FUNGEE STAGE

JOI, 10 AUG

20:00 #FLUID – live

#FLUID (born in 2016), a queer act based in Bucharest – is the collaboration between Paula Dunker (performer, actress, choreographer, poet, playwright), Alex Bălă (musician) and other warped creatures, for WAHA 2023 their special guest is wonder Raj/Ramya.

Using sound, music and the microphone as tender tools, #FLUID is the mother of the techno-faggothique neo-genre. The duo’s live appearances include very diverse scenes and events as : two weddings, Between Bridges Gallery, Berlin 2023, the opening of Santozeum, Santorini 2022, the Venice Biennale 2022, Goethe Institute Bucharest, Opening of the OWR 2019 Film Festival, OWR 2020, anim’est 2019, Control Club – Bucharest, the exhibition WE WILL NOT CHANGE OUR SHOW – Brno, Czech Republic, One Gallery – Sofia, CAPITOL Summer Theatre, Nicodim Gallery, Amural Festival 3 &4/ 2017 + 2018 (Brașov), MACAZ – Bar Teatru Coop., POINT – Theatre, Sala Dalles for Eco Delta Dunării Project, Replika – Center for Educational Theatre, Street Delivery 2016, Bucharest Pride 2016, Queer Night.

22:00

COMMUNITY JAM

Rus Darius (Jazzbook)

Always there for a good groove, a man of many hats – owner of JazzBook Club, experienced sound engineer and a mastermind in organizing various events and jam sessions, Darius is bringing his extended experience in taking care of our X stage in this years’ Waha festival edition. Being a friend of Waha and a presence in the festival in various formulas, he’s always there to encourage and support artists in their musical endeavors.

VINERI, 11 AUG

12:00 – 13:00

Drum Circle

Emi Ionescu

Interactive percussion class with African drums (djembe) and presentation of traditional international instruments. A mythical journey into the world of the arts, the percussion workshop is a rhythmic journey across seas and countries where we will experience diverse cultural influences and reliefs.

side event: 12:00 – 15:00

Oracle of Performative Research

performance one-to-one

Renate Dinu & Corina Cimpoieru

* Waste or nourishment * What is past and what will not return * Rupture * Hearing * Coexisting with Something Weird * Diversity * Responsibilities * Decomposition * Vibration *Ecosexuality *Challenge * Healing * The most intimate love of the ear * Visual alarm * Permeability * Dematerialization * Intensification * Seduction and Desire * Ephemerality * Physical Memory * Immortality * Translucent * Oneiric * Mirror * Renewal * Steam * Materiality * Desert * Immaculate * Recomposition * Suspension

Enjoy a unique and introspective experience with the Oracle of Performative Research! This oracle card deck brings you the opportunity to experience one-to-one performative readings using a fascinating set, inspired by the publication Performance Research. During these chance encounters, you can discover how the words, gestures and ideas generated by the readings connect to our shared present. Each card brings a new perspective to experiences already happening, opening ourselves to different ways of perceiving reality.

The one-to-one performance is part of “Books on the dancefloor”, participatory action and installation produced by The National Center for Dance Bucharest (CNDB) în 2022.

13:00 – 15:00

Dancing in community: finding wholeness through the archetypes

Monica Vrăbiuță & Simona Schiau

In movement our bodies guide us towards what needs to be integrated, discovered and seen. When connecting through archetypes, through sound and movement, we realize that, unlike our mind, our body’s identity is not fixed. And as we go though these ways of being in the world, we are exploring what inside of us wants to move as a Shapshifter, what needs to be seen or held by the Mother and which part of our bodies respond the most to the Saboteur.

The playful dynamic of group movement and interaction allows the mind to relax as the subconscious is brought forward through movement and sound. We are literally detaching from the seriousness and constriction of our everyday lives through movement.

The juicy part of the practice is that we continue the workshop with a dance performance created into the spirit of Wahaland. We invite anyone and everyone that participates in our workshop to co-create this performance with us.

