Harmonia

In the organizer's words:

HARMONIA

by Unusual Symptoms / Theater Bremen / Adrienn Hód (Bremen / Budapest)

HARMONIA is an exceptional phenomenon. Rarely do productions by German municipal theater dance companies attract national and international attention, are invited to important festivals and dance platforms and go on tour. The piece develops carefully. The dancers are completely at one with their bodies, their arms, legs, torsos, their limits. The boundaries are tangible, that is communication. They are present, in the place, in the moment; in other words, they have time. They knead, stretch and crumple them, that's how it works. Quite peacefully. Tense, relax, sense and nonsense, stable, unstable. Rhythm that comes from inside and outside. They create balances. Dance. The result is a choreographically sophisticated, coherent work that understands inclusion as human togetherness and diversity. Hungarian choreographer Adrienn Hód created HARMONIA with the Unusual Symptoms ensemble at Theater Bremen in a co-production with her own company Hodworks and the Trafó cultural center in Budapest. The resulting team and a diverse group of ten dancers with and without disabilities question the hierarchies of classical dance, throw conventional notions of the body and the structures built around it overboard and playfully reorient our view of it all. Which is remarkable in itself. Not only because such international constellations make it possible to bundle several funds that are needed for such an elaborate and cost-intensive rehearsal process. This second collaboration between the German and Hungarian artists also shows that surprising creative synergies can arise as a result. HARMONIA was awarded the Rudolf Lábán Prize for the best dance piece in Hungary in 2023.

[HARMONIA is an exceptional phenomenon. Rarely do productions by German municipal theater dance companies attract national and international attention, are invited to important festivals and dance platforms and go on tour. Here, ten dancers with and without disabilities question the hierarchies of classical dance, throw conventional notions of the body and the structures built around it overboard and playfully reorient our view of all that.