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SOLARISATION (2026)

More sun does not mean more reality. The process of solarisation — the overexposure of a surface to light — is not a revelation, but a blinding. It is the point where illumination becomes annihilation. To choreograph solarisation is to treat the body as a sensitive surface. Each gesture becomes a chemical event: an oxidation, a dissolution, a stain. The conceptual framework draws on Bataille’s notion of the sun — a source of light that gives not illumination but disease, corruption and waste.

Concept & Choreography: Sergiu Diță & Anca Stoica

Performers: Sergiu Diță & Anca Stoica

Text: Georges Bataille

Video: Yul-Lorand

Photography: Mihai Peter, Yul-Lorand & Frank Kleinbach

With the kind support of Akademie Schloss Solitude as part of the Solitude Exchange Network fellowship in cooperation with Arc Bucharest; OM Choreographic Center, Cluj-Napoca.

https://vimeo.com/1169350309

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BALKAN BALLERINAS (2024)

Concept & Choreography: Anca Stoica & Sergiu Diță

Performers: Sergiu Diță, Sofia Sitaru-Onofrei & Andreea Vălean

Sound Design: RAW Creatives

Music: Daniel Stănciucu & Adrian Piciorea

Lighting Design: Dorian Bolca

Anthropological Studies: Laura Maria Ilie

Photography: Beatrice Păun & Marko Pejović

Production: PLATFORMA 13

Balkan Ballerinas is a performance that aims to question the boundaries of the body by relating to Eastern European and Balkan identity. Inspired by stigmas and identity stereotypes created by the West and projected onto the Balkans, the performance conducts an analysis of Balkan culture. The body is portrayed as a transition zone, between two instances – pride and shame, past and present, folklore and rave, ballet and manele. Starting from the concepts of Balkanism and post-communism, the performance investigates a reactive body that challenges prejudices, normative models, and geographical, political, and cultural boundaries.

Partners

Institutional partners: Romanian Cultural Institute, The National Center for Dance Bucharest (CNDB), “Andrei Mureșanu” Theatre Sfântu Gheorghe, Hungarian State Theatre “Csiky Gergely” Timișoara, KC Magacin, Toplocentrala - Center for Contemporary Arts

Media partners: ISCOADA, Happening, Teatrul Azi

The project is co-funded by the National Cultural Fund Administration. The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund Administration. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the project results can be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary.

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BALKAN BALLERINAS (VERTICAL TEASER 2)

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BALKAN BALLERINAS (VERTICAL TEASER 1)

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MEMETICS (2024)

Concept & Choreography: Sergiu Diță Choreography assistance: Anca Stoica Performers: Eva Danciu, Oana Jipa, Fatma Mohamed, Sofia Sitaru-Onofrei & Anca Stoica Dramaturgy: Ioana Toloargă Sound Design: RAW Creatives Music: Daniel Stănciucu, Adrian Piciorea & David Cristian Costumes: Larisa Petcuț

Photography: Volker Vornehm & Claudiu Popescu

MEMETICS* is an archive of digital culture, a performative space of hyperlinks transferred into the body, on which the author intervenes through remixing and re-contextualisation actions. The generation and spread of information online, analogous to the phenomenon of spreading viruses, changes the perception of reality and is transferred into the mode of cultural production. Starting from memes**, the performance aims to hybridise bodies, placed between reality and virtuality. As a technique, MEMETICS proposes juxtapositions of transgressive elements, critical and post-ironic elements that blur the boundary between public and private. The show proposes a fragmented, scrolling vision of reality with pop elements, trends, internet slang and viral images promoted in the Web 2.0 era.

*Memetics = the theoretical and empirical science that studies the reproduction, spread and evolution memes. **Memes, memes = small cultural units of transmission, analogous to genes, that spread by from one person to another by copying or imitation (from songs, slogans, fashion, abstract beliefs, such as that in God, to 9GAG).

The performance is the result of the Festival-Competition “D-butan-t”, organized by the Theatre “Andrei Mureșanu” Sfântu Gheorghe and the Constanta State Theatre, with the support of The National Center for Dance Bucharest (CNDB), 7th edition, whose Grand Prize was won by choreographer Sergiu Diță.

