photo © Florin Constantin
“Mind Moving” (2023), guest performative installation by Indie Box, in partnership with NOPA, Entuziart Association and Profeti ART SRL.
*Mind-Moving is part of the project C.R.E.S.C. “Rețea de Creație, Educație, Sănătate, Cercetare” (Creative, Education, Health, Research Network), project produced by Areal with the support of AFCN.
**The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the grantee.
April 3, 2025, 4 p.m., the corridors on the 2 floor
Duration: 3h, no intermission (durational performance)
Credits:
Choreography: Alexandra Bălăsoiu, Cristina Lilienfeld
Performers: Cătălin Diaconu, Diana Spiridon, Cătălin Munteanu, Alexandra Bălășoiu, Cristina Lilienfeld, Denis Bolborea
Dance-therapist: Loredana Larionescu
Musical composition: Denis Bolborea, Paolo Profeti, Stina Moltu
Visual artist: Andrei Cozlac
Costume design: Noir Morphosis
Lighting design: Alexandros Raptis
Description:
If you were living someone else’s life, do you think your mind would work the same way?
Everything we experience throughout our lives shapes our psychological and biological structures. Each individual develops in a complex web of stimuli and relationships, and the ability of the environment to support or restrict us, to feed us with fear or love, defines our inner mechanisms.
mind-moving invites you to explore this profound question through a unique journey into the complexity of human experiences. The exhibition is built as a space for reflection and mirroring around universal experiences, which can be both normal responses to the surrounding reality and pathological adaptations to difficult life experiences.
Cristina Lilienfeld, a choreographer and psychology graduate, has been working in Bucharest for 15 years, collaborating with various choreographers, performers, visual artists, and musicians. Her performances include “Lay(ers)”, “Moving Fields,” “Eighty Five Percent Of What You’ Remember,” “B.O.W.”, “Private Self,” and collaborations like “In The Search Of The Lost Body,” “Cancer, coregrafiat,” “Mind Moving,” and “Flowers, Stones and Other Demons.” She has toured with Dance Roads program, PETEC Association, and AREAL collective, aiming to support dialogue and experimentation between diverse artists and institutions. In 2024, she began integrating Body Mind Centering, a somatic complex practice, into her teaching and creative work.
Alexandra Bălășoiu is a performer/choreographer living in Bucharest. She has work experience in the conception and implementation of cultural projects. She is responsible for the main programs and projects carried out by Indie Box. Currently working artistically in relation to mental health and the social perception of madness. She is co-artistic director of AREAL – space for choreographic development
photo © Victor Vidu