Réka Szabó / The Symptoms:

A Space for the Taking

work in progress

This space is welcoming. Even if your brain is different, your body is different. Your difference invites for exploration. Here you don't have to give up the complexity of your possibilities to connect. This space is not a polite space, but an honest one. It doesn't want to hurt you, it just wants to say out. It’s faithful to the volatile, sometimes barely audible, unpredictable desires and impulses of the moment. Time passes here like a day: chance is punctuated by preplanned actions. Eight very different people live in this space. What they have in common is an intimate relationship with dance.

A letter from Réka Szabó to Bea Barda, artistic director of Trafó:

"Dear Bea!

One year of The Symptoms's hiatus and another "first adventure in my life".

I am involved in an Erasmus+ project with the Spanish company Compañía Danza Vinculados. They have been working with inclusive groups for decades. Their aim is to make dance accessible to all.

The inclusive team of young Hungarian dancers was selected for the project through a four-day workshop, and they came from different institutions. Some are still studying, some have already graduated.

After the selection, we had an intense period without Spaniards still around, after initial doubts and uncertainties - who are they? through what channels can they connect? what instructions can we work along? how can we achieve what sounds so simple: equal opportunities, equal access to dance? - our research took a direction that engaged the whole team. In a short period of time, we went roughly deep and the team became highly supportive and cohesive.

Already then we had the idea that we would like to create a performance here in Hungary with this team of 8 people. The summer workshop with the Spanish team confirmed this.

We will continue our work in the autumn, and the project will be completed with our trip to Granada in the autumn break, until then we have the support.

We would also like to create our rough draft of the performance and conclude this phase with a work in progress presentation to show the scene and the public what we have achieved.

What do you think?

Réka"

After the presentation, there will be a roundtable discussion in the lobby, moderated by Krisztina Bakonyvári, permanent director and educator at MáSzínház.

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 Moskony, Johanna Szőke

Partners and supporters: Compania Vinculados (Granada), Erasmus+ (Move to connect, connect to learn), Trafó Kortárs Művészetek Háza, Gábor Csaba Márton, Krisztina Bakonyvári