ArtMenők & HODWORKS - Idol // Trafó

A joint production between ArtMenők and HODWORKS, Idol creates a space where normatively able-bodied and disabled performers can perform together on stage, creating a world they want to live in their everyday, personal spaces. The two companies suggest that the field of contemporary performing arts may be the most appropriate starting point for the pervasive social change that has long been called for. This kind of rethinking and overhauling of the often strict rules of domestic contemporary dance is very timely.

The liberating novelty of the international production of Harmonia (HODWORKS & Unusual Symptoms), which premiered in 2021, can now be continued in a local context. Adrienn Beaver has been collaborating with ArtMenők since autumn 2022, in the form of in-depth rehearsal research. The focus of the sessions is to allow young people with different disabilities and non-normative bodies to explore previously unknown terrain accompanied by HODWORKS dancers in a safe situation where they can express themselves through their own choices. During the creative work, participants work on intensive attention control, conscious body use and coordinated work with space, and the resulting performance is adapted to the performers' skills, contrary to normative expectations, so that they can present themselves in an inclusive space, within a flexible framework.

Performers: Gláser Márton, Gyulavári Ági, Kacsó Imola, Karcza Boglárka, Kerekes Tamás, Marián Márk, Mészöly Andrea, Nagy Levente, Pakh Anna, Pataki Panka, Sudár Henrietta, Tóth Kata, Tóth Károly, Vay Ábel.

Directed by Adrienn Hód

Artistic assistants: Kacsó Imola, Gláser Márton

ArtMenők professional/team leaders: Sudár Henrietta, Tóth Károly

ArtMenők professional/group assistants: Henrietta Sudár, Károly Tóth

Composer: Rozi Mákó

Lighting designer: Dézsi Kata

Déza Károsi, Déza Károsi Costumes, Styling: Viktor Szeri

Head of the ArtMenők Art Programme: Kata Kopeczny