Our dance performance brings you closer to both his art and his inspiring personality. We are introduced to the most important moments in Satie’s life while gaining insight into the defining impulses of the period, the intense world of the artists of the time, and Satie’s intellectual legacy.
In the 1880s, Paris was a city in the throes of a revival, a golden age: impressionism, decadence, and the mysticism that pervaded it all were the order of the day in the art world. It is in this milieu that the eccentric genius Satie, with his bohemian uniqueness, his duality, his umbrellas, his suits, and his lonely church, unfolds. The rebel artist who creates against all conventions, fashions, stigmas, or comforts, who breaks everything to shine an unrepeatable flame of uniqueness in the world. Self-identity and audacity have been the main motives throughout his life.
Our performance is a puzzle-like composition, and yet there is a leitmotif behind the special movements, the subtle emotions, and the symbolic events. It seems as if time itself stands still—it’s not a question of what action is being taken, but how we experience it. At the heart of it all is the mood that dissolves in the present moment and the silence that surrounds it. It neither comes nor goes, it just is.
Performed by Emanuela Santonocito, Zita Somogyi, Erik Győrfi, Manuel Lardo
Music: Erik Satie, Teodóra Nagy
Costume: Nóra Nemes
Lighting: Olivér Józsa
Dramaturg: Orsolya Nemes
Video: Dániel Nagy
Film: Réka Kiss
Set Designer: Sándor Daróczi
Pianist: Henrik Szőcs
Actor: Péter Valcz
Choreographed by Zsófia Nemes
Supported by NKA
