Réka Szabó / The Symptoms:
A Space for the Taking
60 minutes
This space is welcoming. Even if your brain is different,
your body is different. Your difference invites exploration. Here you
don't have to give up the complexity of your possibilities to connect. This
space is not polite but rather honest. It doesn't want to hurt you; it just
wants to spell out. It is true to the volatile, sometimes barely
audible, unpredictable desires and impulses of the moment. Time passes here
like a day: chance is punctuated by pre-planned actions. Eight very different
people inhabit this space. What they all share is an intimate relationship to
dance.
Background:
The work process started as an Erasmus+ project with the
Spanish Compañía Danza Vinculados, who have been working with inclusive groups
for decades. The diverse group of young Hungarian dancers came from different contemporary dance institutions from across Europe: MáSzínház, University of Malta,
University of Linz, Dózsa György Gimnázium Dance Department, Kortárstánc
Főiskola.
Our basic question was how we can connect with each other
and achieve what sounds so simple: equal opportunities, equal access to dance?
As a team we developed an improvisational structure called “kindergarten impro”. The musical interludes take the role of the kindergarten teacher (Zsófia Szász), who divides time into free play versus "obligatory" actions. “Kindergarten impro” is a state of being in which curiosity and the desire to discover each other as well as our environment are strongly present. This space is where we shed the self-regulating patterns of behavior that have been imposed on us as we grow up. The stakes of the performance are whether we can find our way back to a state where we can still connect naturally with our momentary physical and emotional sensations, and our feelings, letting them show outwardly. The basic forms of expression in “kindergarten impro” are dance, touch, our voices - primarily nonverbal communication.
"The young dancers' existence on stage creates an inclusive, unprejudiced, free world, wich I hope will liberate and inspire others." (Réka Szabó)
Director: Réka Szabó
Creative collaborators: Zsófia Szász, Péter Valcz
Creative performers: Balázs Dudás, Julcsi Farkas, Laura Holly,
Anna Horváth, Flóra Kovács-Papp, Gergely Marosi, Milla Noa Moksony, Johanna Szőke
Light: Miklós Mervel / Kata Dézsi
Partners and supporters: Erasmus+ (Move to connect and
connect to learn), Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Compania Vinculados
(Granada)