ATELIER_DANS | SERGIU MATIS: THE VISIBLE THINKING BODY (VTB) – MOVEMENT PRACTICE

3 – 8 aprilie 2026

The first guest of the creative program atelier_dans is choreographer Sergiu Matis! From April 3–8, Sergiu will lead a workshop titled The Visible Thinking Body (VTB) – Movement Practice at OM Centru Coregrafic, highlighting the artistic practice he has developed over the past 13 years.

Workshop Schedule

• Friday, April 3: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
• Saturday, April 4: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
• Sunday, April 5: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
• Monday, April 6: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
• Tuesday, April 7: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
• Wednesday, April 8: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

There is a participation fee of 350 RON for all 6 days of the workshop. Registration is open exclusively via email at inscrieriomcc@gmail.com until April 2, 2026.

Sergiu Matis is a Romanian choreographer who has lived and worked in Berlin since 2008. His works have been presented throughout Europe, and he has led workshops and educational activities at various institutions around the world. His dance practice can be seen as a tireless exploration of physical and digitized archives, aiming to cast a critical lens on what has been archived, to salvage what was thought to be lost, and to reinvent what has not been documented. The accumulation of history serves as an old map, becoming a starting point for revealing a new image of dance. His performances provoke intense experiences that challenge accepted ideas and embrace the complexities of our times.

At the heart of my choreographic practice lies a fascination with post-cinematic dynamics and the digital production and manipulation of images. This fascination has shaped Visible Thinking Body (VTB), the movement practice I have developed since 2013 through the creative processes of my dance performances.

VTB is a dynamic framework that evolves with each project, generating new tools to address specific conceptual questions. These tools are methods for navigating and thinking through the moving body, ultimately creating dances that are performed. At the heart of this practice lies an exploration of how thought – from memory, decision-making, and cognitive activation to impulse, intuition, and imagination – transforms into action, and how this transformation generates dance.

VTB is structured as such:

Search and Find: this approach treats the body as an archive of artifacts of movement, excavating and recontextualizing stored physical memories.

Navigation and Destination: this is a more imaginative practice that uses multiple navigation systems to stimulate the exploration and creation of the world through dance, creating new alignments of kinetic manifestations.

This first workshop is organised in partnership with the National Dance Center of Bucharest (CNDB) as part of the CNDB Dance and Performance Academy and is addressed to professional dancers, actors, performers, and individuals who have previously participated in contemporary dance workshops.

ATELIER_DANS | CREATIVE PROGRAM FOR ENTHUSIASTS AND PROFESSIONALS

April–December 2026

The creative program atelier_dans is a new initiative by OM Choreographic Center aimed at supporting and strengthening the choreographic community in Cluj-Napoca through monthly meetings with relevant guests. From April to December 2026, OM Choreographic Center will serve as a creative lab for experienced dancers, actors, and performers, as well as for movement enthusiasts eager to learn more about dance and reconnect with their own bodies. Each meeting will highlight different aspects of the art of choreography, experimental approaches, and innovative techniques.

For details and registration, reach out to: inscrieriomcc@gmail.com

Contemporary dance workshop with Cédric Cherdel | Nouveau Nuage

27 – 28 September 2025, 12:00 – 14:00, OM Studio

Participation is free, but the number of places is limited, so registration is required. You can register via e-mail at info@omcc.ro until Friday, September 26, at 17:00. The workshop will be held in English.

Like the clouds that roam the sky, Nouveau Nuage is a dance that invites itself into places where our eyes no longer look, where the everyday has become banal. Nouveau Nuage aims to reveal ordinary landscapes. To restore a little sparkle and shine to our everyday spaces through the appearance of a simple, sober dance. A dance that acts like an anticyclone, offering a climate conducive to curiosity. A moment when we take the time to raise our eyes to what surrounds us, to take a moment to contemplate, to allow ourselves to interrupt our missions for a few moments and watch time go by, to allow ourselves to be surprised, and perhaps to settle down for a few minutes.

This workshop offers a time of movement in which each person is the actor/actress of his/her own movements. These sessions are open level, so non-professional dancers are welcomed as well. Based on the process of creating a new cloud, together the participants will improvise gentle, simple, light and reproducible gestures inspired by the universe of the sky and its various clouds. These gestures, which are calledl meteorological motifs, will be the ingredients that enable each dancer to compose and improvise a dance for the clouds. Each dancer creates his or her own meteorological motifs, offering as many possibilities as the sky offers an infinite number of cloud shapes.

