Based on the works of István Örkény and László L. Simon

Butterflies & Minute by Minute


Main stage
RO
EN
1h 40’ with two intermission

BUTTERFLIES

Morgane Chabiraud
Cristina Porres Mormeneo
Tae Sone
Michela Piccinini
Nina Sninská
Jelle-Johannes Hendrix
Antonio Gabriele Topo
Julen García Riesco
Mattia Massa
Cosso Filippo

 
MINUTE BY MINUTE: IT IS FORBIDDEN TO STEP ON THE GRASS!

 
The writer
Jelle-Johannes Hendrix
 
The girl
Klaudia Tkaczyk
 
Alongside
Céleste Icket, Nina Sninská, Tae Sone; Filippo Cosso, Julián Rico Engel, Julen García Riesco

 
"QUOTATION MARKS"

 
The woman
Cristina Porres Mormeneo
 
The man
Antonio Gabriele Topo
 
Alongside
Morgane Chabiraud, Nina Sninská, Tae Sone; Julen García Riesco, Julíán Rico Engel

choreography
Attila Egerházi
BUTTERFLIES

Music: Erik Truffaz és Murcof – Being Human Being, Gioachino Rossini – La gazza ladra
Set and costume design: Patrícia Pajor, Herman Anett
Light design: Dr. Yaron Abulafia
Technical manager: György Bajkó
Choreographer’s assistant: Cristina Porres Mormeneo
 
The Butterflies ballet is inherently about desire. Butterflies embody the poetry of life. Their vividly coloured wings and unpredictable flight dazzle the eye. They are born as caterpillars crawling on the ground and die as soaring creatures, metamorphosing and flitting freely in the air. They represent beauty, lightness, and an elusive desire that may never be fulfilled —much like happiness, which, like a butterfly, lands briefly on our hands before flying away. The butterflies are lured by the light into which they fly and burn. Meeting them is both blissful and painful. Life and death are present in their bouncing flight. Eternity and impermanence.
Attila Egerházi
 
MINUTE BY MINUTE:
IT IS FORBIDDEN TO STEP ON THE GRASS!

Libretto: Örkény István: Egypercesek (One Minute Stories), selection László L. Simon: Paprikakoszorú (Pepper-string)

Assistant Choreographer, Sound Editing: Cristina Porres Mormeneo
Literary Consultant: László L. Simon
Music:Katalin Karádi ("I Hate the Wildflower Meadow")
Costumes:Patrícia Pajor, Anett Herman
Audio participation: Zsolt Sarádi (actor at Vörösmarty Theatre)
Sound Recording: Tamás Kovács
Technical Manager: György Bajkó
 
István Örkény's One Minute Stories needs no special introduction. Örkény's surreal, often absurd world, wittily crafted with subtle irony, holds up a distorted mirror to the reader, and indeed to society as a whole. His insights, still relevant today, reveal the contradictions between ourselves and the world we have created.
This dance-theatre performance reflects the Örkényian vision. Under Attila Egerházi's choreography, the texts transform into music, and the dancers move to their rhythm.
In the play—interpreted by Zsolt Sarádi—alongside István Örkény's writings, László L. Simon's repetitive poem Paprikakoszorú (Pepper-string), inspired by Örkény's one-minute story The Meaning of Life, is also performed. In Attila Egerházi's choreography, the texts transform into music, to which the performers dance.

"QUOTATION MARKS"
Libret: László L. Simon

Choreographer’s assistant, sound mixing, special effects: Cristina Porres Mormeneo
Music: Kronos Quartet: Built you a mountain; Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet, Kimmo Pohjonen and Kronos Quartet: Emo Part 1
Costumes: Patrícia Pajor, Anett Herman
Voice (recording): Zsolt Sarádi (actor at the Vörösmarty Theatre)
Sound recording: Tamás Kovács
Media design: Miklós Falvay
Technical manager: György Bajkó

Attila Egerházi has choreographed a piece based on excerpts from an earlier book by the contemporary writer and poet László L. Simon, edited by the author. The choreography captures and makes visible the elusive, sometimes almost inexpressible thoughts and feelings expressed by the writer, while the coded message of the text is revealed in a way that can be scanned by the soul and comes to life as a dance rhythm. Just as in the case of the Örkény ballet, the choreography strongly emphasises the literary text, complemented by musical interludes.