In Viktor Szeri’s work, video, music, light design and movement meet on equal ground and form a unified whole. His performances use language accessible to all generations and reflect on current issues that affect everyone.
His 2023 solo, fatigue brought him international recognition. It was featured in the Aerowaves network’s Twenty24 Artists selection and has been touring extensively since.
Viktor Szeri (born 1993) is an independent performer and choreographer based in Budapest. His multi-disciplinary pieces are characterised by the interplay of different art forms and visual solutions. His spontaneous and improvisation based processes are motivated by a desire to express a mood or a feeling. Yet, dance always plays a crucial role in his work: for him, it is a language through which the imperfect, transient and vulnerable human body can break free of the constraints of social norms. His performances are visceral: blurring the boundaries between the stage and the auditorium, inviting us into intimate realities where the audience has an active role.
In 2018, he founded the artist group Hollow with Tamás Páll and Gyula Muskovics, with whom he has worked regularly since. In their immersive installations and performances, choreography and dance are combined with poetry, new media, and role-playing to create "world prototypes" where the dominant systems of consensual reality can be questioned or modified.
He received a BA in Choreography at the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy, and an MA in Media Design at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest. Recently, he has been awarded several scholarships and residencies in Budapest, Prague, Berlin, Vienna, Paris, Istanbul, Warsaw, Tbilisi, and Minsk. His works have been presented at Sophiensaele (Berlin), Theatre de Vanves (Paris), Tanzhaus nrw (Düsseldorf), Hellerau (Dresden), WUK (Vienna), radialsystem (Berlin), STL (Tallinn), Donaufestival (Krems), MeetFactory (Prague), Divadlo X10, Y events (Prague), Art Cologne (Cologne), Open Space - Centre for Visual and Performing Arts (Tbilisi), House of Arts (Brno), HKD (Rijeka), Spanski Borci (Ljubljana), CNDB (Bucharest), Hans Otto Theater (Potsdam) as well as in Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, MU Theatre, DunaPart - Platform for Contemporary Performing Arts, art quarter budapest, Studio of Young Artists' Association and Placcc Dance among many other venues.
His piece “fatigue” was awarded the Rudolf Lábán Award 2023 by the independent performing arts scene in Hungary and was selected as part of the Aerowaves Twenty24 Artists network.
Since 2020, he has been the organizer of the Under500 interdisciplinary performing arts festival.
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