Choreographers Maria Baroncea and Eduard Gabia will perform The Map of Thoughts - Last concern about fitting into the world. Drift into the abstract - a radical performance at the dancEUnion Festival.
Presented by the European Commission Representation in the UK, EUNIC London and European Year of Intercultural Dialogue, the dancEUnion Festival celebrates the incredible diversity of European choreography.
The festival presents the best contemporary dance performers from 23 EU member countries.
Day 3 of the festival features pieces by Gianfranco Celestino (Luxembourg), Maria Baroncea (Romania), Simo Kellokumpu Company (Finland), Triin Reemann (Estonia), Ana Lujan Sanchez & Dane Hurst (Spain). Click here for the full listings of the festival.
The Map of Thoughts by Maria Baroncea is a piece structured on the usual gestures, sometimes unconscious, that you can tire out to repeat at a certain moment. Together with Eduard Gabia, Baroncea turns against the ineffable, looking to discover what makes up the instants of intimacy.
"...performance of astounding sensibility" Suplimentul de cultura, Iasi
"Mesmerising! Maria Baroncea is a dancer with amazing scenic force. No matter if she moves or not, she fills the space perfectly" 7 Seri, Bucharest
The Map of Thoughts was first presented at the Balkan Dance Platform in Skopje, Macedonia. Produced by the National Centre of Dance, Bucharest, the performance went to Tanzquartier Wien through the Sampling Bucharest project and will be presented in October 2008 at the Alte Malzerei Theater in Regensburg.
Maria Baroncea studied choreography at the Floria Capsali High School and the National University of Theatre and Cinematography, Bucharest. She has participated to several contemporary dance workshops with Milli Bitteli, Mark Tompkins, Nuno Rebelo, Ivan Wolfe, Laura Simi, Damiano Foa, Vera Mantero, Andrew Harwood. Maria has worked with well-known choreographers like Frankfurter Kuche, Mihai Mihalcea, Manuel Pelmus and has received awards at Internationales Tanzfest Berlin and Vienna International Dance Festival.
Eduard Gabia graduated from the Floria Capsali Choreography High School in Bucharest. Study grants at Tanzquartier (Vienna), Internationales TanzFest Berlin, Kaai Theater (Belgium) and Dance Theatre (New York). Eduard has worked with choreographers Karine Ponties, Charles Linehan, Thomas Lehmen, Kattrin Deufert, Yoshiko Chuma. His own works have been performed at the Mercat de Flores Festival (Barcelona), Dance Theater Workshop (New York), Tanz im August (Berlin), Tanzquartier (Vienna), 4+4 Days in Motion Festival (Praga), Manoever Festival (Leipzig), Festival Quartier d'Ete (Paris).
The Romanian Cultural Institute supports The Map of Thoughts at dancEUnion Festival.
When: 21 September 2008, 6 pm
Where: Southbank Centre, Purcell Room
Tickets: £13 (£7.50 concessions) or £30 season ticket for the whole festival; Book online at www.southbankcentre.co.uk.
