Showcase: ninety minutes, several choreographers, several pieces, quick changes, minimal-tech - the possibility for presentation.

On this evening, in the framework of dunaPart, young choreographers are given the chance to show where they stand currently in their careers. What they have in common is that they all began to choreograph at the turn of the millennium, and they all have brought their pieces - long or short - to the Trafó.

Among the choreographers certain to take part are Márta Ladjánszki, who, after a long time, returns to the stage with a solo piece; Attila Kun, who appears with one of his quartets in a new line-up; and Adrienn Hód, who presents an excerpt from an earlier work.

 

 

• Attila Kun: Visible Shape

Attila Kun's choreography was commissioned by the Szeged Contemporary Ballet in 2004. The performance has gone a long way since then. Since the PR-evolution Dance Company included the show in their repertory, it won the Rudolf Laban Prize in 2005 and has toured internationally with great success. Originally the show was choreographed for four female dancers. Recently, however, the company began an interesting experiment and two of the roles have been taken over by male dancers. As a result the structure built on pure form has completed itself.

"... The form is the same, the movement is the same, the image is the same and it's twice repeated. Still nothing is the same! Four real women tread their ways amongst visible shapes. At the end of their journey awaits an unknown world, where body, bone, muscle and sinew turn into a single beautiful instrument..."

Attila Kun

"... In one of the sequences the four dancers almost take off, fly away, transform, but they never disappear. The energy shows on the bodies, the meditative and repetitive processes of movement lead the eyes astray and we don't see what's on stage any more. But at the same time what we see is very much what's on the stage. We see whatever exists in that particular moment. For this movement is so pure that the bodies seem to cast off their corporeality..."

Ádám Mestyán, Ellenfény, 2005

Performed by Cédulás Eszter, Feledi János, Nemes Zsófia, Várnagy Kristóf
Music: Philip Glass
Lights: Kovács Gerzson Péter
Costumes: Molnár Zsuzsa

 

• Márta Ladjánszki: Silence is Okay!
  

"In a dignified state
I stand in the stolen moment.
I am straining myself against time,
but who shall I give birth to - I wonder.
Surrounded by a disciplined silence
I dread that only
my shadow is rejoicing.
I am growing tired, am not even within myself,
and you're here, still at my innermost."

In honour of the friendship and the faith.

choreographer: Marta Ladjanszki
performers: Marta Ladjanszki (dance) and Zsolt Varga (music)
music by: Flame Duo
costume: Butterfly

Marta Ladjanszki started her ballet studies at the private studio of Valeria P. Acs, and from 1994 to 1996 she attended ballet and modern dance classes. Encouraged by the Inspiration in 1997, she co-founded the group KompMania, where she was a dancer and co-choreographer of several productions until 2002. Her first independent work, One, was created for the 1st Solo Dance Festival, and later on she regularly performed her solos at Trafo. These works, like Stretching Thighs and Two, were devised for herself and radically rewrote sensuality. In 2001 she joined L1 DanceLab, and has been a member ever since.
Ladjanszki is perhaps the most exciting, and most promising member of her generation. Her works are full of fire: her individual and oustanding presence, freedom of her imagination, passion of her movements and sensitivity towards intimacy can be discovered in all her creations.

Zsolt Varga is a musician, composer, sound and movement artist from Budapest, Hungary. Starting out as a saxophonist playing improvised music with the Budapest based Balvanyos Ensemble his interest soon turned into working with artists from various fields like literature, visual and movement arts. Besides taking part in several Hungarian electronic music projects and playing in a funk band, in the recent years his work mainly concentrates on the collaboration with contemporary dancer and choreographer Marta Ladjanszki as a movement artist and composer/musician.

Supported by: L1 Independent Dancers' Partnership Hungary

 

• Hód-Vass-Garai-Mizsei Dr-T.Bali (I.O.N.): Let's Connect and Roar!

Choreographer Adrienn Hód has been present in the Hungarian contemporary dance scene since 1995. In Hungary she was the first dancer who took dance out to the streets, and the essence of her experimental work is still about the ways of making contact with the audience. She has her own dance company, and she has been teaching at the Budapest Contemporary Dance College since 2005.

This performance, a series of events presented in a fixed order, is a result of a rehearsal process researching the relationship between performers and audience. Two dancers and two musicians live, create and improvise freely to the audience's utmost pleasure. A characteristic dramaturgical method of the performance is that the scenes are not separated sharply. One scene flows into the next so that the audience can sense the transition, thus they repeatedly relive the experience of uncertainty and recognition.

The musicians play an important role in the creative process. They're T.bali, the composer of several film soundtracks and theatre performances, and Mizsei Dr., who's at home both in renaissance and contemporary music, he teaches at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music and writes music for the dance performances of Adrienn Hód and Anna Réti. In the latter ones he also appears regularly playing live music.

Performed by: Júlia GARAI, Imre VASS
Musicians: MIZSEI DR, T. Bali (I.O.N.)
Lights: Orsolya PETE
Netfriend and screening: Zoilly
Directed by: Adrienn HÓD

Supported by: Workshop Foundation, OFF Foundation, L1 Independent Partnership, New Performing Arts Foundation, Hungarian Ministry of Culture and Education, Webstar Group, DÉPARTS - with the support of the Culture 2000 Programme of the European Union