Yvette Bozsik Company | Compagnie Pal Frenak

The Soirée is based on Jean-Paul Sartre’s play entitled No Exit. Three people, two socialites and a lizard-like seducer gather in a suburban room, which may well possibly turn out to be hell itself.

“The Swiss composer Philippe Heritier’s intriguing and witty music fits the choreography, which merges acrobatics, classical ballet, and comedy in the style of Buster Keaton, beautifully.” /John Linklater/

The Soirée won the International Critique’s Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland on Sunday’s Prize for Best Dance Production and the Independent’s Special Prize for Theatre. The production was originally premiered in 1993. This revival with a new cast has been put together for the company’s 20th anniversary.

 

Dancers: Alíz Krausz, Tímea Fülöp, Tamás Vati

Music: Philippe Heritier

Costume: Rita Velich

Lighting: József Pető

 

Choreographer: Yvette Bozsik

 

Three ropes to the sky, 4 men. Beyond being a beautiful work about the masculine body - why is it almost never shown the way female body is? - and the use of space and falls as tools of a choreographic expression, the piece is an immersion in the unconsciousness of boys and men.The Hidden Men holds a special mirror in front of us, in which we can see the „Macho”, the „Narcissus” and also „Hercules”, and we can closely examine the archetypes of man. Frenák alternately calls up male chauvinist violence, stupid pretentiousness, the balance of

power that structures our exchanges with others. Frenák offers us a radical vision; he probes male sexuality through its different aspects: its origins, as well as its unconscious sources. Its sensuality is without compromise, its rudeness is poetic. The symbols used prompt us to make associations, as the scenery and the source of the movement language is a rope-system on stage and its inspiring verticality.

 

“The trio of ropes hanging down into the playing area opens up a vertical dimension: they

free us from our earth-bound existence and show the way to an unattainable reality. The

men are doing their best to get to the top; they drag themselves upwards, they lounge and

soar once they think they are high enough; it is all about the timeless human dream.”

(Márta Péter, dance theorist, critic)

 

The Hidden Men was awarded to the Rudolf Laban award dedicated to the best contemporary dance pieces in Hungary and toured all over the world.