More than 70 professional and amateur dancers from 15 countries on four continents participate in the fifth edition of the International Festival of Contact Improvisation, held in Cluj-Napoca (center north-west), between July 31 and August 8.
Contact Improvisation is a festival of workshop type, research and discussion based on contemporary dance forms, launched in the United States of America 40 years ago, and which took over movements specific to martial arts, but adapted in a new language in which improvisation and creativity play the most important role in performing this form of art.
Professors invited to Cluj-Napoca edition of the festival are Andrew de Lotbiniere Harwood (Canada), Alicia Grayson (USA), Katja Mustonen and Otto Akkanen (Finland), Lior Ophir (Israel), Eniko Szilagy (Hungary), Heike Kuhlmann (Germany), Daniel Mang (France), Paula Zacharias (Argentina) and Renata Piotrowska (Poland).
The festival is organized by Groundfloor Group with support from Bucharest National Dance Center, the National Cultural Fund Administration, Communitas Foundation, governments of Iceland, Principality of Liechtenstein and Norway through the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Space, as well as of the National Cultural Fund of Hungary.
