May 15th, KUC Travno, Zagreb
Maciej Kuźmiński/Central Europe Dance Theatre: Four Season
Duration: 60 minutes
Maciej Kuźmiński’s Four Seasons is a celebration of life depicted in a kaleidoscope of images, unraveling in a mesmerizing and complex dance composition. Created for the company of seven dancers of Central Europe Dance Theater, one of the oldest dance theaters in Hungary, the work brings on stage the most characteristic elements of Kuźmiński’s choreographic style, together with new endeavors into reinterpreting Folk tradition. In its ever-morphing structure, Four Seasons weave Nature and Culture, rebirth and return, becoming a wider metaphor for life as flux.
Four Seasons reaches back to the rites of Central Europe and reinterprets them in the context of the modern world. Four Seasons is also concerned with the subjective perception of time, and is thus dominated by repetition and pure, dynamic elements of contemporary dance.
The four seasons in the piece create four different atmospheres. Although the four parts are separate in terms of movement language, they are closely linked dramaturgically. The production first presents the Spring season, the birth of nature. Followed by the Summer season, where it deals with the relationship between community and the individual through the reinterpretation of tradition. The Autumn season presents culture, coexistence, permanence, the all-encompassing work, and the relationship between man and time. The Winter season presents themes of passing and rebirth, and the time of conscious reflection. Finally, we experience the season of Spring again, concluding with the theme of free will and a sense of new and promising beginnings.
Four Seasons
Central Europe Dance Theater dancers: Réka Gyevnár, Marcell Hován, Gábor Kindl, Edmond Kisbakonyi, Noémi Gizella Nagy, Berta Pucsek, Lídia Sinka
choreography, direction: Maciej Kuźmiński
dramaturgy consultation: Lili Stern
lighting design: Mercédesz Selmeczi with Maciej Kuźmiński
rehearsal director: Adrienn Mádi-Horváth
costume design: students of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design: Andrea Kovacs, Adam Ellenbacher, Laura Hoover, Laura Kokai, Zita Szimonetta Loki
supervisor: Edit Szűcs
art manager: Virág Sóthy
artistic director: László Mádi
company director: Csaba Szögi
general manager: Réka Gerlits
The project is funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, Central Europe Dance Theater Foundation, Hungarian National Dance Theater, Beyond Front@, Polish Institute of Budapest, Hungarian Ministry of Human Resources, National Cultural Fund of Hungary, The Municipality of Erzsébetváros, The Municipality of Budapest, University of Art and Design at Budapest
The performance was presented within the scope of Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery project. The project was created by Central Europe Dance Theatre (Hungary), Bunker (Slovenia), HIPP (Croatia), Krakow Dance Theatre (Poland), M Studio (Romania) and Vitlycke – Centre for Performing Arts (Sweden) to foster local development of the contemporary dance fields.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
