Dancer and choreographer Boglárka Börcsök, actress Orsolya Török-Illyés and filmmaker Andreas Bolm revisit the radical art and spirit of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927). Their new creation Sense into Nonsense is a sonic and bodily evocation of the pioneering Dada artist and visionary whose life and work blurred the boundaries between art, poetry, and rebellion.
Part performance, part concert, part urban intervention, the project draws on the Baroness's anarchic energy to question how we live, move, and desire in the modern city. Engaging with urban realities, it critically explores artistic freedom, consumerism, and social exclusion within the contemporary neoliberal landscape—connecting past provocations to today's struggles for expression and autonomy.
„True death has to be earned with life – that is why I still live” E FvLH
After showing their internationally touring performance-installation Figuring Age at Trafó, Boglárka Börcsök and Andreas Bolm return to Budapest to join forces with the acknowledged actress Orsolya Török-Illyés and celebrate the life and art of a boundary-pushing, avantgarde woman artist, who has been unduly neglected and forgotten.
Boglárka Börcsök is a Hungarian, Berlin-based choreographer, dancer and performer. She studied dance at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Austria and at P.A.R.T.S. in Belgium. As a performer, she has collaborated and worked with choreographers and artists such as Ligia Lewis, Kate McIntosh, Joachim Koester, Tino Sehgal and Eszter Salamon, with whom she has realized several projects in Salamon's acclaimed MONUMENT series.
Andreas Bolm is a Berlin-based filmmaker, artist and producer. He studied at the documentary department of the University of Television and Film in Munich. His films have been screened at numerous internationally renowned festivals, including Festival de Cannes - Cinefondation, Berlinale - Perspektive deutsches Kino, MoMA New York.
Orsolya Török-Illyés is a Romanian-born Hungarian actress who graduated from the Marosvásárhely College of Performing Arts in 2000. Until 2003, she was a member of the Tamási Áron Theater in Sfântu Gheorghe. She has worked on numerous films (e.g., Bibliothèque Pascal, It’s Not the Time of My Life) and won the Hungarian Film Critics' Award in 2010 and 2022.
https://www.boglarkaborcsok.net
Goethe Institute - International Coproduction Fund, Trafó – House of Contemporary Arts, Pact Zollverein Essen tbc
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