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Figuring: Disfiguring: Transfiguring

Based on their Figuring Age project involving three dancers over 90, Boglárka Börcsök and Andreas Bolm propose to explore the aging body as a living archive, the transmission of experience and somatic knowledge through dance. Participants will discover the layers of age and temporality through their own bodily memories.

Boglárka Börcsök

Boglárka Börcsök (*1987) is a performing artist and choreographer who grew up near the Romanian and Serbian border in the lowlands of South-East Hungary. She studied contemporary dance at Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz, and at P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios) in Brussels. Currently, she is based in Berlin and Budapest. Her work draws from archival research, personal encounters and the practice of listening and looking. She is interested in how memory and history is accessible not only in archival form but can be expressed through voices, gestures and movements, as a coexisting dimension of the present. As a dancer and performer, she participated in the works of Tino Sehgal, Kate McIntosh, Joachim Koester, Daniel Linehan. Börcsök has been performing and collaborating with Eszter Salamon for several years in her acclaimed MONUMENT series shown at RuhrTriennale, Centre Pompidou, Festival d’Avignon, Kunstenfestivaldesarts and Tanz im August amongst others. Since 2016, she has been featured in several editions of 20 Dancers for the XX Century by Boris Charmatz/Terrain. Currently, she is touring with Still Not Still, a dance piece by Ligia Lewis.

Andreas Bolm

Filmmaker and producer Andreas Bolm (*1971) was born in Cologne, Germany, to a Hungarian mother and a German father. After working as musician and sound engineer in Manchester, England, he began to experiment with photography, sound, and video. He studied film at the film academy FAMU in Prague and at the documentary department of the University of Television and Film in Munich. Andreas is currently working between Germany, Hungary and France. His films portray people in their social and familial environments, examining the fine line between documentary and fiction. His works have been screened at many festivals worldwide. His short film Jaba (2006) was presented at the Festival de Cannes and won the “Golden Mikeldi” for best documentary at the Zinebi film festival in Bilbao. In 2009, Andreas attended the renowned Cinefondation Residence Festival de Cannes where he developed his first feature The Revenants (2013), which was premiered at the 63^rdBerlinale, and presented at MoMA in New York. In 2014, Andreas was invited for a fellowship at the artist-residency Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, where he developed and shot his second feature film Le Juge with the French actor and film director Jacques Nolot in the leading role.

Bolm and Börcsök have been collaborating since 2017. They made the documentary film The Art of Movement, a portrait of three over 90-year-old dancers from Budapest. Their performance and video installation Figuring Age, based on the film, was presented at Moving in November Festival in Helsinki and ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna among others, where it received an honorable mention and the Rudolf Lábán Special Prize 2023 awarded by the independent performing arts scene in Hungary. The project was selected as part of the Aerowaves ‘Twenty23 Artists’ network and is currently touring across Europe.