Concerto dancers: Barna Lilla e. h., Csiby Gergely, Egyed Bea, Fehér László, Hegymegi Máté, Horkay Barnabás, Mészáros Blanka, Nagy Norbert, Pallag Márton, Sipos Vera, Widder Kristóf, Zsigmond Emőke costume: Benedek Mari stage design: Mocsár Zsófia, Horváth Csaba light: Payer Ferenc production manager: Kudron Anna choreography: Horváth Csaba
String Quartet No. 5 dancers: Fehér László, Horkay Barnabás, Krisztik Csaba, Nagy Norbert, Widder Kristóf musicians: Bujtor Kvartett (Bujtor Balázs, Kovács Erika – violin, Móré László – viola, Maróth Bálint – cello) costume: Benedek Mari light: Payer Ferenc production manager: Kudron Anna choreography: Horváth Csaba
Béla Bartók composed two pieces for dance stages, a pantomime (The Miraculous Mandarin) and a ballet (The Wooden Prince), but several other Bartók works have also been a source of inspiration for choreographers. This time, choreographer Csaba Horváth explores the opportunities of Concerto for Orchestra and String Quartet No. 5, and how to perform these pieces on stage with a dance group. This spring, String Quartet No. 5 received the prestigious Rudolf Lábán Award and the main award of the contemporary dance festival in Veszprém. According to critic Csaba Králl, Bartók, who never denied his folk music roots, and Horváth, who turns his past as a folk dancer into an expression of raw, elemental honesty, meet in a synthesis beyond space and time.