15:00-16:30

Butoh Performance Workshop

Iulia Dinescu

Based on organic movements and moments, we build together a deeper connection with our bodies who help us to create a moment of presence inspired by nature. We’ll discover hidden landscapes, cultivate secret gardens in our body through Dance. When we expand into diverse forms of dance, new bodies and perspectives will emerge. This reverberation of the body research will then resonate with us further into our dance and our lives.

16:30 – 18:30

Workshop of Flow Arts

Roxana Raluca Iancu & Marius Roșca

You will emerge in a journey into The ART of flow juggling.

You will learn basic moves on different juggling toys that will fire up new connections in your brain just by having fun 🙂

Our flow arts instructors will guide you on the entire process.

18:30 – 20:00

Movement Dialogue Workshop

inspired by Capoeira & Contact improvisation

guided by Cercul Întreg

This workshop draws heavily from the capoeira circle setup. A music circle, where body dialogues happen, inspired by capoeira, play fight, Tai Chi and contact improvisation. An exploration of the possibilities of communication between two bodies, and between body and music.

20:00 – 21:00

Noite na Floresta – performance

Alina Ușurelu & Mateus Dantas

A live interactive mixed media performing poetry enactment that invites the audience to encounter and embody natural elements, landscapes and entities.

We aim to open a metaphorical gate to the world where the elements of nature are entities we interact with, to know ourselves better, to learn that they carry life and knowledge and to understand that only together with them we can become better, freer, healthier, more beautiful.

21:30 “Flowair Aboriginal”

live

“Flowair Aboriginal” is a unique and innovative music project that combines the traditional

sounds of Aboriginal music with modern elements such as beatboxing and atmospheric

sounds created by flutes and vocals. The project aims to fuse these different elements into a seamless and harmonious blend, creating a new and exciting sound that is both traditional and contemporary.

The didgeridoo, a traditional Aboriginal instrument, plays a prominent role in the project,

providing a rhythmic foundation for the other sounds and elements. The use of beatboxing

adds a modern twist to the music, while the atmospheric sounds created by flutes and voices provide a unique and ethereal quality to the music.

“Flowair Aboriginal” is a captivating musical project that showcases a collection of songs

crafted by Brian Petermann over the past five years. Collaborating with talented artists such as Folclorescent, Dora Notărescu, and Alexandru Leonte, Brian has brought together a diverse range of musical influences. Many of these remarkable tracks have been

meticulously produced by the renowned Amala Label.

This project serves as an exciting prelude to Brian Petermann’s debut album, which revolves around the enchanting sounds of the didgeridoo – an ancestral instrument with deep cultural roots. Through this collection of songs, listeners will embark on a captivating musical journey, exploring the timeless allure of the didgeridoo while experiencing the artistic synergy created by Brian’s collaboration with these esteemed musicians.

23:00

COMMUNITY JAM

Rus Darius (Jazzbook)

SÂMBĂTĂ, 12 AUG

12:00 – 13:00

Primal Movement & Locomotion

Ștefan Diacov

A whole-body workout combining Quadrupedal Movement, Animal Flows and Martial Arts

inspired Functional Training. You’ll learn ground-based movement, in a challenging and

effective workshop, designed to improve strength, power, flexibility, mobility, and coordination at all

levels. You’ll increase your mobility, endurance and unlock next-level body awareness and coordination.

The workshop is designed to offer a full-body conditioning regime that challenges the physical

capabilities of an individual. Quadrupedal movement exercises improve body awareness, balance,

flexibility, coordination and increase strength in the upper and lower body parts.

13:00 – 15:00

Delicious depths

Anamaria Guguian

I invite you to a deep dancing dive inside our beautiful complexity. We will explore movement using 4 archetypes that will open us to the wholeness of our beings. This workshop will help you remember the nourishing resources that lie inside of you. We will work with our juiciness and playfulness rediscovering the beauty and blessings of being alive.

A mix between embodiment and creative movement, this workshop is designed for every body. Come with an open mind and an open heart and let yourself be surprised.

