Memetics

Dance & performance

60 min.

11.05.2024

Saturday

19:30

Opening

CNDB – Stere Popescu hall (Bd. Mărășești 80)

Tickets

Kompostor.ro

Info

MEMETICS* is an archive of digital culture, a performative space of hyperlinks transferred into
body, on which the author intervenes through remixing and re-contextualisation actions.
The generation and spread of information online, analogous to the phenomenon of spreading viruses,
changes the perception of reality and is transferred into the mode of cultural production. Starting from memes**, the performance aims to hybridise bodies, placed between the real and the virtual plane of the avatar. As a technique, MEMETICS proposes juxtapositions of transgressive elements, critical and post-ironic elements that blur the boundary between public and private. The show proposes a fragmented, scrolling vision of reality with pop elements, trends, internet slang and viral images promoted in the Web 2.0 era.

*Memetics = the theoretical and empirical science that studies the reproduction, spread and evolution
memes.
**Memes, memes = small cultural units of transmission, analogous to genes, that spread by from one person to another by copying or imitation (from songs, slogans, fashion, abstract beliefs, such as that in God, to 9GAG).

Concept & choreography: Sergiu Diță
Choreography assistance: Anca Stoica
Performers: Eva Danciu, Oana Jipa, Fatma Mohamed, Sofia Sitaru-Onofrei & Anca Stoica
Dramaturgy: Ioana Toloargă
Sound Design: RAW Creatives
Music: Daniel Stănciucu, Adrian Piciorea, David Cristian, Robert Găgeată
Costume designer: Larisa Petcuț

Biography
Sergiu Diță (1999) is an emerging performer and choreographer working in the area of independent area. His artistic practice focuses on the use of pop culture as an element of social critique; thematically he is interested in investigating gender stereotypes. In his own performances he uses the “manifesto-collage-recitative” technique, which involves critical exposition of the subject, collage of quotations, socio-cultural clichés and text. His research involves recycling, sampling and remixing processes. Together with Anca Stoica he works as an artistic duo under the name Platforma 13, an independent initiative dedicated to transdisciplinary experimentation.

The performance is the result of the Festival-Competition “D-butan-t”, organized by the “Andrei Mureșanu” Theatre Sfântu Gheorghe and the Constanta State Theatre, with the support of the National Dance Centre Bucharest (CNDB), 7th edition, whose Grand Prize was won by choreographer Sergiu Diță.

Co-production
The National Center for Dance (CNDB), Theatre “Andrei Mureșanu” Sfântu Gheorghe.

Main media partner
Guerilla Radio

Media Partners
Radio Romania Cultural, TVR Cultural, Adevarul, Arta Magazine, Zile și Nopți, ELLE,Happ.ro, The Institute, ISCOADA, Zeppelin, Feeder, Agerpres, LiterNet, Golan Magazine, Metropolis Newspaper, Visit Bucharest

Strategic partners
Cinema Union