Humans | Bodies | Images

Concept and choreography: Ioana Marchidan
Performance: Teodora Velescu, Mariana Gavriciuc, Simona Dabija
Dramaturgy: Mihaela Michailov
Choreography assistant: Arcadie Rusu
Music and sound design: Alexandru Suciu
Light design and graphic design: Hermina Stănciulescu

Biography

Ioana Marchidan is a performer and choreographer. She attended “Floria Capsali” Choreography High School. She started her career as a professional dancer at the Romanian National Opera. Later she became one of the performers of Gigi Căciuleanu Romanian Dance Company. Collaborating with subsTANZ/Massimo Gerardi and Tangaj Collective. Later, Ioana started to create her own choreographies ” 2 Contemporary Women” , “Reverse Discourse”(project part of the E-MOTIONAL Residency at Forum Dança Lisbon)-show selected at the TanzMesse nrw 2022 and ACT Festival, Bilbao 2022 (Grand Prize of the Festival), Stabat Mater (Award for “best performance” at Undercloud Festival, Ro), Humans Bodies Images, Are we Human or Are We Dancers, Bodies on the line and We Are All Ok. She has participated as a performer in performative installations: “An Immaterial Retrospective of the Venice Biennale”, Venice Biennale (Alexandra Pirici & Manuel Pelmus), “Bucuresti. Instalație Umana” (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). Since 2016 she is the director of Dance Spot Association and artistic director of Linotip – Independent Choreographic Center.

Premiere date
25, 26, 27 June 2021 at Linotip Independent Choreographic Center

Festivals and broadcasts
Piatra Neamț Theater Festival
Studio M – Sfântu Gheorghe
HazarDance – Iași
Connect Dance Festival – Craiova
DINAM Contemporary Dance Season – Timisoara
Undercloud – Independent Theater Festival – Bucharest
CNDB Itinerant- Bucharest

Co-produced by
Dance Spot Association and Linotip – Independepent Choreographic Center

With the support of
Administration of the National Cultural Fund (AFCN)

Main partner
Linotip – Independent Choreographic Center

Partners
Primăria Capitalei prin ARCUB – Centrul Cultural al Municipiului Bucureşti, Galateca, Universitatea Națională de Artă Teatrală și Cinematografică „I.L. Caragiale”, Liceul de Coregrafie „Floria Capsali”, Cinema Union, Cărturești, 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, Haute Culture Magazine, munteanurecomanda.ro, Daily Magazine

The performance is presented within the Dans.Context.Showcase project. Co-funded by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund (AFCN). 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.