Unauthorized Movements: Eduard Gabia & Paula Dunker
- Dance & performance
- Double-bill
2 hr
19.04.2026
Sunday
19:00
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Some movements are learned. Others are corrected.
And there are those moments when the body no longer fully follows instructions.
The double bill in the “Unauthorized Movements” series brings together two works that each, in their own way, explore this zone of deviation—between language and the body, between accumulation and loss of control.
CODE-SWITCH
By Eduard Gabia
Duration: 46 min
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 arise, generating a space where meaning is not fixed but continuously negotiated.
“Code switching” is approached not merely as a linguistic shift, but as a cognitive and embodied mechanism—a transition between behavioral registers, between intention and execution, between control and vulnerability.
The body becomes an imperfect translator between systems of knowledge—verbal, kinesthetic, and social—producing a third layer of meaning that does not belong entirely to any of them.
this is a lot, but there is more and more is more
a work by/with Paula Dunker
set design: Mălina Ionescu
music: Alex Bălă
running time: approx. 40 min
Please read the following verses carefully:
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Someone is walking toward their loved one’s house
and starts undressing along the way, right on the street.
They arrive.
The beloved opens the door,
While the other person continues
To perform an increasingly frantic striptease.
They peel off their skin,
They strip away their flesh,
They expose their gleaming entrails
And then end up as a pile of bones.
The beloved remains indifferent.
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Have you ever heard the expression: “work is love in the making”?
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Replace the beloved with work in the poem above!
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And now try to sing the lyrics as loud as you can
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Don’t be afraid!
No one can hear you!
Biographies
Eduard Gabia is a performance artist, musician, and context creator whose practice spans contemporary dance, performance, theater, and sound experimentation. His works have been presented at numerous international festivals and venues, from Tanzquartier Wien and ImpulsTanz to 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-founder of the Miercurea lejeră format, and his work also includes musical composition for theater and performance, as well as his involvement in the troupes K not K and Kepler not Kopernikus.
Paula Dunker works in the performing arts as a poet, actress, director, playwright, and choreographer. She dances constantly, creates performances and costumes, writes poetry, organizes events, works as a trainer and coordinator, produces music, sings, dubs cartoons, acts in films, and DJs. She is currently also a librarian at the Goethe-Institut in Bucharest.
Production
A project by the Solitude Project Cultural Association, in partnership with the National Centre for Dance in Bucharest.
Co-funded by
The Administration of the National Cultural Fund.
The project does not necessarily reflect the views of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The Administration of the National Cultural Fund is not responsible for the content of the project or for how the project’s results may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the grant recipient.
Partners
Brain Store Project, Antistatic International Contemporary Dance Festival, Reactor for Creation and Experimentation