A Journey in Place, Time, Mind and Soul

Length: 60 min without an interval

Wherever I go, I take the place, the culture, the faces and the momentswith me forever. The experiences come with me, just as we also take the past with us. What is my present today will become my past tomorrow. But which is the second that separates the two? What if we could travel not only to a Mediterranean region but whenchoosing a destination we could also decide whether we want to move forward or backward in time and whose path should cross ours? If the possibility of this is invented once, does this time machinealready exist somewhere?

With her flamenco dance performance, Zsófia Pirók invites us to a journey where only our imagination can set the limit for the venues of stops. We can travel in time, space and between cultures, while the paths of others cross ours, but we can even meet ourselves in another era. To where would you buy a ticket? If we look outward, we can feel our fate being cut by constant limits, butif we look inward, we can really feel that the possibility of inner travel is endless. 

Performed by Andrea Lippai, Zsófia Pirók, Krisztina Ajtai / Reichardt Zsófia

Music
Guitar: Alex Torres
Percussions: Gergely Tar
Clarinet: Balázs Cserta
Piano: Richárd Révész

Vocalist: Mario Ochoa

Lighting: József Pető
Set design: Péter Pirók
Set Drop: József Pirók
Costumes: Melinda Molnár-Madarász, Erika Glotz, Flamenco Pasión
Animation: Szitás Attila

Concept, dramaturgy and choreography by Zsófia Pirók

Directed by Gábor Bakos-Kiss

The premiere was presented by the National Dance Theatre as a joint event with FlamenCorazónArte Dance Theatre.

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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.

 

- a Criminal Dance Drama -

Length: 90 minutes without an interval

A detective story: the Hungarian National Dance Ensemble's large-scale premiere of The Faithless Wife casts light on the hidden aspects of the original ballad. This full-evening "crime story" of a dance drama takes as its starting point Barcsai's Lover, one of the most estimable of Hungary's balladic treasures. After cuckolding her husband, a wife awaits a terrible punishment. But how did things actually get to this point? Zoltán Zsuráfszky and Zsuzsa Zs. Vincze's production ponders the causes, while also bringing to the stage such eternal themes as fidelity, love and revenge.

The performance includes two choral works by Zoltán Kodály.

The wife: Júlia Paput
The husband: Attila Tókos
Barcsai, the lover: Dávid Barka
Village folk: Dancers of the Hungarian National Dance Ensemble (artistic director: Zoltán Zsuráfszky)
Soldiers, shepherds, judges: Hungarian National Male Choir (choirmaster: Richárd Riederauer)

Creators:
Music: Benjamin Eredics
Folk music curator: István Gázsa Papp, Sándor D. Tóth
Set design: Kázmér Tóth
Lighting: Dániel Kósa, István Niederkirchner
Animation: Szilvia Fabók, Boáz Konta
Libretto, dramaturg, costumes, associate director: Zsuzsa Zs. Vince
Choreographer, director: Zoltán Zsuráfszky

Photo: Csudai Sándor

The premiere was presented by Müpa Budapest as a joint event with the Hungarian National Dance Ensemble as part of the Bartók Spring.

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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.