Co-producers: UNITER and NTB

1. Your dark olive-colored eyes

Voice: Corina Sîrghi

Piano: Cătălin Răducanu

Double bass: Vitályos Lehel

Beatbox: Iustin Danalache

Dancers: Răzvan Conțu / Andrea Gavriliu / Flavia Giurgiu / Valentia Kocsis / Teodora Velescu

2. Air

Voice: Luiza Zan

Choreography: Flavia Giurgiu

Dancers: Flavia Giurgiu / Marius Manole

Piano: Andrei Petrache

Percussion: Philip Goron

Double bass: Vitályos Lehel

3. In the morning

Voice: Ana Everling

Choreography and dancers: Eva Danciu

Music: Beats y Bateria

4. The crooned Sârba Dance

Voice: Ana Everling

Choreography: Andrea Gavriliu

Dancers: Andrea Gavriliu / Eduard Chimac

5. Arról alól sötöborul az ég (The sky is clouding over from the west)

Voice: Fruzsina Szabó

Choreography and dancers: Andrei Bouariu

Double bass: Vitályos Lehel

6. How Big Is My Village

Voice: Ioana Milculescu Feat Max Constant

Choreography: Andrea Gavriliu

Dancers: Iustin Danalache / Mariana Gavriciuc / Tamara Găgeatu / Filip Stoica

Music: Alexe Marius Andrei

7. Longing like the Forest

Voice: Ioana Milculescu

Choreography and dancers: Alice Veliche

Music: Alexe Marius Andrei

8. The Glass

Voice: Corina Sîrghi

Choreography: Andrea Gavriliu

Dancers: Eduard Chimac / Iustin Danalache / Robert Popa / Filip Stoica

Piano: Cătălin Răducanu

Double bass: Vitályos Lehel

9. Ever since my mother had me

Voice: Ana Everling

Choreography and dancers: Teodora Velescu

10. Domokosi sörkertben (At the pub in Sândominic)

Voice: Fruzsina Szabó

Choreography and dancers: Mariana Gavriciuc

Piano: Cătălin Răducanu

Double bass: Vitályos Lehel

11. Come on over to the Forest, dear

Voice: Domnica Trop

Choreography și remix: Andrea Gavriliu

Dancers: Andrei Bouariu / Ciprian Chiujdea / Eva Danciu / Bianca Geantă / Valentina Kocsis / Teodora Velescu

12. Elosztották a bánatot (When they shared their sorrow)

Voice: Fruzsina Szabó

Choreography: Andrea Gavriliu

Dancers: Andrei Bouariu / Eva Danciu / Bianca Geantă /Teodora Velescu

Double bass: Vitályos Lehel

13. Oh, how I've sighed

Voice: Ioana Milculescu

14. Anica

Voice: Corina Sîrghi

Choreography: Alice Veliche

Dancers: Alice Veliche / Răzvan Conțu

Piano: Cătălin Răducanu

Double bass: Vitályos Lehel

15. White Flower

Voice: Luiza Zan

Choreography and dancers: Tamara Găgeatu / Bianca Geantă / Ciprian Chiujdea

Piano: Andrei Petrache

Percussion: Philip Goron

Double bass: Vitályos Lehel

16. The Angel's Ballad

Voice: Luiza Zan

Choreography and dancers: Flavia Giurgiu

Piano: Andrei Petrache

Percussion: Philip Goron

Double bass: Vitályos Lehel

17. Old-fashioned Song

Voice: Ana Everling

Choreography: Andrea Gavriliu

Dans: Andrei Bouariu / Eduard Chimac / Cirpian Chiujdea / Iustin Danalache / Eva Danciu / Andrea Gavriliu / Mariana Gavriciuc / Tamara Găgeatu / Bianca Geantă / Valentina Kocsis / Robert Popa / Teodora Velescu

Last year’s edition of the National Theater Festival opened with a unique performance by Radu Afrim, a concert-performance that proposed, against the backdrop of turbulent times, a return to authenticity.

Gro(o)ve was meant to mark the beginning of a theatrical celebration—and nothing more. Conceived by Radu Afrim (associate director of FNT 2025), assisted by choreographer Andrea Gavriliu and set designer Cosmin Florea, as a one-time event—a single performance presented on October 17, 2025, in the Grand Hall of the National Theater of Bucharest—Gro(o)ve set out to live fully, in a single evening, as much as an entire season.

Filled with nostalgia, humor, and vulnerability, featuring characters straddling the boundary between two worlds, Gro(o)ve was described by the press as “a declaration of resistance through art.”

Gro(o)ve was more than just a syncretic show set to a modern sound with folk influences and accompanied by impressive visuals. It was a manifesto-like performance about identities that take shape only through encounters with others... About love, melancholy, and the act of remembering, but also about war and a unique revival of folklore.

The press coverage made it impossible for us to let such an expression of creativity fade into oblivion, and we decided that Gro(o)ve must continue into 2026. Therefore, with enthusiasm and joy, we announce that the show Gro(o)ve, a co-production of UNITER and the “I.L. Caragiale” National Theater in Bucharest, will have two performances at the “Ion Caramitru” Hall on Wednesday, June 17, and Thursday, June 18, 2026, at 7:00 PM. Tickets for these two performances will go on sale on the website www.tnb.ro, as well as at the NTB box office, on Wednesday, May 20, at 12:00 PM.

Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu