Farid Fairuz (Romania) reinvented himself, assuming a fictional biography. Previously working as the artist Mihai Mihalcea, he was one of the most active in the field of contemporary dance in Romania, after 1989. He has been part of many of the projects that led to the international recognition of Romanian contemporary dance and he played a key role in the establishment of structures and institutions that have become landmarks of this area. Between 2005 and 2013, he was Director of the National Dance Center in Bucharest.