The Choreography of Water unfolds as a hypnotic meditation on water as both substance and force, intimate and planetary, visible and concealed, nurturing and deeply political. What kind of rhythm emerges from the currents that flow through our bodies and how does this intimate circulation echoes the vast hydrological systems that have carved continents, sustained civilizations, and redrawn political borders across deep time?

Three performers move in a haunted landscape shaped by transparent, glass-and-tubing sculptures that circulate streams of water. These hybrid instruments—part organ, part machine—act as a speculative fluid computer, where every loop, blockage, and redirection generates sound. Sometimes the dancers trigger the streams, other times, the streams transform their movement. Shifting between micro and macro perspectives, the performance moves from the body to the planet, tracing a fluid cartography reshaped by human intervention.

The project emerges from the rare convergence of Simona Deaconescu’s choreographic signature, Ioana Vreme Moser’s fluid sculptural systems, and Simina Oprescu’s immersive sonic environments. Their encounter generates a singular, magical and futuristic world where matter, and sound continuously shape and unsettle one another.

The two fragments presented in loop at RAD offer a glimpse into a larger-scale performative installation developed with /SAC this autumn in Bucharest—an expanded, durational, loopable gallery version for eight performers. The stage version premiered in October last year at the National Centre for Dance Bucharest. Its international premiere will take place in August 2026 in Berlin.

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Full credits:

Choreography and dramaturgy: Simona Deaconescu
Fluidic sound objects: Ioana Vreme Moser
Original music and sound design: Simina Oprescu
Performers: Laura Murariu/Ada Anghel, Silvia Brazzale, Chelsea Reichert
Assistant: Georgia Elza Măciuceanu
Glass shaping: Adrian Sistem
Electronic sound object design: Dorian Largen
Produced by Tangaj Collective
Co-produced by The National Center for Dance in Bucharest
Institutional partners: Goethe Institut, Istituto Italiano di Cultura Bucarest
Affiliated partners Marginal, Qolony, ECOSISTEM-International Performing Arts Festival
Co-financed by AFCN – The Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or for the way in which the project results may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding beneficiary.