Initially educated in the Vaganova method of classical dance in Bucharest, Romania, Constantin holds an MA in dance pedagogy from Anton Bruckner University in Linz and is currently a PhD candidate in Applied Cultural Studies at Kunstuniversität in Linz, Austria. 

His work as a dancer and performer has brought him in contact with various stylistic and choreographic signatures, from ballet to contemporary dance and dance theatre. He has been a solo dancer at the Romanian National Ballet in Bucharest and at “Oleg Danovschi” Ballet Theatre in Constanta, Romania, and he was engaged as a dancer at German state theatres in Augsburg, Saarbrücken, Braunschweig, and Tanztheater Bremen. During this time, he has been working with choreographers such as Urs Dietrich, Emanuel Gat, Marco Goecke, Tero Saarinen, Constanza Macras, Marguerite Donlon, Christian Spuck, Rami Be’er, Ingun Bjørnsgaard, Hans Henning Paar, Beatrice Massin, and others. 

He started to choreograph in 2000 when he received the “Choreography Prize” at the Constanta International Dance Competition. His choreographies cover a wide range of styles and formats, from ballet performances and contemporary dance creations to multi-media installations and dance for video. Some of his works are “Negative Space” (A!KO Festival, 2024), “Superficies” for TanzQuelle Munich (2024), “Earth” (2023) and “Fire” (2020) for Kaohsiung City Ballet, “With and without” at TanzQuelle Munich (2022), “Tactile Talk” (2021), “La creation d’un monde” for Brucknerhaus in Linz (2019), “Love.Fly.Little Princess” for Tainan City Ballet (2019), “Body / Maps” at Hongeun Arts Centre in Seoul (2014), “Dialogue”, in collaboration with Shang-Jen Yuan for Meimage Dance (2013), “-In-line-“ for SIDance Festival in Seoul (2012), “Remake”, in collaboration with Mimi Jeong at Theater Bremen (2008), “Landschaft mit Sturz” at Theater Braunschweig (2006), “Platine B2” at Theater Saarbrücken (2005). 

In 2006, he started his work as a video designer, creating dance videos, stage video design, and documentaries. He won several awards at different competitions: Main Prize Idill Dance Video Competition in Brussels (2009), Second Prize and Cinema Prize at Choreographic Captures Competition in Munich (2014), Second Prize at the “One minute Jumping Frame Competition” in Hong Kong (2014), Prize for Innovation at Idill Dance Video Competition, Brussels (2011). In 2013, he created, together with Till Boterweck, the video design for the performance “Penguins and Pandas” at Theater Bremen, with choreography by Samir Akika, and in 2016, he created the video design for “The little mermaid” at Landestheater Linz, choreography by Mei Hong Lin. In 2019, he presented his dance video “La creation d’un monde” at Brucknerhaus in Linz with live musicians from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He was video artist in residency at Barker Theater in Turku, Finland (2015), Godsbanen in Aarhus, Denmark (2015), Teatro Viriato in Viseu, Portugal (2015), Danse Hallerne in Copenhagen, Denmark (2014), Radnet in Trömsö, in Norway (2014), and Mejeriet Art Centre in Odense, Denmark (2012).

Constantin is currently teaching the MA Movement Research students at the Dance Department of Anton Bruckner University in Linz. In 2024 he was a guest lecturer for the BA Space&Design students at the University of Arts in Linz, and he was a frequent collaborator as a choreographic supervisor and guest teacher for the dance company at Landestheater Linz.

 

Selected works:  

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2024 “Negative Space” - Choreography for A!KO Dance festival in Linz.

2024 “Superficies” - Co-creation Lab Tanzquelle (Munich). 

2023 “Sparrows” - Choreography for Tainan City Ballet, receiver of  “Best Choreographer Award” at Asian Star Grand Prix in 2024.

2023 “Earth” - Choreography for Kaohsiung City Ballet.

2023 “Traumzeit” - Choreography supervisor.

2022 “With and without” - Co-creation Lab Tanzquelle (Munich).

2022 “Room of Wondering” - Shared evening with Damian Cortes Alberti (Redsapata Linz).

2022 “Rolling by the river”  - Co-choreographer with Damian Cortes Alberti (Linz, Vienna). 

2021 “Tactile Talk” - Choreography, Video, Performance (Odense, Linz).

2021 “The Garden” - Landestheater Linz, Choreography coordinator. 

2021 “Wind” - Choreography for Kaohsiung City Ballet.

2020 “Fire”  - Choreography for Kaohsiung City Ballet. 

2019 “La creation d’un monde” - video-dance creation presented with live music at Brucknerhaus in Linz.

2019 “Love.Fly.Little Princess” - Choreography and video design for Tainan City Ballet.

2018 “As if there was time” - Lecture/presentation at “Body(Re)Forms- (An)Notations” symposium at Anton Bruckner University Linz. 

2018 “19th Century Romantic Ballet” - Re-staging for Kaohsiung City Ballet.

2018 “Breath” - Choreographer and performer for Kaohsiung City Ballet.

2017 “Peak to peak” - Choreography and video; collaboration with violinist Vlad Stãnculeasa and pianist James Maddox for their album release.

2016 “Heart’s Map” - Choreography for Tainan City Ballet.

2016 “Die kleine Meerjungfrau” - Video artist for Mei Hong Lin’s choreography at Landestheater Linz, Austria.

