 
Contemporary music and
dance group
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The Contemporary Music and Dance Group promotes mixed-media performances, based on original music and choreography and featuring artistic personalities from Romania and abroad.
Originally
constituted at the initiative of composer Mihaela
Stănculescu-Vosganian and choreographer Liliana Iorgulescu,
has a flexible formula
which can include a variable number of participants (instrumental and
vocal soloists, dancers, composers), according to the type of project
undertaken: actual performances (whether on stage or in unconventional
locations), art exhibitions, disc promotions etc.
Emil SEIN
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Liliana IORGULESCU
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Barrie WEBB
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Mihaela STANCULESCU-VOSGANIAN
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Beginning in 1998, has participated in a variety of experimental artistic events:
A tour in the USA as ACCORD - Romanian Contemporary Music and Dance with the participation of Liliana Iorgulescu (choreographer and dancer), Emil Sein (clarinetist and saxophonist), Harry Tavitian (pianist and composer), Mihaela Vosganian (composer and producer);
An art exhibition at the Galati Museum of Visual Arts, together with the launch of a CD of Mihaela Vosganian's music - in collaboration with dancers from the Dance High School of Galati;
A staged composer portrait of Mihaela Vosganian at the studios of Romanian Radio in Bucharest, with the participation of soloist Emil Sein and dancers Liliana Iorgulescu and Bogdan Nicula, along side the percussion ensemble GAME, the ensemble ARCHAEUS and the organist Dolores Chelariu.

A CD production featuring the chamber and symphonic music of Mihaela Vosganian, in collaboration with other two members of the group: Barrie Webb (conductor and trombonist) and Emil Sein(soloist).
A tour in Italy (Rome and Venice) with the participation
of Barrie Webb, Emil Sein, Liliana Iorgulescu and Mihaela Vosganian
(composer and producer);
A tour in Switzerland (Geneva) with the participation of Barrie Webb
(trombonist), Liliana Iorgulescu (choreographer and dancer), Răzvan
Mazilu (choreographer
and dancer), and Mihaela Vosganian (composer and producer).

International Week of New Music, 28 may 2002, ARCUB with: Liliana Iorgulescu
(choreographer and dancer) and Răzvan Mazilu (choreographer and dancer).
International Festival "Meetings of New Music", july 2002, Brăila with: Liliana Iorgulescu (choreographer and dancer) and Răzvan Mazilu (choreographer and dancer).
alternatifs programs
seeks to address
itself as much to the public at large as to an initiated audience, to
all lovers of contemporary art, adapting the type of performance (from
the point of view of production, staging and lighting) to the space in
which events take place.
For its next
projects, will be touring
an 80 minute program presented as a continuous performance, alternating
solo or duo instrumental pieces with dance episodes to live or recorded
music, using also electronic effects and video projections.
Exemples of alternatifs programs
REVERBERATIONS
Music by Mihaela Vosganian and the choreography by Liliana Iorgulescu, with the participation of the performers: the English trombonist Barrie Webb, the Romanian saxophonist Resident in Spain Emil Sein, the Romanian violinist resident in Spain Adrian a Winkler and the Romanian choreographer and dancer Liliana Iorgulescu.
META-REVERBERATIONS
Music by Mihaela Vosganian, involving the members of the French META DUO ensemble- Daniel Kientzy(saxophones) and Reina Portoundo(electronic effects) and the dancer Liliana Iorgulescu.
REVERBERATIONS F
Realised in collaboration with ARFA (Romanian Association of Women in Art), comprising music by Romanian Women Composers (Doina Rotaru, Maia Ciobanu, Diana Voda, Mihaela Vosganian) with the participation of the performers: the French flutist Cynthia Whitman, the Romanian Pan-flustist Dalila Cernatescu, the Romanian choreographer and dancer Liliana Iorgulescu.).
music
The musical conception of the show is based on the idea of succession of several entire
pieces, with their own thematic and expression, which belong to different categories:
Pieces for solo or duo
that explore special technical-expressive possibilities of instruments,
performed live in the show by soloists whose performing skills involves
also theatrical style;
Pieces for various instrumental
combination, used on the tape, that become the musical metaphoric
support for the choreographic moments.
The music
of the show, in its global sense, covers a wide range of expressive colours
between tension and release, poetic and dramatic, temporal and atemporal,
seeking and contemplating, using varios musical means from archetipal
or folkloric melodies to noize sonorities.
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