Residency week 49 – 50 / 2024

Building on past studies and projects that accumulated around an interest in  speculative somatics, eco-horror narratives and body memory, for the residency at  DansiT, Andreea David and Georgiana Dobre will investigate and develop a  movement practice anchored in extreme dance styles such as moshing, brutal  words and vocal techniques such as growls and screams. 

They will be drawing references from various fields of knowledge such as anatomy,  feminist and queer theory in relation to New Wave Rock, Punk and Black Metal  countercultures. 

By exploring imaginatively, performatively and sonorously their bodily organs and  different body parts such as genitals, tits, heart and anus and what cultural  projections has been applied to them, they will deconstruct what they understand  of those readings. They will look at their organs and fluids as a conduit of  emotional and perceptual information, and as the locus of the social and political  body. 

The anatomical dictionary that describes different body parts, has been studied,  documented, and named by men. This naming informs how we perceive and  describe our gender, the image of our own bodily narratives and herstories –  hysteria.  

In Romanian language “rag” is used to swear at women who reject the proposal to  go to bed with a man. The word is deeply inscribed in the muscle memory of  women’s bodily tissues. In the project, Dobre and David explore gendered swear  words targeted at women, and the desire to spit them out of their system. 

About the artists

Andreea David is a Romanian choreographer, dancer and former architect living  and working in Bucharest. At the present moment, she orients her practice  towards the perception of corporealities in relation to space and the environment,  with the attention on language and activism.

Georgiana Dobre (b. 1989) she/they, is a Romanian dancer, performer and  choreographer who lives and works in Norway. Entrenched in speculative somatic  practices and fuelled by references drawn from queer, new materialist and post human theory, her work explores ideas connected to the naturalisation of the body  and it’s forms of escapism in relationship to histories of violence and climate breakdown.