Beatrix Trisha Simkó - Zoltán Grecsó: #Orpheus #Eurydice
This year marks the 10th anniversary of #Orpheus #Eurydice, the contemporary dance duet by Beatrix Trisha Simkó and Zoltán Grecsó, which will be performed on two evenings this spring at MU Theatre.
The highly acclaimed duo reinterprets the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in a contemporary context, offering a unique take on this timeless love story that has been revisited so many times.
Over the past decade, the performance has toured internationally, including in Finland, Croatia, Romania, and Slovakia, and in 2018 it received the Grand 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.