Still

THU May 20 5:30 pm Konvikt / K3

Márta Ladjánszki
STILL
Júlia Garai – Zsolt Varga
L1 Budapest / HUN

concept and director Márta Ladjánszki
choreography Márta Ladjánszki
dancers Júlia Garai, Zsolt Varga
music Zsolt Varga
costumes Butterfly


A highly evocative and moving dance performance on the powerless inability of human communication. A vital young woman and a completely motionless man in a fascinating dance duet. Still is the last part of an on-going project which originated at L1 DanceLab in Budapest. This dance performance was the third part of this series, entitled statusM / helyzetjelentésM and created by Márta Ladjánszki. Once again, she experimented with the Hungarian contemporary dance scene, exciting and unique. Still shows a situation in which the actors half-heartedly communicate messages, gestures and emotions without hope for a reaction or ambition to entertain. It seems almost as if this state is final and unalterable. But is it really? The theme of communication, the raised questions and answers create an atmosphere of concentration and density, which also requires attention of the audience.


Márta Ladjánszki is experimenting again, drawing up something exciting and unique on the Hungarian contemporary dance scene. The theme, the questions and the answers brought up from deep within her and her partners demand a lot of attention.

Already the title Still itself is highly imaginative, referring to being totally passive and unable to communicate... Still shows a situation, where the active half is sending every message, gesture, emotion into nowhere without even hoping for a reaction; what is more, this state is definitive and irreversible.



After studying classical ballet, gymnastics, jazz and modern dance in Hungary and in Vienna, Márta Ladjánszki founded her own company KOMPmANIA with Attila Csabai in 1996, where she was a dancer and co-choreographer of several productions until 2002. Her first independent work, One, was created for the 1st Solo Dance Festival, and later on she regularly performed her solos at Trafo. These works, like Stretching Thighs and Two, were devised for herself and radically rewrote sensuality. She worked with several choreographers/dancers in Hungary, like: Gyula Berger, Katalin Juhász, Katalin Balla, Reka Szabó, Aniko Juhász, Adrienne Hod, Joe Alegado, György Arvai. In 2001 she joined L1 DanceLab, Independent Dancers' Partnership, which was founded by seven dancers in Budapest and she has been a member ever since. Ladjánszki is perhaps the most exciting and most promising member of her generation. Her works are full of fire: her individual and outstanding presence, freedom of her imagination, passion of her movements and sensitivity towards intimacy can be discovered in all her creations.