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 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.
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
institutions: MáSzínház, University of Malta, University of Linz, Dózsa György Gimnázium
Dance Department, Kortárstánc Főiskola.
Our basic question was: how can we connect with each other?
How can we achieve what sounds so simple: equal opportunities, equal access to
dance?
Together we developed an improvisational structure called
„kindergarten impro”. The musical interludes take the role of the kindergarten
teacher (Zsófia Szász), who divides the time and free play with
"obligatory" actions. For us, „kindergarten impro” is an existence in
which curiosity and the desire to discover each other and the environment are
strongly present. It is where we shed the self-regulating patterns of behaviour
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 when we could still naturally
connect with our momentary physical and mental emotions and feelings, and let
them show outwardly. The basic expressive tools of „kindergarten impro” are
dance, touch, our voices - primarily nonverbal communication.
"The young dancers' existence on stage creates an
inclusive, unprejudiced, free world, which 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
Partners and supporters: Erasmus+ (Move to connect and
connect to learn), Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Compania Vinculados
(Granada)