Performance

Badarság

Performance · 2019–2020 · Hungary / Spain

A collaborative work exploring playful nonsense, collective authorship, improvisation, and embodied listening.

Practice

Badarság emerged through a collaborative choreographic process developed across community contexts in Hungary and Spain. The practice centred on collective authorship, improvisation, and embodied listening, treating choreography as a relational process rather than a fixed composition. Working within community settings, the project explored how movement could emerge through shared attention, play, and encounter.

Concept

Named after the Hungarian word badarság—a form of playful, innocent nonsense—the work embraces absurdity as a creative condition. Rather than pursuing coherence or narrative, the performance values curiosity, vulnerability, and childlike imagination as ways of generating collective experience.

Details

Premiere

Sismògraf — Festival of Movement, 15 April 2020.

Credits

Credits

Created & Performed: Krisztina Szirtes, Marc Lapuerta & Attila Andrási

Sound & Music: Gábor Csongrádi

Dramaturgical Consultation: Miranda Laurence & Roberto Fratini Serafide

Costume Design: Antonio Gómez

Lighting Design: Macarena Palacios

Photography: Nora Baylach & Imre Kövágó.

Created & Performed: Krisztina Szirtes, Marc Lapuerta & Attila Andrási

Sound & Music: Gábor Csongrádi

Dramaturgical Consultation: Miranda Laurence & Roberto Fratini Serafide

Costume Design: Antonio Gómez

Lighting Design: Macarena Palacios

Photography: Nora Baylach & Imre Kövágó.

Support

Support

Creative and research residencies: Can Gassol Centre de Creació d'Arts Escèniques, Mataró; Roca Umbert Centre d'Arts en Moviment, Granollers.

Supported by the Nemzeti Kulturális Alap (National Cultural Fund of Hungary) and co-produced with Sismògraf Dance Festival.

Creative and research residencies: Can Gassol Centre de Creació d’Arts Escèniques, Mataró; Roca Umbert Centre d’Arts en Moviment, Granollers. Supported by the Nemzeti Kulturális Alap (National Cultural Fund of Hungary) and co-produced with Sismògraf Dance Festival.