Márta Ladjánszki in cooperation with the performers: UMARMUNG
In the frame of ‘Series of dance performances with/for naked spectators’

ATTENTION! With purchasing the ticket you accept the rule that by entering the performing area both the performers and the audience members are naked. This is the only way to be part of the event.

Concept/choreographer/director: Márta Ladjánszki
Sound designer/performer: Zsolt Varga
Active partners in the creative process/performers: László Árva, Attila Dániel, László Gálos, Tímea Györke, Emese Kovács, Márta Ladjánszki, Eszter Mórocz, Zsófia Szász
Contributors: our audience members
Special thanks: Balázs Erdős, Zsolt Koroknai, István Kovács, Balázs Lajti, Kinga Szemessy, Syporca Whandal
Supported by L1 Association, EMMI, NKA Dance and Zoltán Imre Program Departments, Bakelit MAC, Be SpectACTive! Project, Creative Europe Programme, NaVKE

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Spring 2021 UMARMUNG premiered at Bakelit Multi Art Center in the frame of Be SpectACTive! Project, beautifully fitting this project, which is aimed at involving the citizens and spectators in creative and organizational processes and intending to create creative processes of experimentation in the idea of a more inclusive and trans-cultural society and a stronger relationship between citizens and artists.

UMARMUNG centers starting already from its creative process around the above mentioned. It places itself in a space where the boundaries between performers and audience gradually vanish until the audience turns into performers and vice versa.

UMARMUNG is a matured stage of a continuous research, building upon three topics:
• The measures taken due the recent pandemic cause human touch to disappear, to gain more value, to transform (recognition, rethinking of emotional and sensory situations, forming of new questions);
• By researching the sculptures of François-Auguste-René Rodin we are focusing on their way of capturing the passive and/or active state of the bodies they portray
• Embracing our relations to our bodies as humans, artists etc. (if at all there is a way to separate all forms of our material existence)

“A cast is not as natural as my sculpture; I am able to preserve a pose in my mind much better than the model, plus I am adding inner life to it.” (A. Rodin)

The vital, dramatic, passionately formed, emotionally rich works of Rodin are a counterpoint to historicism from which modern sculpture starts off. He started his career as a self-taught artist because he had a hard time finding those circles which accepted his vision and detailed portrayal.

We tried to draw inspiration from Rodin’s most popular works: Crouching Woman, The Cathedral, The Age of Bronze, The Old Courtesan, Eternal Springtime, The Thinker, The Kiss, Danaid, Paolo and Francesca, Head of Sorrow and more.

The creative process benefits from the different artistic backgrounds of its participants coming from photography, music, performance art and dance.

The bodies move and every moment becomes a potential, choreographed part of the performance.

Márta Ladjánszki studied classical ballet, gymnastics apparatus work and jazz- and modern dance in Budapest and in Vienna. In 1996 she was the co-founder of KOMPmÁNIA contemporary dance theatre company where Ladjánszki worked both as a performer and co-choreographer. In 2001 she joined the L1 Association and has been acting as its artistic vice-director ever since. Being a freelance choreographer and dancer in Budapest she keeps on seeking opportunities to present her work in the field of contemporary dance to those who are open to and interested in her works of art and her provision for the human body.
Her inspiration comes directly from the body itself and transforms the inner thoughts into visible pieces of information. Ladjánszki firmly believes that we are all different (not only physically) and this makes our lives richer. This is why she celebrates the body in every piece she creates.