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Overview

  • 15 references 11 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Romanian; learning French, Spanish
  • 39, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • theater director
  • Performing Arts BA, Theater Directing MA, Theatre Theory PhD
  • From Bucharest, Romania
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

traveling!

ABOUT ME

I am a theatre director, interested in political art, art as a means for social and political emancipation. I live in Bucharest. I travel pretty often.

PHILOSOPHY

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

For the moment I can not host. But I am happy to share information about Bucharest, Romania, and the surroundings.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have been traveling several times using couch-surfing both alone and together with my girlfriend. I also hosted many people in my apartment.

Interests

arts&politics, documentary theater, documentary film, all kinds of documents and archives, revolution, politics, political emancipation, workers communities, recent history, history of human kind, Eastern European culture, Latin American culture, Asian culture, Middle-Eastern culture, African culture, decolonization,the self-transformation of society.

  • arts
  • culture
  • theater
  • documentaries
  • politics
  • traveling
  • surfing
  • history

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: La Batalla de Chile (Patricio Guzman), La hora de los hornos (Fernando Solanas & Octavio Getino), La muerte de un burocrata (Tomas Guttierez Alea), The Big Lebowsky (Joel Coen), Stranger than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch), Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)
Music: Billie Holiday, Maria Tanase, Malvina Reynolds, Joao Gilberto, Nino Katamadze, Ali Primera, Compay Segundo, Violeta Parra, Victor Jara, Facundo Cabral, Mercedes Sosa, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Jewish Anarchist songs, communist songs, manele.
Books: Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina (Eduardo Galeano), Memoria del fuego (Eduardo Galeano), Parable of the Sower (Octavia Butler), Tari de piatra, de foc si de pamant (Geo Bogza), Autodenunturi si precizari (Radu Cosasu), Quarto de Despejo (Carolina Maria de Jesus)

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Palestine, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Moldova, Romania

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