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Magyar Tancok
Recorded at the CND 20 October 2006
Concept Eszter Salamon and Endre Liber, Ròbert Liber, Ròbert Csögör, Zoltan Gemesi, Ferenc Salamon, Erzsébet Salamon
Musical composition Ferenc Salamon
“What remains of a past choreographic experience?”, wonders Eszter Salamon. What remains of the old movements and rhythms in the memory of the body and the imagination? How do our movements retain the trace of mixed, yet crucial, experiences? These questions have a particularly strong resonance in the itinerary of Eszter Salamon.
Born in Hungary and surrounded since childhood with traditional Hungarian dance, she also trained in classical dance. These are two models for the body with radically different social meanings, two irreconcilable representations, each equally as unequal, of the role of men and women, which slowly settles in over the course of historic, political and national developments.
Since venturing into contemporary dance in the 1990s, Eszter Salamon has never ceased to redistribute the differences in sex. With Magyar Tàncok, we understand just how much these concerns are rooted in the experience of the dancer herself.
To go back over her experience, she has invited her mother (who is a teacher of traditional dance in Hungary) onto the stage, as well as her brother and other musicians – all of whom are members of the group ‘Marton’ – and her ex-dance partner. Over the course of a performance that interweaves lecture, autobiographical analysis and dance, Eszter Salamon lays down several major milestones in the history of Hungarian folk dance, while showing its impact on her own identity path and her more recent choreography practice.
Annie Suquet
