Mihai Mihalcea's pedagogical activity includes classes and workshops held at:
“Floria Capsali” High School of Choreography Bucharest
Multi art Dans Centre Bucharest
The National Center for Bucharest
Faculty of Theatre at the University “Babes Bolyai” in Cluj-Napoca
Centre Chorégraphique National de Franche-Comte in Belfort
La Manufacture CDCN
Atelier du Rhin – Centre dramatique regional – Colmar
National Opera of Chisinau
Inter/National Center for Contemporary Dance, Bucharest
High School of Choreography and Dramatic Art “Octavian Stroia”, Cluj Napoca
Academy of Theatre of Iasi, Choreography Section
Tanzquartier Wien
Theatre Internationale de la Cite Universitaire, Paris
Kunsthalle Bega
”Octavian Stroia” High School of Choreography and Dramatic Arts
Dramatic Theatre “Fani Tardini”, Galati
Ovidius University, Arts Faculty, Constanta
The Academy for Dance and Performance
UNAUTHORIZED BODIES AND MOVEMENTS
2025, October 13-17, The Academy of Dance and Performance
What forms of motion escape definition? How do bodies avoid taxonomies of power? By interrogating the structures that seek to define, regulate and recognize movement: from geopolitical boundaries to algorithmic tracking, from intelligent tracking and measuring devices to choreographic traditions and social norms, we will question the body’s relationship to control and discipline and foster unpredictability and a language of movement that destabilizes expectations.
Unauthorized Bodies and Movements is a workshop that focuses on the potential of movement and dance to open a liberating space for bodies, images and ideas that refuse to be contained.
THE PERFECT PERFORMANCE
The workshop is meant to introduce and develop tools for creating any layer of a performance using only the body as a main unlimited and powerful resource. Without being a 'free impro', the participants will generate their own performative material in real time by using any element which is already present on the spot, with no preparations being made in advance. The notion of perfection is introduced only as a disturbing key element in order to feed the tensions: possibilities and choices to be done, failure and success, accidents and planned actions and so on. I would like to go deeper in my research related to what I call “the perfect performance” and to infiltrate this practice of working not only in conventional frames, but also beyond the walls of cultural institutions. It is all about performing the present and what are we able to build and structure in real time. Without any props and fireworks, each workshop is a one-off performance.
OTHER WORKSHOPS
THINKING AND MOVING
THROUGH THE UNRESOLVED
Goldsmiths University, London
04.12.2015
WORKSHOP WITH THE SELECTED ARTISTS IN
THE FRAME OF BIENNIAL FOR EMERGING ARTS
Bucharest
06-10.10.2015