József  Trefeli was born  in Australia with Hungarian origins. After  graduating  as  a dancer, he began  to  co-operate with European choreographers, then settled down in Switzerland. In 2005 he founded his own company. Real Life Wrong, the performance THEALTER invited last year, had received the prize for Best Choreography at Atelier Festival in Romania in 2006. His latest production, ‘OOOrpheus’, was commissioned by THEALTER festival in the theme of metamorphosis.

Metamorpheus

‘Dancing can be seen as a metamorphic process transforming the heaviness of an immobile body into the energetic lightness of movement. Nothing can thus be better suited to a choreographic work than the figure of Orpheus. …His tale confronts us with three distinct metamorphoses: to the transformation of  life into art succeeds for Orpheus that of art into  love, ultimately  leading him to the all-encompassing metamorphosis brought about by loss, grief and mourning. In other words, death stands as the final test of love and art: in order to soar high above the contingencies of mortal everyday life, the art of Orpheus must integrate the dimensions of loss and death allowing at last to conquer immortality. Moreover,  as  a  character, Orpheus  himself  undergoes  a  threefold metamorphosis:  he  falls  in  love,  goes to  hell  and  back,  and  loses “everything”.  But  the  tale does  not  end  there.  He becomes  the  prince  of poets, the dancer of words, the  ultimate  musician,  in short the father of Western lyrical  poetry,  because  he managed  to  overcome the  loss  of  the supreme object  of  his  attachment, thereby  gaining  a  poetical detachment  which  gives him  back  the world.  Thus, even  if  in  the  end  he dies  at  the  hands  of  the women  he spurned,  his death  is  tantamount  to  an apotheosis.’
(Bernard Schlurick)

CO-OPERATION PARTNERS: MASZK EGYESÜLET (SZEGED), GENF VÁROS ÖNKORMÁNYZATA (SVÁJC)

jotref@econophone.ch