Discovering the European Spirit through the Emotions of Managing an Artistic Team

Authors

  • Ștefana Pop-Curșeu Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Keywords:

EuroFabrique, emotions, cultural management, theatrical laboratory, Orpheus et Eurydice, Europe is Lost, Kae Tempest, performative installation, recycling of myths, feedback method

Abstract

Now that the idea of the European unity is more and more questioned, artistic and educational projects such as Eurofabrique 2 show that there are still common myths to be recycled, common path to be discovered, pedagogical methods to be shared and consistent European spirit to be artistically and humanly enjoyed. We propose to follow through the lens of emotional engagement and exploration the encounter of 30 students and their teachers who worked together, in Romania as well as in France, from the very first idea to the final results of their theatrical laboratory, exploring dramaturgy, spaces, costumes and masks, dance, film and performance, and searching the feelings, thoughts, beliefs and cultural memories that unite young generations beyond borders, integrating individual choices and understandings of European culture, in its past and future unfolding.

Author Biography

Ștefana Pop-Curșeu, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

ŞTEFANA POP-CURŞEU, PhD at the University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, in Theatre and Scenic Arts, is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Theatre and Film of Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, where she teaches antique and medieval theatre history and modern theory of theatre. She published many articles in the domain of Theatre, in France and Romania. She translated alone or in collaboration with Ioan Pop-Curşeu a dozen of books from French to Romanian, such as Samuel Beckett, Sfârșit de partidă, 2000, L.-F. Céline, Convorbiri cu Profesorul Y, 2006, Pascal Vrebos, Avarul II,
2010, Gilles Deleuze, Imaginea-mişcare, 2012), and is author of three books: Pour une théâtralité picturale. Bruegel et Ghelderode en jeux de miroirs, Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă, Cluj-Napoca, 2012,  Iconografia vrăjitoriei în arta religioasă românească. Eseu de antropologie vizuală, 2020 (in collaboration with Ioan Pop-Curșeu), Dada se dă-n spectacol, 2023 (in collaboration with Ioan Pop-Curșeu & Ion Pop). She wrote in collaboration with Ioan Pop-Curșeu two theatre scripts and directed two performances based on these scripts (Killed by Friendly Fire, 2014 and Every Tzara has his Dada; 2016). She is also, since 2011, the artistic director of The National Theatre in Cluj-Napoca.

Published

2025-01-19

How to Cite

Pop-Curșeu, Ștefana. (2025). Discovering the European Spirit through the Emotions of Managing an Artistic Team. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai - Dramatica, 69(2), 177–204. Retrieved from https://dramatica.ro/index.php/j/article/view/328