About us

The Team

Lavinia Urcan
President

Lavinia Urcan is a graduate of the Faculty of International Relations and European Studies at the University of Bucharest and holds a master's degree in Project Management from SNSPA Bucharest. She also graduated from the Faculty of Performing Arts - Dance Studies (Choreography) at Middlesex University, London.

She is the founder of the Unfold Motion Association, choreographer, and cultural manager. Lavinia collaborates with both independent and state theaters, teaches contemporary dance courses for various age groups and skill levels, and continues to develop professionally by participating in international workshops and residencies in the field.

As a choreographer, Lavinia has an extensive repertoire within Unfold Motion as well as in collaboration with other organizations and institutions.

She is the manager of the Contemporary Dance Season DINAM, coordinator of the Nomad Dance cultural program, and artistic director of the Frames and Shapes program, co-financed by the Timișoara City Hall through the Center of Projects.

Additionally, Lavinia collaborates through the Unfold Motion Association with numerous other local and national organizations and institutions, actively contributing to the development of contemporary dance at both local and national levels.

In 2020, Lavinia was awarded by the National Dance Center Bucharest for her contribution to the development of contemporary dance, and in 2022, she received the ENERGY! Creation Scholarship from the Centre of Projects Timișoara.

Beatrice Oneț
Vice-President

She graduated UNATC Bucharest. She mainly works in the independent cultural field form Romania & she is a member of 2 cultural associations: Unfold Motion (Timișoara) & Delazero (Bucharest). She is performer, choreographer, cultural manager & she constantly teach contemporary dance classes for various social & age categories. Since 2017,she has been part of the creative group Goldenboi.Screendance (along with the director Corina Andrian & the choreographer Mariana Gavriciuc), where they produce & make dance films, awarded & screened at major festivals in the country & abroad.

In the last 5 years, her artistic activity has been focused on real time composition performances, & cultural interventions in the public space in medium-sized communities, in the projects: ”DansNomad”, ”Connect Contemporary Dance Festival, ”Forms&Shapes” Summer School, ”Green Man Festival”, ”Obor Contemporan”, ”Fluid Layers” series.
Fellowships/residencies: ”Energy! Creative Grants”, ”At home in Hundorf”- artistic residency , ”Foreign Bodies” by 4Culture Association- artistic residency in Reykjavik.

She is the creator of: "r.e.g.e.n.e.r.a.t.i.o.n.”, "My invisible noisy inside", "A man to be loved", "Ibuse"-dance-theater performances, A body to read| in a dream- work in progress, "Prince Charming's Brides"& The story of an illusion-fashion design performance and co-creator of performative installation BORN(E), the video-performance ”Impressionable body”, the dance performance ”Vulnus - The quality of being easily hurt” and the dance performance "Connecting pleasures".

Institutions/organizations she has collaborated with: NON-Performing Arts Center, CNDB, LINOTIP, Timișoara French Institute, ARCEN, German State Theatre, Merlin Theatre, Hungarian Theatre ”Csiky Gergely”, HEI-House of European Institutes, At home in Hundorf Association, Diogenes Cultural Association , Tangent Association, Basque Theatre, Reactor Theatre, Contemporary Creative Dreamers, Noi Re-Creăm, Cărturești Bookstores, Bucharest Metropolitan Circus, Marin Theater Sorescu National, Imaginario Theatre, Baia Mare Municipal Theatre, Piatra Neamț Youth Theatre, Museum of Immersive New Art, Moveo Dance Company (MT), Le Plus Petit Cirque du Monde (FR).

Artists that sheworked with: Valentina de Piante(RO/IT), Filip Stoica(RO),Andreea Novac(RO), Vava Ștefănescu()RO,Andreea Duță(RO),Elena Zamfirescu(RO), Lavinia Urcan(RO),Simona Deaconescu(RO),Mariana Gavriciuc(RO),Corina Andrian(GB/RO),Camelia Neagoe(RO), Simona Dabija(RO),Maria Luiza Dimulescu(RO),Valentin Teodorescu(RO), Gaëtan Lévêque (FR),Ioana Mischie(RO),Mihaela Kavdanska&Dilmana Yordanova(RO/BG),Beth Sol(USA), Ana Mărginean (RO/USA).

Workshops with: Vittoria da Ferrari, Natalia Pieczuro , Chameleon Dance Company, Ștefan Crainic, Fabian Wixe, Alexandra Jara, Winston Reynolds, Yael Orni, Natalia Iwaniec, Linda Kapetanea ,Noa Wertheim, Rami Be'er, Ohad Naharin, Akihiro Yamamoto, Guillaume Gabriel, Noa Paran, Roser López Espinosa , Marie Topp, Ulli Witteman.

In 2022 she were awarded with a Prize offered by Bucharest National Dance Center & in 2023 her project - "Nomad Dance" was nominated at the Radio Romania Cultural Awards Gala.

Antonia Itineanț
Member

Antonia Itineanț is a choreographer, performer, and emerging cultural manager. She holds both a bachelor's and a master's degree in Choreography from the Theatre Faculty at U.N.A.T.C. “I. L. Caragiale” in Bucharest. After completing her master's degree, she returned to Timișoara, feeling that she could contribute to the development of contemporary dance there. Antonia began her journey in choreography driven by a desire to create movement.

