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Rechargable

-a synopsis for a community based dancework-

Premises:
The two major tendencies we’ve experienced by the turn of millenium the latest that are likely to challenge human civilization are:
1., the aging of population
2., prefiguration of „technological singularity” (Ray Kurzweil et aliud)
The first will presumably force us to set off „compression of morbidity” (by James Fries) in order to ensure economical sustainability of the societies, while the second will provide the necessary ways and means to achieve this former possibly through a transhuman r/evolution.
This r/evolution however – and this doesn’t go without saying- will purport much more than technology, health-care and financial issues.
These prospective changes, rather paradigm shift within fundamental structures of a society will have a deep impact on personal level too, apt even worth thus for a social dialogue and also artistic consideration.

The topic:
There’s much more in this field to discuss than simply life expectancy though increasing longevity itself is able to transform the system of human emotions and the relations between generations or even family members.
Let’s see nevertheless a couple of vital questions we soon will have to face – for a better understanding- with regards to the social, legal and political embeddedness of an individual:
We may become rechargable, but
• do we have the right to perform the recharging process? if so, how?
• will an average individual be voluntarily subject to the materialist approach that is essential for the recharging process?
• who would benefit by people getting recharged?
• if the beneficiary was the recharged person, what sort of sacrifice would s/he able, willing or obliged to make for sake of service?
• if recharging was an intervention by another individual (or authority), who is willing and authorised to perform it?
• if recharging was a service, who is able or entitled to recourse to it?
• Once we became rechargable: under what conditions, and what would be the consequences?
• what are the obligations and allowances of a recharged person?
• will recharges elongate or undermine the continuity of the human existence thus the very identity?
• will recharging transform our relation to elder people? if so, how?
Obviously these question are not newly raised since we’ve been provided proposals in form of either essay, or manifesto (see e.g.: Democratic Transhumanism 2.0 by James Hughes Ph.D.), but both offered as a product by a certain individual.

Working method:
Our project is to be created the opposite way: as a result of a democratic yet human teamwork which is time by time „rechargable” (renewable) by involving new bunches of non-(professional or non-)dancer elder people. Their thoughts, sentences, visions will be incorporated into the stagework the same as their presence, spoken words, emotionally saturated movements completing dancers’ choreographed movements.
The first phase is a community work and research aiming to comprehend the implications of forthcoming paradigm shift and to find small scenes able to accentuate the transformations.
In second phase there will happen the elaboration of these scenes by choreographic tools and structuring them along a timeline.
The entire process will be recorded on video in order to edit a werk-film which is also a documentary movie on how elder people in 2017 see their perspectives at the threshold of „almost eternal life”. This video can also serve as video footage for the dance piece.
This working method we think is in accordance with the new policy required by the manifesto mentioned above.

The pilot version was premiered in Budapest in April 2017 with the participation of a local senior dancer group.
Kata Juhasz was granted by CEC ArtsLink, Rechargeable was thus realised in the US due to the grant in coproduction with Link Vostok/ Minneapolis in July 2017. Due to its success Rechargeable became recreated in 7 different towns of Denmark in 2019 with the participation of local communities. Our coproducing partner has been Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium led by Eugenio Barba.
We seek further partners in order to realise the Rechargeable-project by involving groups of local people and we look forward to sharing ideas and initiate a societal dialogue about policy making in a transhuman civilisation.

Events Calendar


05-03-2023, at 7:30 PM

  • HABITAT

Location: 1022 Budapest, Marczibányi square 5/A,

 

05-03-2023, at 12:00 PM

  • HABITAT

Location: 1022 Budapest, Marczibányi square 5/A,

 

05-03-2023, at 10:00 AM

  • HABITAT

Location: 1022 Budapest, Marczibányi square 5/A,

 

01-03-2024, at 7:00 PM

  • HABITAT

Location: Theater am Markt, Brunnenpassage, Brunnengasse 71/Yppenplatz, 1160 Wien

 

29-02-2024, at 7:00 PM

  • BREAKING BREAD

Location: Soul Stage, 1066 Budapest, Erzsébet krt. 58,

 

28-02-2024, at 7:00 PM

  • BREAKING BREAD Premiere!

