Opened: 2021
In English

“Deep Fake is a performative environment created by dancer-choreographer Gergo D. Farkas in collaboration with composer Márton Csernovszky, with Endre Cserna and other creators. The space is cohabited by human and more-than-human entities in flux, gaining or losing contours, touching each other to build constellations. In this flickering weird space-time, Gergo is operating as a sort of a technician, at times as a lonely protagonist, or an animator who are themselves animated or even deeply moved … but by what or whom? With wit and dark humour, the piece keeps challenging the habitual conceptions of reality and fakeness, proximity, liveliness or objecthood - concepts that we otherwise use as signposts to orient ourselves in the world. It is a study in world-making, an acceleration of recent dilemmas about virtual reality and human agency.
Gergo D. Farkas (they/them) is interested in choreographing spaces where humans, non-humans, material and immaterial are equally welcome to dance. Their latest piece Deep Fake is currently on tour as a work of the international choreographic platform Aerowaves’s Twenty22 selection.” Zsuzsa Berecz, curator

CREDITS

Choreography, performance: Gergo D. Farkas
Assistance, art direction: Endre Cserna
Music: Márton Csernovszky
Light design: Kata Dézsi
Light technician: Virág Rovó
Advice: Imre Vass
Video: Gergely Ofner
Web design: Daniel Kophelyi
Financial management: Sín Arts Centre
Special thanks: Sín Arts Centre, Workshop Foundation Budapest, Aerowaves Europe, MU Theatre

|| strong sound effects, smoke, darkness, 12+ || 

REVIEWS

“If, in the case of the first two performances, there were sensations of otherness or other elements with a particular kind of control over us, this feeling is particularly expressed in Gergo D. Farkas’ solo piece. Or perhaps one can roughly call it a group piece. [...] there is a much-needed humorous element within an otherwise dystopian theme, where I wonder if and when there is an equal future for the other, the queer? 

Perhaps Gergo D. Farkas answers this themself, as they dance a soft, staccato choreography with small detailed imperfections, sensitivity, and super sharpness to the airy sounds of water. There is hope.”
Stina Strange Hue, Bastard.blog

“The concept is simple, yet the world it creates comes into motion. Softness and vulnerability, brutality and darkness blend into each other, while Farkas’ suggestive, strange presence immerses the spectator. Each of their tiniest movements is fascinating, and each of their smallest shifts feels meaningful. Despite their young age, Farkas deals with their body in a mature way (the first time I recognized this was during Anna Adam’s performance sorry not sorry). Their movement is diverse and layered: fluid, small movements condensed by air-like, larger motions. The contrast of the light movements and the rigidity of the cage defines a particular dance in which - despite the contradiction - the two bodies become each other's extension or essence, enclosed within one another.”
Zsuzsanna Komjáthy, Színház.net 

“Gergo D. Farkas (they/them) is immersed in an environment supported by the eerie music of Márton Csernovszky that resonates with our superficial world. They confront it with irony as they comfortably, confidently, and, almost gloriously, leave it behind them.”
Ariadne Mikou, Springback Magazine 

TOURS & FESTIVALS

under500 Festival, Artus, Budapest (HU), 2021
Sandbox Festival, Bakáts Pince, Budapest (HU), 2021
Spring Forward Festival - Elefsina (GR), 2022
L1 eves a’la IZP, Jurányi Inkubátorház, Budapest (HU), 2022
GIVE-A-DANS Festival, Amsterdam (NL), 2022
Kolorado Festival, Nagykovácsi (HU), 2022
Ozora Festival, Dádpuszta, (HU), 2022
Open House Festival, Limassol (CY), 2022
NextFeszt, Trafo House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest (HU), 2023
New Sh*t Vol. 6, Dansehallerne, Copenhagen (DK), 2023

Gergo D. Farkas 

Wandering in Stockholm, Budapest or somewhere in between, Gergo D. Farkas (they/them, ‘96, libra, HU) choreographs, dances, performs and organizes, but mostly choreographs. They dream about spaces where (non)humans and (im)material are equally welcome to dance, knowing that a big part of their dance will always remain invisible. Sometimes (actually, quite often), Gergo relates to dance as a hyperobject, believing that dance itself is way too big to be seen in its totality and way too wild to be tamed.

Currently, they facilitate movement-based workshops as a resident artist of Performing Gender. Their latest piece Deep Fake has been on tour as a part of the Aerowaves Twenty22 selection. In 2021, Gergo received the DanceWeb Scholarship, under the mentorship of Frederic Gies and Anne Juren.

As a performer, Gergo has worked with Cullberg, Frederic Gies, Kata Juhasz, Ofelia Jarl Ortega, Alma Söderberg, Viktor Szeri, Alex Franz Zehetbauer, and the Willany Leó Improvisational Dance Theatre amongst others. Between 2021 and 2022, they have been organizing workshops and performative acts for the Budapest nightlife scene as a member of the Budapest-based queer collective OMOH.
Gergo holds a BA in Contemporary Dance from the Amsterdam University of the Arts (MTD department).

Besides their choreographic practice, Gergo facilitates movement-based workshops as the resident artist of Performing Gender and as one-third of the Pamperers group, designing activities stemming from physical practices, with the intention to disseminate care in the festival context. Currently, they work on their new choreographic research under the working title lovers.

CONTACT

Endre Cserna 
csernabanu@gmail.com
+36.30.582.05.90

Gergo D. Farkas 
farkasgergodavid@gmail.com
+46739434655

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