SIN brochure – 2015/16

SÍN CULTURE CENTRE is a BUDAPEST-based production house with 4 spacious dance studios, operating in the field of CONTEMPORARY PERFORMING ARTS. Beyond the infrastructure we offer a professional environment to work in: production assistance, fund raising, help and advice in the ARTISTS’ CAREER DEVELOPMENT, assistance in finding the best possible context and partners for their work. Additionally, we organise WORKSHOPS led by local or international artists, initiate discussions and COOPERATIONS between the stakeholders. We play an active role in the STRATEGIC THINKING of the field’s present and future in Hungary and beyond the borders. SÍN has the aim to develop a FLEXIBLE and INNOVATIVE, yet STRONG community of the local artists and partakers nationally and internationally.

We are proud to have produced a variety of progressive and successful PERFORMANCES for the past few years in partnership with a wide range of Hungarian and international professional organisations.

We take part in various local and international cooperations and partnerships. We are regular hosts of the artists in residency project of the VISEGRAD FUND, co-organisers in OPEN LATITUDES3, a Culture Europe partnership project, organise panels and present artistic work at the BUDAPEST IETM MEETING in November 2015 and are partners of an Erasmus+ dance research project REFLEX EUROPE, coordinated

by Wiener Tanzwochen, Austria.

We have also recognized the growing need for social and community involvement. Early 2014 we announced a support programme for COMMUNITY and PARTICIPATORY THEATRE PROJECTS. We organise a FESTIVAL with a focus on participatory theatre to present international examples of the genre.

Gáspár Téri has worked with various Hungarian and international choreographers as a stage performer and visual artist for the past 13 years. Throughout these years his interest has gradually turned toward the form of new circus. He observes the world with a unique, ironic, cynical eye, which is very much present in his works. He founded the collective Grotesque Gymnastics in 2013, which is one of the very few examples of new circus collectives in Hungary approaching circus from the form of dance. APT. 14 is the second production of the collective.

László Fülöp László Fülöp completed his studies at the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy, since then has worked with numerous Hungarian and international dance makers. The core topic of László’s interest is based on exploring and analyzing all forms of human social behaviors and communication issues, from all possible aspects, in their own completeness, without generalizations and prejudices: in a simple, pure and personal way. His 2014 work, THERE IS AN ELEPHANT IN EVERY ROOM and his new creation YOUR MOTHER AT MY DOOR both focus on such issues.

Viktรณria Dรกnyi started her dance studies at the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy, then spent a year at the London Contemporary Dance School. She was the founder member of BLOOM! and has worked with various Hungarian choreographers. Experimentation characterises her work both as a dancer and a choreographer as well as the research in the boundaries of various performing art forms.

She is the co-creator of the internationally successful piece SKIN ME and is now working on her new creation KEEP IN TOUCHING.

Csaba Molnรกr studied at the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy and then at P.A.R.T.S. He is a member of Hodworks and was the founder member of BLOOM!. He is a reappearing performer-choreographer at the Aerowaves Spring Forward festivals, His works SKIN ME and DECAMERON are touring intensively in Europe and beyond.

In his work he strives for reconciling radical extremes. His main interest is to explore how different ways of expression, when juxtaposed, may transform the most private phenomena of human life into a universal and liberating theatrical experience.

Máté Mészáros graduated at the Hungarian Dance Academy in 1999. After 3 years at the Szeged Contemporary Ballet he has worked at various European companies (CarteBlanche – Norway, Lanonima Imperial – Spain, Ultima Vez – Belgium). Amongst others he worked with Ohad Naharin, Sharon Eyal, Amanda Miller, Myriam Naisy and Wim Vandekeybus. As a choreographer he debuted in 2010 with his work OneManCrowd. He is choreographing for various Hungarian companies, has a worldwide practice in giving workshops.

HINOKI is his latest work.

Zsuzsa Rózsavölgyi studied at SEAD and P.A.R.T.S., she has been making her own choreography for 10 years now. She was a member of Rosas in 2004-2009 and has worked with a great many choreographers and various artists, David Zambrano, Thomas Hauert, Thierry de Mey amongst others. In her works she is interested in working with visual artists, applying digital technology. She is an active teacher.

Based on her studies at the School of Creative Coaching she integrates coaching techniques with her experience as a dance artist in her teaching work. Her new work KATA is a solo on female roles.

