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Postat pe 09.15.2017
With Andrea Gavriliu about a dance solo opening at Euphorion Studio: OST (Organic Sound Twist)

 

Rehearsals have started for OST (Organic Sound Twist) - a performance conceived and realized by Andrea Gavriliu -, which will premiere in the "Euphorion" Studio, Thursday October 5, 2017, within the International Meetings in Cluj. On this occasion, we asked her some questions.

 

Eugenia Sarvari - From what I can remember, it all started with acting. I'm thinking of your participation in Andrei Șerban's Theatre Workshop from Cluj, in 2005. You were then 1st year student in acting. How did dance come up in this equation?

 

Andrea Gavriliu - It didn't come up out of nothing. I attended some ballet classes in childhood. That was the basis. Since then already I have been dance-struck. So I suffered a lot when I had to call it off.


E.S. - Why did you have to call it off? 


A.G.
- Because I was aware it wouldn't be right for me to become a ballerina. Right after that, I discovered theatre, which seemed much more complex to me. I used to believe theatre incorporates everything else. In a way, it did happen like that. I am very happy that turned out to be my way.

 

E.S. - To what extent is acting helpful in your development as a dancer?
 

A.G. - I am certain the few years of acting practice at the Youth Theatre from Piatra Neamț helped me become a different type of choreographer. Most inner mechanisms by which I perform a dance resort to acting. In a way, the engine is acting, even though I express through movement and body, not through text. Even if I still use the text - and I think this is very important - I feel that I express myself best through dance.
 

E.S. - Now you're working on a performance at the National Theatre of Cluj-Napoca, which has the challenging name of OST. What does this title mean?

 

A.G. - It's something I had been thinking of for a lot of time. It's my first choreography solo. I had been toying for a while with this idea and I said to myself, there it is, the moment has come! After all, if I keep on waiting for the moment to feel ready, it would never arrive and I simply have to try. I hope it won't be the first, nor the last such experiment. When I say that, I'm thinking of the fact that people change very much. So I change too. I am certain that what I do now is very different than what I'll be doing in five years. I chose a topic that has been haunting me for quite a while, one which I somehow touched upon in my first performance also, Zic Zac, namely the influence music has upon people. Only that this time I'll approach this topic at another level. First of all, I wasn't all by myself in Zic Zac. I had two partners. Which is a substantial difference. Everything was approached then in an airier, lighter, more... youthful way. Meanwhile, I've delved deeper into the topic. I was also inspired by certain books I read, certain documentaries I saw. There were books with a scientific approach of music's influence upon man...

 

E.S. - Such as?
 

A.G. - Oliver Sacks' Musicophilia. He's an American neurologist who wrote several books based on his experiences as a doctor. He had been working with people with various very grave neurologic diseases. Among others, he focused a lot on observing his patients' reactions towards medical treatment through music. The book also includes a vast correspondence with his patients, but also with healthy people who had a certain relation to music. As far as I'm concerned, I consider myself a person very sensible to music.

 

E.S. - Do you have musical training as well?
 

A.G. - No, which is exactly what makes it even more interesting, otherwise a bit frustrating, because I can't read scores. I think I have a pretty good musical ear. This is also because I have been listening to a lot of music for as long as I've known. I do that every day. My mp3 never misses from my pocket... Music has always reached certain sensations, unblocked some of my memories, ideas, feelings. In short, I consider myself lucky for having a job closely connected to music.

 

E.S. - You were saying just now you had two partners in Zic Zac. If theatre means relations, how is a dance solo?

 

A.G. - It's still a relation, first of all to music. I consider music my direct partner in the performance I'm working on now. So I called it OST, which is normally short for original sound track. Just that in my case, OST will be short for Organic Sound Twist because since music is my partner I try to make things so that, even if choreography is prearranged, mathematically I could say, the element of spontaneity should still act - which is what I'm working on during rehearsals.

 

E.S. -  Do you work by script in general?
 

A.G. - Yes. Choreography is built on a script I have conceived and structured for a while and which, of course, is going through certain changes and transformations while it develops. To write on a paper is one thing and to put it into act is another. If we speak about organicism, or about the fact that I want to respond organically to the music I've chosen and the topics I want to touch upon in the performance.

 

E.S. - Good luck and inspiration!