Location: Soul Stage, 1066 Budapest, Erzsébet krt. 58,

 

28-12-2023, at 7:00 PM

  • CAFÉ DE LA DANSE

Location: Foton Audiovisual Centre, 8200 Veszprém, Vár str. 17, Hungary

 

15-12-2023, at  11:00 AM

  • THE BAD STUDENT TESTED

Location: János Jankó Elementary School,  Tótkomlós, Erzsébet str. 2., 5940

 

15-12-2023, at 9:00 AM

  • THE BAD STUDENT TESTED

Location: Slovak Bilingual Elementary School, Tótkomlós, Diófa str. 6, 5940

 

27 and 28-10-2023, at 7:30 PM

  • DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Location: Center for Performing Arts 3754 Pleasant Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55409, US

 

21-10-2023, at 8:30 PM

  • DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Location: Dancewave, 182 4th Ave Brooklyn, NY 11217, US

 

8-10-2023, at 7:00 PM

  • CAFÉ DE LA DANSE

Location: Foton Audiovisual Centre, 8200 Veszprém, Vár str. 17, Hungary

 

10-08-2023, at 6:00 PM

  • DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Location: Sziget Festival, Május 9. park, Budapest, Hungary, 1033.

 

27-06-2023, at 8:00 PM

  • BO BITTER

Location: 1022 Budapest, Marczibányi square 5/A,

 

16-06-2023, at 3 PM, (in the frame of Under500 Festival)

  • HABITAT

Location: Artus Contemporary Art Studio, Budapest, Sztregova str. 7, 1116

 

13-06-2023, at 10:30 AM,

  • HABITAT

Location: Artus Contemporary Art Studio, Budapest, Sztregova str. 7, 1116

 

12-06-2023, at 9 AM, 

  • THE BAD STUDENT TESTED

Location: Jurányi House, chamber room, 1027 Budapest, Jurányi str. 1.

19-05-2023,  8:30 PM (in the frame of  Festival of the Dance as part of the  European Capital of Culture official program.)

  • ORDINARY CIRCUSES (outdoor)

Location: 8200 Veszprém, Erzsébet sétány

 

12-04-2023, at 12 AM, 

  • THE BAD STUDENT TESTED

Location: Veres Pálné Gimnázium, 1053 Budapest, Veres Pálné street. 38,

 

27-03-2023, at 1 PM, 

  • HABITAT

Location: Trafo Studio, 1094 Budapest, Lilom street 41.

 

03-12-2022, at 4:00 PM

  • RECHARGABLE

Location: CEU Auditorium, 1051 Budapest, Nádor street 15.

 

02-12-2022, at 7:30 PM

  • RECHARGABLE

Location: CEU Auditorium, 1051 Budapest, Nádor street 15.

 

26-11-2022,  (in the frame of Art November Fest.)

  • ANOTHER MODEST PROPOSAL

Location: Max City, 2045 Törökbálint, Tópark street 1/a,

 

18-11-2022, at 7:30 PM

  • DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Location: CEU Auditorium, 1051 Budapest, Nádor street 15.

 

04-11-2022, at 19:30 (in the frame of Slippery live)

  • ANOTHER MODEST PROPOSAL

Location: CEU Auditorium, 1051 Budapest, Nádor street 15.

 

21-10-2022, at 7:30 PM

  • DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Location: CEU Auditorium, 1051 Budapest, Nádor street 15.

 

13-10-2022, at 11 AM, 4 PM and 7:30 PM

  • HABITAT

Location: CEU Auditorium, 1051 Budapest, Nádor street 15.

 

23-09-2022, at 7:30 PM

  • DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Location: CEU Auditorium, 1051 Budapest, Nádor street 15.

