STILL LOVE
Efthymia Chatzakou, Csenger K. Szabó / Usual Playground
Dancers, choreographers: Efthymia Chatzakou, Csenger K.Szabó
Music: Clelia Patrono
Dramaturgy: Rodia Vomvolou
Theatrical guidance: Norbert Varga
Still Love is a duet about relationships. Our individual stories come into dialogue through physical interaction in a playground-like environment. We play games to relearn and to reinvent our love.
A landscape of states emerges where both individuals respond instinctively to each other as well as the environment. The characters develop a movement language that emanates from their curiosity to discover, understand and communicate with each other. They are working in silence, listening to what the movements and pauses can tell. This atmosphere allows the audience to tune into the characters’ journey and the patterns that would otherwise be invisible. Their physicality features rebounding, tension and release as well as elasticity and contact. The piece is filled with irony and stripping away of conventional meaning from gestures.
FREE ENTRY
SUNDAY 18.08.2024 14:30
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BIO
Csenger K. Szabó
Csenger was born in Budapest, 1994, and raised in rural Hungary. He started dancing at the age of ten. He studied contemporary dance as a scholarship student in SEAD, graduating after completing four years of dance education. He was, additionally, part of NYU Tisch School of the Arts exchange program in 2015. He has started his freelance career in Hungary and in Switzerland before entering Bodhi Project Company in Salzburg for one season. Since then, he has been based in Germany, collaborating with David Zambrano in Las Morochas and being a dancer in Michelle Anne de Mey’s Sinfonia Eroica. Together with his partner Efthymia Chatzakou, they have created and performed a dozen times Still Love, all over Europe. Csenger has been a full time member of Unusual Syptoms/Theater Bremen since 2022.
Efthymia Chatzakou
Fenia Chatzakou (1991, Greece) holds a BA (Hons) in Dance Education (University of Bath) and a BA in Pedagogical Studies (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki). Fenia started her training with rhythmic gymnastics before transferring to dance under the instructions of Nadia Koutziampasi and Ioannis Margaronis (Diagonal Dance School, Thessaloniki). In 2018-2019, she was part of the Bodhi Project Company collaborating with choreographers Guy Nader/Maria Campos, Francesco Scavetta, Jose Agudo and Lisi Estaras. As a freelance dancer, she worked with Georgia Tegou and Michalis Theofanous, (7th New Choreographers Festival, Onassis Cultural Centre/Athens, Helllenic Centre/London). From August 2020, Fenia was part of Braunschweig Staatstheater company, co-creating pieces with guests choreographers such as Ryan Mason, Annamari Keskinen, Henrieta Horn, Rainer Behr, Danae Dimitriadi and Dionysis Alamanos, Stijn Cellis, Guy Nader & Maria Campos. During the 2021-2022 season, Fenia was awarded as the ‘Young Artist of the year’ by the Staatstheatre Braunschweig. Currently she is a freelancer dancer based in Germany, undertaking projects in Germany and rest of Europe. She has an ongoing collaboration with Csenger K.Szabo, with whom they co-created the duet “Still Love” and have been sharing their workshop material ‘Physical Alertness’ in various venues and educational contexts.