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On November 7, 2025, at 19:00, at 23 Serghei Lazo St., Chisinau, will take place ACTING OUT, an interdisciplinary performance (theater, text, live music, video) signed by director Mihai Lukács and performed by actress Katia Pascariu. Admission is free, subject to availability.

About the performance

ACTING OUT explores the body, memory and resistance, inspired by the life of Estherei Magyar-Gonda, dancer, anti-fascist activist and one of the architects of Romanian modern dance. Starting from her deportation to Transnistria and her renunciation of the stage, the performance shows how the body becomes an archive of trauma and a tool of political and pedagogical struggle.

Actress Katia Pascariu interweaves Esther’s biography with her own bodily experience, going through pressures, abuses and forms of resistance through alternative pedagogies. The director Mihai Lukács proposes a collage of gestures, silences, live music and video images, inviting the audience to reconstruct meanings from discontinuity and absence.

The performance will be followed by an artist talk, a space for direct dialog with the artistic team, for critical reflection and discussion with the audience.

Reflection workshop – November 8

On November 8, between 11:00 and 15:00, actress Katia Pascariu will hold a workshop at Queer Cafe, dedicated to power dynamics in schools. Participants will explore, through conversation and performative exercises, how the body and art can become tools for awareness and solidarity. Limited number of places: 20.
Registration: Application form

About the artists

Katia Pascariu is a theater and film actress, winner of the Gopo Award for Best Actress (2022) and distinguished by The New York Times as one of the best actors of the year. In 2025, she received the Boccalino d’Oro Award at the Locarno Film Festival. A graduate of UNATC Bucharest, she has extensive experience on the independent stage and in political theater projects.

Mihai Lukács is director, playwright and researcher, founder of Dialectic Center, a platform dedicated to interdisciplinary performance. His projects investigate the relationship between art and society, corporality and memory. Recent works include Mansdorf (Jewish State Theater, 2023) and Mama (Dialectic Center, 2020).

About the project

The Acting Out tour (2025-2026) is organized by the Dialectic Centre and co-funded by the National Cultural Fund Administration.
Note: the project does not necessarily reflect the position of the AFCN; the sole responsibility for the content and use of the results lies with the beneficiary of the funding.