Do you enjoy contemporary dance, or are you curious to discover it? Join our viewing circle! You’ll get free access to every performance in the season and take part in relaxed conversations about what you’ve seen. No experience is needed, just curiosity. Come watch, reflect and talk together. Just like in a book club, but with dance.

After each performance, you’re invited to stay and chat with Könczei Csilla, Ilinca-Tamara Todoruț and, when possible, the artistic teams.
Discussions can naturally bring together English, Romanian, and Hungarian, depending on the makeup of the group. We aim for an organic, relaxed exchange: we translate for one another when needed.

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗖𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮 & 𝗧𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗮:
𝗖𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝗞𝗼̈𝗻𝗰𝘇𝗲𝗶 has a PhD in ethnography and ethnology. In 1986, she graduated from the Faculty of Letter with the specialization in Hungarian and English Language and Literature, at BBU in Cluj, after which refusing to occupy the mandatory job assignment she activated as a freelancer ethnographer until 1990, conducting fieldwork in Transylvania, Dobruja, and Hungary until 1990, when she organized and co-organized over 50 ethnographic film recordings that document traditional dance culture in the region.
Since 1994, he has been working at UBB, currently as an associate professor, continuing his research activity. She has published in the fields of dance anthropology and theory, an introduction into Labanotation with examples taken from her own fieldwork, nonverbal semiotics, , visual communication and anthropology, documentary film, theory of representation, ethnic and gender minorities, the society of the one State party communist regime in Hungarian, Romanian, English, French and Romani. In the 1990s and 2000s, she was a member of the collective of the Master in “Complex Cultural Research”, the Centre for Research of Gender, and the Colective of Cultural Anthropology of the Faculty of European Studies, BBU. She wrote her dissertation on the “Borica” ritual she has studied for several years, focusing recently on the qualities of movement using the Laban Movement Analysis method, as well as the potential states of trance and ecstasy induced by the ritual. As an expert in visual anthropology and an experimental filmmaker, she has participated in numerous national and international film festivals; her film 𝐴𝑛 𝐴𝑏𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝐾𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒 winning awards at the Internationaler Videokunstpreis (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Ostranenie (Dessau, Germany).

In addition to her scientific, educational and artistic activity, Csilla Könczei is the founder and president of the independent center of art and culture of Tranzit House. In this role, she was the initiator, coordinator and curator of many artistic and scientific projects, for example, the research project and editing DVD 𝐷𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑧𝑖𝑡 in 2007. Between 1999 and 2000 he was the first coordinator and curator of the experimental dance-teathre project 𝑅𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒&𝑐𝑜, and in 2021, the 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘓𝘈𝘉…

𝗜𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗮-𝗧𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗼𝗿𝘂𝘁̦ is a theatre scholar, critic, and dramaturg based in Romania, serving as assistant professor at the Faculty of Theater and Film at Babeș-Bolyai University. Her respect for local specificity, admiration of daily resilience, and sense of global interconnectedness have grown over decades spent living, studying, and working in varied cultural and geographic settings. Before BBU, she taught at the United World College in China. She studied Playwriting at Middlebury College, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts, and later completed both her Master of Arts in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism and her Doctor of Fine Arts at Yale University.
Her stage dramaturgy portfolio includes productions at the Yale Repertory Theatre and The American Theatre for Actors in New York, NY. She publishes dance, theatre, and performance reviews on platforms such as 𝑆𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑎.𝑟𝑜 and 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠.𝑐𝑜𝑚.
Her research on artistic practices embedded in the world appeared in journals such as 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝐷𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑎, 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑟𝑒 𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙, 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟, 𝑇𝐷𝑅, and 𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ, as well as in various edited collections. She co-translated notable books into Romanian such as André Lepecki’s Exhausting Dance. Her book, 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝ℎ 𝑆𝑐ℎ𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑒𝑓’𝑠 𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 (Routledge 2022), investigates how a multidisciplinary artist toys with theatrical realism to engage with pressing contemporary concerns. She is currently working on a forthcoming book entitled 𝐹𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝐷𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑒𝑠.

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