Simona Deaconescu (b. 1987) is a choreographer and experimental filmmaker working across performance, installation, and cinema. Her artistic practice explores the crisis of perception in society and speculates on future scenarios of the body. She works with temporal ambiguity and dissociation of meaning to create tense compositions—often as a critical response to the world we live in. In her recent work, she focuses on the fragile synergy of human desires in relation to nature, history, and technology. She studied choreography at the National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest and film directing at the Media University in Romania. Her projects have been co-produced within international research and innovation networks such as Moving Digits, MODINA, biofriction, and Forecast. She was selected twice as an Aerowaves Artist (2018, 2022) and as a Moving Balkan Artist in 2025. She received the CNDB Award for her contribution to contemporary dance in Romania in 2015, and was appointed Associated Artist of the National Centre for Dance Bucharest in 2022. Her creations include performances, installations, films, and video works, presented across Europe, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Madagascar. Simona sees pedagogy as a natural extension of her artistic practice, facilitating workshops for both professionals and audiences, focused on chronopoetical practices and interdisciplinarity. Over time, she has been invited to lead workshops and give lectures in various international contexts, working with institutions and festivals across Romania, Europe and North America.