New Volume Published by Romanian Fulbrighter Cristina Modreanu

As a follow-up of her 2011-2012 Fulbright research grant at New York University, well-known Romanian theatre critic Dr. Cristina Modreanu has recently published the volume Utopii performative. Artisti radicali ai scenei americane in secolul 21 (Performative Utopias. Radical Artists on the American 21st Century Stage), Humanitas Publishing House, 2014.

The book has been launched in a series of events organized in Bucharest, Sibiu and Timisoara and is available in all important book stores. It is the first book on American theatre published in many years in Romania and offers a comprehensive image on theatrical arts in the U.S. and its most radical representatives: Robert Wilson, Meredith Monk, Richard Foreman, Lee Breuer, Merce Cunningham, Wooster Group, Laurie Anderson, as well as the younger “voices”, Young Jean Lee, Jay Scheib, Elevator Repair Service, Radiohole, Temporary Distortion, The Civilians, Liz Magic Laser.

This cultural project was supported by the Theatre Union in Romania (UNITER) and the book launchings were made with the contribution and in the presence of personalities such as Saviana Stanescu (a Fulbright alumna as well), George Banu, Alexa Visarion (Fulbright Alumnus) and George Mihaita.

   

                        





                            from left to right                                                                               from left to right
             Saviana Stanescu & Cristina Modreanu                                George Mihaita, Cristina Modreanu, Alexa Visarion