Patosphere

The National Center of Dance Bucharest

The pathosphere – is the sphere of pathos (emotion), the sphere/medium in which contradiction, contrast, overlapping, deformation, the fabric of paradoxes, seen both micro – biologically and psychologically – and macro, concerning the surrounding reality and universe, cohabit.

Mădălina Dan proposes an artistic universe structured around a unitary bodily composition, in which individualities, dynamics and affective subjectivity form an extended body. Pathosphere is a decomposed and recomposed compound of realities that expand and contract according to the pulsations of life that stir in the smallest cracks around us. A sphere of the pathos of emotion is created through movement, dance, sound, text, and image, like the city and the water that flows through it.

Patosphere is a synthesis of influences as diverse as iridescence, fitness classes, cosmology, trap music, the study of ants, and the study of the effects of urban space and technology, which merge, intersect, and overlap.

Patosphere brings to life a fragile and brilliant universe, interconnected and coexisting, specific to ecological thinking and decentered from the human perspective, where reality is only one version of our gaze, and survival is, implicitly, interdependence.

 

Concept and artistic direction: Mădălina Dan

Dancers/performers: Georgeta Corca, Mariana Gavriciuc, Nanci/Cristian Nanculescu, Virginia Negru, George Pleșca

Choreography: Georgeta Corca, Mariana Gavriciuc, Nanci/Cristian Nanculescu, Virginia Negru, George Pleșca

Text and dramaturgy: Mihaela Michailov

Sound design and musical compositions: Denis Bolborea, Cătălin Diaconu.

Set/video design: Alina Ușurelu

Costumes: Ioana Surdu (Noir Morphosis)

Light design: Marius Costache

Assistance: Georgia Măciuceanu