Gábor and József have an acute ability to analyse and reinvent traditional dance. The starting point for Creature are the accessories used in dances including sticks, whips, mask and costumes. The process is to deconstruct and recycle the traditional dances and accessories with a view to make it relevant to the audience of today. There's something wonderful about taking something that has already been used, ready to be thrown away, deconstructing and reconstructing it to serve a new purpose. It's not about fixing it, but making it function in a new context, giving it a different life.
In their choreographic process Gábor and József commandeer the folklore to produce their own “fakelore” thus inventing an updated Creature.
Original idea and choreography : József Trefeli, Gábor Varga
Dance : József Trefeli, Gábor Varga ou Gyula Cserepes
Music : Frédérique Jarabo
Masks : Christophe Kiss
Costumes : Kata Tóth
Photo : Gregory Batardon
Specialist in traditional Hungarian dance : Kristóf Fundák
Administration : Laure Chapel, Paquis Production
Funding : Département de la Culture of the City of Geneva, Prohelvetia, Loterie Romande, Schweizerische Interpretengenossenschaft SIG, Commune de Lancy.
Co-production and residency : ADC / association pour la danse contemporaine, ADC Studios,Genève CH; Le CND, un centre d’art pour la danse, Pantin FR; Arsenic – centre d’art scénique contemporain - Lausanne CH; Kaserne Basel CH; CCN - Ballet de Lorraine, Nancy FR; Migrations, Pays de Galles UK.
Residency : la Briqueterie CDC du Val-de-Marne FR; Tanzhaus Zurich CH.
Other partners : MEG Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève, CH; CCN Rillieux-la-Pape – director Yuval Pick, FR, Label Bobine Genève.
A project in cooperation with the adc - Genève, ADN Neuchâtel, Arsenic Lausanne, Dampfzentrale Bern, éviDanse, Kaserne Basel, Festival Antigel Geneva and Zürcher Theater Spektakel Zürich, in the frame work of fonds des programmateurs / Reso - Réseau Danse Switzerland. With the financial assistance of Pro Helvetia, Ernst Göhner Stiftung.
With thanks to : Natacha Koutchoumov, Rudi van der Merwe, Réka Farkas, Annelies Adamo, Sally Corry, Jemma Turner, Laurent Junod, Institut Balassi – Hungarian Institute of Paris, Pannonia Danse Hongroise
dates
10 Dec 2023 - Dansometre Vevey CH
16, 17 Nov 2023 - Schwere Reiter Munich Germany
9 July 2023 - Festival Les Volcaniques St-Bonne-Près-Riom 63 France
3 May 2023 - Hyper Ouest Festival Renens CH
30 April 2023 - Dance Week Festival Ausdance ACT Australia
22, 23 April 2023 - Want To Dance Festival Taipei Taiwan
14 April 2023 - Shoonya Space Bengalore India
5, 6 May 2022 - Usine à Gaz Nyon CH
2, 3 October 2020 - L’Arsenic Gindou France
21 September 2020 - Festival Constellations Toulon France
5 Oct, CDCN Toulouse, FR, 1 performance
21 Sept 2019, Festival Constellations, Toulon, FR, 1 performance
12, 14 Sept 2019, Tehran & Shiraz, Iran, 2 performances
3, 4 May 2019, Équilibre-Nuithonie, Fribourg, CH, 2 performances
30 Apr, 1 May 2019, Hellerau, Dresden, GE, 2 performances
27 Apr 2019, Sismògraf festival, Olot, ESP, 1 performance
4 Apr 2019, Les Quinconces, Vals les Bains, FR, 1 performance
29 & 30 Mar 2019, tanzmainz festival, Mainz, GE, 2 performances
4 Oct 2018, Diversia Festival, Kostroma RUS, 1 performance
26-27 Sept 2018, Pathos Münich, D, 2 performances
14 Sept 2018, Festival le Chainon manquant, Laval, FR, 1 performance
6 Sept 2018, ITAK Regional Dance Center of East Finland, FL, 1 performance
7-8 June 2018 Rencontres Internationales Chorégraphiques de Seine Saint Denis Paris, 3 performances
18 May 2018, Maastricht, NL, 1 performance
7 February 2018, Festival Régions en Scène, Annecy FR, 1 performance
2 November 2017 Usine à Gaz, Nyon CH, 1 performance
27 October 2017 CODA Festival, Oslo NO, 1 performance
10 September 2017 CCP Le Stand, Moutier CH, 1 performance
30 June 2017 Inteatro Festival, Polverigi IT, 1 performance
6 May 2017 Fête de la Danse Théâtre Les Halles de Sierre CH, 1 performance
17-19 March 2017 Dance Massive Melbourne AU, 3 performances
15 March 2017 Critical Path, Sydney AU, 1 performance
24, 25 February 2017 Dampfzentrale Berne CH, 2 performances
2, 3 February 2017 Journées de Danse Contemporaine Suisse, Genève CH, 2 performances
10, 11 September 2016 Young ID Festival Zug CH, 2 performances
2 July 2016 Festival Format, Jaujac Ardèche FR, 1 performance
22, 23 June 2016 Le CND, Pantin au Théâtre National de Chaillot FR, 2 shows
4, 5 June 2016 Tanztage Fabrik Theater Potsdam D, 2 performances performances
28, 29 May 2016 Festival ExtraPôle, Strasbourg FR, 2 performances
15 May 2016 Fête de la Danse, Kaserne Basel CH, 2 performances
14 May 2016 Fête de la Danse, éviDanse St Imier Jura CH, 1 performance
10-12 May 2016 Arsenic - Lausanne CH, 4 performances
4 April 2016 CCN Rillieux-la-Pape, 2 performances
19 March 2016 Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève MEG CH, 1 performances
27 February 2016 Festival Into the Fields Theater im Ballsaal, Bonn D, 1 performances
28-29 October 2015 ADN Neuchâtel CH, 2 performances
28 October – 10 novembre 2015 ADC Genève, 10 performances
9-10 October 2015 Beirut Street Festival, Lebanon, 2 performances
20-22 August 2015 Zürcher Theater Spektakel Zürich CH, 3 performances