Around the Ceremony
Photo exhibition:
EUROPE: IN-BETWEEN DOCUMENTARY and FICTION
Erich Lessing’s photographs on Post-World War II Europe EXPANDED
June 19, 2009 to July 3, 2009, Bucharest – Romania
The National Dance Center
B-dul Nicolae Balcescu no. 2 (National Theatre, northern side, floor 3/4)
www.cndb.ro
ARTISTS
Erich Lessing (A)
Anna Artaker (A)
Anna Fabricius (H)
IRWIN (SLO)
Elżbieta Jabłońska (PL)
Šejla Kamerić (BiH)
Ivana Keser (HR)
Martin Kollár (SK)
Boris Missirkov & Georgi Bogdanov (BG)
Tanja Ostojić (SRB)
Erzen Shkolloli (KOS)
Ilija Šoškić (MNE)
Žaneta Vangeli (MK)
Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor (RO)
Manfred Willmann (A)
Curators: Marina Gržinić and Walter Seidl
Opening talk with Erich Lessing and Tanja Ostojić conducted by Marina Gržinić and Walter Seidl: June 18, 2009, 7 pm
Opening of the exhibition: June 18, 2009 8 pm
Opening speeches by Marina Gržinić, Walter Seidl and Dejan Petrović
A comprehensive catalogue of the exhibition will be available with essays by Rozalinda Borcila, Marina Gržinić and Walter Seidl.
Opening talk with Erich Lessing and Tanja Ostojić conducted by Marina Gržinić and Walter Seidl: June 18, 2009, 7 pm
Opening of the exhibition: June 18, 2009 8 pm
Opening speeches by Marina Gržinić, Walter Seidl and Dejan Petrović
A comprehensive catalogue of the exhibition will be available with essays by Rozalinda Borcila, Marina Gržinić and Walter Seidl.
Dance Performance, June 24, 2009:
“You come to see the show and you’ll get an extra burger!”
The National Centre of Dance
B-dul Nicolae Balcescu no. 2 (National Theatre, northern side, floor 3/4)
www.cndb.ro
Concept, text and choreography: Mihai Mihalcea & Solitude Project; Performers: Mihaela Sirbu & Mihai Mihalcea
Music mix from: Eartha Kitt, Josef Haydn, Kurt Dahle, Jérôme Soudan, Adolphe Adam
Production: Solitude Project
Performed in more than six languages at festivals in Poland, France, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Austria and Holland, the “show” is focusing on the author’s public confession were he’s adopting a critically position regarding the problems of the society he’s living in and especially the dance field. The author is questioning upon the art of dance, permanently swinging between dance and what’s behind it. Not without irony the author let’s himself flowing with his extreme subjectivity. Breaking theatrical laws and conventions he unfolds details about the performance “making of” and revealing events that had marked his forming as a dancer.
„You come to see the show and you’ll get an extra burger!” is an anti-show as called by his author. It’s a work in perpetual transformation, different from a performance to another and leaving the impression of a rehearsal that takes place in front of the audience. Its author is creating a permanent remix of the content, mixing with no restraint temporal fields and last minute feelings and he is trying to create a propitious space for questions and reflections launched thru actress Mihaela Sarbu’s voice.
After the performances held at Centre National de la Danse Paris the dance critic Marie–Christine Vernay wrote in Liberation (December 12, 2002): “You come to see the show and you’ll get an extra burger”of the Romanian choreographer Mihai Mihalcea is an intelligent, emotional and full of humor performance”.