Gyula Berger (HU) & Roos van Berkel (NL)
Your Body – MY Landscape
Opening Night:  25th, 26th October 8 pm, Jurányi

‘Your body – My landscape’ is the first choreographic collaboration between Gyula Berger (Hungary) and Roos van Berkel (The Netherlands). This cross-cultural project promotes transdisciplinary exchange between Dutch and Hungarian artists from different generations, professional backgrounds and educational institutions.

I take a walk through your body’s landscape
You allow, you expose,
Where necessary, I intrude

Let’s put on big brown boots and ask each other to dance...

As children of our age, we see a world where insecurity triumphs. The open borders of Europe collide with the consequences of the economic crisis, which seems to allow free play for individual insecurity and collective hatred. We want to play a game where we look for a new valuation: one of the individual body as a container of experiences. Experiences with a collective value because they are connected to many different people and many different places. Experiences that form its own landscape in the body – a landscape where the sun rises behind the mountain of the everlasting party and a siren swims through a sea of tears.
During this duet, Gyula Berger and Roos van Berkel will focus on discovering the landscape of each other’s bodies and they will invite one another into looking at the world from another point of view because of the opposition in gender, the 20 years of age difference and the fact that Gyula and Roos have been born and raised on opposite sides of Europe in different political situations.

Gyula Berger (HU) has been making work in Hungary for the past 25 years. He entered the Hungarian dance scene in 1984 with his own modern dance group ‘Berger Dance Company’. At the time, this was the only professional dance company that tried to establish modern dance in Hungary without official support but on aregular basis. His thirst for finding new ways of moving and composing took him to the European Dance Development Center in Arnhem in 1994. When he returned to Hungary in 1997 he founded his second dance company, Zéró Balett. He was a founding member of L1 Independent Dancers Partnership, a unique collective of 7 choreographers which was active between 2000 and 2010. During these years he had a close collaboration with another L1-member, Márta Ladjánszki and they created several works together. Gyula now works with his own dance company Zéró Balett as well as collaborative projects with other artists and continues to teach his self-developed dance technique called ‘Body Friendly Technique’.
Work
▪    ‘Cream, kiss and more’: http://vimeo.com/17685299
▪    ‘Almost 3′: http://vimeo.com/64480890
▪    ‘Vermont Counterpoint’: http://vimeo.com/65415502
▪    ‘Cake, wine, dance, sex’: http://vimeo.com/68442172

Roos van Berkel (NL) teaches, performs and creates own work in Holland since 2008. She has been educated as a contemporary dance theatre performer at Laban London and continued to study Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis at LIMS New York. After graduating from LIMS, Roos returned to Europe in 2006. After performing in two productions in Cologne (DE), she permanently moved back to The Netherlands in 2008. There she accepted a teaching position at the Theaterschool in Amsterdam as well as a university lecturer and project coach position at the Eindhoven University of Technology at the faculty of Industrial Design. Recent choreographic works are performances with audio-visual installation ‘Sovi’ and setting up a robotics project with choreographer Marion Tränkle in collaboration with the TU/e. As a freelance performer, Roos has been working with Close-Act Theatre since 2008. Close-Act is one of the biggest outdoor visual theatre companies of The Netherlands that performs internationally on a regular basis.
Work
▪    ‘Dancerail’ Interactive light installation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L4fo5w_yYQ
▪    ‘SOVI’ Interactive audio-visual installation:   https://vimeo.com/44257214


Team:
Martina Bauer (NL) - scenography
Kristi Kuusk (EST, NL), Renske Solkesz (NL) and John van der Slik (NL) - interactive technology
Albert Márkos (HU) – music/composition
György Árvai (HU) – lighting design
Mirjam Zwanenburg (NL) – production management Holland
Agapé Szkárosi (HU) – production management Hungary
Irene Schaltegger (NL) – advice choreography
Krisztián Fehér (HU) - photography

Supported by:

NKA, EMMI, Eindhoven University of Technology, Amsterdam School of the Arts


Partners:

Zéró Balett, LMAnalysis Movement Analysis & Research, Jurányi Produkciós Közösségi Inkubátorház

For more information:

Official website: http://ybml.wordpress.com


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