15September
19:30

Dance performance „Counterbody“ by company „Tangaj Dance“ (ROU)

Choreography: Simona Deaconescu
Curator & dramaturgical support: Olivia Nitis
Visual composition: Ciprian Ciuclea
Original score: Catalin Cretu
Lights design:  Alexandros Raptis
Performers:  Alexandra Balasoiu, Andreea Belu, Corina Tatarau, Denis Bolborea, George Alexandru Plesca, Georgeta Corca, Marian “Franke” Octavian, Simona Dabija
Co-production: The National Center of Dance Bucharest & Tangaj Dance Company
Co-financed by: Nacionalinis kultūros fondas
Premiere: 2017

http://www.tangajdance.com


Duration: 45 min.
Place: Culture Factory (Bangų str. 5A)

 

A dance, installation and music performance in which all the elements can be seen as particles in perpetual movement, permutable and parallel. The show is based on the endeavours of deconstruction, destructuring, decorporalisation through multiple layers of decoding the information. Video, text and music decompose and recompose the movement spaces, pinpointing the permanent relation of transfer between body and space. Based on philosophical and physical formulas, from the quantum theories to post-structuralism (Judith Butler, Julia Kristeva, Adriana Cavarero) and inspired by the the paraconsistent logic of dialectical philosophy (Graham Priest) and theories by Michel Foucault and Henri Lefebvre about the social production of space, the contradictory space, the other space (heterotopy), counter-space, the text, written by curator Olivia Nitis alongside the performers, puts the body in a fluid reality. Physical and mental body, parallel, dual, contradictory. The choreographic approach is the result of a process of analysis and research with the bodies of eight dancers, which build up both a fluid and fragmented organism.

 

Simona Deaconescu (1987) studied both choreography at The National University of Theater and Film and film directing at  Media University in Bucharest. In 2013 she founded Tangaj Collective, an independent dance company, developing projects in the field of dance performance and video art, at the intersection between art and science. In 2014 she was granted the „danceWEB“ scholarship by Life Long Burning European Network and in 2016 she received a honorary award from The National Center of Dance, as a recognisition for her contribution to the growth of contemporary dance in Romania, mainly by developing a new trend. Her performances and workshops have been presented in festivals and venues from Romania, Austria, USA, Hungary and Turkey. Since 2013 she has directed short dance films. Her films Sonder (2016) and Silent Places (2013) have been selected and awarded in more than 40 dance film festivals around the world. She is one of the founders and the artistic director of Bucharest International Dance Film Festival.

 

Ciprian Ciuclea is a visual artist, interested in site-specific projects that focus mainly on conceptual aspects of reception. He develops complex installations involving light, sound and video. He is the director of IEEB (International Experimental Engraving Biennial in Bucharest), member of International Biennial Association (IBA), president of Experimental Project Association for Contemporary Art and founding member of Romanian Society for Ophthalmogenetics. He performed and exhibited worldwide and has several national and international awards. More info: http://bit.ly/2rtBhH3

 

Catalin Cretu is a composer and multimedia artist. He composes mostly orchestral, chamber, choral, piano, electroacoustic, and multimedia works that are performed all over Europe. In 2012 he completed the post doctoral studies MIDAS at National University of Music in Bucharest, with a dissertation and concert regarding implementing the sensor technology in contemporary music. Since 2008 he is the Head of Electroacoustic music and Multimedia Center of the National University of Music Bucharest. More info: http://www.catalincretu.ro

 

Olivia Nitis is an independent curator, a researcher at the Institute of Art History „G. Oprescu” of the Romanian Academy, vice-president of Experimental Project Association, organizer of the International Experimental Engraving Biennial, member of the International Art Critics Association since 2009 and regional coordinator for The Feminist Art Project (Rutgers University, New Jersey) since 2008. As a researcher she has been interested in the various aspects of the gender discourse in the Romanian historiography of art. She is author, editor and co-editor of articles and contemporary art publications. She has organized several national and international projects, co-curated interdisciplinary projects in a long term collaboration with WASP Bucharest, such as X Platform and Visualising the Sound. More info: http://www.experimentalproject.ro

 

Photo: Alina Usurelu, Lavinia Pollak

 

 


 

     

 

 

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