CODE-SWITCH
- Dance & Performance
- Recommended age: 10+
- Language: English
46 min.
Info
The performance explores the relationship between language, movement, and action through a process of translation between incompatible systems. Starting from the structure of a lecture on effective communication, the performer’s body attempts to translate verbal instructions into gestures, postures, and choreographic actions.
Within this process, deviations, errors, and reconfigurations emerge, creating a space in which meaning is not fixed, but continuously negotiated.
“Code switching” is approached not only as a linguistic shift, but as a cognitive and embodied mechanism – a transition between behavioural registers, between intention and execution, between control and vulnerability.
The body becomes an imperfect translator between verbal, kinaesthetic, and social systems of knowledge, producing a third layer of meaning that belongs entirely to none of them.
Disclaimer
The performance contains strobe effects and is not recommended for people diagnosed with epilepsy.
Created and performed by: Eduard Gabia
Production: Solitude Project Cultural Association, in partnership with the National Dance Centre Bucharest, co-funded by the National Cultural Fund Administration (AFCN)
Partners
Antistatic International Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance
Brain Store Project
Biography
Eduard Gabia is a performance artist, musician, and context creator whose practice moves between contemporary dance, performance, theatre, and sound experimentation. His works have been presented at numerous international festivals and venues, including Tanzquartier Wien, Impulstanz, Kaaitheater Brussels, and the Avignon Festival.
Interested in presence, improvisation, and open forms of composition, he develops projects in which the performative act becomes a space for encounter, negotiation, and transformation. He is a co-initiator of the Miercurea lejeră format, and his practice also includes composing music for theatre and performance, as well as performing with the bands K not K and Kepler not Kopernikus.
Iridescent 2026 partners
Institutional Partners
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
Cultural Partners
LINOTIP – Independent Choreography Center · /SAC @ Berthelot · Tangaj Collective Association · Cărturești · ANF | National Film Archive · Therapy for Movement · Petec Association · O2G Association · Teatre
Main Media Partner
Radio Guerrilla
Media Partners
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