Nothing There

2008, interactive dance performance, TRAFO Contemporary House of Art, Budapest

director: Reka Szabo; dancers: Akos Dozsa, Rita Gobi, Andrea Nagy, Daniel Szasz, Zsofia Vadas Tamara, Csaba Varga;
music: Albert Mark; interactive technology: Anita Sarosi, Gabor Papp, Viktor Vicsek

Performed to pounding jazz, the piece unfolds as a waking dream laced with bizarre terrors. For a moment, emerging tableaus transform into surreal ballroom sequences in swimsuits and leotards, paying homage to Pina Bausch. Scenes saturated with pain, fear, and sadness float through the play of light, enhanced by an unusually striking lighting technique.

Extraordinary. - Luke Jennings, The Guardian

At the heart of this production by The Symptoms is the recurring tension between what is true and what is real. Interactive, computer-generated projections respond to the movements, positions, and dynamics of the dancers’ bodies, creating a graphically abstract visualization of their anxieties and fantasies.

Innovative to the bone… we glimpse the outlines of an emerging opus whose originality, intellectual drive, playfulness, wit, and refinement must be declared truly exceptional by any standard. - Krisztina Horeczky, Nepszabadsag

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