SUPERSOMETHING , Friday, 18th of September, 22:00, The Round Hall

“Supersomething” was a project initiated in 2008 in the frame of “Dans.Dialog” programme, co-ordinated by Gabriela Tudor. It was the last project on which Gabriela collaborated with Cosmin Manolescu within her last months. The piece was premiered in July 2009, part of “All You need is Love”, a series of memorial events dedicated to the memory of Gabriela Tudor.

Motto:
„Hi, hello my love, I’m so happy you’ve called....
I’m happy to hear your voice, I was missing you.
The show has just started, there’s a lot of people, right now they’re all looking at us.
How are you, how do you feel over there, are you ok?
I’m glad you’re here with us tonight...
Take care, I love you, bye my love.”
(Cosmin Manolescu, over the phone with Gabriela Tudor from Paris, during the “Supersomething” performance on 4.10.2008)

Supersomething is a graffiti piece about Romania, about love and painful losses.
A performance made for every woman and man who needs to feel (again) super.
Did you understand something?
I haven’t understood anything either from this fucked up life. I’m sorry.
(Gabriela Tudor & Cosmin Manolescu )


Cosmin Manolescu is a choreographer, performer and cultural manager based in Bucharest. He is executive director of Gabriela Tudor Foundation (the new name of the former Project DCM Foundation). He made his debut as a choreographer in 1994 part of the Marginalii, one of the first collective dance group created after the Revolution. Since then, his artistic works were successfully presented in important festivals and venues in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Beirut, Bremen, Bucharest, Dublin, Florence, Liverpool, Lyon, New York, San Diego, Paris, Uzes, Rome, Catania etc. Gabriela Tudor and Cosmin Manolescu created in 1997 the Project DCM Foundation and played an important role in the development of contemporary dance in Romania.
Since 1997 they have been collaborated together in several dance projects such as Romanian Dance Platform (1998), Festival of Portuguese Contemporary Dance (1997), Balkan Dance Platform (2001, 2003), BucharEast.West international dance festival (2001, 2003), Sibiu Dans 2007, Migrant Body (2006-2007), Serial Paradise (2003-2007), Private Show (1999 – 2007), Dans.Ro 2007 tour, ArtistNe(s)t (2006 – 2008).
Cosmin received several awards and fellowships such us: the Award of the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts for the development of the contemporary dance in Romania (Bucharest, 1998); ArtsLink Fellowship (USA, 2002); SACD and Sogeda Awards for the project “Don’t Ask the Blond” (Monaco Dance Forum, 2004); Prize Nouveau Talent Choregraphie (SACD Paris, 2005).
Cosmin Manolescu played also a major role in the creation of the National Dance Center in Bucharest.