We welcome our guests to an informal program to mingle and to discuss. In the compelling studio of Workshop Foundation located in Jurányi Incubator House (with a view on the Parliament and Buda Hills), we present four artists/artist groups who have been working with the Foundation in the frame of long-term partnerships. The showcase is followed by a discussion with the artists and a delicious brunch.

Registration is compulsory to attend. We welcome visitors from abroad primarily.

Program:

10:00                           Welcome

10:15-10:35                Atelier 21220/Gyula Cserepes (HU): Rave (dance)

10:40-11:00                Beatrix Simkó (HU): The Credenza Left in the Cellar (dance)

11:00                           Break

11:25-11:45                Grotesque Gymnastics/Ilka Bardóczy (HU) and Gáspár Téri (HU): Anatomy of Failure (new circus)

11:50-12:10                Collective Dope/Jenna Jalonen (FI/HU): BEAT ‘I just wish to feel you’ (dance)

12:10-13:00                Brunch

More information about the artists and performances »»

Workshop Foundation, active since 1993, aims to provide support for independent artists and facilitate the development of the Hungarian contemporary dance scene as a whole. Its main strategic objective is the encouragement of border-crossing – both geographically and among artistic disciplines. The Foundation works with nearly 200 Hungarian and foreign artists yearly and is known abroad for its international co-productions, training and residency programmes as well as its active role in professional networks. It runs 4 studios in two highly important independent art institutions in Budapest - in Trafó House of Contemporary Arts and in Jurányi Incubator House.

Important networks, partnerships: Life Long Burning, Aerowaves, GPS - Movement Research, Philadelphia Dance Projects.

Rave

Atelier 21220/Gyula Cserepes (HU)

Rave is a ritual on stage during which the equal dialogue between soul and spirit gets transmitted on the language of the body. Through the transfiguration of the performers, the audience could also benefit from the ancient experience of rave. They could get a taste from the balance ruling the world beyond the grey weekdays. The three dancers, like three shamans, transmit sensitivity, harmony and peace.

Gyula Cserepes (HU) is a choreographer, dancer and teacher, born and raised in Bečej, Yugoslavia. He studied at the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy (HU) and began his professional career at „Central-Europe Dance Theater”, Budapest (HU), in 2007. In 2008., he joined En-Knap Group”, Ljubljana (SI). In the recent years Gyula actively collaborates with the Swiss companies Cie Jozsef Trefeli and Cie Philippe Saire. The work of Gyula as an author is focusing on rituals and altered states of mind. In 2017 he established his company, Atelier 21220. He often gives professional classes and workshops and he is a regular teacher of International Dance Week Budapest and the Hungarian Academy of Theatre and Film.

Website: http://atelier21220.com/ ; http://gyulacserepes.com/
Trailer: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=965842723757465
Video: https://vimeo.com/369857942 (for the password send an inquiry to info@atelier21220.com)
Contact: Gyula Cserepes, info@atelier21220.com

The Credenza Left in the Cellar

Beatrix Simkó (HU)

The question of continuity and passage of time accompanies us throughout life. What is, however, enduring in a lifetime? A character, a movement or an object? Or do our habits transform so quickly, that slowly, most of the things that happened fifty years ago, need an explanation? The body is exposed to a flowing transformation. The Credenza Left in the Cellar engages with the ageing process and the relation between old and young. It addresses the interdependent relationship between two generations.

Beatrix Simkó (HU) is a Hungarian dancer, choreographer and media artist currently based in Hamburg and Budapest who graduated from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design as a media designer. During her eight-year collaboration with the Hungarian Eva Duda Dance Company, she began to create her own performances and media works. In recent years she has taken part in many international theatre and dance collaborations. Her multimedia dance piece – a collaboration with Jenna Jalonen –  Long time no see! was selected in the Festival d'Avignon Sujets à Vif program in 2018 and in Aerowaves twenty19 Spring Forward Festival, and was nominated for the Hungarian Rudolf Lábán Award in 2019. She is one of the selected artists of Creative Crossroads by the European contemporary dance program Life Long Burning until 2020.