I am Anamaria Guguian, a movement artist and dance therapist. I create nourishing and safe environments where people can explore and heal using movement and dance. In the past 9 years I had the opportunity to work with thousands of people in very diverse settings which helped me create a unique method of working with therapeutic movement and creativity.

side event: 15:00 – 18:00

Oracle of Performative Research

performance one-to-one

Renate Dinu & Corina Cimpoieru

The one-to-one performance is part of “Books on the dancefloor”, participatory action and installation produced by The National Center for Dance Bucharest (CNDB) în 2022.

15:00-17:00

Dance for Forest

Alexandra Girbea and Timea Kovacs

The Dance for Forest project honors an eco somatic perspective of dance in which we, people identify ourselves no more as owners of nature, nor as separable entities from the ecosystem, but as organic participants. We move and dance with a recognition that we are part of a complex, interconnected biological system.

We explore togetherness with nature through experiencing a large spectrum of possibilities in using our senses, through distancing from the dominance of gaining information through the eyes, opening up the kinesthetic and proprioceptive perception channels and aiming for democracy in using our senses.

Likewise we are investigating movement that engages the whole body, discovering the interconnectivity between the parts, exploring our motion patterns and learning new ways to move and be. Exploding and resting in nurturing dances.

17:00 – 18:00

Hula Hooping

Mara Gavrilescu

At the hula hooping workshops we explore both the hula hooping moves, but also how to achieve that state of flow, coordinate better and create small choreographies with the hoop on our own. At the beginning of the workshop we also do a small warm-up session and everything is set to music.

18:00 – 20:00

Quantum Movements Workshop

Claudia Ciofaca

There is power in your body and movement flows all the time. Feel it! Use it! Create with it! We will research together the capabilities of the human body as a way of self-expression.

The Quantum Movement Workshop led by Claudia Ciofaca will be exploring the means of Contemporary Dance and Acrobatics Artistry to activate muscular memory and to guide participants in reconnecting to their bodies.

We will traverse topics such as joint articulations, mind and body awareness, coordination, creative movement, soft acrobatics & contact improvisation. This will be a space open for all movement enthusiasts.

20:30 – 21:50

Pantam Dance & Zeyla Tomlyn – www.pantamdance.com

Concert

We are a world music project that combines the galactic sound of the handpan with an ethereal voice that resonates between heaven and earth.

We express ourselves through acoustic and electronic music, translated into a live performance designed to tune the audience to high frequencies.

We like to invite the audience into a context of magic where reality stops and the dream begins. A place where we express our great love for all that is.

Artur Pasecinic is the initiator of the vision, a self-taught virtuoso of the handpan, the instrument that reaches through its cosmic sounds straight to the soul.

Zeyla Tomlyn (ex Petra Acker) completes this multi-frequency vocal and percussive universe, she is also the band’s musical producer. Her diverse artistic background provides a creative environment that brings a lot of new inspiration to this context.

The two have discovered that they can just let the music happen. The pieces almost write themselves, creating an entirely original repertoire, while leaving plenty of room for improvisation and spontaneous interaction with the audience.

Renaquilla

dance performance

Aygül – www.uploadinghappiness.center

In the night of the soul, Renaquilla wraps itself around the broken one. Her unifying spirit fusions the wounded one.

The energy of Renaquilla, the plant of Love and Harmony offered by the Amazonian Forest binds and strengthens our broken parts across the physical, emotional and spiritual realms.

She heals our heartbreaks, unlocks and liberates the deepest part of us. Her powerful teachings unify and connect us through forgiveness and love.

This is the dance of the Cosmic Wedding between the plant spirit & the human spirit. This communion brings us back into harmony with the natural world and our relationship to life.

It opens our hearts.

22:30

COMMUNITY JAM

Rus Darius (Jazzbook)

DUMINICĂ, 13 AUG

11:00 – 12:30

Astrology and Tarot Workshop

By Andrei Trandafira & Anca Mântulescu

A transformative journey of self-discovery and connection with the universal consciousness. We will provide a brief introduction to how astrology and tarot work as tools for self-discovery and communication with the universal consciousness.