2015 “Water drop in the fish-eye” - Video artist. A video dance choreographed & directed by Batarita. Part of 26th Mediawave International Film and Music Festival in 2016, and 6.BODY.RADICAL International Performing Arts Biennial, Budapest.

2015 “Perpetuum…” - Video artist, collaboration with choreographer Romulus Neagu.
2015 “Layers of us” - Video artist, collaboration with choreographer Taneli Törmä and painter Nille Bech.

2015 “The Nutcracker” - Ballet evening for Kaohsiung City Ballet. Choreographer and video designer. 

2015 “Black side” - Video design, collaboration with choreographer Taneli Törmä and composer Soren Lyngso Knudsen.

2015 “Alice in Wonderland” - Ballet evening for Tainan City Ballet. Choreographer and video designer. 

2015 “See me, hear me” - Improvisation workshop and final presentation at Jobra Dance Conservatory, Portugal. 

2015 “Ladies and Fans” - Choreography for Kaohsiung City Ballet.

2014 “One day” - Choreography for Chia Chi Senior High School in Tainan, Taiwan.

2014 BODY / MAPS - Interactive performance/installation at Hongeun Art Centre in Seoul, South Korea, following a three-month choreographic residency. 

2014 “Coppelia” - Re-staging at Kaohsiung City Ballet, Taiwan.

2013 “Today in Sankt Gallen” - Dance-theatre Improvisation performance at Theater St.Gallen, Switzerland. Director.

2013 “Dialogue” - Collaboration with Shang Jen Yuan, performed in Taiwan and South Korea. Performer, co-choreographer, and video designer. 

2013 “Tanz im Alter” - Documentary about the dance improvisation workshops of Hella Immler with people between 50 and 80 years old. 

2013 “PENGUINS & PANDAS” - Video design in collaboration with Till Botterweck, choreography Samir Akika, at Theatre Bremen. 

2013 “Stand” - Video dance, Second Prize and Cinema Prize at Choreographic Captures Competition in Munich (Germany). Top 10 at 60 Seconds Dance Competition in Denmark. Choreographer, director, and performer. 

2012 “Real shapes make mistakes” - Improvisation and composition workshop with a final presentation at Jobra Dance Conservatory in Branca, Portugal.

2012 “-IN-LINE-” - Solo created for SIDance Festival in Seoul, South Korea. Performer, choreographer, and video designer

2012 “Intension&Intention” - Collaboration with Batarita, Adedayo Liadi, Shang Jen Yuan, for SIDance Festival. Co-choreographer and performer.

2012 “8220” - Collaboration with six international choreographers as part of the residence offered by CPI, Seoul. Co-choreographer and performer.

2012 “Echo” - Live video dance installation, developed and performed with Audrey Van Herck and Alberto Franceschini as part of “25 Years Tanztendenz-München”.

2012 “Tracker” - Video dance in collaboration with Taneli Torma.

2012 “Aschermittwoch” - Video production choreographed by Alberto Franceschini and David Russo. Filmed inside the Frauenkirche in Munich has been presented in Muffathalle, Munich.. 

2011 “Shiny” - Video design; choreography by Exequiel Barreras for Theatre CHUR, Switzerland.

2011 “FRACTA #2” - Video-dance performance for nine dancers as a conclusion of a one-week workshop together with Raffaele Irace in Bussana Vecchia (Italy). Choreographer, director, video.

2011 “P&C Wien” - Collaboration with Urbanscreen, Bremen, for the video projection on the facade of the new “Peek&Cloppenburg” building in Wien. Choreographer.

2011 “Sliced”  - Dance video with Mimi Jeong and Tim Gerhards. Exhibited at Museo Civico in Treviso, Italy, Centre Pompidou in Paris. Director, choreographer, video editor.
Innovation Prize at Idill International Competition for films of movement and dance, 2011, and
Second Prize at One-Minute Jumping Frame Competition 2013, in Hong Kong.

2010 “Run” - 3 dance solos combined with video projection at Theatre Bremen. Choreographer and video designer.

2010 “Der Schuhu und die fliegende Prinzessin” - Theatre piece at Concordia Theatre in Bremen. Choreographer. 

2010 “Spacing” - a production of Urbanscreen, Bremen for “Internationale Tanztage Münster”. Choreographer.

2010 “Metrocadance” - a production of Theater Bremen; choreographer and performer.

2009 “Grenzfläche” - a production of Urbanscreen for “Viertelfest” 09/2009, Bremen. Art director and performer. 

2008 “Remake” - a production of Theater Bremen, together with Mimi Jeong. A video dance performance based on the paintings of R. Magritte. Two short excerpts called “SPIN!” and “Entreacte” have been selected in the final round for “Idill” International Competition for films of movement and dance at Charleroi-Danse Biennale 2009, Belgium. “SPIN!” went on to win the Main Prize and was presented at the Montpellier Danse Festival 2010. Choreographer, video designer and performer.

2007 “Missing link” - a production of Staatstheater Braunschweig. A video-dance performance for four dancers. Choreographer and video designer.

2006 “Landschaft mit Sturz” - a production of Staatstheater Braunschweig. Solo with video. Choreographer and video designer. 

2005 “PLATINE B2” - a production of Staatstheater Saarbrücken together with Susanne Striegler, Marc Käuble, and Camelia Neagu. Duet with sound installation. Choreographer and performer 

2003 “Beloved” - a production of Stadttheater Augsburg; choreography and performer.

2000 “Lesson in loneliness” - Choreography Prize at Constanta Dance Competition. Choreographer.