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HEPA

Invisible yet unbreakable threads connect us to everything and everyone. Our world creates a ring around us from these countless threads, where we are suspended on newer and newer threads, they make us move, following the direction of our desires, our duties and our interests, obeying or straining against their pull. And when we get to the edge of the ring, it throws us back into the forest of the threads defining our existence and our actions. However, while this ring gives a frame to our lives, it doesn’t give them meaning.

What is our duty in this network? Is therea way out of this mess of threads? Can we, like Baron Münchausen, pull ourselves out of this wilderness of threads by our own hair - and if yes, where does it lead us?

In HEPA, Gábor Finta choreographer, with the help of the most prominent artists of the Hungarian dace scene, depicts our everyday battles with our higher selves through beautiful tragi-comical scenes. 

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Due to the use of a stroboscope, the performance is not recommended for pregnant women, people with epilepsy and pacemaker. 

“What gets us intotrouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.”

Mark Twain

QUESTION: What dowe see? A. We see whatever there is. B. We see whatever we want to see. C. We see whatever the things that are willing to show of themselves. D. All of the above.

Milán Újvári, in his evening-long solo performance talks about issues relevant to the society of our day - concepts such as alienation, manipulation and masking, with common gestures as their fundament (with a grotesque twist) utilizing slapstick's classically recognizable style.

The performance playfully brings into question our place in society, in which we frequently feel completely lost, even though it is an entity built up of us entirely. We are it. So how are we capable of operating something the operation of which we do not comprehend? Often not even comprehending we are operating anything at all. To put it simply: is it possible for a body to operate if the left hand has no clue what the right hand is up to?

Can we gain perspective over the whole of which we are a part of? And while we are on the topic: is it a fact that we are parts of a whole? (Or are we all wholes made up of parts?) Is anything possible to assemble wholly using merely parts?

Milán Újvári'swork does not draw strict lines between representing characters through movement, dance, pantomime and classical theatrical acting. What he does strictly do is pulling a bag over his head, as displayed clearly on the image. The question that remains is merely: what do we see?

HEPA
Performed by Tamás Bartók, Réka Gyevnár, Luca Hoffmann, Lídia Sinka, Norbert Szigethy
Mentor and Lighting Designer: Béla Földi
Set Designer: Morgana Machado Marques (NL)
Composed by Attila Pacsay
Costume Designer: Emese Kasza
Consultant: Dr. János Nagyillés
Choreographed by Gábor Finta

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Dramaturgy: Kornél Laboda
Music: Péter Fancsikai
Lighting: Zoltán Vida
Sets and Costumes: Julcsi Kiss
Photo and video: Kristóf Várnagy
Perfromed and choreographed by Milán Újvári

SHOW - Fotó/Photo: VÁRNAGY Kristóf

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