Romania and the Republic of Moldova Speak at HAU

Farid Fairuz 'Realia (Bucharest/Beirut)' (2014), performance, photo by Alina Usurelu, courtesy of HAU

Article by Alena Sokhan – in Berlin; Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014.

Twenty five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, fictional persona Farid Fairuz invited contemporary performance artists from Romania and the Republic of Moldova to dance, sing, speak and perform for an audience in Berlin at the Hebbel am Ufer (HAU). With a charismatic …[read on…]

Performance // Farid Fairuz: The Story of a Take-Over

Article by Xandra Popescu – in Berlin; Thursday, Nov. 06, 2014.

Farid Fairuz is the pseudonym of Mihai Mihalcea, a choreographer with a taste for the bizarre and the “oriental.” I first met him a few years ago while he was the director of the National Dance Center in Bucharest. …[read on…]