Gyula Cserepes: Primal
After seven years of working in contemporary dance and theatre, Gyula Cserepes returns to his roots in folk dance. Drawing on six years of training in traditional Hungarian dance, Primal explores how folk movement vocabularies, rhythm and ritual can be translated into contemporary performance.
Working with walking, breathing and percussion, the piece investigates rhythm as one of the most fundamental human experiences. Inspired by ancient cultural memory and the physical knowledge carried by the body, Primal searches for connections between individual presence, collective tradition and the deep structures that shape perception and movement.
Tamás Tuza: Motion Pictures (work in progress)
Motion Pictures is an ongoing research project exploring personal transformation through dance. In this work-in-progress excerpt, Tamás Tuza examines how to "reset" himself as a performer by reflecting on his experiences with En–Knap Group and preparing for new artistic challenges.
The central image of the piece is that of a prison—not as a place of punishment, but as a space of concentration and reflection. For Tuza, it becomes a metaphor for stepping away from constant movement and multiple commitments in order to focus fully on a single process. Through this journey, the dancer gradually develops a renewed awareness of presence, performance and the possibilities of the body on stage.
Luke Thomas Dunne: Stream of Thought
Stream of Thought combines movement, text and sound in an improvised exploration of association, memory and imagination. Drawing on a collection of personal writings created in moments of spontaneity, Luke Thomas Dunne investigates how thoughts emerge, connect, disappear and return.
Together with sound artist DJ Woo-D, he creates a performance structure guided by intuition rather than fixed composition. Ideas develop, dissolve, repeat and transform, allowing language, movement and sound to flow freely through a landscape of shifting memories and impressions.
Ana Štefanec: Your Story
In Your Story, Ana Štefanec explores how meaning is produced in the encounter between performer and audience. Beginning with an investigation of her own strengths and vulnerabilities as a dancer, she became interested in how even the smallest movement detail can radically alter perception.
The piece examines how identical movement material can be interpreted in entirely different ways when accompanied by contrasting verbal instructions or contextual cues. Through subtle shifts and oppositions, Your Story reveals how narratives are constructed and how audiences continuously negotiate meaning while watching.
