Bence Mezei is a dancer, performer, choreographer based in Budapest, Hungary and Ljubljana, Slovenia. His artistic practice spans dance, acting, writing, directing and choreography. He is a member of the Obie Award-winning New York performance group Nature Theater of Oklahoma and has been collaborating with the company since 2016. In addition to his work with Nature Theater, Bence has collaborated with and danced for various international choreographers, theater and dance companies over the past decade, including Lionel Hoche, Anh Ngoc Nguyen, En–Knap Group, Club Guy and Roni, Hodworks, Dollardaddy’s among many others. Coming from dance as his first language, Bence approaches his works through a strong sense of rigour, rhythm and musicality, using language, dance and choreography to explore the dynamics of individual experience within the collective context.
What happens when you touch it is a performance, which plays between the physical and the mental, moving from the rational, linear, logical world into the world of the imagination. It is a game of impossibilities and warped reality filled with personal and collective consciousness and sub consciousness, where the stage is transformed into a fragmented door to another world. We communicate our thoughts, ideas and wishes, our non-sense, our illogical stories, the absurdity that keeps us sane, the unrealised wishes, the hidden aggression, the luminescent beauty, the gory details and bizarre connections, the obsessions, the worst-case scenarios and the superhuman abilities. Welcome to the playground of our minds. How does it look through your eyes?