To conclude this workshop, the participants will create NOUVEAU NUAGE at the OM studio.

Cédric Cherdel

Cédric Cherdel is a choreographer and performer based in Nantes whose artistic research explores gesture as a tool of sensitivity and perception. With a background in cinema and choreography, he has collaborated with artists such as Bernardo Montet, Maguy Marin, and Min Tanaka, integrating practices like Reiki and Thai massage into his work. Through his creations and pedagogical projects, Cédric shapes dance as a space of encounter between body, imagination, and otherness.

The workshop 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

Contemporary dance workshop with Constance Diard | Space - Time - Movement

26 – 27 August 2025, 18:00 – 20:00, OM Studio

Participation is free, but the number of places is limited, so registration is required. You can register via e-mail at info@omcc.ro until Monday, August 25, at 17:00. The workshop will be held in English.

„Space – Time – Movement” is a workshop open to both amateur and professional dancers. The workshop focuses on opening the participants’ senses to space and time through movement. It invites them to connect with these fundamental aspects of reality and to give them material expression. Throughout the sessions, participants will explore rhythms, loops, stretched or condensed time, and will be encouraged to surprise themselves with unknown movements. The final part of the workshop will be dedicated to experimenting with different ways of interacting with one another, creating large dancing structures in space and time.

Constance Diard

Constance Diard is a French dancer and choreographer. She trained in contemporary dance at the CNSMD in Paris from 2013 to 2018. Since then, Constance has worked as a performer with choreographers Sylvie Le Quéré, Antoine Arbeit, Max Fossati, Liz Santoro and Pierre Godard, as well as Jérôme Brabant. She is currently pursuing collaborations with Alban Richard (CCN de Caen en Normandie), Mélanie Perrier, and Béatrice Massin. In 2022, she assisted Noé Soulier (CNDC d’Angers) with the creation of „First Memory”. Since 2019, Constance has been developing creation projects in tandem with Lucas Bassereau. In 2023, they created the pieces „Big Bang” and „Ambiance, une installation chorégraphique et sonore”. In 2024-2025, Constance joins the Millenial Academy, a transdisciplinary training and research program in Caen and starts a new creation: „laps”.

The workshop 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

Contemporary dance workshop with Andreea Novac

19-20 July 2025, 12:00 - 15:00, OM Studio

This contemporary dance workshop is intended for adult amateurs and proposes movement as a way of being present – with oneself, with others, and with the surrounding space. The activities include individual and group exercises, guided proposals, as well as moments of free exploration, all at a pace accessible to every participant.

The goal is to discover the unique ways in which each body responds and expresses itself. Movement becomes a tool for connection and listening, a language that opens up inner, outer, and shared spaces. The workshop invites participants to explore the dance that emerges in the encounter with others – in the common space created together.

The workshop is part of the residency project OM – Body & Space. Cultural project co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund (AFCN). The project does not necessarily represent the position of the AFCN. The AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or the way in which its results may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding recipient.

Laboratoarele Academiei de Dans și Performance

A treia ediție a Academiei de Dans și Performance, organizată de Centrul Naţional al Dansului Bucureşti - CNDB, lansează un nou modul dedicat artistelor și artiștilor la început de drum din dans, performance și coregrafie. Programul 2025-2026 al Academiei se derulează sub forma unor laboratoare și este unul intensiv și consistent de practici care au în centrul atenției corpul, producția de cunoaștere și creația contemporană.

În vederea unei posibile înscrieri, te așteptăm vineri, 30 mai, între orele 17:00 – 19:00, la OM Centru Coregrafic la un dialog deschis, pentru a afla mai multe despre cursuri, profesorii invitați și la un atelier de mișcare, coordonat de Mihai Mihalcea, coregraf și director de Programe și Proiecte CNDB.

Înscrieri aici: https://shorturl.at/rtyMz
Participarea fiind gratuita*

Eveniment organizat de Centrul Național al Dansului București și OM Centru Coregrafic din Cluj.

Mai multe informații aici: https://shorturl.at/VEA8c sau la numărul de telefon 0746 099 941 (Mihai Mihalcea)

---- Laboratoarele Academiei de Dans și Performance este un program cofinanțat de Administrația Fondului Cultural Național. Proiectul nu reprezintă în mod necesar poziția Administrației Fondului Cultural Național. AFCN nu este responsabilă de conținutul proiectului sau de modul în care rezultatele proiectului pot fi folosite. Acestea sunt în întregime responsabilitatea beneficiarului finanțării.