BEMUTATÓ - METAMORFÓZIS • Philip Glass – Feledi Project

Throughout his career, Zoltán Zsuráfszky has been in a dialogue of poems and movements. In his choreographies, the world of movement inspired by poetry has always been present alongside traditional folk dance forms.

From where we are, we cannot see what lies around the next bend. Something comes to an end—and something else begins. In the words of the Alaine Polcz Academy: “Our aim is to break taboos and think together about life and death in a no-nonsense environment.”

The evoked era in the performance coincides with the time of the original premiere of Swan Lake. At the same time the second half of the 19th century was also a period known for the spreading of mental hospitals; patients 'possessed' by animal spirits and treatments of mental illnesses by torture and other bizarre methods.