 

10-09-2022,  4 PM and 7 PM (in the frame of Placcc Festival)

  • ORDINARY CIRCUSES

Location: 1024 Budapest Mechwart liget

 

09-09-2022,  7 PM (in the frame of Placcc Festival)

  • ORDINARY CIRCUSES

Location: 1024 Budapest Mechwart liget

 

 

 

16-07-2022,  10 PM

  • ANOTHER MODEST PROPOSAL

Location: Bánkitó Festival

 

28-06-2022, at 9:00 PM

  • BO BITTER (PREMIERE!)

Location: 1026 Budapest, Lotz Károly street 9/A.

 

14-06-2022, at 8:00

  • THE BAD STUDENT TESTED

Location: Petőfi Sándor Gimnázium, 1013 Budapest, Attila street 43.

 

13-06-2022, at 8:00 and 10:00

  • THE BAD STUDENT TESTED

Location: Fazekas Mihály Gimnázium, 1082 Budapest, Horváth Mihály square 8.

 

10-06-2022, at 8:55 and 10:45

  • THE BAD STUDENT TESTED

Location: Forrai Methodist High School and Art Technical School, 1139 Budapest, Lomb street. 41,

 

04-06-2022, at 19:00

  • DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Location: Strada Paris 5, Cluj-Napoca 400000, Romania

 

26-05-2022, at 11:00

  • THE BAD STUDENT TESTED

Location: Veres Pálné Gimnázium, 1053 Budapest, Veres Pálné street. 38,

 

17-05-2022, at 20:00

  • DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Location: Marczibányi Square Cultural Center, 1022 Budapest, Marczibányi square 5/a.

 

22-03-2022, at 20:00

  • DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Location: Marczibányi Square Cultural Center, 1022 Budapest, Marczibányi square 5/a.

 

10-03-2022, at 9:00

  • WARM-UP

Location: Petőfi Sándor Gimnázium, 1013 Budapest, Attila street 43.

 

02-03-2022, at 9:00

  • WARM-UP

Location: Szent Gellért Katolikus Általános Iskola és Gimnázium, 1013 Budapest, Krisztina square 4.

 

01-03-2022, at 19:00

  • A MODEST PROPOSAL / in the frame of Slippery-evenings

Location: Sándor Márai Cultural House, 1013 Budapest, Krisztina square 1.

 

08-02-2022, at 20:00

  • A MODEST PROPOSAL / in the frame of Slippery-evenings

Location: Marczibányi Square Cultural Center, 1022 Budapest, Marczibányi square 5/a.

 

31-01-2022, at 10:00 and 14:00

  • CLOUDCIRCUS

Location: Vojtina Puppet Theatre, 4026 Debrecen, Kálvin square 13.

 

15-12-2021, at 10:00 and 12:00

  • WARM-UP

Location: Forrai Methodist High School and Art Technical School, 1139 Budapest, Lomb street. 41,

13-12-2021, at 10:15 and 13:00

  • HABITAT

Premiere!

Location: Vojtina Puppet Theatre, 4026 Debrecen, Kálvin square 13.

 

11-12-2021, at 17:00

  • HABITAT

Location: Jurányi Ház, Grabo studio (1027 Budapest, Jurányi street. 1., 4th floor)

 

19-11-2021, at 19:00

  • HABITAT (work in progress presentation)

in the frames of the assembly of Hungarian Drama Pedagogical Society

Location: Marczibányi Square Cultural Center, Budapest, 1022 Marczibányi square 5/A,

 

11-12-2021, at 10:00 and 12:00

  • WARM-UP

Location: Fazekas Mihály Gimnázium, 1082 Budapest, Horváth Mihály square 8.

