BPM — Beats per Millennium
- Dance & performance
40 min.
Info
“BPM – Beats per Millennium” explores the evolution of the clubbing scene in Romania from the perspective of the social and cultural practices it has experienced in the last decades. Reflecting on the rhythmic and bodily histories of club crowds, the performance navigates different periods of social transformation in which the clubbing scene was built as a space of free expression, where music and dance became a means of resistance in the face of a hostile socio-political context.
BPM focuses on the importance and role of these spaces where social differences blur and bodies are led by diverse rhythms, spontaneous movements and the need to belong to a community.
For the choreographer, the dance floor becomes a space of encounter and exchange of experiences, a setting free of prejudices in which individual identity can be reshaped and communities are naturally built.
by/with: Simona Dabija
music: Vlaicu Golcea
dramaturgic support: Andreea Novac
research support: Ionuț Dulămiță, Bogdan Iancu
lighting design: Marius Costache
producer: Simona Deaconescu
Biography
Simona Dabija graduated in Performing Arts – Choreography at the National University of Theatrical and Cinematographic Arts in Bucharest. She is the co-founder of Delazero Association, an association whose artistic direction is based on projects dealing with the social present and the individual ways of relating to it, the connection between body and perception. She has been working with Simona Deaconescu since 2015, being one of the main dancers of the Tangaj Collective, performing in the shows “BLOT – Body Line of Thought”, “Ramanenjana”, “Daughters”, “Birdville”, “Counterbody”, “Aftertaste”, in the performative installations “Isolation in a Series of Liminal States”, “Retro Walk Decades to the Sun”, as well as in the dance film “Sonder.” She has recurring collaborations with independent and state institutions: Linotip – Independent Choreographic Center, National Dance Center Bucharest, Teatrelli, Odeon Theater, Masca Theater. In 2020, she was awarded the Prize for Contribution to Contemporary Dance by the National Dance Center, Bucharest.
“I like to work with speed variations and to use joints atypically in relation to the surfaces I encounter. The methods through which movement can be deconstructed, by isolating the extremities of the body and spine, result in a powerful corporeality and dance full of volume.”
Supported by
Ministry of Culture, Aerowaves, Creative Europe, Starea Naţiei, Odeon Theatre, Bucharest National Theatre, CINETic (UNATC), LINOTIP – Independent Choreographic Center, Les Films de Cannes à Bucarest, Goethe-Institute Bucharest, Cinema Union, Cărturești, 1000 de Chipuri, 5 to go
Main media partner
Radio Guerilla
Media partners
Adevărul, Agerpress, Elle, Happ.ro, Liternet, TVR Cultural, Radio România Cultural, Revista Arta, The Institute, Zile și nopți, Zeppelin, ISCOADA, Revista Golan, Feeder, Visit Bucharest, Ziarul Metropolis, Scena9, IQads, Ceașca de Cultură, Modernism.ro
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 are the National Dance Center Bucharest and Club Expirat.