Tamara Zs贸fia Vadas graduated as a dance pedagogue at the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy. As a freelance dance maker she has worked with many choreographers in Hungary, was the member of The Symptoms for three years. Tamara likes collaborating with artists of different art forms, musicians, visual artists. She is an active teacher, gives improvisation and composition classes for children as well as for adults. She is the co-creator of SKIN ME.

Anna R茅ti finished her studies at the Rotterdam Dance Academy, then she worked among others with Itzik Galili. After her return to Hungary she performed with various companies and choreographers and was the member of The Symptoms and Artus.

She has been making her own choreography for 10 years now, her works has toured in a wide variety of festivals and venues in Europe, earned awards nationally and internationally at the Stuttgart International Solo Dance Festival, at the Masdanza Festival, at the Aarhus International Choreographic Competition. She created POINT OF YOU in collaboration with Ricardo Machado, Portuguese dance maker.

’Decameron is a liberating experience, because it confronts us with our fallibility, the feeling of being lost, and also because it encourages us to be ourselves, to be different. And it does so with credit.

As it has a daring, plain and humane voice, curiosity, acceptance, openness and honesty strike through that all reject conformity.’ (Krisztina Horeczky – critic) Likewise Bocaccio’s Decameron in this piece Csaba Molnár reckons with taboos, issues of religion and morality and the questionable concept of the hero.

He freely associates his own instinctive, visual and auditive images with the sensual and structural world of Decameron. He creates a collage of people, stories with a modest and daring attitude, in which comical, tragic, vulgar, sacred, decent and heroic is intertwined in a dynamics that is free of judgement.

Decameron was premiered in 2014 at Trafó, Budapest, it was invited to Sziget Festival in 2014 and presented at Cialo Umysl Festival in Warsaw, October, 2015.

Premiere: 2014 • Trafó House of Contemporary Arts

Director: Csaba Molnár Creator-performers: Marcio Canabarro Emese Cuhorka Viktória Dányi Marco Torrice Music montage: J. Mahler, J.S. Bach I. Stravinsky C. Janequin Zoltán Mizsei Costumes: Csaba Molnár Lights: Katalin Dézsi Production manager: Anikó Rácz Supporters: Ministry of Human Resources, Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, departs, Culture Europe Programme Trailer and full recording of the performance: www.sinarts.org>Production House>Productions>Decameron Password for full length recording: decameron2014

BASIC TECHNICAL INFO Length: 70’ Stage: min. 10m x 10m, blackbox Cast on tour: 7 people Set transported by air in suitcases

‘Hinoki is a fusion of styles, street dance and martial arts but even elements of folk dance and bits of acrobatic moves get mixed up in this contemporary material. We see figures searching for space, for roles, for a good grip, for a place, for a voice – searching for each other, searching with the others or against them.’ (Tamás Halázs – critic) Ceasing – destruction – reproduced reality. A unique triptichon. In his new piece, Máté Mészáros, member of Ultima Vez focuses on this curious triangle. For the creation he has chosen such Hungarian dancers who have a wide international experience, either in their education or in the professional career.

A special constellation, a special challenge both for the dancer and the creator.

Hinoki was part of the dunaPart selection in March 2015, was presented at Impulstanz in August 2015 and is the opening show of the Next Festival in Kortijk in November 2015.

Premiere: 2014 • Trafó House of Contemporary Arts Coproduction of SÍN Culture Centre, Ultima Vez and Trafó

Choreography: Máté Mészáros With: Viktória Dányi Nóra Horváth Péter Juhász Máté Mészáros Dávid Mikó Áron Porteleki Csaba Varga Music: Áron Porteleki Lights: Ferenc Stadler Máté Vajda Set: Máté Mészáros Production manager: Anikó Rácz Supporters: Ultima Vez, Trafó, LLB, Culture Europe Programme Trailer and full recording of the performance: www.sinarts.org>Production House>Productions>Hinoki Password for full length recording: hinoki2014

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Length: 45’ Stage: min. 11m x 10m Cast on tour: 9 people Set transported on road by minivan

Variations for unhappiness in a room.

Half dance, half acrobatics and the rest.

A dancer, an acrobat and two other men are at home, mainly in the living room and they come to the conclusion that life is not at all easy. And it’s very likely that it’s all the other one’s fault. And from somewhere vague – is it just next door? – there is music played restlessly.

And what if you turn all this from horizontal to vertical?

