405 W 55th St, New York, NY 10019
Making their first trip across the Atlantic, Szeged Contemporary Dance Company / Szegedi Kortárs Balett (SCDC), Hungary’s leading contemporary dance company, will make their U.S. debut. Presented in partnership with Liszt Institute, New York’s Hungarian Cultural Center, SCDC will bring their highly acclaimed adaptation of Carmina Burana to the U.S. The work has been performed 350 times, with more than 180,000 viewers worldwide, sold out audiences, and standing ovations across Europe, Mexico and the Middle East.
Carl Orff’s monumental musical masterpiece is brought to life as a spectacular dance-theater adaptation. Carmina Burana vividly captures the common fears and joys of an imaginary barbarian community as it keeps fighting for its own survival and humanity through mysterious rituals until its very last breath. Fate sometimes brings love, joy, and sometimes brings sadness or death. A girl whose life was meant to be short can feel true happiness for a moment, when love makes her forget all the bad things, and makes her believe in a life that can be different, that can be better. But Fortune is fickle and cruel.
EVENT DETAILS:
November 5-6 2022at The Ailey Studios - 405 West 55th St. at 9th Avenue.
Saturday at 7:00 p.m., Sunday at 7:00 p.m
THE CAST:
Girl: Desirée Bazzani
Boy: Lotár Vincze
Dancers: Vencel Csetényi, Gergely Czár, Petra Bocsi, Róbert Kiss, Janka Nier, Diletta Ranuzzi, Francesco Totaro, Diletta Savini, Letizia Melchiorre, Miriam Munno, Graziano Bongiovanni
Music: Carl Orff
Set-costumes: Molnár Zsuzsa
Lighting: Stadler Ferenc
Choreography: Juronics Tamás
Director: Pataki András
Artistic director: Juronics Tamás
ABOUT THE SZEGED CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY:
Established in 1993 by Tamás Juronics and András Pataki, Szeged Contemporary Dance Company is Hungary’s leading contemporary dance company. It has gained reputation and appreciation worldwide. Its unique style consists of a mixture of acrobatic, modern dance movements, theatrical elements and powerful visions performed in the highest technical and artistic quality. The music repertoire of the company consists of theatrical dances based on the works of such legendary composers like Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Orff, and Eötvös. Maintaining an international presence, the company has performed in 27 countries and welcomed nearly 30 internationally recognized choreographers to create work for the company. They have won not only the acclaim of audiences worldwide but also numerous awards.
