Beatrix Simkó - Zoltán Grecsó: #Orpheus#Eurydice
#Orpheus#Eurydice from Beatrix Simkó and Zoltán Grecsó is coming to MU Theatre again on April 20th.
Zoltán Grecsó’s and Beatrix Simkó’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 duo has toured in Finnland, Slovakia and Croatia, apart from nearly 50 performances in Hungary. In 2018 the performance has won the Grand Prize at the Festival of Dance Veszprém, Hungary.
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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.
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.
Beatrix Simkó is a dancer, choreographer and media artist. She graduated from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest and the Hamburg University, where she studied performance and media art. She has been an active creator and performer for more than ten years of the Hungarian dance scene, and since 2015 she has worked in many international theatre and dance collaborations, mainly in Germany. She is an Aerowaves and Life Long Burning selected artist. In her works she engages the environment surrounding us through the expressive tools of the physical body. simkobeatrix.hu
Zoltán Grecsó is a freelancer dance artist, choreographer, and the artistic director of Willany Leó Improvisation Dance Theatre since 2009. He graduated at the Anton Bruckner Privátuniversitat in 2005. Since then he has been working as a performer and creator of the Hungarian contemporary dance scene. In 2014, he got the Fülöp Viktorscholarship as a dance teacher. In the past 15 years he took part in nearly 100 productions in Hungary and abroad as well. He often creates together with his
brother, Krisztián Grecsó (writer, poet, editor of ÉS), with whom he is producing multidisciplinary performances. Grecso.com
Date, time: April 20. 19:00-20:00
Place: MU Theatre, Színházterem XI. Budapest, Kőrösy József u. 17.
Ticket: 4000 Ft
Supporter ticket: 5000 Ft
Age: 14+
Choreography, dance: Beatrix Simkó, Zoltán Grecsó
Music: Ábris Gryllus
Set design: Dániel Dömölky
Costum: Petra Földi
Production manager: Brigitta Kovács
Producer: Pro Progressione
Special thanks to: Anita Vodál, Stefánia Ágoston, Anna Bagi, Eszter Kálmán, Bálint Nagy, József
Pető, Tamás Reich, Borbála Sebők, Ádám Szellő, Anikó Zsalakovics
Sponsors, supporters: Ministry of Human Resources, National Cultural Fund, Comedy Theatre
Budapest, Workshop Fundation, Sín Production, Spicc Studio, Movein Studio,
Eötvös 10, Pro Progressione, PUR E, DNN, deephoto