Performances
The House of Bernarda Alba | Bolero | Wilds
Szeged Contemporary Dance Company
Wilds
The group behind the bars is in constant motion, performing a tribal-style war dance for the audience. The force generated by the internal cohesion of this barbaric community is a threat to those on the other side of the grid. The difference between the two sides is dramatically highlighted, as the instinctive wildness of the dance and the civilised attitude of the spectator drift further and further apart. When the dividing grid opens, a fatal sacrificial dance begins. But the outcome is not clear. The battle raging in man between the world of instinct and the intellect is played out in a symbolic stage play. The attractive movements of the dancers, and the rhythmic play of the orchestra, create a glowing tension in the motionless spectator, emphasising visceral perception over intellectual reception.
Dancers:
Girl: Diletta Ranuzzi
Wilds: Füzesi Csongor, Letizia Melchiorre, Czár Gergely, Diletta Savini, Désirée Bazzani, Nyeste Adrienn, Kiss Róbert, Nier Janka, Francesco Totaro, Vincze Lotár, Miriam Munno, Giordana Marzocchi
With the Szeged Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Gyüdi Sándor
Music: Lázár Dániel: Együtt és egyedül – A mű a 2020-as Müpa Zeneműpályázat díjazottja
Light: Stadler Ferenc
Costume designer: Heim Boglárka
Costume maker: D’Ange
Associate choreographer: Czár Gergely
Choreographer: Juronics Tamás
Ballet Director: Echéry-Pataki András
Artistic Director: Juronics Tamás
Bolero
„When it comes to desire, the answer is Bolero”
According to a 20-year-old international music survey, Bolero’s soundscape is the best suited to boost our imagination. The implacably catching, clattering melody, heated by smouldering sexuality starts quietly then it is slowly taken over and adapted by different wind instruments. In the middle Spanish castanets turn up too so that the full orchestra continues to build up the tension until the „sudden death”. No emphatic closing chords only hang. An endless floating to be resumed at any time. The freezing bolero dancers with their arms raised above their heads symbolize both recoiling and the creature giving itself up in the fight – a woman in love, a man bound by his desires, a bull lead astray by the „liar” wearing a bolero, looking in the eye of its killer for the last time. Yes, bolero has something to do with bullfighting.
The idea of the piece comes from dancer Ida Rubstein who commissioned Ravel 95 years ago and its first choreographer was a woman too, Bronislava Nijinska, younger sister of the famous Vaslav Nijinsky.
Dancers:
Janka Nier, Letizia Melchiorre, Diletta Ranuzzi, Diletta Savini, Désireé Bazzani, Gergely Czár, Róbert Kiss, Adam Bobák, Lotár Vincze, Francesco Totaro, Miriam Munno
Music: Maurice Ravel
Lighting: Dániel Szabó
Set constructor: Scabello
Costumes: Bianca Imelda Jeremias
Choreographed by: Enrico Morelli
The House of Bernarda Alba
„Tears in Andalusia”
Garcia Lorca’s last creation, The House of Bernarda Alba, subtitled „The Drama of Spanish Women Living in Villages” is the criticism of individual happiness crushed by social fixity. Through the fate of a grieving widow and her daughters, Lorca perfectly shows the frowsty atmosphere of suppressed desires. Whoever bows to harsh traditions, undertakes eternal misery. Those who rebel against them and call for serenity and happiness will die. “Those who follow their feelings and desires instead of centuries-old moral codes should not face death or excommunication; however, while the influence of Puritan society is this powerful, all individual will and seeking of happiness will be met by pain.” Lorca fought for human dignity, equality, equity and democracy with words, melodies and colours.
The dance piece is a concentration, the essence and imprint of feelings and thoughts. It intends to show not the story and the characters of the drama but the tension caused by suppression and closeness and the nature of turning against one another by the intense power of longing.
Dancers:
Adela – Janka Nier / Miriam Munno
Girls – Petra Bocsi, Letizia Melchiorre, Diletta Ranuzzi, Diletta Savini, Desirée Bazzani
Bernarda – Dusana Héraková
Pepe Romano – Lotár Vincze / Adam Bobák
Music: Manuel de Falla – El amor brujo
Lighting: Dániel Szabó
Set design concept: Kázmér Tóth and Tamás Juronics
Set constructor: Scabello
Costumes: Bianca Imelda Jeremias
Choreographed by: Tamás Juronics
