Game of Life: timeless experience for sorrow and love
dance installation & performative experience
17 July, AGITLab Alta Villa Municipal Pak, 18:00
free entrance, reservation by email at improviseandorganize@gmail.com
Dancing questions, crazy love with ghosts, color & black-white, soul searching, yoga with Eva, air kissing, ecstasy of life, timeless sorrow, dancing flowers, mantras for souls, blue eyes. Next stop: Game of Life. Agueda AgitLAB.
Game of Life is a hybrid format of dance installation – performative experience & workshop about the simplicity and intensity of life. An immersive and participatory format created by choreographer Cosmin Manolescu (Romania) together with Eva Danciu (dance) and Lala Mișosniky (soundscape), co-created in collaboration with the participants to the workshop Game of Life and the Agueda audience.
The premiere of Game of Life in Portugal will stat with a dance workshop led by Cosmin Manolescu who will take place daily between July 14 – 17, 2026 at Alta Villa. The workshop is open for max. 6 local artists (any disciplines) or any dance amators or interested audience and will offer an opportunity to have an authentic experience of dance and movement and to discover and experience together situations and themes related to life, butoh and contemporary dance. A series of physical warm-up exercises, yoga sessions and guided meditation will continue daily with dancing moments of closed eyes, improvisation and free dance. The workshop is free of charge and is open to any local artists in Agueda, dance amators or audience, with or without any contemporary dance experience. The participants of 3-days workshop will have in the end the opportunity to participate and perform together with Cosmin Manolescu and Eva Danciu at the premiere of Game of Life: timeless experience for sorrow and love that will be presented on July 17 at Alta Villa.
The interested participants are requested to apply via a short email expressing interest at cosmin@danswanderer.ro and agitlab@gmail.com until Jully 10. Participants should be available to attend the whole program of the workshop & performative experience on July 17. Working language: English. For more details, contact Cosmin Manolescu via email or WhatsApp at +40722322366.
Game of Life: timeless experience for sorrow and love
July 17, Alta Vila Municipal Park
concept & artistic direction: Cosmin Manolescu
choreography & performance: Eva Danciu, Cosmin Manolescu
with: Eva Danciu, Cosmin Manolescu and the participants to the workshop “Game of Life”
soundscape: Lala Misosniky
video: Ioana Buraga, Alina Ușurelu
object design: Maria Mandea
duration: aprox. 90 minute
produced by: Gabriela Tudor Foundation
presented: by AgitLAB and the City of Agueda
+14. Game of Life includes moments of interaction between performers and the audience and can generate moments with emotional impact.
“Game of Life is an intersection of dance, moments of mindfulness, touch and distance and maybe more. You decide to participate or not, to move or not, to connect to the other or not, to touch or not… Over the course of an hour and a half, an intensity of the temperature of connection between the participants is released that becomes palpable. Even as a witness, you feel it. Above all, a thought is transmitted: we are so alone and, at the same time, so connected to each other. If I had to enclose what I saw under a few anchor words, they would be: openness, candor, curiosity, longing. In the truest sense of the word, it is a performance about the other, about the inclusions and exclusivities in our lives, about the way we see ourselves and others, about invisible barriers in relationships and about the intense need to overcome them. The performance is also an invitation to the viewer to create their own story, one in which loss and love, meeting and parting play out endlessly. Exactly like in life.” (Corina Șuteu, article for Magazine 22, July
Folowing the workshop and dance installation, a residency for Portuguese artist from Agueda/Aveiro/Porto will be organised in 1-11, 2026 October in Bucharest (Romania). The call for Portuguese Artists is available at the website
https://dans.ro/gabriela-tudor-residency-for-portuguese…/
The premiere of Game of Life workshop and performance in Agueda are organised by Gabriela Tudor Foundation, Improvise and Organize Association and the City of Agueda, part of the Colab.Dance, a cultural project cofunded by the Administration of National Cultural Fund Romania. The project does not necessarily represent the standpoint of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN cannot be held liable for the content of the project or the manner in which the outcomes of the project may be used. These shall devolve entirely on the beneficiary of the financing.
photos: Mihai Benea, Cristina Matei
