Length: 1st part 45 min., 2bd part 35 min.

Yvette Bozsik Company: Memoirs of a Geisha
- in memory of my Mother - 

Yvette Bozsik’s solo performance was inspired by the autobiography Geisha of Gion by Mineko Iwasaki, the protagonist of the world-famous book and film Memoirs of a Geisha. The performance takes viewers into the lonely, secretive, and personal world of Women of Dance and Art, the memoir of an elderly dancer who always danced with her whole soul. The performance also uses ceremonial elements of Japanese theatre, recalling the worlds of Nō and Kabuki theatre. Yvette Bozsik’s new solo performance, which also features her iconic partner Tamás Vati, combines all these rituals, inner vibrations, and secrets, revealing the inner self-awareness of a dancer in the triple unity of body, soul, and spirit.

performed by: Bozsik Yvette, Vati Tamás

music: Jean-Philippe Heritier
set: Vati Tamás
costumes: Bozsik Yvette
lighting: Pető József

choreographer-director: Bozsik Yvette
 

Photo: Horváth Judit 

The premiere was presented by the National Dance Theatre as a joint event with the Yvette Bozsik Company.

 

PB2 Company: A Life in Dance

We would like to present Teodóra Uhrik’s incredibly rich oeuvre in dance images. 
We have created a unique and multifaceted performance, as diverse and unparalleled as her iconic career. The intertwining of professional and private life, and the interplay of art, is illustrated with the help of the famous dancer’s husband, her son, an actor, and her daughter, a visual artist. Our contemporary dance images are prepared using a classical montage as well as with the help of songs by Iván Kamarás and Dóra Uhrik’s own poems. Anna Lovas’ paintings also play an important role in creating the atmosphere.

How she became familiar with dance as a child, how she became a dance artist and later a dance teacher, while starting a family; how she stayed with the Ballet Pécs for 65 years, how she became a founding member and ensemble leader... 

What was her secret? What fuels the passion that drives her? Is dance truly eternal love?

To visualise the course of her life, we use the changes of the four seasons. A duet between Dóra Uhrik and Pál Lovas will crown the performance, featuring dancers of different ages.

Performed by
Teodóra Uhrik,
Pál Lovas, 
Ujvári Katalin, dancer of the Ballet Pécs
Diána Dávid, student of the Secondary School of Arts in Pécs

Contributing via sound recording: Iván Kamarás

Music: montage
Projection: Richárd Rajnai
Paintings: Anna Lovas
Costume, Visuals: Katalin Fekete

Directed and choreographed by Balázs Vincze

Photo: Kaszner Nikolett

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The 19th Pécsi International Dance Festival is the co-production of Ballet Pécs and the National Theatre of Pécs.

The Pécs International Dance Festival has been supported by the National Cultural Fund and the Ministry of Innovation and Culture.

 

- ballet in two acts -

Length: 112 min. in two acts

This undertaking by the Győr Ballet is nothing less than the first ever adaptation for the ballet stage of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter. Set in Puritan New England during the era of the Indian wars, the American writer's instantly classic masterpiece tells a story of adultery. Its heroine is Hester Prynne: convicted of marital infidelity, she is forced to wear a scarlet letter "A” on her clothes as a sign of her sin. Stigmatized, Hester still keeps her head high and lovingly raises the child conceived from the affair. Hester will not name her partner in crime, because he is the community's much-respected young minister. In the work, morality and hypocrisy combine with a gnawing sense of guilt and the yearning for revenge, with an exciting moral dilemma tightening between sinning and declaring one's emotions.

Assistant: Bajári Levente
Music: Montage
Costumes: Velich Rita
Set: Bozóki Mara
Lighting: Stadler Ferenc
Dramaturge: Csepi Alexandra
Choreographer: Velekei László

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The 19th Pécsi International Dance Festival is the co-production of Ballet Pécs and the National Theatre of Pécs.

The Pécs International Dance Festival has been supported by the National Cultural Fund and the Ministry of Innovation and Culture.