(Romania)
The production of the work and its presentation in Antistatic Festival is part of “Miscari Neautorizate” project, co-funded by The Administration of the National Cultural Fund Romania.
In his lecture-performance Unauthorized Movements: from Taylorism to Dance and Digital Surveillance, choreographer Mihai Mihalcea playfully interrogated how bodies, identities, and movements might escape the tendencies of observation, classification, and control. Building on that previous work, he invites actress Mara Bugarin to explore a performative space where presence, fiction, and cultural memory collide into fiction. Their encounter unfolds as a performative hallucination, layering and overlapping the imaginaries of distinct historical layers — the early days of industrialisation, the domestic optimism of the 1950s, and our present, in which technology grows ever more capable of recognising and interpreting our every move and behaviours.
Mihai Mihalcea (1969, Bucharest) is a choreographer, performer, and curator whose practice has spanned Romanian contemporary dance from the early 1990s to the present, in constant dialogue with international contexts and scenes. From the first independent initiatives after 1989 and the co founding of the National Center for Dance Bucharest, to performative, curatorial, video based, and educational projects, his work has consistently unfolded between artistic creation, critical reflection, and the building of contexts, both in Romania and across the European space. Whether under his own name or through Farid Fairuz (2010-2019), he has explored the body as a site of memory, identity, power, and cultural negotiation, in a trajectory that connects the stage to the archive, pedagogy, and public intervention.
The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not to be held responsible for the content of the project, nor for the ways in which the results of the project might be used. Those are entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary of the grant.
The international programme of the International festival for contemporary dance and performance “Antistatic” 2026 is organised by the “Brain Store Project” Foundation and the “Nomad Dance” Association with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture, Goethe-Institut Bulgaria, Sofia Municipality – Cultural Events Calendar, the research project “DanceMap”, funded by the “Horizon Europe” programme of the European Union, DANCE ON TOUR Austria – a project by “Tanzquartier” Vienna in cooperation with the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, and the Administration of the National Cultural Fund of Romania, as well as in partnership with RCCA Toplocentrala and “Derida” Stage.
Ticket prices: With care and understanding of the different situations our audience members find themselves in, in 2026 Antistatic continues the “pay what you can” pricing policy for all tickets to the events in the festival programme with an entry. Each spectator can choose how much to pay for their ticket from three price categories – 11, 15 and 20 euro.