babes is a multidisciplinary choreographic project, which operates through a set of obscure organs that expand from spaces into bodies and from bodies into spaces. These organs don’t have vital functions and don’t seem to want to be named either; one could absolutely survive without them. Their byproducts are dances, sounds, objects and poems: a gathering of lovers in lust for touch.
Through a form of worlding that doesn’t stop at the borders of the body, babes attempts to cultivate a space a little too sensual, where fantasy does matter, matter does fantasy, and where every actant (an agent in the narrative - just like you over there) is a sidekick.
babes is a close collaboration between composer Márton Csernovszky and visual artist Balázs Ágoston Kiss, whose virtual organs will emerge in their physical form for babes’ second act: mama a group work that premiered in December 2024 in Trafó.
This performance is part of the 5th edition of NEXTFEST, Trafó's very own mini festival, with which it celebrates new forms, emerging artists and the joy of experimentation each year. Please find the full festival programme here, most events are English-friendly!
gergő d. farkas (they/them) is a gathering of cells with a passion for choreography, dance, organisation, facilitation, romance and mischief. Being lost in Stockholm, Budapest, Vienna, or somewhere in between, they dream of belonging to sensual spaces where not only humans are invited to dance.
Their choreographic work has been presented in venues and festivals such as Dansehallerne (DK), Open House Festival (CY), MTD Legacy Festival (NL), Dansmakers Amsterdam (NL), MDT Moderna Dansteatern (SE), amongst others.
In season 2022-2023, gergő farkas d. was a resident artist at Creative Europe’s Performing Gender program and toured their piece Deep Fake as a part of the Aerowaves Twenty22 selection. Their second piece babes has been chosen to be a part of the Aerowaves Twenty25 selection. In 2021, gergő received the DanceWeb Scholarship, under the mentorship of Frederic Gies and Anne Juren.
As a performer, gergő has worked with Cullberg Ballet, Frederic Gies, Kata Juhász, Tanya Marquardt, Ofelia Jarl Ortega, Karin Pauer, Alma Söderberg, Viktor Szeri, Alex Franz Zehetbauer among others. Between 2021 and 2022, they were a part of the Budapest-based queer collective OMOH. gergő holds a BA in contemporary dance from the Amsterdam University of the Arts (MTD department) and an MFA in Choreography from the Stockholm University of the Arts.
