mind moving

Performer, choreographer and coordinator of the Indie Box activity, AlexandraBuilds projects that emphasize the process and the relationship with the environment from which they are born. She is a co-founding member of the Collective AREA – space for choreographic development, which he directs as co-artistic director alongside Cristina Lilienfeld, Cosmin Manolescu, Valentina de Piante.

ALEXANDRA BĂLĂSOIU is a performer, choreographer and coordinator of the Indie Box activity, a ‘box’ with independent projects artistically led together with Denis Bolborea. Builds projects that emphasize the process and the relationship with the environment from which they are born. Within the Singing Bodies project, he proposes a creative process carried out both in the public space and in the rehearsal room, after which he creates the performative solo “Spooky actions of a spoiled girl”. Alexandra works artistically in relation to mental health, developing a performance for the public space,Spring tides of a good girl”, and a collective dance film [ship of fools] co-created with Virginia Negru, Cătălin Diaconu, Denis Bolborea and Gabriel Durlan. Organizes in collaboration with dance therapist Loredana Larionescu, a series of cultural activities in psychiatric hospitals in Romania: dance-therapy workshops with live music, performances adapted to patients and medical staff, film screenings. Initiates a series of artistic residencies for mothers, which gives birth to the performance installation moving [m]other, a hybrid format, designed for an audience of various ages, developed under the artistic direction of Valentina de Piante.

Co-founding member of the AREAL Collective – space for choreographic development (http://www.arealcolectiv.ro/), which he directs as co-artistic director alongside Cristina Lilienfeld, Cosmin Manolescu, Valentina de Piante. Their first collective creation, “In search of the lost body”, explores an emotional and poetic body in an intimate and unconventional format.

Loredana is currently channeling her energy towards a career at the confluence of fields that have been her passion all her life: psychology, art and movement. She is divided between the coordination of cultural projects and verbal psychotherapy and dance therapy, working in cultural-therapeutic projects that bring joy and mental health to beneficiaries from diverse backgrounds, including disadvantaged ones.

The project was born from the meeting of choreographer Alexandra Bălășoiu with dance therapist Loredana Larionescu. They were joined by manager Emilia Păunescu, who has been working for over 10 years in the innovative and empathetic development of Romanian cultural products.

“I believe in the power of the arts to offer us a field of (re)knowledge and (re)construction. Being able to meet people in their most fragile moments, in their complexity, without fear and without labeling, is the quality that I consider essential in our collective development. For me, mind-moving is this ambitious project that rigorously cultivates these kinds of encounters, that feeds from our entire experience and that I hope takes strong roots in the collective psyche. Mental health is a practice, not a project, and art is one of the best allies we can have along the way.” ( Alexandra Bălășoiu)

Denis Bolborea is a sound designer, dancer and choreographer, with work experience in the field of performing arts. In his personal artistic pursuits, Denis shows a special concern for the connection between voice and body. As a performer, he combines contemporary dance techniques with the baggage accumulated in urban dance experience. He develops in parallel as a vocal soloist and beatboxer, and gets involved in various projects in which he places himself at the intersection between these roles, incorporating a live looping setup and vocal processors. He is part of the vocal group Blue Noise, in which Denis performs the role of percussion.

Between 2014-2018 he traveled and created together with Tangaj Dance, an artistic collective coordinated by Simona Deaconescu, collaborating as a performer and/or sound-designer in various productions presented both in the country and in international festivals, from cities such as Sofia, Linz, Istanbul, New York.

Oana Dorneanu – Psychotherapist Jungian Analyst and Counselor in Art Therapy Phronetik

Directed to the study of Art Therapy out of a fascination with art, she found in it an extraordinary form of inner exploration and expression of soul movements, sometimes impossible to express in words. She continued deepening his knowledge with the Jungian Analytical Psychotherapy training, which he completed in 2019, obtaining the Analytical Psychotherapist certification and the right to practice freely from the College of Psychologists in Romania. Currently a member of the Romanian Association of Analytical Psychotherapy and works in his personal practice with children and adults offering individual sessions of Analytical Psychotherapy or Art Therapy depending on the needs of the client or patient.

Florin Constantin – professional photographer

“My camera is the realm where I mirror realities.

My objective is to put the light in such a way as to reveal the beautiful, sometimes hidden in the depths of the soul, beyond any face and in any form.

I expose and I want you to see “differently”, and photography is my means of expression, it is the way I look and show myself to the world, it is the art that defines me and through which I define the essence of life.”