Take a Closer Look is a public performance presented by the contemporary dance department of the Budapest Circus Arts and Contemporary Dance College. The evening will showcase student works as well as a choreography by Laura Tóth. Through a diverse range of pieces, the program will explore how dance, as a living art form, can engage, inspire, and provoke thought.
Date: 7 pm, 10th and 11th April 2025
Venue: MU Theatre
Supporters of the event: National Cultural Fund, MU Theatre
We would like to let you know that there is no ticket sale on the date of the evening, therefore you are asked to purchase your tickets online. Purchase tickets here.
Detailed program:
beautiful stranger
The dances of the duets and a trio shown in the various interior and exterior spaces of the MU Theatre are structured improvisations in which the dancers compose movements according to specific scores, movements are born in the moment. Each time, the dancers explore one of the infinite possibilities of the encounter in a different way.
Concept: Dóra Furulyás
Creators and dancers: Eszter Bartók, Jácinta Adél Benedek, Sári Csaba, Lili Hirsch-Nagy, Katalin Huszár, Anna Lázár, Kriszta Kovács, Szellő Tirza Kővári, Veera Lurila, Simona Lazurová, Nicole Messner
Music: Dmitri Shostakovich – Piano Concerto no.2. in F Major, Op 102. II.Andante, John Cage- Dream (1948)
I wear it, I bear it
I usually wash on Sundays. I wash my clothes for training separately. On Monday I carry a bag of them to school, pack it in my locker. I wear them all week, changing or changing back into the same ones: I move in them, sometimes I sweat a little in them, sometimes more. But after class I lay them out in the dressing room. On Friday I unpack my locker, take everything home.
Creator: Sári Csaba
Music: Jamie xx- Breather
Performers: Sári Csaba, Barbara Dabis, Emese Murányi
Backwards, the other way, but in the same direction
A matrix-like structure of paths and actions materialises. Connections are created and severed in the process but some things will always stay.
Choreography: Veera Laurila
Dance: Nikolett Gelb, Veera Laurila
Music: Tapani Rinne & Teho Majamäki – Air
Sweetest little dove of mine
Pure dance in which Hungarian folk dance meets contemporary dance. A unique fusion appears from the combination of folk motifs and the free movements inspired by the music. The choreography attempts to intertwine and harmonize two dance styles, while exploring the common denominator: the power of dancing together.
Choreography: Katalin Huszár
Performers: Eszter Bartók, Jácinta Adél Benedek, Lili Hirsch-Nagy, Katalin Huszár, Kriszta Kovács, Szellő Tirza Kővári, Anna Lázár, Nicole Messner, Emese Murányi
Music: Bognár Szilvia, Herczku Ágnes, Szalóki Ági – Édes kicsi galambom
2MUCH
The story of two creatures meeting, arriving in a shared space at the same time. Initially, they question each other, but eventually, they begin to move in the same direction.
Together, they try to create a common language, connect and enjoy common space and time.
Performers and creators: Eszter Bartók and Simona Lazurová
Music: Bob Moses – Grace (instrumental, our own version), white/ brown noise
The fishmongers club
– What’s going on with you? Nothing?
– Well, everything.- The fishmonger said. – I’ve been fishing for a few lines that run through me before I move, when I move and after I move. There’s plenty more thoughts in the deep oceans here, I hope you’ll take them quickly for good money. Now that’s all the doubt that’s hooked in my mind, we can fiddle with it and Pababam-bam, Pababam-bam.
Choreographer: Laura Tóth
Creators, dancers: Adél Benedek Jácinta, Sára Csaba, Barbara Dabis, Nikolett Gelb, Dorka Guba, Réka Hofbauer, Katalin Huszár, Veera Laurila, Simona Lazurová, Lea Kiss, Emese Murányi, Johanna Szőke
Music: John Surman – Edges Of Illusion, Ben E. King – Stand By Me
Lights and light design: Kata Dézsi
Curation and editing: Tamás Bakó and Dóra Furulyás
