20.00 Saskia RUDAT (D) brainjogging

Choreography/Performance: Saskia Rudat
Supported by L1 Association, EMMI, National Cultural Fund of Hungary

This piece was selected from the Lucky Trimmer #27 Festival’s program.

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Brainjogging is like activating the autoplay feature on YouTube, scrolling down a Facebook timeline or randomly zapping through television channels. Be ready for some mental gymnastics!

Saskia Rudat invites the audience to a quirky mental fitness session slipping from one image to the next in fast and unexpected sequences. What do you see? A seal? Death? Dirty Dancing? Sex? Ballet? Jesus or perhaps an elevator? Be ready for some mental gymnastics!

With the award-winning “brainjogging”, Saskia Rudat invites the audience to a quirky mental fitness session slipping from one image to the next in fast and unexpected sequences. What do you see? A seal? Death? Dirty Dancing? Sex? Ballet? Jesus or perhaps an elevator? Brainjogging is like activating the autoplay feature on YouTube, scrolling down a Facebook timeline or randomly zapping through television channels. Be ready for some mental gymnastics!

Saskia Rudat was born 1991 in Dresden. After her studies in Psychology at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, she entered the Folkwang University of the Arts to study “physical theatre” in order to become a physical actress, a mover and a maker of performing arts. Her interests include theatre, music and text, as well as dance, acrobatics, choreography, performance art, object theatre and scenography. Together with Ivo Schneider, she founded the theatre company SÄCHSISCHE SCHWEIZ kollektiv which created three full length performances as well as many different small formats. In her works as a soloist and choreographer, she is researching on the connection between abstract movement and specific imagination, audience connection, rhythm, and clownish but pure performer attitude in movement composition. She is performing her short solo works in international physical theatre and dance festivals. Her piece “brainjogging” was awarded with the price for the “Best performer” by the international SoloDuo dance festival in 2017, and with the Audience-Jury Prize by the Explosive Festival in 2019. In Autumn 2019, Saskia Rudat will create her first full length Solo Show. Since 2017, she is engaging in the Physical Theatre Netzwerk to improve visibility and working conditions of physical theatre artists in the district of NRW.

21:00 Flóra VERES/TalkingBodies (H) One in one (work in progress)

Creator/Choreographer/Performer: Flóra Veres (L1-member)Composer/Performer: Ádám Márton Horváth (L1-member)
Mentor: Márta Ladjánszki (L1-member)
Light designer: Máté Zakariás
Video/Photo: Mátyás Tóth

Supported by L1 Association, Zoltán Imre Program National Cultural Fund of Hungary, Workshop Foundation, Sín Cultural Center, EMMI, Inversedance

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‘One in One’ is a world where we can try these roles on, where we can be any or all of them.

“Man, woman, mother, father, kid. We shift from one to the other while staying the one as well. ‘One in One’ is a world where we can try these roles on, where we can be any or all of them. An inner trip through time and space, touching love, absence, community, loneliness, gender roles, touching ourselves and each other so that finally we can arrive to our new role…”

Whom do we get our life from? How do we inherit our fate? We get something and we pass something else. “They are like two peas, she looks exactly like her mother!” Where is the edge of our identity? Exactly where of our bodies? Or is it able to expand and flow into another person?

She comes from me, she is made of me, flesh and blood, but she is not Me. Who am I then? How do my roles change through my lifetime? From a child I become an adult, but still keep being somebody’s child. Mother and child. And partner. Who am I becoming when I step into a new role in  life?

‘One in one’ is a physical dance-performance, about the rebirth and evolution of body and soul, a research about the inevitable transformation through life, continuous changing and layering of the personality. How can the “person” come to the surface? How does it develop to be a parent while remaining a child too? How does it affect the body and soul and spirit, how does the inherited world influence our view on the world? What do we receive, what do we become, or pass on, how can past and future be connected through us?

With our lives we cut a little slice out of Time and World. This “slice” from my perspective, will be on stage today.

“To understand ourselves, to find the reason of our halts, to open up the truth behind our bad mood, failure and anxiety, or to understand why we repeat the same patterns in relationships over and over again, it is not enough to observe only our lives. The experiences, distress and suffering of our parents, grandparents and never-known ancestors all influence the flow of our fate. (…) One life can never be truly understood without the trans-generational effects.” (Noémi Orvos-Tóth. Inherited fate. 2018: 12 – 13)

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Flóra Veres is a continuous researcher. After her studies at the Hungarian Dance Academy she continued her training in The Netherlands and Belgium. Through jobs and scholarships she danced in Spain, France, Germany, Sicily and the USA, participated in artistic and dance residencies. In 2018 she got her master diploma from Fontys Academy of Fine Arts, on the “Performing Public Space” master. Since 2016 she has been working with Cipolla Collectiva (Budapest) and leads her own works under the name of TalkingBodies. She created several solo works and collaborative productions. Receiving the support of the ZIP Program in Hungary – a program for young choreographers – she presented her new production entitled “I was never this before” in April 2019. She researches the relation of body and soul both on personal and social level; the possibilities of being in the present moment and how common listening and understanding works.

In 2018 she became resident artist, then since 2019 member of L1 Association.