Urgent Need to Breathe
2018
#dance&technology #interactivity #immersivity #aerialdance #freediving
‘The immers(iv)e space and the collective exercise let us enter the(ir) fluid world, even though we had the freedom of breathing. The interdisciplinary use of light, sound and stage design evoked a liquid medium, in which the observation was horizontal/vertical and separated/simultaneous. Furthermore, these actions could be seen as one, or as one moment, in which they describe the state of body and mind in the same time.’ /review by Kristóf Farkas/
Urgent Need to Breathe was inspired by freediving. In the performance we breathe together and simultaneously take deep breaths to gain awareness of our body and mind. We dive together to experience the immersive space.
Your sensorial experience is supported by interactive technology as we use LED lights reacting on light sensors, wearable electronics and interactive sound and light design. However you can see the dancers moving from different perspectives, it is not only a dance piece to watch, but also a diving experience with its different states of flow, weightlessness, adrenalin, narcosis, dependence and even the urgent need to breathe.
In the creation of this seemingly fluid, sensitive world the international team puts special emphasis on the relationship of dance to digital arts, which research has started by the choreographer, Flóra Eszter Sarlós during her Master of International Art Creation at University Paris 8 and is carried out in the frame of our company’s project STELLA.
Choreography: Flóra Eszter Sarlós
Performers, co-creators: Ádám Bot, Emese Kovács / Boglárka Varga, Alexandra Mireková (SK), Barbara Rusnáková (SK)
Light and interactive design, wearable electronics: Luboš Zbranek (CZ)
Light designer assistant: Gergő Lukács
Music composition: Ádám Márton Horváth
Music composition and sound design: Michal Mitro (CZ)
Mentor: Eszter Gál
Production assistant, tour manager: Brigitta Kovács
Special thanks to Kristóf Szabó, Fanni Lakos and Máté Czakó
Trailer: Gergő Lukács
Premier: 21th of May 2018, Trafó House of Contemporary Arts
Diffusion:
– 23th of July, 2018 – Cirque du Tókert – Valley of Arts Festival (Vígántpetend, HU)
– 14th, 15th September, 2018 – outdoor, site-adaptive version, PLACCC Festival, (Csepel, HU)
– 27th October, 2018 – Infinite Dance Festival (Oradea, RO)
– 6th November, 2018 – National Theater of Szeged – Studio (Szeged, HU)
– 7th March, 2019 – Csiky Gergely Theatre (Kaposvár, HU)
– 21th March, 2019 – Vaskakas Theatre (Győr, HU)
– 22th March, 2019 – HaDivadlo (Brno, CZ)
– 14th May, 2019 – National Theatre of Miskolc (Miskolc, HU)
– 29th August, 2019 – outdoor, site-adaptive version, Front@ Contemporary Dance Festival 2019 (Murska Sobota, SI)
– 6th November 2019, Záhrada (Banská Bystrica, SK)
– 24th November 2019, Art & Tech Days 2019, Tabačka Kulturfabrik, Košice (SK)
– 9th November 2020, STELLA dance&tech program series, Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest (HU)
– 30th October 2021, FITT (Fundația Județeană pentru Tineret Timiș) – DansNomad Festival, Timisoara (RO)
In the frame of Zoltán Imre Program, National Cultural Fund of Hungary.
Supported by European Union Culture Program.
Supporters: National Dance Theatre, Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Pro Progressione, Workshop Foundation, Lifelong Burning, Sín Arts and Culture Center, Summa Artium, The Slovak Institute in Budapest, Czech Centre Budapest, Balassiho inštitút – Maďarský inštitút v Bratislave, L1 Association, KristofLab
