Anthem (2010)



Dance can be present in any human feelings, but its real form is joy, same as joy is the real source of dance. Schiller said that the perfect articulation of happiness is the ode, a ceremonial genre and the highly religious form of ode is anthem. In the ancient times, when ceremony still demanded presence, meaning that not just the body, but also the soul dressed solemnly, when remembrance wasn’t a mere act focusing on the past, but the very evocation of the past – in that ancient times ceremony and dance were still connected organically, they reflected each other.
The site-sensitive performance (presented originally in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest) is about the relation of ceremony and dance. The choreograpies alloyed of modern dance and folk dance are accompagnied by live music mixed of classical and contemporary music.

Performers: Ildikó Bodor, Katalin Bonifert, Eszter Lázár, Balázs Baranyai, Gábor Vida, Zoltán Zsuráfszki jr.
Musicians: Márton Bakai, violin; Valéria Pribay, violoncello; Tamás Szalay, contrabass
Music: Márton Bakai
Costumes: Erzsébet Túri
Lighting designer: Károly Lendvai
Choreographer and director: Zsolt Juhász


The Cave (2010)



The dance piece evokes St. Anthony the Hermit’s temptations and puts the saint’s figure into a contemporary context. Our aim is not to present a historical tableau or to arculate a religious testimony, since we are convinced that St. Antony’s life communicate a living message for our epoch and a personal moral can be drawn from his legend. In St. Antony’s figure it’s not the saint, but Antony who intrigues us, the man lived 106 years in spite of his physical and spiritual torments. In our interpretation Antony doesn’t want to be a saint, he wants to remain a man, wants to remain himself. This self-enclosure is his real secret.
The Cave – after Fossils and Engravements – is the third part of the trilogy.

Performers: Nikolett Bednai, Katalin Bonifert, Anikó Gyulai, Eszter Horváth, Kitti Végh-Pozsár, Péter Kuzma, András Soós, Csaba Szabó, Tamás Végh, Levente Vincze
Music: Attila Gergely
Costumes: Erzsébet Túri
Lighting designer: Károly Lendvai
Choreographer and director: Zsolt Juhász



Engravements (2008)



Engravements – similarly to Fossils – reveal ancient remnants. Whilst the former performance focuses on the essence of „woman-ness”, the latter sheds light on the primordial and mysterious „man-ness”. Three engravements spring into existence in the choreograpies: pagan rite, fulfilled love, mythic tragedy. A man’s strength capable of surmounting the power of the nature in the first, swooned softness of loving and being loved in the second, as well as the hero facing and fighting with himself in the third – these are the different aspects of the same „man-ness”. The choreographied engravements root in far ancient times, but prove thier eternity at the same time.
The three organically linked parts of the performance are built on folk dance base, but of contemporary dance elements.

Performers: László Vámos, Nikolett Bednai, András Soós, Georgios Antonopoulos, Chariton Charitonidis
Costumes: Erzsébet Túri
Lighting designer: Károly Lendvai
Choreographer and director: Zsolt Juhász




Fossils (2008)



What is the performance about and what not?
It’s not about woman stereotypes as seen through male eyes, but about pure forms and the living „content”. About the ability of changing and remaining self-identical at the same time, but not about changing by the help of plastic surgery. About women who are not mere body jewels, but „jewel bodies”, not prefabricated poses, but self-oblivious movements. Women in their sublimity and humbleness, not in clouds of powder and make-ups. They are neither oppressed victims of the notion of the „second gender”, nor emancipating feminists, neither witches, nor angels, they are partners of men’s lives, consorts and friends. And – before all – they are artists, vehicles of truth and beauty.
The performance is four dancers’ confession about themselves, about being woman, about womanliness itself. Their knowledge and art – the fossil material – takes form in their dances and subtile movements.

Performers: Katalin Bonifert, Ildikó Bodor, Anna Maros, Ildikó Mándy, Zsolt Juhász
Costumes: Erzsébet Túri
Lighting designer: Károly Lendvai
Sound: Gábor Jendrics
Choreographer and director: Zsolt Juhász