She has continuously explored new directions in movement, striving to develop a distinct physical language and work differently with performers, whether through improvisation, collective creation, or refining existing material. A significant source of her inspiration is the theater of the absurd.

She has continued her professional development by participating in various workshops with both national and international choreographers, applying to educational programs dedicated to contemporary dance, and engaging in artistic residencies.

Among her most notable projects are: "In Between" - a dissertation performance, "Confluențe," "Dans Nomad," "Ethnic Love Mix Vol.12," "Fragility" (selected for “Home Fest”), and "The Story of Lost Stories" and the residence "Home at Hundorf". In 2023, she initiated the cultural project "Confluențe," dedicated to the ethnic minorities of Timișoara. The project aimed to create an artistic context that raises awareness of Timișoara's multi-ethnic richness among the city's residents by merging traditional forms of expression (ethnic folklore) with contemporary dance. In 2024, she gained a new funding for the cultural project "This is how Meta really feels" and became an associate professor at the Faculty of Music and Theatre, Acting Department - German Language, in Timișoara.

In the past years, she has had the opportunity to explore more as a performer and has discovered two new areas of interest: real-time composition and traditional dance. Real-time composition offers her the chance to be honest with herself as a performer and with the audience, building movement and relationships in real-time, while traditional dance fascinates and challenges her.

She aspires to further develop in the field of cultural management and make contemporary dance accessible to diverse audiences. Antonia aims to constantly challenge herself as a performer and choreographer, remain consistent in her work, and actively participate in Timișoara's cultural life.

She believes in sincere, sensitive, and contemporary performances that can be appreciated by all categories of audience.

Carolina Țapoc
Associate Artist

Carolina Țapoc is a dancer, performer, and artist. Born in Chișinău, Republic of Moldova, she grew up in Bucharest and now resides in Timișoara. After a 16-year career in sports dance, Carolina continued her artistic journey by studying contemporary, modern, and classical dance both domestically and internationally.

She has had the opportunity to travel and live outside Romania, dancing with companies such as Budapest Dance Theatre, Gangaray Dance Company (Hungary), Norrdans Dance Company (Sweden), Eastman - Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (Belgium), and Human Art Dance Company (Austria) as part of the projects and professional training programs hosted by these companies. Since returning to Romania, Carolina has been working as an artist in collaboration with state institutions as well as in independent cultural contexts.

Her professional experience includes a series of notable performances, the most recent being "The Story of Lost Stories" and "Planet Dance" produced by Unfold Motion, the show "Vrajitoarea Kera si cele 7 nestemate" at the Ambassadors Musical Theatre, and the production "Zestrea" at the Palace of Culture in Bistrița, co-created alongside Bianca Bor.

Unfold Motion is one of the associations in which she is actively involved lately, and with which she wishes to contribute to the enrichment of the dance community in the country and to cultivate the quality of the local artistic product.

Carolina's preferred perspective through which she approaches dance (and life in general) is play and playfulness, a philosophy that has become essential in her journey as an artist.

She firmly believes that by remaining adventurous, curious, simple, and honest, we maintain our authentic nature, can connect more closely with each other, and can grow more effectively and organically, both individually and collectively.

Carolina is preoccupied with the premise that true strength stems from embracing vulnerability - this represents one of her central subjects of exploration and negotiation, both personally and professionally.

She is most moved by emotions and the desire to move her audience emotionally. When she dances/creates, she seeks to touch people's souls.

She believes that life, in all its complexity and robust, unembellished splendor, is an endless source of inspiration, and that the coexistence of polarities and the dynamic conflict between them moves everything that is alive, including herself.

Lorena Dumitrașcu
Photographer

She is loving people, photography and dance. She always sought the way to the interior of the person, to connect and to catch at least some of who is that person.

The most beautiful feeling is when she takes pictures on film. ‘The film captivates you, it is real, imperfect and turns everything into a true experience’. She often leaves herself guided by intuition and manages to guide it well, to that place where few know how to look, or to look inwards.

Always in search of natural light, she finds her inspiration in people, with their stories, the masks they put on them, the fears they have; in books, films, mysticism and in Hans Zimmer's music. She has been photographing for 10 years with the same passion and curiosity, and meanwhile she created a project for life - Light Stories, which encompasses all the sights, emotions, connections and understandings she has had on her way through this world.

It’s a lifetime of dance. She explored some forms of it until she met with contemporary dance. Then she wanted to explore its shapes. ‘It is normal that any action that shouts ‘freedom’ will wrap me up in a safety I no longer want to leave.‘

Lorena used to be a dance teacher for the group of 50+ adults. The idea of the dance class came when we assessed the situation in Romania of people dancing only to a certain age and from the thought that we would not want to live in a world where we cannot dance because we are too ‘old’.

Unfold Motion is the first local landmark of contemporary dance in Timișoara and the western part of the country, founded at the initiative of choreographer Lavinia Urcan.

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