Bubble - the contractions of expanding time
Tünet Ensemble
We cannot remember our birth, we cannot tell the story of our death. Childbirth is a similarly elemental liminal situation - beyond real space and time, an extraordinary experience.
The performance of the Tünet Ensemble attempts to evoke, dissect and show the experience of childbirth in body, word and image.
The four dancers involved in the production work from their own birth stories and body memories, traumatic and euphoric experiences. They try to turn out everything that happened through closed eyes, skin, the unconscious.
Schedule
The mind slips out the birth room door. The eyes close. The baby dictates. The mother crawls, stands up, climbs stairs, sleeps, lies on her side, on her back, kneels, clings. She expands and contracts. She pulsates. She sweats. A hitherto unknown rubber material has been invented: it expands indefinitely and further, just to the point that is the closest moment to death. At the gate of the unknown, it turns back. The sphinxes beckon. And still only hair. The fabric tears. First the head. Pause. Pauses and shifts: the rhythms of time gone. Ninety degrees of turn. The shoulder dislocates. And the grating slips out.
"When I saw Burke as a resident, I cried because childbirth looked on stage exactly like it does in real life, and I was fascinated and glad I was an obstetrician. Soon after, colleagues and I went to see it again: by then, more people were giving birth, more people were waiting for a positive test: midwives, doctors, we cried together again. I saw Burk for the third time a few days ago: preparing for the arrival of my second baby, with many years of obstetric experience, I was looking for an evening to take me out of my rush and get me in the mood for the upcoming event. Laughing with a huge belly, I cried for the third time, because since I first saw Burk I have been a part of the birth of many mothers and babies, including my own. And now I know it's really like that, the woman and the pain, the woman and the expectations, the parent and the born, beautiful inside and out, hurting, elemental. I recommend it to anyone who has given birth, is giving birth, or is planning to." - Julia Benkovics, midwife
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Our aim in creating the Jurányi was to find a stable, shared home for the independent theatre and creative arts sector, providing the infrastructure necessary for its day-to-day operations. We wanted to create a cultural centre in the Buda area, a "contemporary art house" where theatre-loving young people could spend a few hours over a coffee or even a theatre performance, a creative children's activity or an acrobatic movement class, thus re-filling the abandoned educational institution with an active community life.
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