Surfing twisted e(motions) (working title), Friday, 18th of September, 13:00h, The Round Hall

[…]… “in Bucharest one could feel a fake spring in the air. As well heated as it was by the few earthen stoves, huge and adorned, the hall was shining under the lit chandelier with arms like tree branches and the mirrors were amplifying the gorgeousness and luxury. Bucharest aristocrats’ elegance was glittering, as it had just escaped Oriental slowness, and it was now displaying luxury and a striking taste for modernism. A large group of cultivated youths had returned from the West wishing to plant in the capital city the seeds of an elite intellectual and artistic life. Fiddlers as genius as Anton Pann would hit the outskirts and make its artistic fervor even more intense, leaving the city centre available for new forms of the music life. “ Excerpt from “Principesa Elena Bibescu – marea pianistă”, by C.D. Zeletin

Mihai Mihalcea lives and works in Bucharest. He is well known as one of the most active Romanian artist involved in the process of establishing a context for the development of the contemporary dance in Romania, working as choreographer, performer, teacher, artistic director and manager in different structures.
Mihai Mihalcea was invited in artistic residences in different Europen countries and he performed or/and presented his work in festivals in France, Germany, Hungary, Austria, USA, Italy, Ukraine, Poland, Bulgaria, Portugal, Belgium, Slovenia and Holland.
Since 2006 Mihai Mihalcea took over the direction of The National Centre of Dance in Bucharest. In 2006 he was nominated for “Paris-Europe Prix 2006” by Maison d’Europe et d’Orient, Paris.