Quartet for a Lavaliere
Concept: Vava Ştefănescu
Coauthors: Carmen Coţofană, Mihaela Dancs, Mihai Mihalcea (dancers) & Julien Trambouze (sound artist)
Stage design: Mihai Păcurar
Project supported by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund
Sponsor: Răzvan Penescu
Play duration: 1h (no intermission)
“Quartet for a Lavaliere is a choreographic-sound installation that deals with the ideas of confinement, lack of distance, relations with others, and the idea that we are the prisoners of our own lives. As it is a composition in real time, the only point of reference and support is the visible/audible situation, constant for 60 minutes.
All the ideas – a sort of keywords used as starting point – come into conjunction with the movement of sound and the look of the audience, thus giving birth to new, unexpected ideas. The aleatory in the presence contingent on a specific context, the attention given to the rituals of perception, remain for me constant preoccupations, but also a fascination with the come-and-go between fiction and reality.” Vava Ştefănescu
After learning classical dance at the Choreography High School in Bucharest, Vava Ştefănescu discovered contemporary dance with Contemp Company, of which she was a member until 1996. The La Danse en Voyage project, organized between 1990-1992, offered her the chance to meet and work with renowned French choreographers, who opened new horizons and perspectives in contemporary dance research. In 1994 she graduated from the Choreographic Creation department of the Theater and Cinematography University.
Artistic curiosity turned her career into a very diversified pursuit that extends from the study of the language of dance to experimentation, by blending several show media: video/film, photography, live music, text, or unconventional spaces.
