IDF 2

They're Not All Heroes

National Center of Dance Bucharest

By /with: Lilienfeld and Găbudeanu
Sound & live electronics: Rufi (Marian Cîtu)
Light design: Alexandru Bibere
Music: Rufi – original creation, Herbalizer, The Avalanches, Laurie Anderson
Producer: PETEC (Theatre and Book Association)
Co-producer: Colectiv A
 

Beyond telling the stories of our grandfathers with their commonplace or heroic aspects, stories about fight and survival, “Nu toți sunt eroi/ They’re Not All Heroes” is about a process of past integration, a process that takes place before the audience. We work with the idea of replenishment at personal level, which in turn challenges the audience to question its own „roots”, its own stability and emotional nurturing.
„In this moment, when everybody talks so much about generation gaps, these two artists are concerned about their grandfathers’ history, one Jew and the other one iron-guardist, with all their suffering in hard historical circumstances, which the nieces have tried to understand and express. It wasn’t easy for them, as they themselves confessed after the performance, and, even though their success is just a drop in an ocean of hate and intolerance, it is still a success. So it is possible, no matter how hard it is.”
Liana Tugearu

“Beyond transmitting a clear message, the performance Nu toţi sunt eroi/ They’re Not All Heroes indicates a possibility of resistance, if not of salvation from this carousel of history writing. The key comes to us from the beginning of the performance, from the embrace that unites in a single identity the two roads, the two biographies that will unfold from this kinship with the desire to live the unlived life, to enact with fidelity what hasn’t been directly experimented by the ones who propose this exercise of sheer sincerity. Its beauty and the underlying theme of courage are visible when sliding toward the inevitable fictionalization, given by the impossibility to completely identify oneself with the events that weave the dramaturgy of the performance.”