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Duna Dance Workshop invited again a young choreographer to collaborate with the company: this time dancer and assistant of the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble, György Ágfalvi will realise a performance – getting a carte blanche to choose both the subject and the way of its presentation.

His show Keep in Touch tackles the question of human contacts through an artistic language based on the merge of Hungarian folk dance and other movement elements. 

One of the most burning problems of our societies is alienation. We are social beings in the first place, and we can present incredible stress reactions if a community excludes or rejects us. The feeling of loneliness can often result in other feelings: emptiness, vulnerability, pessimism or anger. Social media seems to provide solution to ease the loneliness, but it can’t be able to replace the real personal contacts – on the contrary, it can make the situation even worse. We are about to lose our ability to establish real human, physical contacts. We don’t believe in social encounters, on the other hand we are subconsciously controlled by the impacts suggested by media. We are becoming addicts of chasing “the important things”...

How can we approach this issue by help of a certain kind of „movement evolution” and the monotonous music of a computer game? Can we tackle with it at all? 

Date of premiere: 05.12.2019.

Choreographed and directed by György Ágfalvi