dance, contemporary circus

Dance Canon - Hommage à Zoltán Kodály - premiere

Performance by Hungarian State Folk Ensemble

no interval
Festival Theatre
  • Budapest Spring Festival

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Zoltán Kodály's compositions and folk songs he collected form the musical frame of the story that emerges from the happenings of an imaginary village community. The scenes depict the birth and loss of human relations, the joys and the sorrows, the ritual of everyday routine.
Through a series of richly nuanced, lyrical-associative images, stage action that playfully alternates places and times, we reach the denouement, the cathartic declaration of the glory of human life.
The production is animated by excerpts from such well-known and popular works of Kodály as Háry János, Dances of Galánta, the Peacock Variations, Mátra Pictures, and Dance from Kálla.




Presented by: Budapest Spring Festival, Hungarian State Folk Ensemble, National Dance Theatre
  • Andrea Brassói-Jőrös
  • Eszter Pál
  • voice
    Milán Hetényi
  • Tamás Bősze
  • Beáta Czébely
  • Mátyás Bolya (recorded)
  • Dance Troupe and Orchestra of Hungarian State Folk Ensemble
  • orchestra leader
    Ferenc Radics
  • dance troupe leader
    Richárd Kökény
  • assistants to the dance troupe
    Beatrix Borbély, Katalin Jávor, György Ágfalvi
  • artistic director
    István Szalonna Pál
  • ensemble leader
    Gábor Mihályi
  • music
    Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály, László Kelemen, Eszter Pál, István Szalonna Pál, Lajos Pál
  • design
    Zsuzsa Molnár
  • costumes
    Edit Szűcs
  • animation
    Andrea Soós
  • choreographers
    Dezső Fitos, Enikő Kocsis, Călin Orza
  • choreographer, director
    Gábor Mihályi

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