Book Launch: De la act la performare. Un ghid pentru performerul secolului al XXI-lea

Mikhail Baryshnikov
Born in Riga, Latvia, Mikhail Baryshnikov is considered one of the greatest dancers of our time. After commencing his career with the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad, he came to the West in 1974, settling in New York City where he worked with George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins among others. As an artist he has performed widely throughout the world in dance and theater, on- and off-Broadway, as well as in television and film. 

He is Artistic Director of Baryshnikov Arts in New York City, a creative space for presenting and nurturing multidisciplinary artists since 2005. Under his leadership the Center’s programs have grown to serve more than 800 artists and more than 20,000 audience members annually.

 

His photography, which characteristically features blurred edges and amorphous figures that approximate the excitement of dance in performances, has been exhibited in festivals, museums, and galleries around the world. His work has been featured in publications such as Aperture, Vanity Fair, and New York Magazine, and is included in public and private collections. His book Merce My Way was published in 2008.

Jan Fabre (b. 1958, Antwerp) is regarded as one of the most innovative and versatile personalities in the contemporary international art scene. Over the past 40 years, he has made his mark as a visual artist, theatre artist and author. He describes himself as a consilience artist, someone who is constantly searching for bridges between fact-based theory and practice across disciplines. 

Jan Fabre changed the idiom of theatre by bringing real action and real-time onto the stage. Following his historic 8-hour production This is theatre like it was to be expected and foreseen (1982) and the 4-hour The Power of Theatrical Madness (1984), he explored new territory with Mount Olympus. To glorify the cult of tragedy, a 24-hour performance (2015); a monumental marathon piece with which he rewrote international theatre history. With his newest creation (2023), the 8-hour performance Peak Mytikas (On the top of Mount Olympus) Jan Fabre continues his research on the Greek tragedies, focusing on the house of Thebes, the tragedies of Oedipus and Antigone.

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Event in English, with translation into Romanian

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