ATTENTION: RIVER RESIDENTS!
by Alexandra Mihaela Dancs and Urvi Vora

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.

‖ 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.

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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