Website: https://simkobeatrix.hu 
Video: https://youtu.be/lrbKAddcGcI
Contact: Brigitta Kovács – production manager,bkovacs.theatre@gmail.com

Anatomy of Failure

Grotesque Gymnastics/Ilka Bardóczy (HU) and Gáspár Téri (HU)

‘Anatomy of Failure’ looks into the possibilities underlying instances of and our relationship with failure in the language of new circus. The performance is based on a confession – a text recorded by a 35 years old acrobat. A story of her physical and mental injuries. A confession. A diagnosis.

Are we victims of life or victims of ourselves? – The eternal question. And also: why does life always flow against my life? Or are we simply just in a wrong place?

Grotesque Gymnastics is one of the very few examples of new circus collectives in Hungary approaching circus from the form of dance. The collective started off in 2013. Its two founder members, Gáspár Téri and Ilka Bardóczy have been working together in various new circus productions since 2011. The fusion of the two attitudes and the similar approach to physicality and body language a peculiar form and style has taken shape.
With his thirteen years’ experience of dance, circus and physical theatre Gáspár Téri observes the world with a unique, ironic, cynical eye. His co-member Ilka Bardóczy – a pole dancer and aerial acrobatics trainer, a twofold world champion in pole dancing, European and Hungarian champion – has a similar sarcastic attitude accompanied by her high-level technical skills.

The texts of the performance are in English.

Website: https://grogym.wixsite.com/grotesquegymnastics
Contact: Anikó Rácz, racz@sinarts.org

BEAT ‘I just wish to feel you’

Collective Dope/Jenna Jalonen (FI/HU)

A contemporary dancer and a b-boy. Both physically trained to master techniques and control over their bodies. Together they are decoding the skilled and disciplined body into a new way of movement and partnering. The active and the passive. The manipulator and the manipulated one. “The living-body” and “the dead-body”. The sound artist Adrian Newgent joins them on stage, composing live soundscape in dialog with the dancers. The result is an incredibly physical, raw, yet intimate and touching duet about human relations.

Jenna Jalonen (FI/HU) aka triplejay was born in Finland, educated in Hungary and currently working internationally from Budapest. After her studies in classical ballet at the Finnish National Opera Ballet School and Hungarian Dance Academy in Budapest, she changed to the field of contemporary dance and performing arts. She has been dancing for and creating together with several international companies and choreographers since 2010. Jenna is also interested in more brutal, uncontrolled and unconscious physicalities which she has been using in the creations by Collective Dope. Two years in a row, her choreographic works have been selected for the Aerowaves Twenty19 and Twenty20 Spring Forward.

Jonas Garrido Verwerft (BE) was born in Belgium and started breakdancing when he was 10 years old. He tasted performances and productions when he joined Let’s go urban. He finished a Master degree in Sport science and decided to evolve more in dance and movement, freelancing and doing productions for Franco Dragone, Wanp, Fabuleus & Moldavië , Straatrijk and Musichall. He is one of the founders of Antwerp based urban dance, music and fashion crew Osei Bantu. Currently he is touring with the production of ADHD with Cirk La Putyka, directed by Rosta Novak.

Adrien Newgent (NL) aka Modern Errors is a music and sound designer from Holland. He graduated as a musician/producer in Rotterdam and has worked as a sound engineer for three years at MediaWerkPlaats Rotterdam. During these years he started to work in movie industry as a composer, having composed music for seven different films so far. He won ’The best music’-award for a 48 hour film project. Besides the films he has been collaborating and composing music for contemporary dance productions. Adrian is also often playing at music festivals like Ozora Festival, SUN Festival, Mo:Dem Festival for several years.

Website: https://www.facebook.com/CollectiveDope/
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/350115621  
Video: https://vimeo.com/358618949 (for the password send an inquiry to collectivedope@gmail.com)
Contact: Jenna Jalonen, collectivedope@gmail.com

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Contact information of Workshop Foundation:

Website: http://wsf.hu/
E-mail: workshop@wsf.hu

The team: Talló Gergely director (+3670 427 34 74), Partig-Kis Erika project manager (+3670 427 34 73), Szabó Hanna project manager (+3670 676 49 74), Péter Kamilla intern for cultural management, Susy internship program (+3670 604 27 27)

Social media: www.facebook.com/wsf.hu / www.facebook.com/wsfpro / www.instagram.com/workshopfoundation

The supporters of Workshop Foundation: Ministry of Human Capacities (EMMI), National Cultural Fund of Hungary (NKA), Summa Artium, Creative Europe Programme of the European Union