Double bill: TESERACT & on the poetics of touch
- Dance & performance
- Performances presented as a double bill
- Part of the CONNECT #5 Contemporary Dance Festival
- Recommended for ages 14 and up
2 hr
Info
TESERACT is an autofictional performance that explores how the relationship with the father figure leaves emotional and psychological scars that continue to shape one’s identity. Drawing from a personal archive of memories, experiences, and biographical fragments, the work constructs five incarnations of the same “son,” each embodying a distinct way of relating to emotional confusion, stress, mental exhaustion, rebellion, and fragility.
Credits:
Concept, choreography, sound design: Iustin Danalache
on the poetics of touch is a participatory performative installation that explores touch as a primordial form of knowledge, communication, and human connection. The first sense to develop and the last to leave us, touch mediates our relationship with the world and with others, yet it is often constrained by social conventions and norms.
Beginning by questioning these conventions, the work proposes a framework in which physical contact becomes a tool for introspection, empathy, and presence. Structured around a set of poetic scores inspired by Fluxus practices, the installation invites participants to step away from the role of spectator and become co-authors of the experience. Participants contribute to the activation of the work and to the creation of a shared space of vulnerability and trust.
In this context, touch becomes both an artistic and relational act, capable of opening up new possibilities for encounter and reaffirming the importance of the body as a space of memory, affect, and resistance.
Credits:
Concept, directing & video editing : Mariana Gavriciuc
Dramaturgy: Cristina Tudor
Videography: Corina Andrian / Vlad Hărăstășan
Scenography: Miruna Croitoru
Music: Ștefan Ruxandra
Costumes: ARSENE
Producer: Asociația Delazero
Co-financed: AFCN
Parteners: Scena. (Timișoara), CNDB & Asociația HEARTH (București), Artep Gallery & UNAGE (Iași), NON – Centru de arte performative (Cluj-Napoca)
Biographies
Iustin Danalache is an actor, dancer, and performer, a graduate of the “I.L. Caragiale” National University of Theater and Cinematography (UNATC) in Bucharest—where he earned a bachelor’s degree in acting—and of the third edition of the Academy of Dance and Performance at the National Center for Dance Bucharest. He collaborates on numerous theater and dance productions staged by theaters in Bucharest and Constanța, which are presented locally and on tour both domestically and internationally. His artistic process is interdisciplinary, allowing acting, dance, choreography, beatboxing, and music to come together and be rediscovered from one project to the next.
Mariana Gavriciuc is a choreographer and performer based in Bucharest. Her interdisciplinary practice explores personal narratives through movement, video, and text, transforming intimate experiences into performative contexts that bring vulnerability, memory, and the body into dialogue. She holds a BA and an MA in Choreography from the National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC) in Bucharest and is a graduate of the Dance and Performance Academy at the National Center for Dance Bucharest (CNDB). She is a co-founder of Delazero Association and GoldenBoi Screendance, and a member of the TANGENt and Late Field Collective artist collectives.
The performances “TESERACT” and “on the poetics of touch” are presented as part of the 5th edition of the CONNECT Contemporary Dance Festival, organized by the Delazero Association with the support of the National Centre for Dance Bucharest. The performance “TESERACT” is produced by the National Centre for Dance Bucharest as part of the cultural program “Laboratories of the Academy of Dance and Performance.” The projects are co-funded by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The AFCN is not responsible for the content of the projects or for how the project results may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the grant recipient.
