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Biographies

Ioana Marchidan is a performer and choreographer. She graduated from the “Floria Capsali” Choreography High School. She began her career as a professional dancer at the Romanian National Opera. Later, she became one of the performers of Gigi Căciuleanu Romanian Dance Company. She has collaborated with subsTANZ/Massimo Gerardi and Tangaj Collective.
Later, Ioana began creating her own choreographic works, including 2 Contemporary Women, Reverse Discourse (a project developed as part of the E-MOTIONAL Residency at Forum Dança, Lisbon), which was selected for Tanzmesse NRW 2022 and ACT Festival, Bilbao 2022, The Grand Prize of Stabat Mater (Best Performance Award at the Undercloud Festival, Romania), Humans/Bodies/Images, Are We Humans or Are We Dancers (StudioM, Sfântu Gheorghe), We Are All OK, Bodies on the Line (CNDB), Waste, and Telemachus (Linotip – Independent Choreographic Centre).
She has also participated as a performer in performative installations, including An Immaterial Retrospective of the Venice Biennale, Venice Biennale (Alexandra Pirici & Manuel Pelmuș); Bucharest. Human Installation (Radu-Alexandru Nica & Florin Fieroiu); Retro Walk: Decades to the Sun, MNAC (Simona Deaconescu & Ciprian Ciuclea); Isolation in a Series of Liminal States, SAC @ MALMAISON (Simona Deaconescu); and Original Spaces/Legalized Gestures, SAC @ MALMAISON (Ioana Marchidan & Simona Dabija).
Since 2016, she has been the director of the Dance Spot Association and the artistic director of Linotip – Independent Choreographic Centre.

Francesca Santamaria is an Italian artist based in Rome, active in the field of performing arts. Her research focuses on performative logics and their implications through an analysis of the moving body and its limits.
After training at Balletto di Roma, she danced with the CZD2 ensemble and as a freelancer collaborating with choreographers such as Moritz Ostrushnjak, Alexandra Pirici, Amos Ben-Tal, Roberto Zappalà, Manfredi Perego.
In 2022 she joined the three-year choreographic research programme Incubator for future choreographers CIMD in Milan, while simultaneously obtaining her MA degree in “Writing and Production for Performing Arts and Media” at Sapienza University of Rome, with a thesis on Dance Dramaturgy.
Her choreographic works have been presented in numerous venues and festivals and selected by national and international platforms and networks, including Aerowaves, NID Platform, Vetrina della Giovane Danza d’Autore (Anticorpi XL Network), Crossing the Sea 2025/27, Nouveau Grand Tour 2025 (Théâtre de Vanves & IIC Paris).

Performance presented within the Aerowaves Program, co-funded by Creative Europe. 
*The views and opinions expressed are, however, those of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the funding authority can be held responsible for them.

Special thanks for the support of the Italian Cultural Institute in Bucharest. 

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Ministry of Culture · Administration of the National Cultural Fund (AFCN) · Aerowaves · Moving Balkans · European Union · Onassis Stegi · Greek Embassy in Bucharest · Greek Union of Romania · Italian Cultural Institute in Bucharest · MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art of Romania · “I.L. Caragiale” National Theater · “Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History

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