Elements of contemporary dance, physical theatre and circus acrobatics of aerial hoop and Chinese pole are all merged in this interdisciplinary show.

Grotesque Gymnastics is one of the very few examples of new circus collectives in Hungary approaching circus from the form of dance.

In April 2015 Apt. 14 was created for a blackbox theatre space, in the summer of 2015 the show was developed into and presented in a circular tent of the Circus venue of the 2015 Sziget Festival. With this a performance is highly adaptable to any kind of environment.

Creator-performers: Ilka Bardóczy Arnaud Blondel Beatrix Simkó Gáspár Téri Music: Zoltán Mózes Space / Costumes: Péter Klimó Lights: Dézsi Kata Production manager: Anikó Rácz Supporters: National Cultural Fund, Artus Studio, Workshop Foundation, Open Latitudes3 – Culture Europe Programme

Trailer and full recording of the performance: www.sinarts.org>Production House>Productions>Apt. 14 Password for full length recording: GG

Premiere: 2015 • Artus Studio BASIC TECHNICAL INFO

Length: 70’ Stage: min. 10m x 10m, blackbox Circus space: min. 11m diameter Cast on tour: 8 people Set transported on road by minivan

‘The spirit is harshly fresh, the choreography is diversely witty intelligently bedding for humour and irony: László Fülöp is wonderfully juggling with the symbiosis of thought and movement. Fülöp speaks an abstract language but his communication is crystal clear.

About the behemoth who occasionally (?) lurks into our relationships sucking out the healthy air around us, about the thousand shades of misunderstanding and being misunderstood, about the successes and failures of communication, the gestures of acceptance and rejection.’ (Csaba Králl – critic) Skeletons in the closet, elephants in all the rooms, not to mention that ridiculous beam in my eye and the owl telling the sparrow that his head is too big, so we just break those pitchers one after the other while the poor dog overtakes from the left and of course one swallow is not enough for anything and you could buy a rose without a thorn, but that would be included in the price. What is the goal then? To find the missing grey donkey (or elephant) in this thick fog and catch it among two twinkling, scowling, swallowing, sighing or pouting. Because right now everything could be at the right place. Or maybe not.

Premiere: 2013 • MU Theatre

Choreography: László Fülöp With: Anna Biczók Emese Cuhorka László Fülöp Research partner: Luca Hajnóczy Music: Zoltán Mizsei Lights: Orsolya Pete Production manager: Dóra Trifonov Supporters: L1 Association, Open Latitudes3, Ministry of Human Resources Hungary, OFF Foundation, Tanec Praha o.s., Papírna Kulturní Centrum, Bora Bora – Dans og visuelt teater (DNA), Schloss Bröllin e.V., Culture Europe Programme Trailer and full recording of the performance: www.sinarts.org>Production House>Productions >there is an elephant in every room Password for full length recording: elephant2013

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Length: 40’ Stage: min. 10m x 10m, white dance floor Cast on tour: 5 people

’Take three dancers and two musicians, the coolest ones if possible, bring them together out of curiousity for a professional challenge and then close them in an empty space, give them some instruments, tell them to be equal but also not to spare themselves and their partners when necessary – and you’ll instantly know way more about the ins and outs of human relationships than all the bubbly Hollywood summer blockbusters will ever tell you.’ (Csaba Králl – critic) Three young contemporary dancers are taging a piece based on highly personal ideas. Two young experimental musicians also join them on stage for the production of Skin Me. The five of them tell us about their relationships, loves, affairs, then they map, bare, skin and splinter them just to get closer.

Skin Me won the Rudolf Lábán prize for best Hungarian choreography of 2013 and was part of the 2014 Aerowaves priority selection. It has toured extensively in Europe, at the Julidans Festival, at Le Plateux in Paris, at Tanec Praha, at The Place in London, is part of the artistic programme of the IETM Budapest meeting in November 2015 amongst many other venues and festivals.

Premiere: 2014 • Trafó House of Contemporary Arts

Choreographers-performers: Viktória Dányi Csaba Molnár Zsófia Tamara Vadas Music: Ádám Czitrom (guitar) Áron Porteleki (viola, drums) Set: Tóbiás Terebessy Costumes: ARTISTA Lights: Kata Dézsi Production manager: Anikó Rácz Supporters: Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Culture Europe Programme, National Cultural Fund, Ministry of Human Resources, New Performing Arts Association, Living Picture Company

Trailer and full recording of the performance: www.sinarts.org>Production House>Productions>Skin Me Password for full length recording: skinme

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Length: 50’ Stage: min. 10m x 10m, blackbox Cast on tour: 8 people

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The performance is a personal and at the same time philosophical game of the two creators about truth, co-existence, encounters and the possible conflicts of different points of view, parallel realities.

