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Kaleidoscope - Hommage á Béla Bartók

Kaleidoscope - Hommage á Béla Bartók

An ID 1.84 and Ádám Kiss-Balbinat and Marcell Szabó coproduction

Director: Attila Tókos, Zoltán Zsuráfszky Jr.

55 minutes, without breaks.

The ID 1.84 contemporary folk dance company’s Attila Tókos and Zoltán Zsuráfszky Jr. together with Ádám Kiss-Balbinat and Marcell Szabó made an unconventional performing night from Bartók’s everlasting opuses, where music and dance bows worthily before the great composer’s figure.

We will get an introspection to Hungarian historical times’ ‘kaleidoscope’, as they follow each other in a colourful whirling fluctuation. In this show Béla Bartók’s versatility and his personality’s all alterity is represented by the four different characters. The performance is a vivid music compilation; with classical piano pieces, violin duets and authentical folk music. Bartók’s music is simultaneously neoclassical and folk, build upon European universal traditions and Hungarian roots together, reforming it with a peculiar intonation, ‘tradition and renewal’. Timeless and everlasting – because tradition, national spirit and novation are jointly present in his music; therefore it vibrates for everybody, its substance is ubiquitous. We wanted condignly to create our very recent premiere, the one act folkdance-theatrical performance, perambulating the relations between our metropolitan existence and traditional Hungarian culture.

… we couldn’t walk this way without the Bartókian legacy…
our mission is the condign remembrance and the going forward…

 

ID 1.84
Attila Tókos and Zoltán Zsuráfszky Jr.’s company

The ID 1.84 contemporary-folk dance company was founded by Zoltán Zsuráfszky Jr., the soloist of Hungarian State Folk Ensemble and Attila Tókos, the soloist of Hungarian National Dance Ensemble. Progression-Tradition-Revolution – that is their credo. Renewal does not exist without studying our roots, cultural traditions and our dance history. Our goal is to create a future-oriented vocabulary of movements, thinking in terms of ‘neofolklorism’. Our formal terminology is the fusion of contemporary and modern dance techniques with the folk dance. Our scenic perspectives are to actualize the Hungarian tradition: to step into the future and to raise the past.

Music:
Béla Bartók, Ádám Kiss-Balbinat and Marcell Szabó

Light-design/Technician:
Roland Patai

 

Dancer / Choreography

Attila Tókos

Dancer / Choreography

Zoltán Zsuráfszky Jr.

KA
Kaszás Attila Stage
Attila Tókos

Attila Tókos

Dancer, choreographer. Soloist of the Hungarian National Dance Ensemble, also working as a choreographer. He is a Viktor Fülöp bursar, in 2014 he has got the Season’s Best Male Dancer and Junior Príma Award, in 2017 honoured with the Bronze Cross of Merit of Hungarian Republic and in 2018 with the Gyula Harangozó Award. Born in 1984 in the Transylvanian city of Baraolt, he graduated as dancer (and later as pedagogue) at Hungarian Dance Academy. Mainly interested in self-expression as a dancer, but he feels creation the closest to his personality. 

The aim of his work: to implement the breakout from the frames of traditional folk dance with the abstract games of the formal elements; the variation and collision of motions liberated from their original functions; unequivocally to define new directions, new characteristics in Hungarian art of dance.

Zoltán Zsuráfszky Jr.

Zoltán Zsuráfszky Jr.

Dancer and choreographer honoured with Prima Primissima Junior and Gyula Harangozó Awards.

In 2008 he became the Season’s Best Male Dancer, being a perpetual folk dancer (Örökös Aranysarkantyús Táncos), the award winner choreographer of National Folk Dance Festival Szolnok and Chamber Dance Festival of Zala, winner of László Vásárhelyi Award, Youth Master of Folk Arts.  He extended his skills at Vígszínház, Budapest Operetta Theatre and Csíki Gergely Theatre of Kaposvár, choreographing numerous shows with Hungarian and overseas companies.

Since 2004 dancer and choreographer of the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble, nowadays also assistant director of the dance troupe. His life’s main assignment is – besides choreography, pedagogy, performing on stage – to invigorate the Hungarian culture and tradition.

Philosophy, strong folk-organic world, topicality, theatre are his ars poeticas.

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