Keywords: children; students; UN; Ikea; illiteracy; education; kindergarten; Moldova
It took a joint effort by government, the UN, and IKEA to open a kindergarten in one Moldovan Romani settlement. Perhaps the next 50 will go more smoothly.
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Excellence awards in the academic sphere are, obviously, a practice reserved to remarkable minds. Undoubtedly, one such mind is Eugenio Barba, a representative personality of the theatre world since the 1960s, an artistic character our forms of tribute can only scarcely try to encompass. We could not sum up his complex activity as theatre director, theorist and pedagogue, as founder of institutions and tireless experimenter, as prestigious, widely translated author, and as passionate and resourceful cultural promoter, if we did not apply the “virtue of omission”, a technique recommended by Barba himself to the actor, so that the latter does not “disperse oneself around in an excess of expressivity and vitality”.
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Keywords: Miron Cozma; Social Democratic Party; Ion Iliescu; Romanian Press Club; Adevarul; Justice and Truth Alliance; Democratic Party; Emil Boc; Mediafax
President-elect Basescu tries to exploit his predecessor's botched attempt to spring an old ally from jail.
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Keywords: merchandiser; job analysis; job descriptions; skills; organizational behaviour;
The research aims at analyzing the characteristics of the position of merchandiser, based on the results of the questionnaire applied to subjects who carry out the duties specific to the position and results in the definition of the skills necessary for the merchandisers and in the suggestion of a Job description based on which this activity can be considered in order to be included in the economic activities classified in Romanian economy standards.
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Keywords: fair value; empirical study; historical cost; evaluation;
The disadvantages of preserving an accounting system based on historical cost and the need to adapt the accounting model to the investors’ requirements, has made it necessary to find solutions; one such solution is to use other valuation bases, instead of historical cost. The reshaping of the valuebased accounting model consists of reconsidering the basic principles of valuation, allowing accountancy to progress from the system of historical cost to that of fair value. The concept of fair value has been the source of vivid debates with regards to its meaning in contemporary accountancy, both in theory and in practice. Due to the ever increasing importance of the concept of fair value, particularly visible lately, we have decided it was relevant to focus our research work on the analysis of how this concept was adopted in Romania.
More...Keywords: culture; interculturality; globalization; deconstruction
We live in a complex, ultra-dynamic and uncertain world for the human being, a world subjected permanently to an avalanche of challenges and demand that are often unpredictable. The understanding of the contemporary society and of its evolving course calls for an approach to the topic of culture. Together with the economic issues, the cultural subjects have gained increased importance in accomplishing and understanding social development and geopolitical transformations. More and more realities and phenomena of the contemporary world are being explained through culture, which has become one of the decisive non-economic factors of advance. The idea of a new paradigm of culture is being launched, as a result of a reconfiguration of its internal structure, through the expansion of knowledge and communication, of consumer culture, of post-modern forms of art etc. At the same time, we witness an alteration of social mentalities, cultural conducts, taste, of the contemporary man’s whole lifestyle. If modern cultural globalization has initiated the expansion of western values and lifestyles (occidentalization of the world), then, the development of informational society and the amplification of communications have caused a multi-directional development, a non-unilateral globalization, very hard to understand and manage. Interculturality, as a theoretical and actional principle, is intended as the path toward understanding and solving the contemporary world’s challenges.
More...Keywords: individual pardon; decree; institutionalization; deinstitutionalization; reinstitutionalisation
This article investigates the legal and political evolution of the institution of pardon in Romania between 2000 and 2009 with a special focus on the abrupt changes it has been subjected to during the mentioned period. Two important episodes need to be recalled for the redefinition of this concept: the Law no. 546/2002 permitting the regulatory and institutional framework of this institution (previously functioning under a decree issued in 1952); and the pardon and its revocation in the case of Miron Cozma. The article emphasizes a strong articulation between the progressive legal framework of the institution of individual pardon, the dynamics of the political context, and the personal strategies of legitimation used by President.