Without being exhaustive, they unfold their own instinctive and free chain of reactions in front of the eyes of those present, so you can take a moment to think about: why must we always be right?

Point of You is a playful debate, an in-depth analysis of how you get lost in being right.

This duet is the first artistic collaboration of Ricardo Machado (P) and Anna Réti. Anna and Ricardo met in 2011 during the creation of Karine Ponties’ Lamali Lokta, than in 2014 Ricardo performed in Ego Trip, the work of Anna and Ido Batash (IL).

The piece was presented at Todos Festival, Lisbon in September 2015.

Premiere: 2015 • Trafó House of Contemporary Arts

Choreographers-performers: Ricardo Machado Anna Réti Dramaturge: Márton Debreczeni Lights: Zoltán Nagy Music, costumes: The Atomic Eggs Production manager: Dóra Trifonov Production partner: Jelenlét Theatre Supporters: DNA, Culture Europe Programme, Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, National Cultural Fund, Ministry of Human Resources, Camões Institute – Portugese Lingustics Institute • Budapest, Eötvös10, Katlan Group Trailer and full recording of the performance: www.sinarts.org>Production House>Productions>Point of You Password for full length recording: pointofyou

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Length: 55’ Stage: min. 10m x 12m Cast on tour: 3 people The performance is not frontal, but two sided with seating on two sides on rising tribune

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if you want to know more about the Hungarian contemporary performing arts scene

We have a very deep and solid know-how about the artists, organizations, presenters in the field and are happy to help you.

if you are looking for partners for your projects in Hungary We are happy to discuss and consider project proposals for shorter and longer term international collaborations and partnerships with artists and organizations. We have good experience with Culture and Creative Europe projects, the Visegrad partnerships and Erasmus projects.

if you are interested in a collaboration with our artists The artists working with us initiate their own artistic projects and have very diverse activities in the field of dance, circus and theatre – from creating their own work, through giving workshops to undertaking commissions from other dance productions. We are happy to give more information about the S�N productions on tour and our work-in-progress projects.

if you need residency We are happy to receive artists from abroad to our studios for shorter and longer periods depending on our availabilities.

if you would like to share knowledge of production, mobility, etc.

We are very interested about the other good examples of production houses closer or farther away from us. We are happy to share the way we work and we would be very happy to learn about practices you have acquired. It is our ambition to create a network of production houses to share practices, discuss successes and failures and think together.

WORK IN PROGRESS TIMOTHY AND THE THINGS: YOUR MOTHER AT MY DOOR December, 2015 • MU Theatre, Budapest

In his new creation László wants to create realistically fictional ‘all in one’ characters, who have no consistent self-cores, could be anyone from your life and react all the possible ways by shifting between different social roles and personalities in seconds and making so much confusion and so many contradictions with it. A duet called Timothy and the Things, formed by László Fülöp & Emese Cuhorka, supported by the Visegrad Fund.

CSABA MOLNÁR: ECLIPSE

December, 2015 • Trafó House, Budapest | May, 2016 • Birmingham Dance Festival This time Csaba works with about 30 women on stage evoking the improvised crowd of the party culture. By the reinterpretation of the dancing mass of people a fictitious, comic-like world is created.

After the December premiere at Trafó Eclipse will be re-created for the Birmingham Dance Festival in May 2016.

ZSUZSA RÓZSAVÖLGYI: KATA April, 2016 • MU Theatre, Budapest

In this project Zsuzsa is looking for (female) roles. What makes her female or what would make her male. The dance solo will have four parts: 1. At first sight, then 2. Role-models, followed by 3. The Victim and finally 4. The Purpose of Femaleness. Zsuzsa starts her work with a residency at the Baryshnikov Arts Centre in New York, then will premiere the piece in Budapest.

VIKTÓRIA DÁNYI: KEEP IN TOUCHING April, 2016 • MU Theatre, Budapest

Viktória joins with Cuban dance maker, Nelson Reguera Perez for this creation. They will investigate the complex relationship between two people through a simple gesture – holding hands. The two dancers of outstanding physical and technical skills will apply motifs of partner dances of a very contemporary tone.

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