When there is nothing, I can create anything I want. But: what if there is nothing I want to create?
I am living in Budapest now. For two months already. Breathing, eating, drinking, sleeping. Coming to the office and doing something sometimes. Going to Karinthy high school also. Going out, meeting people, walking on the streets. Surfing internet, having couch surfers sometimes, having friends visiting sometimes. Once in a while, leaving the city for a day or few. Coming back. Talking, cooking, laughing, hand-crafting, watching, reading, making love, decorating, cleaning, biking, crying. Having all kinds of emotions. Or not.
And that is the point. One of those days, I realised there was nothing behind everything described above. But this nothing hurt.
And I continued doing things. But the flame doused, the shining faded out. And I didn't notice.
And the next step? I don't know. My hope lies in spring.
Choreographers: PATAKY Klári and VIRÁG Melinda / PREMIERE!
There was another night of loneliness. This time I decided to use it. And as I enjoy watching performances alone, this was a good choice. I went to Trafo. Bikeable distance from my place, a bit after ast minute, until I found it. But they still let me in, even for a student price.
This is what they wrote about it on the site:
The 20 year old Central Europe Dance Theatre performs for the first time in the 10 year old Trafó. The company invited two young female choreographers, Lábán Prize winnwer Klári Pataky one of the truly exciting and sensitive figures in young, Hungarian choreography, who is moving through styles as a honeybee, variable and playful. For Lábán nominee Melinda Virág this is the first time to work with 6 dancers.
And this is what I say:
These guys were great. Beautiful, fluent movements, real connection to their souls came out of their dancing. 3 girls and 3 boys. Communicating together with their bodies, seemingly in their own world. The world created by someone else. But you couldn't say, it just seemed to be their own reality for those moments. And they took us in. Full Trafo immersed in their world. Number 1, and especially Number 2. With the plates, human fountains, playful and shivering at the same time.
Info:
Pataky Klári: Valami történ(e)t
Choreographer: Pataky Klári Costume: Szeibert Katalin Lighting design: Szirtes Attila
Virág Melinda: Szájbanforgó
Choreographer: Virág Melinda Consultant: Téri Gáspár Music: Sőrés Zsolt, Nagy Ágoston Lighting design: Szirtes Attila Photo: Téri Gáspár
Dancers in both pieces: Asztalos Dóra, Hargitai Mariann, Katonka Zoltán, Kiss Róbert, Major László, Palcsó Nóra
2007 piece of Jiří Menzel based on the book of Bohumil Hrabal.
The film is made as a retrospective as Dítě, after years in prison, remembers his carrier as a waiter in the best Prague's hotels of 30's.
He always dreamed to be a millionaire, but with his small figure was always spitted upon by the others. He also longs for a true love, and, not caring for nationality or war, marries with a German girl. He only realises there is a war when she leaves voluntarily to the front to fight for her adored Fuhrer.
With the help of his protector and a lot of luck, he manages to climb upon the ladder in the waitering jobs, and after the war to buy his own hotel. But then the regime changes and he is taken to prison for being a millionaire.
After years in prison he comes to build the road and find his spiritual harmony to an abandoned German village in a frontier area of the country...
