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Boglárka Börcsök and Andreas Bolm, Figuring Age
Lafayette Anticipations9 rue du Platre 75004 PARIS Figuring Age is a transgenerational, immersive and haunting performance-installation set at the liminal space between film, dance and theater.
In a fictional ghost séance visitors encounter three elderly dancers, Éva, Irén and Ágnes, aged between 90 and 101 years old, and who were part of the development of modern dance in Hungary in the 1930s. Based on recordings of the dancers filmed in their private homes, Boglárka Börcsök and Andreas Bolm have sculpted a meticulous choreography of embodiment that lets their protagonists return on stage through Börcsök’s body and voice.
The collaboration between Andreas Bolm and Boglárka Börcsök began in 2017 with The Art of Movement, a documentary focusing on these three dancers. Through a series of meetings and during filming, Börcsök engaged with them in a process of physical transmission and the reactivation of movement, which continued well beyond the film. From this immersion emerged Figuring Age, which was presented at festivals including Moving in November in Helsinki and ImPulsTanz in Vienna, where it received several awards.
In Figuring Age, the artist duo retraces how each of the interviewed women transformed their life and dance practice to survive the socio-political changes of the 20th century. The performance therefore explores how resilience, silence, and trauma are inscribed in the body and movement.
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