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Keywords: chamber music; jazz influences; Iași composers; stylistic-interpretative aspects;
Chamber Music has always been a genre predefined to a certain audience. At the merge of the 20th and 21st Centuries, the interest for this genre has grown exponentially, from Romanian and Bessarabia composers alike. Because the concept of Chamber Music has evolved during the ages and has always offered the possibility for experimentation, it has managed to infiltrate into present day Ensembles, by associating timbre and constructive heterogenic instruments. The search for new ways of expressing oneself, new sounds and new stylistic methods and the desire to use new types of sound emission represent a continuous motivation for the composers, whose contribution to the Chamber Ensembles is frequently enrichened. Thus, the Jazz influence has a significant role inside the works of Sabin Pautza, Romeo Cozma (Romania) and Oleg Negruța (Republic of Moldova). The article is focused on Chamber Music compositions with Jazz influences, written by Iași authors. The purpose is to create a general presentation and also a structural-interpretive analysis of some works from my personal repertoire, which was actually one of the main criteria of selection. The objects of the research are: highlighting the particularities of the genre and style of contemporary works; presenting the interpretive aspects of the compositions and proposing some personal suggestions and tips. Although the selected works have been initially composed for different instruments and have been played to live audience, they have not presented themselves, so far, as a research subject, and thus have not been analyzed. Taking into consideration this deduction, the novelty and the personal contribution are visible in the scientific research that deals with the autochthonous compositional patrimony. The aspects presented in this article can be used for pedagogical processes and, at the same time, they can behave as a practical method in managing the chosen repertoire.
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Keywords: pedagogy; acting; body expression;
In the preparation of"complete actors" only the technical aspects are not decisive, they will not only train them for the level of mastery. Aerobic exercises, forexample, can only play a part in recreation and muscular development, but when we talk about the scenic movement that uses actors' preparation, the situation changes; the future actor has to work out physical exercises by passing through the mental as well as the spiritual filter. Each student should think about how the exercises indicated by the teacher feel in their bodies, the reception may be different from the way the teacher / college actors / dancers experience the movement. In this context, the student is the only expert in what he likes to do with the movements indicated by the one in front of him, or what emotions are evoked when he experiences a choreographic phrase. This makes the study of acting or dance a form of art, and the difference is given by their inner experiences. the uniqueness of the body on the move."Key words: pedagogy, acting, body expression
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Keywords: miners' revolt; perspectives; PDSR; communism; totalitarianism; Romania; opposition; violence;
A cincea mineriadă, din 1999, este cel mai vizibil rodul narcisismului şi grandomaniei liderului sindical Miron Cozma, care o instrumentează pentru a-şi camufla statutul de infractor cu mai multe procese pe rol, dar şi pentru a-şi consolida o viitoare poziție politică. Perspectiva Puterii şi aceea a Opoziției, însă, diferă față de mineriadele anterioare. În 1999, Puterea aparținea fostei Opoziții (din timpul mineriadelor anterioare), adică alianței CDR, USD şi UDMR, iar Opoziția era reprezentată de fosta Putere, adică de PDSR, secondată de PUNR şi PRM. Perspectiva Puterii va fi redată de ziarul România liberă. În ce priveşte perspectiva Opoziției în 1999, aceasta va fi înfățişată prin săptămînalul România Mare, oficiosul extremistului partid cu acelaşi nume, condus de Corneliu Vadim Tudor. Cum implicarea politică a acestuia a fost dovedită în mineriada din ianuarie 1999, Miron Cozma fiind “aghiotantul” său, România Mare a incitat direct minerii la revoltă, pentru a profita în cazul în care ar fi izbutit râvnita lovitură de stat. Ion Iliescu şi PDSR, deşi au susținut moral şi ideologic mineriada din 1999, se vor feri, totuşi, de o implicare vizibilă în răzmerița minerilor şi, la limită, chiar de alianța cu PRM.Autoarea reface prin analiza presei două perspective jurnalistice asupra unui fenomen de istorie contemporană care a adus violența primitivă în trecutul foarte recent a unei Românii, derutate, traumatizate, reamintind din nou, dacă mai era cazul, de excepția românească, aflată într-o gravă dificultate de a găsi rețete non-violente în tranziția de la comunism la o societate deschisă, democratică. Analizând cele două perspective radical opuse, studiul oferă o viziune complexă asupra unui fenomen controversat din istoria recentă a României, oferind eşantioane convingătoare despre curentele de opinie şi despre confuzia valorilor dintr-o societate încă nevindecată de traumele totalitarismului comunist şi fracturile etice şi axiologice existente în ceea ce putem numi, o Românie profundă. În acelaşi timp sunt analizate mecanismele manipulării propagandistice ale mineriadei, în scopul obținerii unui profit politic sau în scopul exonerării de grave responsabilități a liderilor.
