Premiere:
6 May 2026
Debrecen, Csokonai Fórum, Latinovits Zoltán Hall
9 May 2026
Budapest, National Dance Theatre
Mind the Body consists of two separate one part contemporary dance performances, brought to life by the two choreographers’ visions and performed by the young, international ensemble of Gradient Contemporary Ballet Debrecen. Two distinct artistic visions present us with differing inner worlds: one defined by silence, transformation and the cycles of our physical existence, the other by the pulsing, often chaotic nature of our psyche. These contrasting energies meet each other in a common human space – where calm and tension, inner silence and turbulances are in constant interaction.
ZAJ
Voices surround me.
Advice, remarks, reactions.
Over time, these sentences begin to repeat.
They come from outside, but continue within.
It is not always clear where a thought begins.
Nor how much of it stays.
There are moments when it is difficult to decide what
to believe.
Each of them can feel true at the same time—
or completely unreliable.
In this density, the question is not always what is happening, but what can shift something. Whether there is a point where the voices do not disappear, but simply lose their control.
FAL
My body is my only anchor
I can be lost in my mind, but never in my body
But body is limited
I dream of disappearing by dancing
That is my purpose and the impossible request to which I
expose myself
Today a new attempt
Tomorrow another
I collect new attempts
They are the only thing I possess
Is this my life?
In the pure and beautiful moment of ceasing to do and simply existing, the human condition begins to emerge and reveal itself. A sense of lightness and heaviness meet at a single point. Is it an edge that unites or separates them?
Choreographer: Edit Domoszlai (ZAJ), Recuerdo número 7 – Javier Ara Sauco, Enrique López Flores (FAL)
This production was realised with the cooperation of the National Dance Theatre Budapest.
