ForteDanse
Kalevala
Bakelit Multi Art Center, 2008. November 24., 19:00
(120 minutes, without interval.
There will be a post-show talk!
Cast:
Máté Andrássy, Dóra Barta, Borbála Blaskó, Gábor Bora, Nóra Földeáki, Lajos Ottó Horváth, József Kádas, Lehel Kovács, Csaba Krisztik, Zoltán Mucsi, Vera Sipos, Tamás Vati, Gizella Zarnóczai
Costume Design: Mari Benedek
Lights: Ferenc Paver
Music: Nils Peter Molvaer
Sound: Zoltán Kondás
Dramaturg / assistant: Eszter Gyula
Written by: Balázs Szálinger
Director / Choreographer: Csaba Horváth
Supporters:
Debreceni Csokonai Színház, NKA Táncművészeti Kollégium, Nemzeti Kulturális Örökség Minisztériuma, Trafó – Kortárs Művészetek Háza, MU Színház Egyesület, MODEM, Műhely Alapítvány.
foto: Gábor Dusa
The ForteDanse group was founded by director-choreographer Csaba Horváth in 2005. Through the use of bodies, sounds, dance, music and text, the group of actors and dancers strives to create a new, complete and total theatrical language. This new, redefined physical theatre tries to think in a different way: about storytelling, situation, scene, stage time, play area and affect-dramaturgy.
The basis of Kalevala is the Finnish national epic by the same name, though Balázs Szálinger’s play is not just a simple adaptation of the original. Re-interpretation was necessary, because of the transformation the ancient roles, heroes and the ideas they embody have gone through. The production is physical theatre; the piece’s mythical past collides with our technocratic present. Through music, the actors’ and dancers’ movements, their power of expression, the classical conflict between thought and matter, artist and craftsman evolves and grows; from inside the play’s world into something cosmic. Outside time but still held in its sway, Kalevala’s archaic symbols, basic human gestures, the bodies and sounds forming this myth all attain a new form of expression.
“The quintessence of the physical theatre’s terminology gains form, right before our eyes. (Though to gain form, what can theatre be, if not physical?) In moments of acrobatic brilliance, or while diabolical pictures are shown to us do they speak almost perfectly, even after runs when the very fibres of their hearts must clench, and thus pain them. Their physical and artistic achievement is simply astounding.” (Tamás Halász, Revizor)
Date of the performance: 2008. November 24. (Monday), 19:00
Venue: Bakelit Multi Art Center (Budapest, IX. Soroksári út 164.)
For further information visit: www.fortedanse.hu