[In the framework of Performing Revolution Festival]

Revolutionary Voices: Performing Arts in Central & Eastern Europe in the 1980s

Presented by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in the frame of Performing Revolution 

This exhibition examines how performances attempted to break boundaries set by the communist state's politicians and censors, focusing on theater, music, and dance events that contested the prevailing totalitarian regime and anticipated the forthcoming political and social changes. As the revolutions in most Soviet bloc countries were not the result of a violent overthrow of power, art was one the main arenas where "the revolutionary" started to happen. Curated by Karen Burke, Assistant Chief, Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and Aniko Szucs, Ph.D. Candidate in Performance Studies at New York University.

The Romanian presence in the exhibition has been conceived and supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York.

[Image: Poster of the "Wasted Morning" (1987), to be featured in the Romanian section of the exhibition. Courtesy of the artist Clara Tamas]