Thu 8:45pm / Fri 9:15pm / Sat 8:45pm / Sun 3pm
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes approx
In English and Hungarian - Translated into French
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First Production / Dance Eszter Salamon « AND THEN » Eszter Salamon is a Hungarian choreographer living in Berlin, who examines the origins of her dance and her choreographic experience. “Magyar Tàncok”*, her latest creation, examined the question of identity versus nationality and the genre through her family heritage of traditional folk dancing and her experience in ballet and contemporary dance. “AND THEN” now explores one of the foundations of our identity: the name. Imagine you find a photo album in the street. You open it, see people you don’t know, holiday snaps, familiar attitudes and gestures, strange faces who smile at you as if you were the friend or family for whom these pictures were intended... Is it not strange and almost unsettling to enter in that way into someone else’s life? This is the basis for Eszter Salamon’s show, which mixes images, movements, and voices, somewhere between choreography and movies (documentaries & fiction). * created at the Intranquilles Festival 2005 |
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Des interviews audios pour découvrir leur projet, leur recherche ![]() Eszter Salamon had practiced traditional Hungarian dancing from age 5 to age 20 when she discarded it entirely for 15 years. She performed with great success for leading figures of contemporary dance such as Mathilde Monnier and François Verret, and as a choreographer herself created the solo piece What a body you have, honey. Later, with Xavier Le Roy, she created Giszelle. In 2004, Eszter Salamon, in residence at Podewil-Berlin, created Reproduction. She was also awarded a grant by Villa Médicis Hors les Murs. ![]() “On a stage that contracts and expands, folds up and unfolds in two or three different spaces, somewhere between here and nowhere, eight people tell and sing the story of their life and of the time they live in. Nothing links these people. What brought them together? What does it mean to meet someone whose existence does not concern you at all? Why is it that the expression of each of these other people leaves us indifferent and at the same time seems hugely important to us?” Eszter Salamon & Bojana Cvejic_ ![]() All in french Save th interview audio file ! (right click then save as) Comments collected by Cathy Bouvard on friday 23 march 2007 Download the program ! ![]() By Eszter Salamon With Aude Lachaise, Eszter Salamon, and Bojana Cvejic Original idea and choreography by Eszter Salamon & Bojana Cvejic Camerawork and Editing: Minze Tummescheit Editing Assistant: Arne Hector Lighting Designer: Sylvie Garot Sound Designer: Peter Lenaerts, Peter Connelly Music by Peter Lenaerts / aisikl Produced/Organised by Alexandra Wellensiek Production Assistant: Barbara Greiner ![]() Co-production & Residence: Les Subsistances / Lyon / France Coproduced by Festival d’Automne - Paris, Les Spectacles Vivants - Centre Pompidou - Paris, Pact Zollverein - Choreographisches Zentrum - Essen, Kunsten Festival des Arts - Brussels, Centre National de la Danse - Paris, TanzQuartier - Vienna With the assistance of: Botschaft, Centre Chorégraphique de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon-Montpellier, Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin, Hebbel-am-Ufer-Berlin and Flórián Mühely - Mozgó Ház Alapítvány With the help of the IDEE, a European Union-lead 2000 cultural programme. Global Production Germany |