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Mihai Babuşka - Interview

I know you don't like to talk about yourself and your successes. You were telling me some time ago about a certain maturation of verbal expression that, with dancers, develops in time in parallel with motile expression.  I noticed that we, dancers, do a lot of things

Corina Dumitrescu - Interview

A few years elapsed from our last interview – enough for a change of viewpoint in retrospect. What do you think was more important in your career: school, college or practicing at the theatre? I'm asking this considering the common perception according to which most

National Reunion On Dance Themes

Slowly but certainly, the world of the Romanian dance submits to the process of decentralization, typical to transition even if it undergoes it unconsciously. Bucharest doesn't have, anymore, the monopoly of the important events: in Constanţa there is a group of classical

The International Festival Of Choreographic Creation Iaşi 1993, 2nd Edition

Iaşi proved to be, for the second time, an excellent host for The Competition-Festival of choreographic creation with international participation, initiated last year by the ballet critic Dan Brezuleanu, the director of the Festival. The artists benefited from a modern

The Secondary Takes Precedence

I am fascinated by the theory of professor Nemoianu on the long-term influence of the literary text (secondary) on political representations and ideas (principal) in the history of the Western world, as well as by a recent study on the ethos of education as the substance

Interview With Karine Saporta - 28 January 1992

Karine Saporta is considered one of the most prestigious personalities of contemporary European dance. With higher education in philosophy and sociology in France and the USA, she has continuously developed her research in the direction of dance, from video to photography.

Christine Bastin - Interview, 1991

A complex cultural program begins this month in Bucharest: La danse en voyage, organized by France for Romania. Six contemporary dance companies from France will come monthly to Bucharest, Iaşi, Timişoara, Cluj and Constanţa. Mrs. Christine Bastin, you are the first choreographer

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The French Academy The spirit is at the mercy of the body; like blind people at the mercy of their seeing aides. The body touches and does all; begins and achieves all. It is from the body that our true lights emanate, and even our only lights that are our needs and appetites,

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I am thinking first of all of what we can do ourselves. Through the program I am coordinating, initiated by Alexandru Dabija and energetically supported by Mrs. Dorina Lazăr, I intend to bring to the public's attention the situation of dance in Romania, be it classical,

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To make the body talk. To make the entrails talk. To make the marrow and bones talk to exhaustion, to abandon. Le livre des resemblances by Edmond Jabes

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Dance is the poetry of movement, the supreme poem of life because, more so than music, is Its direct manifestation… which does not speak, does not meditate, but only lives. by Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu (1876-1955)

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Dancer, you, transfigurationof everything that's bound to die,oblation, the ultimate tree, growing from rotation,ruler over time, blossom flying high! (XVIII, Sonnets to Orpheus) by Rainer Maria Rilke