Eva Duda

Premiere: 19., 20., 21. May 2009 (20:00)
Merlin Theatre

The performance entitled CARNEVAL explores the subject of transformation, focusing on discovering our familiar and unknown sides. Our imaginary human and animal faces encounter in this dynamic adventure, where extremes do not only occur on the level of characters, but also in blending contradicting movements.

How many masks do we have?
How many roles can we play?
Which ones are real?
And which one is in charge?

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In 2009, the several year-long collaboration of the Central Europe Dance Theatre and Éva Duda reaches its next stage: in the frameworks of C.E.D.T.’s twentieth anniversary, the choreographer’s new performance entitled THE CARNIVAL will be shown in Merlin Theatre as a new venue.

A brand new side of The Unknown – since Zoltán Feicht recently joined Cirque du Soleil, from March 2009, two young artists will dance the duet entitled The Unknown. In Budapest Nóra Palcsó and Zoltán Katonka, members of the Central Europe Dance Theatre will debute in the performance in April (C.E.D.T). In late spring, the piece will also be shown in Szeged and at a festival in Nizhny Novgorod.

The Romanian Ion Dacian National Theatre has invited the Budapest Operetta Theatre’s popular musical Romeo and Juliet to Bucharest, where the Romanian adaptation of the piece will be shown in the spring of 2009. The Hungarian creative team has already completed casting and begun the rehearsal period with the local actors and dancers. The premiere will take place on 30 April, 2009 in Bucharest.

Éva Duda was awarded Gyula Harangozó Prize for her activities as a choreographer and performing artist in the field of contemporary dance. She received the certificate and medal that accompanies the honorable state recognition on 15th March at the ceremony organized in Budapest’s Museum of Applied Arts.

The idea of creating this dance film emerged in me during the process of choreographing the performance entitled Arena in cooperation with the Central Europe Dance Theatre. The spiritual and physical force inherent in the team, the intense interlacement of the community and the topic of the performance inspired me to make a short version and put it on the screen. The space-specific adaptation tells the story of an outcast girl, reflecting the stations and moments of the dissolution and changes of a collective through the abstract representation of being an outsider or outcast.

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I was first invited by Kata Juhász, then by Ádám Fejes to hold a training course for the students of the Terminal Program. I accepted the invitation partly because I consider their work very useful and fruitful in professional terms and because it is always exciting to teach and initiate people who are curious and hard working, and want to become dancers more than anything else. This is an important and inspiring force for both them and me.

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