A series of solos by 3 performers playing in a space surrounded by the audience. Each solo is a self-contained element, but as one follows the other, they bring about a chain reaction of emotions and sensations. Each is a proposition to connect, a version of approach, a variation of genre. Just as we increase our opportunities to get to know someone and form bonds with them simply by spending time together, the audience here is also partly responsible for what is revealed by these solos: diverse materials, an eagerness to communicate, household tragedies, transcendent roars, metamorphosing creatures.

“I wanted to communicate via the relation between the audience and the performers, not via the one among the people on stage. This is not a hierarchical relation but a horizontal one. I experienced that I behave differently with different people and I react in different ways, even in ways I do not want. Recognising this kind of adaptability, the speed and quality of action and reaction, forms the relation between people. I was interested in the quality of this communication, how it defines my feelings, my sensations and my thoughts. I was curious to explore the birth of the relation with the performer/creator. Its form, its ‘games’, its tools and its content all become part of the performance (…) Becoming partners and reaching a world where the ego is defeated and human intelligence can compromise. And what is this?  Should everyone enlighten at once? There was always this bipolarity. What can I do with this? Where is my calmness? Where is my faith? I fight but for how long? Is there any space where I can withdraw to and where I can form my own personal culture, searching for partners so that we can build the world together as we like it? And where exactly? In Budapest? What is there inside me that I need to open or close in order to be able to do this? Anyway, I feel it is important to have a dialogue, and to see the consequences of our existence.” Adrienn Hód

CREDITS

Performers and co-creators: Marcio Kerber CANABARRO, Emese CUHORKA, Csaba MOLNÁR

Music: Coil, GG Allin, Vini Vici
Music editor: Ábris GRYLLUS
Costumes: Anikó NÉMETH and the creative team
Light: Miklós MERVEL
Dramaturge: Ármin SZABÓ-SZÉKELY
Choreographer: Adrienn HÓD

REVIEWS

“Hodworks, the company founded by Adrienn Hód ten years ago, consists of only a few independent artists, yet it has managed to change the rules of theatre over the past few years, for instance, by systematically breaking them, only to reconstruct them immediately afterwards. (…) And now they have created a comprehensive and, in my opinion, climactic work, which happens to be made up of solos.” Sisso Artner, Magyar Narancs

“By straining every nerve and sinew, Hód strives to create a performance that cannot be defined as a simple dance show, but as a common story between performer and viewer, where the audience cannot hide in the safe darkness of the auditorium, and the dancer must reckon with the reactions and existences of those sitting around them.” Csaba Králl, Revizoronline

“The starkness of the profound sensations that sweep over us, one after the other, gradually turns into a numbingly exquisite catalogue of naked souls. Everybody will discover themselves and their loved ones among these souls. There are performances and moments in theatre that fade with the final applause, others that are gone by the time we awake the next day, and some that may haunt us for days. And there are one or two which might, perhaps, end up staying with us forever.” Ákos Török, 7óra7.hu

TOURS & FESTIVALS ABROAD

Tabačka Kulturfabrik, Kosice, SK, 2017.
YEAH YEAH YEAH Festival, Fabriktheater, Zürich, CH, 2017.

Adrienn HÓD

Adrienn Hód is a unique and innovative creator on the Hungarian contemporary dance scene, and well known internationally as well. Some of her pieces – Basse danse in 2012, Dawn in 2014 and Conditions of Being a Mortal in 2015 – have been chosen among the 20 most outstanding contemporary dance pieces by Aerowaves European dance network. Her company Hodworks, founded in 2007, regularly appears at international festivals and theatres. The focus is on the human body itself, liberated from any mediators, limits, sets or props. The pieces produced by Hodworks, which always lead in new, progressive directions, result from intensive and creative body research based on improvisation, although this is wrought into a strictly structured form on stage. Hód’s choreographies are conveyed in a delicately developed, robust and intricate language, balanced between realism and extremely abstract representation. These pieces stimulate the audience’s senses and spirit, and sow seeds of doubt in the known even as they open up a path towards the unknown. They make no compromises; they are not intended to please.

SUPPORTERS

Ministry of Human Resource (H), National Cultural Fund (H), OFF Foundation (H), SÍN Arts Culture Center (H), New Performing Arts Foundation (H)