Performance Dance

“I live, thus I provoke.” is the slogan of a woman artist that overturned the performance of contemporary bodies. In Orlan’s vision: “the skin throws you of the scent…in life you have nothing but your skin…there is a flaw in inter-human relationships, because you never really know what you have…do I have an angel skin, or am I a she-devil…

Politics is the show. The political discourse transfers a spectacular rhetoric, with all its emotional and persuasive thresholds activated, into the public medium of emersion. The public appearances from within the political frame of reference have a dramaturgy with evolutionary levels that are clearly determined.

The Platform of Contemporary Dance was opened on September 17th by Mihai Mihalcea, the director of the National Centre of Dance in Bucharest, Vava Ştefănescu, artistic director NCDB and by the Minister of Culture, Theodor Paleologul, whose question - "Hey you ephemeral is it referring to me?" - was among the few good jokes of a minister who wants to have humour at any costs and who, often, screws it up.

The Platform of Contemporary Dance (17th - 20th of September) is an identity manifest through which the representatives of a phenomenon that has constantly been deprived of authority reclaim the most democratic right: the right to socio-cultural representation. A right which, no matter how absurd it would seem, was denied to the domain of artistic action in which the debate of the fundamental concepts of the contemporary art would be best placed.

At age 14 (1987), the Iranian refugee Hooman Sharifi settled in Norway. In 2000 he created "The Impure Company", with which he is present at the most important festivals in the world. Hooman Sharifi makes socio-political choreography.