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Keywords: crisis; epidemic; mask; individual; collectivity;
The paper aims to analyse the relationship between theatre and crisis from the viewpoint of the role played by the theatre in exploring and presenting extreme situations, namely crisis situations. The impact of crisis on theatre determines the apparition of different theatrical viewpoints which are not meant to offer concrete solutions to the crisis, but which may contribute to the identification of possible ways of solving it due to its capacity to reveal certain aspects of the crisis which manifests itself on different levels of reality. At the same time, this relationship is viewed from the perspective of Antonin Artaud, The Living Theatre, Jerzy Grotowski and Samuel Beckett. Moreover, the paper makes reference to the fact that, in the current pandemic, the theatre performance faces a specific crisis, that is the crisis of audience.
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Keywords: Libraria; Biblioteca Județeană Mureș; biblioteconomie; bibliologie; carte veche; carte bibliofilă; istorie locală; servicii de bibliotecă; Biblioteca Teleki; carte veche românească;
The staff of the Mureş County Library: 1913 - 2013
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Keywords: image; truth; experiment; improvisation; diversity;
The ways of approaching, treating and interpreting the theatre underwent major changes in the second half of the twentieth century. As Peter Brook’s research contributes decisively to changing the perspective of understanding the nature and the meanings of theatre, the present paper aims to highlight and briefly analyze the most relevant stages of his research. His studies focused on identifying a universal language of theatre reveal key concepts and notions such as the empty space, the visible and the invisible, the holy and the rough in the immediate, the diversity, the homogeneous group, the storyteller with many heads in which still nowadays theatre scholars and practitioners are interested. At the same time, certain results of his research are exploited in his performances in which the emphasis is placed on the scenic presence of the actor, and which denote both a continuous experimentation of scenic forms and a personal way of speaking about truth in the theatre.
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Keywords: dramaturgy; scenic action; collective creation; director’s vision; spectator;
We propose to discuss the notion of dramaturgy written on stage as an emerging form in the twenty-first century theatre. Also, we emphasize the idea that this form of creating the performance is rooted in a theatrical tradition. Thus, we notice that, in Eugenio Barba’s vision, the dramaturgy of the performance, structured on three levels of organization, respectively the organic or dynamic dramaturgy of the actor, the narrative dramaturgy of the director and the evocative dramaturgy that includes the dramaturgy of the spectator, is representative for the collective creation as the actors are co-authors of the performance, but, at the same time, it is representative of that type of performance that embodies the director’s thought, reminding of the practitioners-playwrights’ way of creating dramaturgy. In the dramaturgy of the performance, instead of a sequence of events, which unfold according to the cause-effect equation, the director opts for a complex web of actions that suggest and not affirm. We, also, note that in this new dramaturgy in which the smallest action is treated as a dramaturgical element, special importance is given to the spectator seen as an individual who, first of all, exists by himself/herself and then as part of a whole/audience. Under the influence of Artaud who visualized the performance as poetry in space, the new dramaturgy opposes textocentrism, proposing a symbolic language meant not only to whip the spectator’s senses putting him/her in a state of play, but also to provoke in him/her a change of state. Thus, the performance no longer addresses the spectator’s understanding, but his/her perception, creating the necessary conditions for the spectator to forge his/her own dramaturgy based on his/her emotional and intellectual reactions. Writing dramaturgy on stage is specific to those theatre companies that, alike the Troupe de Monsieur and the Globe Theatre, create the performance in the stage laboratory.
