Márk Bartha: ENTERING THE LIMBO

In the new large-scale concert-performance of Márk Bartha’s Ensemble in Limbo project, 20 performers fill the unique industrial space of the Arzenál club. For this latest chapter, Márk Bartha invited Emese Cuhorka as a co-creator to explore the interweaving of sound, movement, and space together with 10 musicians and 10 dancers within an immersive event.

Slowly unfolding musical processes, repetition, silence, and sound sources drifting through space—along with nervous systems taking shape through the dancers’ bodies—guide the audience toward an uncertain, transitional state. Through the performers’ continuous presence, attunement to one another, and movement, the performance gradually transforms into a shared ritual, where performers and audience alike may become participants in the same floating perceptual experience.

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PERFORMERS:

Kámea Farkas

Ruben Farkas

Márton Gláser

Attila Horváth

Nóra Horváth

Adél Jordán

Adél Juhász

Zsófia Szász

Gáspár Téri

Zita Thury

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MUSICIANS:

Béla Ágoston – saxophone, bagpipe, glissotar

Juli Deák – saxophone, flute

Boldizsár Huszti – trumpet

Tamás Geröly – drums, percussion

Árpád Kiss – trumpet

Gábor Pap – trombone

Mátyás Papp - trombone

Áron Porteleki – drums, percussion

István Szögi – trombone

Salamon Tűzkő – trumpet

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Márk Bartha – concept, creator, music

Emese Cuhorka – creator, choreography, costume

Júlia Mohácsi – lighting designer

Zsuzsanna Lajkó-Balogh – production assistant

Dániel Mayer – production manager

Production partner: STEREO AKT

Supporters: Tiszta Forrás Foundation, JazzaJ, Arzenál, Workshop Foundation

This performance was realized with the financial support of the Pro Cultura Urbis Public Foundation and the Independent Performing Arts Fund.

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About the project

Ensemble in Limbo is Márk Bartha’s open musical formation, in which each performance is composed for a single occasion and for the specific site. At the core of the project lies collective presence, listening as an active experience, and the exploration of the relationship between music and acoustic space. Its concerts move along the boundary between traditional performance and installative, performative events, where space is not a backdrop but an active participant.