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14th November 18:00 Sanyi and Aranka Theatre ('45)
Gergő Borlai and Andrea Ladányi
BL
Fotó: Várkonyi Tímea

 Andrea Ladányi is one of Hungary's leading choreographers and dancers. A nearly fifty-year old performer with an ageless body and a vigorous, youthful presence, Ladányi is a born rebel. She graduated from the Hungarian National Ballet Academy, danced as a soloist for both the Győr Ballett and the Finnish National Opera, where she worked with Jorma Outinen. She founded her own company, La Dance in 1995 and took a second degree as a director-choreographer in 2005 at the University of Drama and Film, where she has since been the head of the movement department. She is the holder of many awards and a Merited Artist of the Hungarian Republic.

Gergő Borlai
is a multi-talented percussionist of many instruments. He started playing the drums at the age of three and became one of Hungary's leading men in his self-taught genre. He played in concerts with Tommy Campbell, Steve Smith and Trilok Gurtu among others, has contributed to more than 120 CDs and has came out with two of his own solo-albums:  "17" and "Sausage". He twice won the Drummer of the Year Award and the Golden Disk as a producer.

 

Music dance theatre
BL is born out of Gergő Borlai's percussion music, part composed, part improvised, and the dancer Andrea Ladányi's dance and choreography.
The show is based on a basic element of human existence: rhythm. Its musicality is created by the tension between the percussion instruments and the dancer's body. The presence of both pre-composed and improvised music, their power and flow collide with the movement of the dancer.

„Pay for one and get two geniuses! (...) A world sensation!”

Péter Molnár Gál, www.szinhaz.hu

„The way Borlai and Ladányi meet in this performance is truly genuine, creating a special really moment of freedom, playfulness and sparkling energy one rarely encounters.”

 Veronika Tóth Ágnes, www.kultura.hu

 „Borlai and Ladányi don’t measure how much they can be or should be devoted. They don’t limit the portions, they don’t have a minimum dose. (...) BL (an abbreviation of the two artists’ surnames, and also stands for Champions’ League in Hungarian) works with witty multimedia tools and is an impeccably structured, brilliant work. And yet it is like a vision, an upsetting dream, an early morning drunkenness. (...) Borlai and Ladányi’s disarming, exquisite show is a unique achievement.”

Krisztina Horeczky, Népszabadság, 2008

„If Beethoven’s Eroica “is about something”, then so is this show. There is something merciless, fatal and victorious to it. (...) Some things are so unique that one can only measure them with themselves.”

Tamás Koltai, ÉS