OM - Body & Space Residencies - September/October 2025
The OM – Body & Space residency program comes to a close with the final residency, which brought together, for one month at OM Studio, the artists Cédric Cherdel [fr] and Adina Oros [ro]. On Tuesday, October 7, at 6:00 PM, at the French Institute in Cluj-Napoca, the two artists will share their creative universe with the public. Their research explored the space where ritual, rhythm, and movement converge, where body and sound interact, guided by the cycles of the Sun and the Moon, creating moments in which presence becomes a shared experience. Through their artistic process, each gesture, each pulse, each breath becomes part of a dance that weaves the ephemeral with the eternal, inviting the audience to witness transformation.
A ritual of Sun and Moon
„This work is the result of a shared residency between me as a musician and Cedric as
choreographer.
Together, we have studied ritual—through rhythm, through word, through
movement and daily practice.
The sun and the moon guide this exploration: opposites, yet bound to one another,
rising and falling in the same eternal cycle.
I see it as an incantation of duality—light and shadow, breath and silence, many and
One.
At the heart of ritual is rhythm.
The pulse, the repetition, the trance.
In ancient circles, it was the drum. Today, it is the bassline, the electronic pulse that gathers bodies in movement, that carries us toward a shared state of presence. These rhythms are the closest we come to ritual now—parties that become ceremonies, dances that become offerings.
Through music, through rhythm, through the body in motion, we search for the
place where these forces meet—where ritual becomes presence, and presence
becomes transformation.”
Adina Oros
„With BODY&SPACE, I’m trying to understand what a ritual is. What does it consist of? What does it bring us? What does it transform? And why are these celebrations, these cultural invariants, so necessary to us?
So, at OM Studio, every day I strived to experiment with what I call an artistic routine, which could be defined as the exercise of a series of actions organized in time and space with the aim of creating a dance that would take on a ritualistic, precise, and reproducible dimension.
I will perform this dance at sunset, at the moment when the Moon and Sun are visible and meet again. So, with the help of the artist Adina Oros, we build bridges between our respective practices and will propose a prelude to this dance…”
Cédric Cherdel
The residency is part of the program OM – Body & Space. This cultural project is co-financed by The Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The project does not necessarily represent the official position of The Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN shall not be held liable for the project's content or any use to which the project outcome might be put. These are the sole responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.
Project partner: Institut français de Roumanie à Cluj
Cédric Cherdel
Cédric Cherdel is a choreographer and performer based in Nantes. After studying cinema at the University of Montpellier, Cédric Cherdel joined the professional master’s program in performing arts in Tours (2008), where he developed his choreographic practice alongside Bernardo Montet and guest artists such as Thomas Ferrand, Susan Buirge, and Latifa Laâbissi. At the same time, he trained as a performer through numerous projects with Isabelle Chad, Martine Pisani, Odile Azagury, and Thierry Bae.
In 2010, he enrolled in the program From Performer to Author created by Maguy Marin at the CCN of Rillieux-la-Pape, then in 2011 continued with the Master Essay, Performance and Choreography at the CNDC in Angers under Emmanuelle Huynh, where he created his first works, Aphrodisia (2012) and Tanabata (2013).
His encounter with Japanese choreographer Min Tanaka led him to train in Reiki and Thai traditional massage in Chiang Mai, practices he now uses as tools in dance. Settled in Nantes since 2013, he founded the association UNCANNY and created Champions (2014), Politesse (2015), Nuage (2016), and Assis (2017).
Alongside his creations, he has been active in pedagogy, drawing on his experience at CEMéA (1998–2010) to design educational projects for schools, institutions, and people with disabilities. From 2014 to 2017, he took part in the “dance pairing” program with Les Quinconces – L’Espal (Le Mans), and in 2017 contributed to training on dance and mental health at CEMéA. Between 2019 and 2021, he was associate artist with Musique et Danse en Loire-Atlantique.
His choreographic research explores gesture, from its construction to its reception. He treats gesture as a sensitive tool within a holistic vision of the body, using it to question representations of strangeness. This strangeness emerges in the gap between making and perceiving the gesture, leaving space for the spectator’s imagination. Dance thus becomes both a constant search in execution and a negotiation between the possible meanings revealed through the choreographed gesture.
Adina Oros
Adina Oros is an emerging Cluj-Napoca-based artist whose practice delves into the emotional and spatial dimensions of sound. With a background in computer engineering, she brings a methodical and explorative approach to her work, crafting immersive sonic narratives that traverse themes of identity, memory, and transformation. Adina navigates the entire creative process—from concept to final production—maintaining a cohesive and deeply personal vision. Her pieces often combine subtle textures, voice, and atmospheres, inviting listeners into spaces that feel both personal and open-ended. Recently, she’s been interested in how sound interacts with movement, and how physical presence can shift or deepen listening.
