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THE ART OF MOVEMENT by Boglárka Börcsök

a TANZFONDS ERBE project

DE 2019, 78 Min, Hungarian and German with English Subtitles.

SYNOPSIS

What are the mechanisms of censoring art Today? How do you trace censorship in dance, which leaves very little trace of itself over time?

Today in Hungary, contemporary dance and performance are subjected to the reactionary discourse of illiberal democracy. In 1950 Modern Dance was banned by Communism. In the end of the 30’s Jewish dancers were forbidden to appear on stage.

In her film, the young Hungarian dancer and performer Boglárka Börcsök encounters three elderly Hungarian women, all above the age of 90 years: Éva E. Kovács, Irén Preisich and Ágnes Roboz were part of the Art of Movement that emerged at the beginning of the 20th century from a mix of dance and gymnastics today referred to as Modern Dance.

Börcsök retraces how each of these women resisted, reformed, and transformed their lives and dance practices in order to survive the major social transformations of the last century; the rise and command of nationalism and socialism and the consequent banning of the Art of Movement.

Boglárka’s role switches between dance student, observer and dialogue partner.
Irén, Éva and Ágnes tell and revoke their memories and movements while returning to the stage, performing in their living room or lying on a sofa. Haunting footages of newsreels from the 1930’s and 1950’s create a layer that weaves through their personal stories and aged bodies: young women dancing in Hussar uniforms followed by soldiers of the Soviet Army performing at the City Theater in Budapest…

The film catapults us back to present time where the three elderly dancers and their bodies transform into their own living archives: how are memories and movements transmitted and how do they live on?

cast: Éva E. Kovács, Irén Preisich, Ágnes Roboz

written and directed: Boglárka Börcsök

artistic collaboration: Andreas Bolm

editing: Andreas Bolm and Boglárka Börcsök

camera: Lisa Rave

color and sound: Andreas Bolm

sound mixing: Jochen Jezzusek

english translation: David Robert Evans

production company: Whole Wall Film

production manager: Elisa Calosi

Funded by Tanzfonds Erbe - an initiative by German Federal Cultural Foundation, La Musée de la Danse/ Centre choréographique de Rennes et de Bretagne, Senatsverwaltung für Culture und Europa, Berlin

Supported by: Akademie Schloss Solitude & József Attila Circle within the Eastern European exchange program, Hungarian National Film Fund - Film Archive, OSzMI - Hungarian Theatre Museum and Institute, Pact Zollverein Residency Program, AQB - Art Quarter Budapest, Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Orkesztika Foundation, weltfilm

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