Invitation: Pál Frenák Company: InTimE, Átrium Budapest, 25 October

  • 22 Oct 2013 9:04 AM
Invitation: Pál Frenák Company: InTimE, Átrium Budapest, 25 October
Solitude, desire, love, physical contact, violence, power, subjection, possession, honesty, dissimulation... struggles fought by everyone throughout their life, even if maybe not so desperately as the dancers on the stage in this choreography of Pál Frenák.

The tense theatrical pulsation of male and female roles, loneliness and togetherness, suffering and happiness, egoism and objectiveness call us to realize ourselves. InTimE does not need to offer solutions: representing the complexity of these human relationships is enough, it is so honest that the spectator cannot escape being touched by the performance.

There are five dancers on the stage. They sometimes motionlessly observe the other's fight from the outside with a distance, while in other situations they take part in these battles. How can – if ever - one person become real to the other? Can the desire for each other remain unfulfilled forever? Frenák's haunting question is how much our life is entangled in the opportunism towards others and ourselves; how much lying and insincerity impact our relationship to our body.

"In one scene from 'InTimE', five dancers on a stage observe one other and interact in a complicated web of human relationships. There is a woman, who behaves as though her body is not her own – as if she was a child and suddenly became a woman.

She stumbles awkwardly in her high heels. (...) People have asked me what I'm interested in, what my pieces are about? Well, it's really simple: human relationships. (...) My plays are ambiguous? Well of course they are! I'm deaf and I'm not. I speak Hungarian and I don't. I live here and I live there. I'm high and I'm low. I crash and I fly. What do they want? Why I'm so extreme? What should artist be?", explains Pál Frenák. (Time Out Budapest, 2009)

Source and tickets: www.atriumfilmszinhaz.hu

Átrium Film-Színház
Margit körút 55., Budapest 1024

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