Ode to the Artificial
Choreography and performance: Maria Baroncea, Eduard Gabia, Florin Flueraş
Music: Fugazzi
Project financed by BNDC in coproduction with deSingel (Belgium)
Play duration: 40' (no intermission)
“When I was a little girl I could be a tree. Now I wish I could be little again. Little information means few contexts. Eventually, without these things, one gets to believe one can be a tree. There is an association of items of information that creates contexts. In our shows, we usually try to render logical contexts in accordance with what we have learned from life, or we try to create new contexts and carry them on. The stage is a good place for such attempts. It is like me as a little girl, it has no information, no contexts, it’s neutral. How many contexts do children invent?
I used to have three imaginary friends that nobody knew about. I took turns being each of them, I had three new lives, three new bodies, three new experiences, three new contexts.
Our lives are made up of contexts which are for the most part built by others, by the others; albeit remote, they have a connection with you, because you must take them into account. My actions speak about me and can be read within these contexts.
But how do my actions speak when you don’t know the context, when you understand the logic of the actions, but you don’t have the space, the aim and the time of these actions.
I am going to write ‘develapment’, and this word is not misspelled, only it is written in a different context, where the letter ‘o’ does not exist.
What appears as a result of hidden contexts, of logic without a known context, of what you see without understanding, but feel – and like.
It’s like when you see an animal for the first time, or watch children play from the balcony. You see the logical forms of hidden, unknown contexts.”
Maria Baroncea & Eduard Gabia
Maria Baroncea has graduated from Floria Capsali Choreography High School and from the Choreography department of the National University of Theatrical and Cinematographic Art. She took part in contemporary dance workshops under Milli Bitteli, Mark Tompkins, Nuno Rebelo, Ivan Wolfe, Laura Simi, Damiano Foa, Vera Mantero, Andrew Harwood. She worked with the choreographers Frankfurter Kuche, Mihai Mihalcea, Manuel Pelmus. She received the Internationales Tanzfest Berlin Tanz im August and the danceWeb – Impustanz International Festival in Vienna scholarships.
