Somatic Freaks - The Proprioceptors Revolution

Name: Somatic Freaks - The Proprioceptors Revolution - Dance in TRANZIT
Start: 2026-10-16T17:00:00+03:00
End: 2026-10-16T20:00:00+03:00
Location: Casa Tranzit

Dance in TRANZIT

Somatic Freaks - The Proprioceptors Revolution is a choreographic exploration of proprioception and balance. Over the course of three hours, Alexandra Mihaela Dancs and Vlad Benescu engage with a large tandem balancing apparatus, responding to its shifting dynamics with precision and care. Their movements emerge from a constant negotiation between stability and imbalance, creating a subtle dialogue of control, fragility, and adaptation.

The performance unfolds as a living laboratory - a meditation on failure and recovery, trust and awareness. It reflects on how we regain equilibrium in unstable conditions, both physical and emotional, inviting the audience to witness balance as an ever-changing state rather than a fixed ideal.

The work is a durational performance. It begins at 5:00 PM and ends at 8:00 PM. During this time, the audience is free to enter at any point, leave, return, and find their own rhythm of viewing.

Concept, Choreography and Performers: Alexandra Mihaela Dancs, Vlad Benescu

Sound design: Lala Mișosniky

Producer: Art No More

Co-funded by: Administration of the National Cultural Fund (AFCN) 2024

Special thanks to: /SAC @ Malmaison, Galateca, Recul, Centrul Național al Dansului București, Crina Cartaș

‖ Duration: 180 min

‖ Producer: Art No More

Alexandra Mihaela Dancs and Vlad Benescu are independent contemporary dance artists who have been collaborating since 2022. Their work moves between choreography, somatic research, site-specific performance and technology, with a particular interest in balance and the ways digital culture reshapes movement and human interaction.

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Alexandra has performed in works by leading contemporary choreographers and has created and co-created performances, including solo projects, presented in national and international contexts. Vlad has performed internationally, works as a unicycle acrobat and lighting designer, and holds a PhD in Theatre and Performing Arts.

Together, they have created Luați de VAL…s (2022), Tura de noapte (2024), Somatic Freaks - The Proprioceptors Revolution (2024), and triluREELu (2025). Their projects range from the intimacy of an old house transformed into a performance space to experiments with proprioception and choreographic-technological chaos, often approaching contemporary life through humour and irony.

Both have been danceWEB scholars at ImPulsTanz Vienna and have taken part in numerous international residencies. Their ongoing collaboration investigates movement, play and risk with a distinct experimental approach.

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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