Talking Bodies Collective

Urvi Vora is a contemporary dancer and researcher from New Delhi. She has recently finished her postgraduate studies in Dance Anthropology in which her interests revolved specifically around modern rituals, performance of politics and performative affect. She uses her training in Anthropology and Philosophy to find interesting ways of working through dance, theatre and film. ‘This Is How You Move Them’ is her first full-length choreographic work. She currently resides in Budapest and remains fascinated by what the body can do.

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Kinga Szemessy is a dancer and researcher in the field of contemporary dance with a particular interest in models and concepts of participation. As a dancer, she was trained in various dance techniques at the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy (BCDA), which corporeal knowledge she intends to marry with the theories and methodologies she learnt while studying Anthropology and Theatre Studies. Thus, in the frame of a few scholarships (Fülöp Viktor, CEC ArtsLink etc.) she tried to map out what hybrid practices and approaches exist on a wider international scale. As a long term project she has been researching the notion of the body as a living archive that resulted in performances in London, Helsinki, Columbus (USA) and Budapest. Currently, she is a Dance Studies lecturer at BCDA, and a PhD student at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest.

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THIS IS HOW YOU MOVE THEM brings to life two creatures stuck between what is right and wrong, who wonder how fast things lose their meaning and struggle among the shackles of violence and compassion. It is either a travelogue of two young people in Iceland or a tragedy about victims of mutilation. It might also be a love story between two foxes. This piece repeatedly asks -  what is it that moves us, what is it that moves you? Why are we moving anyway?

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Choreography: Urvi Vora

Performers: Kinga Szemessy, Urvi Vora