ROMANYEAH!
A Live Audio-Video Performance imagined by Cinty Ionesu
As snapshots from an ongoing present, pointedly collected and collated from an assumed subjective perspective, yet still managing to focus on the very details making the difference, ROMANYEAH! is a road-remix-performance inviting the audience to take a walk on the wild East side with Cinty Ionescu as she weaves an unconventional journey through visions and sounds of contemporary Romania.
ROMANYEAH! has been conceived in 2012 as a Romanian-American artistic collaboration blending a unique live mix of visuals and music.
The theme is Romania, as seen, shot and assembled live by Cinty, as a visual and musical journey through a land of cultural and social paradoxes. For ROMANYEAH! Cinty Ionescu has been working with acclaimed Brooklyn-based producer, mix engineer and DJ Brennan Green (Chinatown) who created an original mix for the set. It includes Romanian music samples from classical, folk, traditional and gypsy music, to iconic songs from the ’30 and ‘40s, psychedelic rock of the '70s, and contemporary Romanian electro music, all of them mixed and integrated to the sound of Brennan Green.
For each live performance Cinty invites one or several special guests to blend their own vision to the Romanian journey. ROMANYEAH! was premiered in 2012 in New York, at The Living Theatre with viola player Jeannann Dara as a guest, presented in Germany with spoken word artist Jonas Bolle and reimagined and performed all around Romania in 2013 alongside live instruments played by Mandela Gajol (flute, jaw harp, kalimba, recorder, penny whistle) and performative interventions by actress Nicoleta Lefter or dancer and choreographer Andreea Duță.
As snapshots from an ongoing present, pointedly collected and collated from an assumed subjective perspective, yet still managing to focus on the very details making the difference, ROMANYEAH! is a road-remix-performance inviting the audience to take a walk on the wild East side with Cinty Ionescu as she weaves an unconventional journey through visions and sounds of contemporary Romania.
ROMANYEAH! has been conceived in 2012 as a Romanian-American artistic collaboration blending a unique live mix of visuals and music.
The theme is Romania, as seen, shot and assembled live by Cinty, as a visual and musical journey through a land of cultural and social paradoxes. For ROMANYEAH! Cinty Ionescu has been working with acclaimed Brooklyn-based producer, mix engineer and DJ Brennan Green (Chinatown) who created an original mix for the set. It includes Romanian music samples from classical, folk, traditional and gypsy music, to iconic songs from the ’30 and ‘40s, psychedelic rock of the '70s, and contemporary Romanian electro music, all of them mixed and integrated to the sound of Brennan Green.
For each live performance Cinty invites one or several special guests to blend their own vision to the Romanian journey. ROMANYEAH! was premiered in 2012 in New York, at The Living Theatre with viola player Jeannann Dara as a guest, presented in Germany with spoken word artist Jonas Bolle and reimagined and performed all around Romania in 2013 alongside live instruments played by Mandela Gajol (flute, jaw harp, kalimba, recorder, penny whistle) and performative interventions by actress Nicoleta Lefter or dancer and choreographer Andreea Duță.