Beatrix Simkó-Zoltán Grecsó: 50th #ORPHEUS#EURYDICE
On 28 September, Beatrix Simkó and Zoltán Grecsó will celebrate their 50th performance: #Orpheus#Eurydice, a contemporary dance duet at MU Theatre. The performance will be followed by an audience discussion in English.
Beatrix Simkó’s and Zoltán Grecsó’s duo puts Orpheus’ and Eurydice’s mythos in today’s conditions, giving a special interpretation to this so many times presented love story.
The production has been in repertoire for eight years, and has toured to Finland, Croatia, Romania and Slovakia, and in 2018 it won the main prize at the Veszprém Dance Festival.
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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.
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.
In their duo, Beatrix 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.