BPM — Beats per Millennium
- Dance & performance
40 min.
15.02.2026
Sunday
19:30
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BPM – Beats per Millennium is a solo performance shaped by the stories of people who experienced Romania’s party and clubbing scenes from the last decades—an exploration of dance as atmosphere, pulse, and collective residue. Rather than retelling history through facts, the performance evokes a sensory experience, guided by bodily sequences that express tension, release, and resistance.
The work unfolds through a constantly evolving bodily dramaturgy, where Simona Dabija’s body becomes a living space, absorbing and transforming the echoes of dance floors from the past and present. Her movements emerge as traces of club dances reimagined, distorted, and reshaped into new expressions that flicker between decades, styles, and emotional states.
For the choreographer, the dance floor becomes a meeting ground, a place for exchanging experiences and breaking down barriers, where communities naturally take shape. The body acts simultaneously as a receptor and an amplifier, sensing, generating, and transforming the energies that reshape identity and nurture a deep sense of belonging.
by/with: Simona Dabija
music: Vlaicu Golcea
dramaturgic support: Andreea Novac
research support: Ionuț Dulămiță, Bogdan Iancu
lighting design: Marius Costache, Dragoș Margineanu
producer: Simona Deaconescu
production assistant: Georgia Elza Măciuceanu
Biography
Simona Dabija is a performer and choreographer whose practice focuses on hybrid embodiment where mechanical and organic movement coexist. Simona is interested in challenging perceptions of the human form, by deconstructing the movement through a combination of angled shapes, fluid transitions and speed variation
She holds BA and MA degrees in Performing Arts – Choreography from the National University of Theatre and Film ‘I.L. Caragiale’ in Bucharest.
She has been working with Simona Deaconescu since 2015, being one of the main dancers of Tangaj Collective, performing in 9 productions and contributing to the organization of Bucharest International Dance Film Festival (2022–present) as a curator and coordinator of the festival’s educational programs. She has frequent collaborations with both independent and state institutions, including Linotip – Independent Choreographic Center, the National Center for Dance in Bucharest, Teatrelli, Odeon Theatre, Masca Theatre.
Simona is co-founder of Delazero Association, an NGO that brings together artists from the performing arts.
In 2024, she premiered her first solo piece, BPM – Beats per Millennium, in the frame of the Iridescent Festival. In the same year, she co-created the performative installation Original Spaces / Legalized Gestures, together with Ioana Marchidan, at /SAC Malmaison.
Her contributions to the Romanian contemporary dance scene were recognized in 2020 with The National Center for Dance Award.
The performance was produced within “Rhythms and Crowds”, a cultural project organized by Tangaj Collective Association and co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the grantee.
Project partners: the National Center for Dance Bucharest and Club Expirat.
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Radio Guerilla
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