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In Full Dada Centenary, 3 Dada Days at NTB
In the year marking 100 years since the launch of the Dadaist manifesto, which revolutionised modern art and 120 years since the birth of Tristan Tzara, the father of this literary and artistic trend, the ”I.L. Caragiale” National Theatre invites you, between 11 and 13 March 2016, to witness two events: the premiere of the dance show L’Om DadA, by Gigi Căciuleanu and the conference of writer Ion Pop.
Along with this new NTB premiere, the artist Gigi Căciuleanu, whose name has travelled around the world, brings on stage not only his talent as a director and choreographer, but also as a performer, in a show where, alongside actor Lari Giorgescu, he aims at proving that “...we are all Dadaists. We defragment, and we thrust something away from us on stage and in life. Why L’Om DAdA? Because I wanted to juxtapose these words, „om” in Romanian (Engl. “man”) and „Dada” – the universal, explains Gigi Căciuleanu. I have used Tristan Tzara’s text, L`homme approximatif, as a starting point, terribly poetic, not at all absurd, beautiful, coherent, dense, filled with meanings, very contemporary even after 100 years. The approximate man is actually the archetype of man as precise as possible, namely the actor and dancer.”
Musician and poet of movement, endowed with a refined satirical spirit, as you could discover him in his previous show from the National Theatre, Our Kind of Stuff, the artist Gigi Căciuleanu assures us that “L’Om DAdA shall be a very contemporary show, because it comes as a follow-up to Our Kind of Stuff. There, Caţavencu’s speech has been disjointed into vowels, which actually represented a Dadaist intervention. Thus, I shall pursue with Lari Giorgescu in L’Om DAdA what I have started in Our Kind of Stuff”.
At his fourth project alongside Gigi Căciuleanu, actor Lari Giorgescu confesses for his part: "… the proposal to work on a text by Tristan Tzara is all the more welcome as I discover, with astonishment, how close we all are to the Dadaist movement; most of the times, without knowing. I believe this will also be the audience’s feeling, at the end of the show”.
Co-production between the ”I.L. Caragiale” National Theatre (through the Ion Sava Centre for Theatrical Research and Creation), Gigi Căciuleanu Romania Dance Company and the Art Production Foundation, with support from JTI and ICR, L’Om DAdA shall première on the days: 11, 12 and 13 March 2016, as of 8.00 p.m., in the Black Box Hall.
On Sunday, 13 March 2016, as of 11.00 a.m., in the same Black Box Hall, the writer and translator Ion Pop shall hold the conference on the topic Tristan Tzara, Dadaism and the Romanian Avant-Garde. Dedicated to the centenary of the Dada movement, launched in Zürich in February 1916, the conference aims at sketching a critical portrait of the main Dadaist mentor who was Tristan Tzara.
Therefore, at the end of next week, 2 cultural offers of great interest, a premiere and a conference, await you at NTB, in the Black Box Hall.
Translated by Simona Nichiteanu
