaware that she too will soon become the victim of a deception. Meanwhile, Florindo, the man Beatrice is looking for, is wanted by the authorities for his alleged involvement in Federigo's attack. Arriving in Venice, he is looking not only for Beatrice, but also for a servant. Here he meets Truffaldino. Poor Truffaldino, underpaid by Beatrice and always hungry, is now also employed by Florindo, because more money means more food. For reasons of convenience, Truffaldino houses Florindo in the same inn as Beatrice. In this way, he thinks he can perform his duties as "servant of two masters" comfortably and without much effort - which soon proves to be a mistake, as Truffaldino's life increasingly turns into a grueling and comical balancing act between his two "masters". Viewers are in for a series of highly comical twists, turns and tricks. So, we invite you to the show to discover together the outcome of the comic situations! "For me, the Vienna Children's Theatre means art. I'm in my second year of theatre and I've really enjoyed how I discovered the art of theatre and music, along with many techniques that I still use today. Art in theatre is not just about how characters appear on stage and how they present themselves. Art for me is about expressing my feelings in front of an audience, coming to rehearsals before performances and most of all, feeling the energy of my colleagues and the audience." says Maria, a 9th grader. Tickets can be purchased at www.iabilet.ro   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu