April 4, 2025, 4 pm – 6 Pm, Ileana Berlogea Hall
Keynote Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Mihaela Michailov, Ph.D., of the UNATC “I. L. Caragiale.”
Mihaela Michailov is a playwright, performing arts critic, cultural educator, coordinator of the Master’s programme in Playwriting at UNATC “I.L. Caragiale” Bucharest, and co-founder of the Replika Center for Educational Theater in Bucharest. She has written over 30 dramatic scripts and adaptations. Her plays have been staged at the I.L. Caragiale National Theatre in Bucharest, the Marin Sorescu National Theatre in Craiova, the Mihai Eminescu National Theatre in Timișoara, the Very Small Theatre in Bucharest, the Excelsior Theatre in Bucharest, the Ion Creangă Theatre in Bucharest, the Gong Theatre in Sibiu, the Replika Center for Educational Theater, MASCA Theatre, Bucharest, Metropolis Theatre, Bucharest. In 2007, she won the UNITER Award for Best Play of the Year for the play Complexul România. In 2024, she and the team from the show INVISIBLE STORIES won the UNITER Award in the Animation Theatre/Children’s Theatre category. Her plays have been translated into Bulgarian, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Macedonian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Guest Speaker: Assist. Prof. Ilinca Tamara Todoruț PhD of the Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj
Ilinca Tamara Todoruț is a theatre critic, scholar, dramaturg, and translator based in Romania. She earned her doctorate from Yale School of Drama, and now teaches at the Faculty of Theater and Film at Babeș-Bolyai University. Her articles can be found in journals such as Theater, TDR: The Drama Review, Performance Research, Journal of Poverty, European Stages, and Theatre History Studies. She contributed to The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy, and authored Christoph Schlingensief’s Realist Theater (Routledge 2022). She regularly collaborates with theatre publications such as Scena.ro and TheTheatreTimes.com, and served as Artistic Director of the 2023 International Online Theatre Festival (IOTF).
Program Breakdown
Assoc. Prof. Mihaela Michailov, PhD:
4:00pm-4:15pm keynote speaker
Andreea Stoicescu associate professor at the Bucharest Conservatory of Music – “Some Philosophical Reflections about The Act of Walking In Modern and Contemporary Dance”
4:15pm-4:25pm lecture
4:25pm-4:30pm questions & answers
Gina Șerbănescu – “Criticism and the meaning of stage incarnation in the contemporary world”
4:30pm-4:40pm lecture
4:40pm-4:45pm questions & answers
Nicolae Gligor MA student at UNIBUC, UNESCO Department, Intercultural Management Program – “A performative history of myth of Oedipus: From Greek tragedy to Martha Graham”
4:45pm-4:55pm lecture
4:55pm-5:00pm questions & answers
5:00pm-6:00pm round table led by guest speaker Assist. Prof. Ilinca Tamara Todoruț PhD
Theme: New Models of Creation and New Strategies of Creativity in Contemporary Dance.
Subtheme:
- The Aesthetics of Representation in Relation to Nowadays Social Transformation
- The Exploration of New Sensorialities in Multimedia Dance Pieces
- Designing Body Presences Encompassing Immersive Spaces
- Unobedient Bodies, Transgressive Bodies in Reflexive Contexts of Contemporary Dance. Imagining New Expresivities and Forms of Adressing Urgent Realities
- Co-creation, Co-participation and Co-speculation. The Aesthetics of Designing Dance Pieces Involving Open Spaces of Spectatorship
- Contexts of Experimental Romanian Dance Before and After 1989