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Keywords: theatre; performance; Romania; contemporary; current;
The purpose of this study is to reveal the major gap that exists between the national or global literature about theatre and the current theatrical practice. The gap is due, first of all, to the publishing trend of editors that tend to print books written by absolutely exceptional creators. We start from the premise that emerging theatre must not only distance itself from a theatrical phenomenon perceived as traditional, but must also become an artistic current that expands and becomes in turn, in time, a "norm" in itself. Thus, at a time when performances by Peter Brook, Jerzy Grotowksi, Eugenio Barba and Tadeusz Kantor were seen by theatre critics as emerging performances, theatrical practice in the next decades in European theatres shows us that these directors were creating a rather unique, experimental kind of productions. Laboratory theatre, based on long research, remains a marginal component in Western theatrical practice, where repertoire theatre, with its increasingly shorter production times, remains an absolute norm. However, the paradox remains that these show creators are homaged by the specialty literature, and rightly so, although the same does not happen with "normal" theatre directors. Theatrical theory loves exceptions too much, and the story that we are told about theatre in the late twentieth century, full of great theatrical experiments, is a false one, detached from 90% of the artistic practice. In contrast, Robert Wilson and the shows he directs constitute a completely different story. Many contemporary theatre practitioners claim to be influenced by his aesthetics, including Pippo Delbono, Romeo Castellucci or Thomas Ostermeyer. He practiced a once marginal theatrical style, but which gave birth to a strong aesthetic heritage. Therefore, this article aims to make the historical differentiation between emerging theatre and exceptional theatre, but also to identify in the contemporary Romanian performative arts the real features of the emerging theatre.
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Keywords: Romania; communism; anticommunist partisans; Bukovina; 40s; 50s;
The life of the anticommunist partisans in Romania is the subject of a minute reconstruction. The author presents the main events which would occur in the everyday activity of a partisan. He uses official documents (sentences in the military courts), testimonies (accounts, interviews, memories) of the surviving partisans in Bukovina and information about the partisan groups Constantin Cenușă and Gavril Vatamaniuc. The first part of the documentary is devoted to the problem of food supply. The documents will be published in a separate volume by N.I.S.T.
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Keywords: acting; character; training; speech/language disorders; rhythm and fluency disorders; Commedia dell’Arte;
The paper presents a possible approach to the construction of a comic character from both a vocal and a verbal point of view, by using various language disorders. For the scenic procedure of language composition, voice and pronunciation as well as rhythm and influence disorders can be important tools for students in their creating a comic character, since these techniques have a significant potential also outside the Commedia dell’Arte. Hence, conscious training and practice of speech/language disorders, such as dyslalia, as well as of rhythm and fluency disorders, develops and improves both the students’ voice usage abilities and their vocal creativity, so that they can manifest themselves artistically in a more expressive way.
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Keywords: digital resources; social services; pandemic; social work;
Social work and assistance are one of the main levels of support for a changing society. Providing professional and specialised help to those in need requires that the knowledge of social workers be constantly optimized in accordance with the challenges brought by various unforeseen phenomena. This study presents the results of a qualitative research using a semi-structured interview as a research method, carried out in Caras-Severin County among 30 persons that aimed to identify and analyse the difficulties encountered in accessing social services during the pandemic period, outlining the psycho-social resources available in the online environment, provided by the government and private entities. The empirical study was carried out between September and October 2022, aiming at the following units of analysis: the socio-economic situation, the influence of the pandemic on the quality of people's lives, the perception of the use of tools digital in general, identifying the main challenges related to the use of digital tools regarding accessing social services (benefits and difficulties).
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