Eszter Salamon ( Hungary )
Magyar Tàncok
(translates as Hungarian Dances )

Saturday 13 October
8pm
Sandfield Theatre
How much? You decide!
Duration: 1h 20min

Eszter Salamon is a choreographer and dancer from Hungary . She practiced Hungarian folk dancing from childhood until her early twenties, before stopping for almost fifteen years. In 2005, visiting her family in Hungary , she reconnected with this traditional form of dance, a real family heritage for her. This re-discovery prompted her desire to create a piece that deals with identity and family.
 
In Magyar Tàncok , she has invited her mother, a traditional folk dance teacher, as well as several dancers and musicians, to join her in a questioning of the work she makes today out of a shared practice of the past. Of course this is not a folk dance performance, rather from today's perspective, Eszter scrutinizes her dance training including the classical and contemporary dance techniques she later acquired. We are invited to join this live autobiographical enquiry, witnessing an artist questioning and confronting her influences somewhere between a lecture and a different kind of contemporary performance.

Supported by Festival?Les Intranquilles, Villa Gillet, Lyon, Hauptstadtkulturfonds and Botschaft . Migrations and Dance4 have worked together to bring this performance to the UK . There will be an opportunity to join the performers for an open workshop on Sunday 14 October at Dance4 and to hear more from Eszter in our Folk Symposium that same day.

Photo:
Salamon / Botschaft

Eszter Salamon

After her classical dance studies at the National Dance Academy in Budapest , Eszter collaborated in France between 1992 to 2000 with several choreographers, including Sidonie Rochon, Mathilde Monnier and François Verret. In 2001 she presented the solo What a Body You Have , Honey and invited by Le Vif du Sujet , she collaborated with Xavier Le Roy and presented Giszelle during the Avignon Festival (France). She then created Woman Inc.© with eighteen women aged between 7 - 74 years old. In 2004 Eszter presented Reproduction at the Podewil, TanzWerkstatt Berlin , where she was artist-in-residence. She is also lauréate of Villa Médicis Hors les Murs , the prestigious French bursary. In May 2005, as part of the festival Les Intranquilles in Lyon ( France ), she presented the first version of Magyar Tàncok , which is now presented in nottdance07. She also staged the music of Karim Haddad for the project Seven attempted excapes from Silence at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden , Berlin . The premiere of Nvsbl took place at the beginning of 2006 at the Choreographischen Zentrum, Pact Zollverein, Essen ( Germany ). Last April, she premiered her new piece AND THEN in Lyon , at Les Subsistances (France).

www.eszter-salamon.com