ABSTRACT
With few and short-lived exceptions, contemporary Romanian dance has thrived at venues whose main characteristic was a lack of visibility. For 22 years, Romanian contemporary dance has been fighting for a visible status. Tolerated in spaces it did not own, spaces it shared with various institutions with which it had little in common, the public presence of dance in Romania was syncopated if not in a series of hiccups, then in a sequence of discrete bits and bites of normality. Dance built upon several demolition acts. Dance became visible through a series of paradoxical absences. Sometimes a lack of history can be the best possible history.
