Vass Imre: RELAX - Room of Reflections
We invite you into a reflective space where we search for our place in the moment, across a wide spectrum between stress and relaxation. In the dynamic balance between over-stimulation and under-excitement, we try to relax, or at least let go of our expectations.
Schedule
Dates of performances:
11 May 2024, 18:00 - 19:30
12 May 2024 15:00 - 16:30
We invite you into a reflective space where we search for our place in the moment, across a wide spectrum between stress and relaxation. In the dynamic balance between over-stimulation and under-excitement, we try to relax, or at least let go of our expectations.
RELAX has experienced several formats over the past year. It has appeared at the UNDER500 grassroots arts festival, at Sziget festival as an Active Relaxation morning movement session and at Trafó as a theatre experience. This time it will fill and occupy the 7th floor of the EightandaHalf. Performative and installative situations, knowledge-sharing, discursive and workshop formats and tones will be layered in this event.
We want to share the process with you, not a finished product. Perhaps in a lively cacophony of glancing reflections, or in a detail deemed insignificant, light will break through so that the information, wrapped in a energetic form, will provide everyone with personalized answers to their current questions.
We invite you to stay after the hour-long event, explore, roam or just settle down and find your place. A publication will also help you to make sense of it all and to synthesize it.
About the makers:
Gaál-Kovács Júlia
Certified yoga teacher, preventive spinal trainer and stretching instructor. Currently working in a manual therapy practice with individual clients, complementing their musculoskeletal therapy. She has also recently started group classes in two yoga studios in Budapest. On her own Instagram page - @yoganga.hu - you can read and hear about lifestyle, yoga psychology and yoga philosophy, in addition to tips on home practice.
Csilla Gesztelyi Nagy
Dancer, choreographer, Craniosacral therapist, director of Cipolla Collectiva. Self-expression, healing and teaching permeate her artistic projects. In her recent works she depicts a moving human being through the power of nature. She is interested in touch, free dance, the relationship between the physical and the energetic body, and the symbolism of Tarot.
Luca Kancsó
Dance artist, dance maker. She started her studies at the Budapest School of Contemporary Dance, then at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD). Since 2019 she is actively working as a freelance creator and performer. She is a member of the AHA Collective, founded in 2021. She currently teaches at the Budapest Circus Arts and Contemporary Dance College, has taught at e.g. Paris Camping - Plateforme chorégraphique international Centre national de la danse, SEAD and the Kontakt Festival in Hungary.
Anna Kudron
I am a lecturer at METU, my research interests are in the fields of sustainability, fashion, arts and communication, and I am a PhD student at the ELTE BTK Doctoral School of Philosophy, researching the relationship between ecology, fashion and art. Last year I was a fellow of the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU) in Berlin, researching innovative and sustainable methods of colour creation.
As founder of the creative studio Pinkponilo (Budapest, 2017), I work on conscious and transparent fashion methods, researching innovative and organic materials. In practice, I develop their real-life possibilities through projects, workshops and commissions, creating artworks and costumes focused on community building, cultural and environmental sustainability. There's no part of making costumes and making the whole process more sustainable that doesn't engage me.
Imre Vass
Performer, improviser, performance maker. “I host environments for a non-harmful exploration of the comfort zone, to overcome the uncomfortable while tuning, training and sharpening the muscles of attention. Playing with expectations, flirting with ambiguities and obvious choices while swerving away from the mainstream I intend to liberate energies of the participants of the event (both performers and spectators).” Imre Vass is an artist supported by the Creative Europe - Life Long Burning - Creative Crossroads programme of the European Union.
Concept: Imre Vass
Performers, creators: Júlia Gaál-Kovács, Luca Kancsó, Csilla Gesztelyi Nagy, Imre Vass
Composer: András Molnár
Costume: Kudron Anna \ Pinkponilo
Film: Máté Kőrösi
Art work: Csenge Csató
Photo: János R. Szabó
Production manager: Brigitta Kovács
Partner: Workshop Foundation
Co-production partner: Katlan Group, Trafó House of Contemporary Arts
Support: Life Long Burning, The Municipality of Budapest, Füge Production, Staféta, Ministry of Human Resources, NKA, EMMI, New Performing Arts Foundation
The production took place within the framework of the Staféta program announced by the Budapest Municipality.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
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