Simona Deaconescu & Grigore Burloiu
Collective Cadence deals with rhythm based on the complex dynamics between mass dances, individual expression, and control systems. Rhythm plays a decisive part in the encapsulation and proliferation of collective desires and fears. Through the entanglement of historic elements, of ethnomusicology and AI-co-creation, the lecture performance explores how the performance of rhythm evokes reaction within society, thereby assisting, evading or fighting dominant structures.
Through the integration of AI as a tool for sound and text generation, Collective Cadence creates space for disordered and unforeseen sounds. Simona Deaconescu & Grigore Burloiu deviate from established norms and artfully combine sound and movement to scrutinise rhythms that have become uniform, defying them.
Simona Deaconescu is a choreographer and filmmaker working in different genres and formats. She examines social constructs at the boundaries of fiction and objective reality, sometimes using irony as well as dark humour in the process. Her work is research-based. She was nominated as Associated Artist of the National Centre for Dance in Bucharest, as a Forecast Mentee, and as Aerowaves Twenty22 Artist in 2022. She is the artistic director and co-founder of Tangaj Collective and the Bukarest International Dance Film Festival. Grigore Burloiu is a lecturer at the National University for Theatre and Film in Bucharest where he teaches creative coding, interactive musical systems, and game development. Grigore Burloiu develops systems for expressive accompaniment and for the interaction with AI in art.
Duration: ca. 60 Min.
Created and performed by Simona Deaconescu & Grigore Burloiu; supervised by Diogo Nuno Crespo Ribeiro Cabral, David Santos; consulting by Matt Davies, Bogomir Doringer. A co-production of MODINA, Tangaj Collective and Trafo House. In partnership with tanzhaus nrw, the National Centre for Dance in Bucharest, Kino Siska. Financed by MODINA.
Collective Cadence is part of Rhythms and Crowds, a cultural project organised by the Tangaj Collective Association and co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund of Romania. The project does not represent the position of the National Cultural Fund Administration. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or the way in which the project results can be used. This is the sole responsibility of the project organiser.
Funded within the framework of the MODINA project by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
