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Company 4.0
For several years, Compagnie 4.0 has supported Vlad Chirita's artistic projects, drawing on his encounters with talented professionals, both established and emerging, in France, Romania, and beyond. His ambitious yet rigorously executed projects, as evidenced by the numerous institutional supporters the Company has garnered, reflect a long-term and coherent reflection on the political and ethical questions that the staging of reality invariably raises. Starting with often harsh and challenging material, the aim is to move the audience through staging that alternates between restraint and poetic effects, serving a meticulously crafted text that consistently provokes thought, both through and beyond emotion. This intercultural and interdisciplinary approach, maintained from the initial conversations to the curtain's rise, and often including residency periods, grounds the collective work and allows for the most accurate expression of the ambiguity of contemporary situations and their representation.
BIOGRAPHY
Director, performer and video artist Vlad Chiriță made his debut in France in 2006 with a production based on the text by Maurice Maeterlinck, Les Aveugles, at the Actor's Café Festival in Metz.
He attended the Master's program in Directing and Dramaturgy at Paris Nanterre University. It was during a workshop on Marguerite Duras that he met Éric Vigner, who invited him to join the International Theatre Academy of Lorient. It was during this time that he began collaborating with Maxime Touron, for whom he wrote and directed the play Tictac.
Continuing his research on the body, Vlad Chiriță also developed his personal practice: he took dance courses at the Ménagerie de Verre in Paris with Nina Dipla, at the Musée de la Danse in Rennes with Boris Charmatz, and performed with Tino Sehgal, OlivierDubois, and other emerging artists.
Interested in new forms of storytelling, he develops multimedia projects that explore the theatrical and choreographic possibilities of digital technologies and virtual reality. His collaborative short film project in Virtual Reality, “Slava”, won the VR Challenge at the Paris Virtual Film Festival in 2017.
He created Compagnie 4.0 and began writing the stage production for the project RIEN, mais là j'ai envie de mourir — first with the actress Valentina Zaharia, then the playwright Lucas Faugère —, presented in Paris in March 2018, and repeated in Paris and Romania in 2019, as part of the France–Romania Cross Season 2019.
He also develops multimedia projects that exploit the theatrical and choreographic possibilities of digital and virtual reality technologies.