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Clearing the attic (solo)
a study in motion and psyche
You can all stay home, for all I care. I don’t want to be nice.
I’ve got nothing in my hands, not even kind words, to lure you to this
place.
All I’ve got is this great yearning in my heart to get rid of
all this junk, all the building blocks of my deliberately sheltered
existence.
We hoard our junk-heap within us, carrying it about with mounting weariness, fumbling miserably among the wreckage of our lives.
„Hungarian contemporary dance recently gave birth to a new genre we
might call singles ballet. Although the athletic figure enacted by
choreographer-performer Réka Szabó could be the envy of the slightly
overweight Bridget Jones, the two have so much in common in terms of
their fate and innermost qualities that they would surely understand
each other on the subject of clearing one’s spiritual attic, without
the help of an interpreter. This is because Szabó is an accomplished
interpreter of sorts herself, doing a superb job translating verbal
messages into motion, and vice versa. In the first part of her one-act
performance entitled Clearing the Attic, her message is acted out by
three dancers. In the second part, the same sequence is performed by
the choreographer herself, with the difference that she recites a
protracted monologue accompanying her movements.”
(Kutszegi Csaba, Magyar Hírlap, 2004)
The piece garnered an award at the 2007 Budapest Fringe Festival, and has been invited to the Bratislava in Movement Festival in Slovakia.
| Directed by: | Réka Szabó |
| Coreography, dance: | Réka Szabó |
| Music: | dj Mangó, Albert Márkos, Márton Németh - Eastend Studio |
| Light: | Gerzson Péter Kovács |
| Text: | Ádám Petri Lukács, Réka Szabó |
| Media sponsor: | FidelioEst |
Photo: Gábor Dusa