Lulu's Room & Stage Psychosis >> Friday, October 15th, 19h00, Round Hall

LULU'S ROOM

"Could this be a collective work of the ones that inhabit me? I proposed them a collaboration without being aware, not for a single second, of what I have put myself into. There are times when it looks that they really don't care about the artistic process in which they're involved. There are times when they shake their host, a feverish energy takes over, they talk at the same time, they argue for all kind of reasons, they judge themselves and the others, they turn their bodies inside out, as if they are in a race and they try to catch something that always vanishes. When we discuss only I know what I hear. Who decides? What are we doing, what do we think we are doing and why are we doing what we are doing? I hope we eventually come to peace. And if I lose my authority I will not be responsible for the outcome."
Mihaela Dancs


Mihaela Dancs graduated Dentistry in 1999 and started dancing in 2004. She collaborated with choreographers such as: Pascal Allio, Allyson Green, Cătălina Gubandru, Andreea Căpitănescu, Florin Flueraş, Maria Baroncea, Eduard Gabia, Bernard Baumgarten, Vava Ştefănescu, Mădălina Dan. She created Reprogramare, Coada Şoricelului and Follow that Summer (together with Rui Catalao), First Steps (together with Carmen Coţofană), Lulu's Room.
In 2010 she collaborates with Robin Dingemans for live, with the certain tendencies of robin dingemans & mihaela dancs she takes part in the danceWEB Scholarship Programme/Vienna and in Deborah Hay's Solo Performing Commissioning Project.



STAGE PSYCHOSIS

“The solo Stage Psychosis is meant to be a brief analysis of the concept of mask, regarded not only from a psychosocial point of view, as ‘persona‘, but also from a theatrical one, starting from the hypothesis that one uses the ‘mask‘ to protect his/her intimacy, and also as an instrument of regulation and adaptation. By using this investigation in a stage context, the piece aims to discover theatrical attitudes and mechanisms accessed through the performer’s own mask.“
Carmen Coţofană


Carmen Coţofană graduated the “Octavian Stroia” Choreography Highschool and the Choreography Department of the University of Drama and Film from Bucharest. She participated in the workshops with Pal Frenak, Karine Saporta, Donna Uchizono, Mark Tompkins, Carol Brawn, David Zambrano, Vera Mantero, Xavier le Roy. She collaborated with choreographers as: Sorana Badea, Mihai Mihalcea, Valentina de Piante, Charles Lineham, Florin Fieroiu, Ioana Macarie, Cătălina Gubandru, Vava Ştefănescu, Eduard Gabia, Mădălina Dan and theater directors Gianina Cărbunariu, Andreea Vălean, Alexandru Dabija, Radu Nica. Personal pieces: “Beings of Hands”, „Take Five”, „Step Forward”, „Free Mesh”, “Recycle me”.