14-11-2021, at 11:00

  • CLOUDCIRCUS (unplugged)

Location: Jurányi Ház, Grabo studio (1027 Budapest, Jurányi street. 1., 4th floor)

 

14-10-2021, at 10:00 and 14:00

  • CLOUDCIRCUS

Location: Pécsi Harmadik Színház, 7633 Pécs, Hajnóczy street 41.

 

03-07-2021, 18:00

  • A MODEST PROPOSAL (20')

Location: NFGreen Festival Bodaky (SK)

 

24-04-2021, 19:00 (streamed in the frame of Slippery Project chapter 1.)

  • A MODEST PROPOSAL (20') webtheatre premier

Location: Trip Boat,

available on demand through this link: https://trip.jegyx1.hu/eloadas/860/

 

07-02-2021, 16:00 cancelled in response to coronavirus pandemic

  • ANIMAL TALES (circus version)

Location: Eötvös 10. Cultural Scene, Budapest, Eötvös u. 10, 1067

 

30-01-2021, 16:00 cancelled in response to coronavirus pandemic

  • ANIMAL TALES (circus version)

Location: Eötvös 10. Cultural Scene, Budapest, Eötvös u. 10, 1067

 

28-01-2021, 20:00 (streamed live)

  • ANIMAL TALES (circus version) webtheatre premier

Location: Trip Boat,

available on demand through this link: https://trip.jegyx1.hu/eloadas/804/

 

09-01-2021, 16:00 cancelled in response to coronavirus pandemic

  • ANIMAL TALES (circus version)

Location: Eötvös 10. Cultural Scene, Budapest, Eötvös u. 10, 1067

 

08-12-2020, 10:00, 12:00, 14:00 cancelled in response to coronavirus pandemic

  • WARM-UP

Location: Eötvös 10. Cultural Scene, Budapest, Eötvös u. 10, 1067

 

21-11-2020, 16:00 cancelled in response to coronavirus pandemic

  • ANIMAL TALES (circus version)

Location: Eötvös 10. Cultural Scene, Budapest, Eötvös u. 10, 1067

 

16-11-2020, 10:00, 12:00, 14:00 cancelled in response to coronavirus pandemic

  • WARM-UP

Location: Eötvös 10. Cultural Scene, Budapest, Eötvös u. 10, 1067

 

10-10-2020, 16:00 

  • ANIMAL TALES (circus version premier)

Location: Inspiral Circus Centre, Budapest, Sopron út 19/A, 1117

 

09-09-2020, 11:00, 14:00

  • THE BAD STUDENT TESTED (classroom performance)

Location: Virányos Elementary School, Budapest, Virányos út 48., 1125

 

08-09-2020, 9:00, 11:00, 14:00

  • THE BAD STUDENT TESTED (classroom performance)

Location: Koch Valéria School Centre, Pécs, Tiborc köz 28/1., 7624

 

Our dance-in-education program planned for March and April 2020. will also be postponed in response to coronavirus pandemic.

29-03-2020, 16:00 cancelled in response to coronavirus pandemic

  • ANIMAL TALES

Location: Jurányi Ház, Grabo studio (1027 Budapest, Jurányi street. 1., 4th floor)

 

02-03-2020, 10:00 and 14:00

  • ANIMAL TALES
    Location: Vojtina Puppet Theatre (Debrecen, Kálvin tér 13., 4026)

 

29-02-2020, 16:00

  • ANIMAL TALES

Location: Jurányi Ház, Grabo studio (Budapest, Jurányi u. 1., 1027, 4th floor)

 

18-12-2019, 11:00

  • ANIMAL TALES

Location: Jurányi Ház, Grabo studio (Budapest, Jurányi u. 1., 1027, 4th floor)

 

28-11-2019, 13:30 (in the frame of dunapArt5 international showcase)

  • DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE  

Location: Trafo studio (Budapest, Liliom u. 41, 1094)

28-11-2019, 23:00

  • DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Location: Három Holló/ Drei Raben Café underground theatre venue (Budapest, Piarista köz 1, 1052, entrance from Szabadsajtó út)

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