We will exemplify how to identify and interpret key elements in your astrological chart.

You will learn about the symbolism and meanings behind the major and minor arcana, and through hands-on practice, gain confidence in interpreting the cards and uncovering hidden insights.

You will gain a concise understanding of how astrology and tarot can be used for self-discovery. You will also acquire practical skills in interpreting your astrological chart and conducting tarot readings.

12:30 – 13:30

Drum Circle

Emi Ionescu

13:30 – 15:00

Intuitive Singing & Movement

Zeyla Tomlyn

Express your truth through song and dance. Let go of the unspoken,

let go of tension and fear, come back to your free nature, and sing

and dance from the essence of your soul.

Intuitive singing, sound meditation, spontaneous improvisation, groovy

movement, circle singing, body percussion, and energetic activation are

the tools we are going to use to dive into the genuine joy of authentic

self expression.

See you soon, Beautiful Soul!

15:00 – 17:00

Ecstatic Dance

Andreea Măiastra & Dj Ini

This session will provide a safe space where we can explore the healing properties of sound through movement and dance.

Dance has been a form of meditation, release and healing since ancient times, from ecstatic shamanic dances to modern day therapeutic dances.

We will have a special playlist to help those in attendance navigate the inner world, using certain sound frequencies with certain tempos in an authentic performance.

side event: 15:00-17:00

Dance for Forest – 2nd episode (in nature)

Alexandra Girbea and Timea Kovacs

17:00 – 19:00

African (e)Motion

SuntVibrație (Cristina Tănăsescu)

African (e)Motion is a movement of sacred celebration. We celebrate ourselves on African rhythms, with everything that we are here and now. Open your heart to get inspired and to inspire back, african dances are about exchange, joy, the beauty of balance, harmony, playfulness, connection to Spirit and divine nature.

I will take you on a journey with me. Sharing with you my wisdom and everything the African culture has taught me so far: how to be in my body, how to be authentic, how to feel and celebrate everything that I am without naming it. It gives me the chance to be ME!

We will learn how to breathe through everything that we are, as the body is our ground and music is our guide. We will turn shame and fear into courage and joy. Be curious and learn how it feels to be YOU.

Your unique self, your authentic self. And remember to PLAY, play with music, play with your bodies, play with your hearts, play with everything you’re feeling, play with eachother. This is about the Unity in Community.

Don’t be afraid to use your unique voice—dance is about YOUR TRUTH, don’t be afraid to be magnetic and passionate

side event: 18:00 – 21:00

Oracle of Performative Research

performance one-to-one

Renate Dinu & Corina Cimpoieru

The one-to-one performance is part of “Books on the dancefloor”, participatory action and installation produced by The National Center for Dance Bucharest (CNDB) în 2022.

20:00 – 21:00

Kwathula – https://kwathula.bandcamp.com/

– live

Kwathula is a music project from Moldova in which we play meditative world music.

Our music comes from our hearts and it is for touching the hearts of others. It is music for relaxing and healing. Music to feel.

The main instruments we use include hang drum, calebash, flute, and vocals. In our first two albums, the didgeridoo was one of the main instruments too, and we are continuously experimenting with instruments and sounds. In our music, we also use instruments such as sansula, jew`s harp, darbuka, singing bowls, rainstick, and shamanic drum. In addition, in our “ideas which are waiting for realization”, there is a big universe of instruments close to us which we can play or intend to play.

We travel a lot and very often give street performances in different countries.

Dance Show

Dancing in community: finding wholeness through the archetypes –

Monica Vrăbiuță & Simona Schiau

We continue the workshop with a dance performance created into the spirit of Wahaland. We invite anyone and everyone that participates in our workshop to co-create this performance with us.

22:30

COMMUNITY JAM

Rus Darius (Jazzbook)