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Who is balancing whom? Dávid Somló explores the utopian potential of quiet, nonverbal ways of being together.
Originating from a profound experience, the performance is a minimalist movement meditation practice exploring collective presence through a single shared gesture: balancing an ordinary twig on the tiniest point of one’s knuckle. This radically simple act invites care, sensitivity, and deep attention toward an utterly familiar yet often overlooked object, while creating a strong sense of relationality with the environment in which it is practiced (e.g. public space, forest, black box theater). Practiced together, it becomes a gentle performance—a “community without communication,” responding to our era’s longing for quiet, symbolic, and nonverbal ways of being together.
“The twig is always present.
The twig pays attention to you.
The twig is sincere.
The twig is very sensitive.
The twig is inexpensive, but very valuable.”
Dávid Somló is a performance maker and sound artist based in Budapest, focusing on spatial-relational practices. Using simple elements, structures, and instructions, he composes performative experiences that evoke connectedness with one’s attention, body, surroundings, and the people around them. His works require active participation to varying degrees aiming to create frameworks where there are no right or wrong decisions, allowing the actions of the audience to manifest in a deeply personal and human way.
Concept, Sound, Performance: Dávid Somló
Light, Space and Co-creation: Júlia Mohácsi
Dramaturgiai konzulens: Farkas D. Gergő
Special thanks: Orsolya Fodor, Maja Juhász, Luca Kovács, Richárd Melykó, Péter Mendel, Zsófia Paczolay
Coproduction: Trafó House of Contemporary Arts. Supported by: STAGES (Sustainable Theatre Alliance for a Green Environmental Shift), funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme. Cooperation partner: PLACCC Festival.
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