8-9 pm, RCI Auditorium EVENING ENCOUNTER with film and theatre director Alexa Visarion The evening continues with theatre and film director and screenwriter Alexa Visarion in dialogue with Corina Şuteu. Visarion will discuss his career, which spans nearly 40 years both in Romania and internationally, and his work with American and Romanian-American Theatre. In addition, Saviana Stănescu will also present two books by Visarion which were recently published in Romania.
9-10:30 pm, RCI Auditorium FILM SCREENING: Ahead of the Silence (Înainte de tăcere) by Alexa Visarion
Set and costume designers Oana Botez-Ban, Marina Draghici and Nic Ularu are three of a broader group of Romanian-born creators whose talent, rooted in their homeland, found flourish and expansion in the US. Initiated and curated by Nic Ularu, the exhibition offers a timely glimpse into some of the artists' recent creations in context of their inherent reflection of qualities particular to the Romanian school of design.
Oana Botez-Ban has designed for major theater and dance companies, including The National Theatre of Bucharest, and has participated with international theater festivals such as the Prague Quadrennial Exhibition. Oana is featured in the first Romanian theatre design catalogue, Scenografica. Since 1999, her New York career has included collaborations in costume design with Richard Foreman, Richard Schechner, Brian Kulick, Zelda Fichlander, Karin Coonrod, Jay Scheib, Eduardo Machado, Gus Solomon Jr.&Paradigm, Carmen de Lavallade, Adrian Giurgea, Gisela Cardenas, Pennsylvania Ballet, Niky Wolcz, Erwin Maas, Veniamin Smekhov, Zishan Ugurlu, Doris Mirescu, Erin Mee, Alva Rogers, Saviana Stanescu, Naomi Goldberg, The Play Company, Judith Ren-Lay, Michael Sexton, Pig Iron Company, Charles Moulton, Loy Arcenas, and Ripe Time. She holds the MFA in Design from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, and is the Princess Grace Recipient for 2007. [am inclus 5 poze de-ale ei]
Images from the productions of"Carmina Burana" (Pennsylvania Ballet 2007), "Paradigm" (The Joyce Theater 2006); "Agamemnon" (Vortex Theater 2005)
Marina Draghici has been designing costumes and scenery for theatre, opera, ballet, film and television since graduating from the Yale University School of Drama in 1988. Her work has been seen at the National Paris Opera, Lyon Opera, Grand Theatre de Bordeaux, the Edinburgh Festival, the National Theater of Prague, New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, the Delacorte Theatre/Shakespeare in the Park, the Joseph Papp Public Theater, Manhattan Theater Club, New York Theatre Workshop, Theatre for a New Audience and elsewhere. She has collaborated with fellow Romanians Andrei Şerban, Liviu Ciulei, and Andrei Belgrader, as well as George C. Wolfe, Mark Wing-Davey, Francesca Zambello, JoAnne Akalaitis, Michael Grief, among others. She has worked for Merchant/Ivory Productions, Killer Films, Showtime, and CBS. She has costumed such actors as Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Kevin Kline, Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi, David Arquette, Claire Danes, Marcia Gay Harden, Isabella Roselinni, Liev Schreiber and many others.
[am inclus 7 poze de-ale ei. Ea ar vrea sa fie aranjate exact ca la http://www.marinadraghici.com/opera.html, ca' cica s-a gindit mult cum sa le puna; daca ti se pare aiurea atunci putem pune 6 din ele, cite 3 pe rind]
Images from the production "Les Indes Galantes" (Paris National Opera/Palais Garnier)
Nic Ularu has extensive design credits in the USA and Europe, including theatres in Sweden, Northern Ireland and Romania. He earned the OBIE Award for Outstanding Achievement in Off-Broadway for the set design of the Talking Band's Painted Snake in a Painted Chair (LaMaMa, NYC, 2002-2003). Ularu's designs for Star Messengers, Underbelly, Ondine and Belize appeared with the US entries at the Prague Quadrennial Exhibitions in 1998, 2003 and 2007. Recent freelance work includes set design for several acclaimed productions at LaMaMa and at the Flea Theater (NYC), costume and set design for The Nutcracker (Ballet Academy of Gothenburg, Sweden), The Crucible and Baby with the Bathwater (National Theatre of Constanta, Romania). Nic has also curated major design exhibitions, including the US entry at the 2007 Prague Quadrennial Exhibition. Nic has had an extensive career in teaching scene and/or costume design in Romania, Germany, Sweden, England, Italy, Denmark and Hong Kong. Prior to his appointment at the University of South Carolina, where he presently serves as head of the design program and as director of graduate studies, Nic taught scenic design at the Smith College and was a visiting professor at the Universities of Texas, Minnesota and Tennessee.
