- Bea Gold - Attila Gold - László Kövesdi: A Study in Choreographology
Does the pen tire while it's writing on the paper? Who's holding me when I'm dancing? Could I express something in movement? Would you hold me if I melted? What does the paper see if it pays attention? Could all pens walk their own ways? Could they run out on my body? Could I go crazy if I danced? Could I read from your footprints? Could the pen get old if I moved a lot? Could I move to the rhythm of your pen? And anyway, is the other's writing any different?
The performance was created over three months in 2007 as a result of the project "Searching for the Unknown", which was called to life by the Workshop Foundation and it provides an opportunity for artists from different fields to work together. The essence of the work is for the creators to keep searching, experimenting by exploring a chosen theme using improvisational tools and cohmmunicating with the audience on a regular basis.
We chose Writing as our theme and we searched for the relationship between Writing and dance/movement, highlighting visual composition and figurative effects. The bodies of a dancer, a cinematographer, an actor and a graphologist form the performance, which "writes" etudes and scenes in the space around the audience.
The work was born as a collaboration between three individual creators and an expert. Bea Gold has been working in theatre, dance and movement for nearly fifteen years. Attila Gold is a cinematographer, who, besides working in television, is continuously searching for the unique qualities of visual composition. He has worked together with Bea Gold on many occasions as composer and lighting designer. After graduating from the University of Drama, Film and Television in Budapest, László Kövesdi has worked in Paris, Szeged, Szolnok and, as a freelancer, appeared in several performances of Réka Szabó's company including The Symptoms, which is also featuring at this showcase. Hedvig Hakkel is a graphologist and judicial graphologist.
Sponserd by: Art of Movement Studio, Artus
- Anna Réti: Inside Out
Anna Réti studied at the Rotterdam Dance Academy. After receiving her diploma, she worked in Holland with Galili Dance, and Conny Janssen Danst. Since she came back to Hungary she has been working as a freelancer with choreographers like Attila Kun, Réka Szabó (L1 Dance Lab), László Hudi, (Moving House Company), Eszter Gál (L1 Dance Lab), Tamás Juronics (Szeged Contemporary Ballet), Zoltán Nagy, Klára Pataky, Gábor Goda (Artus).
"Small fights big inside me,
They win, lose together"
"The evening in the MU Theatre brought a unique surprise. The surprise was called Anna Réti (...) The solo of Anna Réti is vital, fierce and cruel. There is some painful humanity in it. Its images are clear - the inner atmosphere of the performance is so sultry, as if we were inside a jungle."
(Ádám Mestyán, Színház)
Choreography, performance: Anna Réti
Music: Balázs Barna
Lights: Attila Szirtes
Costume: Krisztina Csorba, Zsófi Bugram, Anna Réti
Assistant: László Hudi
Video: Putto, Zoltán Nagy
Photo: Tímea Varga
- Awards for Inside Out:
1st International Competition for Contemporary Choreography, Sofia, Bulgaria: First Prize, September 2007
Szeged Alternative Theatre Fair: award for most original dancer-choreographer, July 2007
the Hungarian Dance Board's Rudolf Laban Award, May 2007
2nd Budapest Fringe Festival: Fringe Award, April 2007
2nd International Monodance Festival, Budapest: Audience Award, December 2006
10th Stuttgart International Solo-Dance-Theatre Festival: 1st prize for dancer, 2nd prize for choreography, Audience Award, March 2006
Premier: MU Theatre, Budapest, 26th May 2006
Sponsored by: National Cultural Fund, New Performance Foundation
- Melinda Virág: ALTERA PARS - The Other One Concerned
„It is instability that makes a
system fascinating. Whenever a system reaches its equilibrium, the inner
dynamics freeze.”
A
bare stage, darkness. Not a single thing.
Here
come two similar ones. Their similarity is dangerous; it might seem to be
oneness.
They
are entities. They were happy by themselves until the “Other” came their way.
From that moment on they are parts concerned.
Altera Pars – The Other One Concerned is a simultaneous duet of monologues. Two independent subjects constitute a closed bipolar system. Nothing exists outside their system, while within there are only the two entities constrained by mechanical necessities. The necessity of exploring the other.
“The stage presences of the two, which are strong anyway, now compliment and intensify each other. The result is a semi-darkness-dance of unique character, with a grotesque and surreal atmosphere, filtered through a cinematographic and visual art point of view.
... there’s no union that lasts forever. Only temporary partnerships of desire and interest, temporary moving together and temporary dominance games exist. The reading of life that is pessimistic and realistic at the same time is mixed with “darkness”, yet it’s not depressing. It doesn’t take on a psychological view, it’s got no sentimental self-pity. It’s revealing and consistent.”
László Százados
We are members of two different companies. But over the last four years, we have periodically joined forces to collaborate. All our works are examinations. They search for the living’s relation to itself and the possibilities of keeping this relation clean. Besides our works for the stage, we made an experimental dance film in 2005 entitled Metam, and a series of photographs in 2008 entitled The Other One Concerned. The latter was awarded the Diploma Prize of the National Association of Hungarian Creative Artists.
Choreography - Melinda Virág
Created and performed by - Melinda Virág, Gáspár Téri
Music edited by - Attila Gergely
In 2008 Altera Pars was nominated for the Rudolf Lábán Prize.
In 2007 the performance won the Orkesztika Foundation’s special price at the SoloDuet Dance Festival.
Sponsored by: National Cultural Fund,
New Performance Art Foundation, CEDT