ATTENTION: RIVER RESIDENTS!

Name: ATTENTION: RIVER RESIDENTS! - Dance in TRANZIT
Start: 2026-10-11T18:00:00+03:00
End: 2026-10-11T19:00:00+03:00
Location: Casa Tranzit

Dance in TRANZIT

by Urvi Vora and Alexandra Mihaela Dancs

You would not call a mermaid “fish out of water”, you would ask “mermaid, why are you out of water?”

Attention: River Residents is a duet created by Alexandra Mihaela Dancs and Urvi Vora in dialogue with the contours of the city with Tranzit House as a landscape. They move alongside the hour when the sun goes down, responding to the changing colours of the river to create moments that give rise to questions of loss, death and eventual transformation.

Come with headphones and a smartphone that has Zoom installed.

‖ Language: English

‖ Duration: 50 min.

‖ Producer: Tranzit Foundation, 2021

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Alexandra Mihaela Dancs has been active in contemporary dance and performance art since 2004. She has performed in works by Vava Ștefănescu, Rui Catalao, Doris Uhlich, and Florin Fieroiu. She creates solo projects and co-creates performances with Carmen Coțofană, Andreea David, Mădălina Dan, Urvi Vora, and Cosmin Manolescu.

Alexandra has been leading classes and workshops since 2009 and created Totul pentru Endorfine in 2016. Since 2019, she has been singing and dancing with pj.lo & the accidentals. She creates choreography for theatre performances, in which she also acts and dances.

Since 2022, she has been collaborating with Vlad Benescu, creating Luați de VAL…s, Tura de noapte, Somatic Freaks – Revoluția Proprioceptorilor, and triluREELu. Alexandra received the Award of Excellence for her contribution to the development of Romanian contemporary dance, granted by CNDB in 2014, and the Jury’s Special Award for bodily expressiveness at the Bucharest Fringe Festival in 2024.Alexandra is passionate about snowboarding and surfing, sports that also inspire her artistic practice.

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Urvi Vora is a dancer, artist, and writer based in Providence, RI, and a PhD candidate and Presidential Fellow in Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She studied philosophy and anthropology and following that, has been creating works in the overlaps between dance, film, and theatre. Her work focuses on the relationship between body and language, movement and text, deeply informed by her research in theoretical psychoanalysis. It has taken various, meandering forms--choreographies, short films, essays, and music videos--while always being rooted in conceptual inquiries and fundamental questions about how to move in the world.

Her writing has appeared in outlets such as Contact Quarterly, Critical Collective, Indent: The Body and The Performative, and Steaua. Her choreographic works include S.K.U.M. Manifesto (2019), The Naked Lunch Series (2019), we were famous for fifteen minutes (2020), This is how you move them (2021), and in the dark, with a six-inch blade (WIP, 2022). Her collaborative works include Under the Influence (2020) and Attention: River Residents! (2021) with Alexandra Mihaela Dancs, and most recently, this wedding dance here (2026) with Giles Eldridge, all of which were created and performed at Tranzit House in Romania.

The event is part of the Dance in TRANZIT contemporary dance season. The programme brings together seven performances, productions and co-productions developed in recent years at Casa Tranzit, alongside works by artists with whom the space is opening new directions of collaboration. The season brings together artists close to Casa Tranzit, alongside invited artistic groups from Belgium, the USA/India, France and Rojava.

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

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