A hard-hitting visual team, a twisted noisemaker-musician, and a dancer with a weight problem ponder the question of: How to be one’s own shadow?

You Are Being So Strange Today is an improvisation on the points of intersection between dance, live music, and projected images. Building on minimalist loops, the swelling wall of noises and sounds is complemented by a cartoonish shadow world conjured up by the Kiégő Izzók / Glowing Bulbs, one of Hungary’s best known VJ teams, using two slide projectors and a clever visual trick. A danseuse desperately trying to win the attention of her partner musician in vain finally finds respite and undergoes a total physical and spiritual transformation, assuming increasingly amorphous shapes. Spoiler alert: The happy ending never comes!

The show has been staged regularly in various public spaces and museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts and the Vasarely Museum in Budapest, and has been invited to such venues as the Nu Dance Festival in Bratislava, the Moon Ride Festival in Košice, the Tabačka Kulturfabrik, and the Dezső Kosztolányi Theater in Subotica.

“The quasi-solo piece entitled You Are So Strange Today is a worthy sequel to Szabó's recent work that has been persistently self-ironic and keen on holding up a distorting mirror to the world.” (Színház.hu)

Directed by: Réka Szabó

Dancer: Zsófia Tamara Vadas/Réka Szabó

Music: Hunor G. Szabó/Krisztián Kelner

Visual design: Kiégő Izzók

Special thanks: Michaela Pein

Supported by: Ministry of Education and Culture Hungary, L1 Independent Dancers’ Partnership, Marland Kft.