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Fesztivál (3-7. September) + Program táblázat

Beatrix Trisha Simkó – Zoltán Grecsó: #ORPHEUS#EURYDICE (Contemporary dance)

Esemény időpontja: 2025 September 07. , 4:00 PM Részletek:

#Orpheus#Eurydice, the first full-evening performance collaboration between Simkó and Grecsó, is a richly textured, emotionally resonant contemporary dance piece.

Esemény helyszíne:

La Mama Experimental Theatre Club – The Downstairs Theatre 
66 EAST 4TH STREET, NEW YORK, 10003

 
Beatrix Trisha Simkó – Zoltán Grecsó: #ORPHEUS#EURYDICE (Contemporary dance)

Language of the performance: nonverbal

Subtitle:

Age rating and special info: 14+, nudity

Beatrix Trisha Simkó and Zoltán Grecsó’s duet is one of the defining performances of contemporary Hungarian dance. The piece has been running for nine years, including a unique five-season run at the Vígszínház (Comedy Theatre of Budapest), a leading repertory theatre in Hungary.
The production has toured extensively across Hungary and Europe, appearing at numerous festivals. It has been invited twice to Finland, performing in Kuopio and Oulu, where it was warmly received by international audiences. It has also featured at the Šibenik Dance Festival in Croatia, the Flow5 Festival in Romania, and at the Miercurea Ciuc Theatre in Romania — all with the support of the National Cultural Fund (NKA). The piece reached the Hungarian community in Košice, Slovakia, as part of the Thália Dance Evenings program, achieving unanimous acclaim on each occasion.
In 2018, it was awarded the Grand Prize at Hungary’s Veszprém Dance Festival.

The duo puts Orpheus’ and Eurydice’s mythos in today’s conditions, giving a special interpretation to this so many times presented love story.

Now, Eurydice will be expelled to the hell of our present world. Of course, she will be followed by his lover, the famous singer of the Greek mythology, but even though Orpheus understands the language of the animals, this world is and remains unfamiliar to him, and suddenly he gets helpless and incapable – he has no vigor to confront the ethos of the 21st century.

He tries to adjust to Eurydice’s new lifestyle, but Orpheus is not able to alter himself: his internal rhythm, which is different and slower than that of the beloved woman’s, does not match the everyday of his changed lover. Their love, which was believed to be immortal, even to survive death itself, will be in danger. The happy, ageless slowness will be uninterpretable in the caducity and quickness of the present.

Once again, Orpheus enters the underworld to find his lover, but this time their relationship becomes hell.

The dancer duo presents the conflict between the world of myths and the realities of the present, but dramatically it offers even more, by demythologizing their heroes themselves. Orpheus and Eurydice do not have to fight gigantic adversaries, like death. Their inglorious but at the same time hard fight will be about the everyday, the change, and the different world views.

This is an exciting challenge, to code this momentary collision, presenting dissonance and diversity in the language of motions only. Dance allows to show the mainspring of human relationships, the internal forces generating unsolvable conflicts.

In their duo, Beatrix Trisha Simkó and Zoltán Grecsó accumulate their experience of years of working together, using Dániel Dömölky’s clear scenography construction, in the atmosphere created by sound designer Ábris Gryllus.

 

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Dániel Dömölky, the creator of the visual content and trailer, requests that this trailer be used exclusively for purposes related to HLF 2025. The file must not be transferred to anyone or used without his consent.

 

Credits:

Choreography, dance: Beatrix Trisha Simkó, Zoltán Grecsó

Music: Ábris Gryllus

Set design: Dániel Dömölky

Costum: Petra Földi

Production manager: Brigitta Kovács

Production assistant: Eszter Lovrity

Producer: Pro Progressione

Special thanks to: Anita Vodál, Stefánia Ágoston, Anna Bagi, Eszter Kálmán, Bálint Nagy, József Pető, Tamás Reich, Borbála Sebők, Ádám Szellő, Anikó Zsalakovics

 

Beatrix Trisha Simkó is a dancer, performer, choreographer and media artist. She graduated from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest and Hamburg University, where she studied performance and media art. She has been an active creator and performer for more than ten years of the Hungarian dance scene, and since 2015 she has worked in many international theatre and dance collaborations, mainly in Germany. She is an Aerowaves and Life Long Burning selected artist, her performances have been presented at prestigious venues throughout Europe such as Festival d’Avignon, Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, Španski borci Ljubljana, Hessischen Staatsballett in Darmstadt, Kampnagel, Kuopio and Ou Dance Festival. She works in a close partnership with the Budapest-based Workshop Foundation.
In her stage works she has a strong focus on visuality, and often combines different mediums. She is constantly in a vivid dialogue about intercultural and intergenarational perspectives on social structures. In connection with her performative works she initiates reach-out projects therefore engaging better with the audience and local communities in different formats. simkobeatrix.hu

Zoltán Grecsó is a freelance dance artist, choreographer, and the artistic director of Willany Leó Improvisation Dance Theatre since 2009. He graduated from Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität in 2005, and has since been an active contributor to the Hungarian contemporary dance scene as a performer, choreographer, and educator.
He teaches contemporary dance technique and body awareness, both for professional dancers and amateurs. For ten years he taught at the University of Theatre and Film Arts, and for eight years at the Hungarian Dance University.
Over the past twenty years, he has participated in nearly one hundred productions in Hungary and internationally.
Zoltán frequently collaborates with his brother, Krisztián Grecsó – a renowned writer, poet, and editor of ÉS literary magazine – creating multidisciplinary performances that combine movement, text, and music. www.grecso.com

 

Sponsors and supporters:

Ministry of Human Resources, National Cultural Fund, Comedy Theatre

Budapest, Workshop Foundation, Sín Production, Spicc Studio, Movein Studio,

Eötvös 10, Pro Progressione, PUR E, DNN, deephoto

 

Hungary L!ve Festival is made possible in part by the generous support of the Tulipán Foundation. The festival is presented in the frames of Shares at La MaMa, providing theatre space for non-curated productions.

 

 

 

 

 

Credit: Dömölky Dániel

 

 

 

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