Müpa Budapest/National Dance Theatre
Drip Canon is a “concert – dance – theatre” interference
The concert: The wavelengths of a tuned, worn-out piano, a melting glacier, the dripping, and the hissing steam combine with the flood of voices from a 17-member chorus.
The dance: The art of T’ai Chi Ch’uan is a basic element of the performance’s choreography and also its spirit. The pure, sharp confrontation and equilibrium between rest and flow, qualities in opposition. The state of consciousness of a continuous presence in motion.
The theatre: Right at the start, in the 80s, we produced a show inspired by the 131 remaining sentence fragments of Heraclitus, the Greek philosopher who lived around 600 BC. When I began to think about our current “anniversary, period-summarizing” performance, it occurred to me that I have been in continuous conversation with Heraclitus for 30 years. I write my sentences and direct my shows, which seem like fragments of an imaginary dialogue spanning decades. Slowly, I had to realize the driving force behind this performance was none other than the (now conscious) dialogue in process, which summarized the others – my talks with Heraclitus in the language of Artus.
Interference: This performance, therefore, may seem like a single motion, a single voice, a single image under continuous transformation.
CREDITS
Performers & Creators: Tamás BAKÓ, Márton DEBRECZENI, Zoltán MÓZES, Csilla NAGY, Melinda VIRÁG
T’ai Chi Ch’uan Artists: Imre BARANYAI, László GREGUS, Szilvia IZSÁK
Musicians: Á la cARTe chamber chorus (artistic director: György PHILIPP)
Text: Heraclitus, Gábor GODA
Music Director & Conductor: György PHILIPP
Set and Visual Design: Ferenc SEBESTYÉN, Gábor GODA, Bea GOLD
Costume Design: Kriszta LŐRINCZ
Lighting Design & Co-creator: Gábor KOCSIS
Creative Technology: Gábor PAPP, Ágoston NAGY
Video Tech: Krisztián MEGYERI
Composers: László MELIS, György PHILIPP
Production Director: Anna GÁSPÁR
Production Assistant: Anna FAZEKAS
Assistant to Director & Co-creator: Bea GOLD
Director & Choreographer: Gábor GODA
REVIEWS
“The performance, with its wry sense of humour, sometimes also turning into sober melancholy, takes us in search of that special moment when we believe we have found ‘order’. Something we call ‘repose’, which we know is temporary, although we hope it will turn out to be the opposite. Goda not only looks for this moment, but also finds it, on many occasions. The performance has a sublime, meditative visual power and creates a poetic world in which there are no misplaced elements, while the grandiose whole is filled with the beauty of fine details (...) The production, with its hypnotic atmosphere, reaches far beyond the average of today’s Hungarian contemporary dance, and even by international standards it is an exceptional performance.” nol.hu
ARTUS COMPANY
The Artus Company is an independent contemporary physical theatre, established in 1985 by Gábor Goda. Since being founded, the company has created more than 60 performances and played in 25 countries. Right from the beginning, they have been actively involved in seeking and organizing international projects, residency programmes and co-productions.
Artus is not only an interdisciplinary collective, made up of the 30 artists working here, and the association that provides the infrastructural background for artistic work, but also a studio: a creative centre, with its own 2000-square-metre venue converted from an abandoned factory building.
The studio regularly hosts performances by the Artus Company, as well as visual art exhibitions, guest performances and various other cultural events.
COPRODUCERS
National Dance Theatre
SUPPORTERS
National Cultural Fund, Ministry of Human Resources, MÜPA, 77 Elektronika