As part of Moldova Dance Festival Contact+ 2026, two works from Moldova 🇲🇩 and Colombia 🇨🇴 come together in one programme:
- the multimedia performance "Light from the Shadow", created by Voices Dance Company 🇲🇩
- and the solo performance "ENSŌ", created by Daniel Rojasanta 🇨🇴
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LIGHT FROM THE SHADOW 🇲🇩
Light from the Shadow is a multimedia performance about life, love and the artistic journey, inspired by the life and lesser-known poems of Mihai Eminescu.
Contemporary dance, live and electronic music, spoken poetry and visual projections create a space between reality and the inner world. It is not a biographical performance, but a contemporary interpretation of the poet’s life and work through movement, sound, words and visual imagery.
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Duration: approximately 70 minutes
Produced by: Voices Dance Company (Moldova)
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Concept & Choreography: Alexandra Soșnicova, Serghei Golovnea
Philosophy & Texts: Alex Cozmescu
Readers: Victoria Manciu, Alex Cozmescu
Script: Marcela Nistor
Dramaturgy & Visual Concept: Maria Pyatkova (Germany)
Visual Design: Vladislav Boico
Musical Concept, Sound & Composers: Dmitri Burdenko, Stan Potoku (Moldova / Ukraine)
Costume Design: Tatiana Popescu
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Cast: Voices Dance Company
Alexandra Soșnicova, Serghei Golovnea, Olga Braga, Arina Eremeev, Jenia Gheorghiev, David Arnaut
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ENSŌ 🇨🇴
ENSŌ is a solo performance built around one specific action: painting a large invisible circle in empty space with water and a traditional Eastern brush, making it visible through the body and collective attention.
The work combines Zen painting and tai chi with physical theatre, clowning, improvisation, mime and live music. Moving through different emotional states, the performer transforms the circle into a space of transformation, cleansing and new beginnings.
Duration: 50 minutes
Created by: Daniel Rojasanta (Colombia)
Produced by: Jay Thompson (England)
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The evening is part of Moldova Dance Festival Contact+ 2026 — an international festival of movement, Contact Improvisation and performance taking place in Chișinău from 26 September to 4 October.
https://contactplus-2026.pages.dev/en/about/
Partners: OM, Artcor, NOD Space
With the support of: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Moldova, Moldindconbank