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MANual (Vertical Teaser)

Concept & Choreography: Sergiu Diță

Performers: Dorin Eremia, Sergiu Diță, Dennis Ilie, George Pleșca & Anca Stoica

Stage Design & Costumes: Ecaterina Tudosă

Lighting Design: Ionuț Dumitrașcu

Sound Design: RAW Creatives

Music: Daniel Stănciucu & Adrian Piciorea

a project by PLATFORMA 13

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MANual (2023) - TRAILER

Concept & Choreography: Sergiu Diță Performers: Dorin Eremia, Sergiu Diță, Dennis Ilie, George Pleșca & Anca Stoica Sound Design: RAW Creatives Music: Daniel Stănciucu & Adrian Piciorea Stage Design & Costumes: Ecaterina Tudosă Lighting Design: Ionuț Dumitrașcu

Trailer: Roberta Roată

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MANual (2023)

Concept & Choreography: Sergiu Diță Performers: Dorin Eremia, Sergiu Diță, Dennis Ilie, George Pleșca & Anca Stoica Sound Design: RAW Creatives Music: Daniel Stănciucu & Adrian Piciorea Stage Design & Costumes: Ecaterina Tudosă Lighting Design: Ionuț Dumitrașcu

Photography: Roberta Roată

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MANual (2023)

Concept & Choreography: Sergiu Diță Performers: Dorin Eremia, Sergiu Diță, Dennis Ilie, George Pleșca & Anca Stoica Sound Design: RAW Creatives Music: Daniel Stănciucu & Adrian Piciorea Stage Design & Costumes: Ecaterina Tudosă Lighting Design: Ionuț Dumitrașcu

Photography: Delia Dobrescu

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POP RECYCLING BODY WORK (TRAILER)

SYNOPSIS: The performance is based on the statement “All current art is fake” by artist Elaine Sturtevant from the work “Shifting Mental St

POP RECYCLING BODY WORK (TRAILER)

Performance (for 2 dancers) Concept by: Sergiu Diță (RO) & Anca Stoica (RO) Performers: Sergiu Diță & Anca Stoica

Performed at Bucharest Biennale 10 (2022)

Cinematography: Ana Pascu

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Pop Recycling Body Work_2nd Session (2022) - performance, collaboration with Anca Stoica for Bucharest Biennale 10 - Bucharest International Biennial of Contemporary Art at ARTHUB Bucharest

Photography: Ana Pascu

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Pop Recycling Body Work_1st Session (2022) - performance, collaboration with Anca Stoica for Bucharest Biennale 10 - Bucharest International Biennial of Contemporary Art at ARTHUB Bucharest

Photography: Roberta Roată

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Corpus, Part II (2022) - work-in-progress

Concept & Choreography: Sergiu Diță

Photography: Elena Luca

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SOLO from NEO-KITSCH (2021) at Romanian National Opera, Bucharest

Concept & Choreography: Sergiu Diță

Music: Lascia ch'io pianga by Georg Friedrich Händel

Dancer: Sergiu Diță

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Corpus Christi (2022) - work-in-progress

Concept & Choreography: Sergiu Diță

Photography: Amir Hashim (#1) & Mihnea Toma (#2)

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NEO-KITSCH (2021)

Concept & Choreography: Sergiu Diță

Performers: Roxana Costea, Sergiu Diță, Sofia Sitaru-Onofrei/Bianca Flueraș, Anca Stoica & Andreea Vasilescu

Set Design & Costumes: Ecaterina Tudosă

Lighting Design: Ionuț Dumitrașcu

–The Video Team–

Director & Editor: Mihnea Toma

DoP: Beatrice Păun

Mapping: Vlad Lăzărescu

Styling: Moriii

Make-Up Artist: Ander Bishhe

Set coordinator: Imelda Manu

Costume coordinator: Daniela Fries

Coordinating professor: associate professor Liliana Iorgulescu

Assistant: Valentina De Piante Niculae

A production of the Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC)

Photography: Veronica Onofrei & Amir Hashim

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NEO-KITSCH (2021)

Concept & Choreography: Sergiu Diță

Performers: Roxana Costea, Sergiu Diță, Sofia Sitaru-Onofrei/Bianca Flueraș, Anca Stoica & Andreea Vasilescu

Set Design & Costumes: Ecaterina Tudosă

Lighting Design: Ionuț Dumitrașcu

–The Video Team–

Director & Editor: Mihnea Toma

DoP: Beatrice Păun

Mapping: Vlad Lăzărescu

Styling: Moriii

Make-Up Artist: Ander Bishhe

Set coordinator: Imelda Manu

Costume coordinator: Daniela Fries

Coordinating professor: associate professor Liliana Iorgulescu

Assistant: Valentina De Piante Niculae

A production of the Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC)

Photography: Veronica Onofrei