babes
babes is a multidisciplinary choreographic project which operates through a set of obscure organs that expand from spaces into bodies and from bodies into spaces. These organs don’t have vital functions and don’t seem to want to be named either; one could absolutely survive without them. Their byproducts are dances, sounds, objects and poems: a gathering of lovers in lust for touch.
Through a form of worlding that doesn’t stop at the borders of the body, babes attempts to cultivate a space a little too sensual, where fantasy does matter, matter does fantasy, and where every actant (an agent in the narrative - just like you over there) is a sidekick.
babes is a close collaboration between composer Márton Csernovszky and visual artist Balázs Ágoston Kiss, whose virtual organs will emerge into their physical form for babes’ second act, a group work scheduled to premier in December 2024 in Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest.
babes is organed by
gergő d. farkas - choreography, performance, costume, installation
Márton Csernovszky - music
Balázs Ágoston Kiss - virtual objects
Sigrid Ivarsson - costume, installation
Mali Dönmez - lights
Áron Birtalan - supervision
Anne Juren - supervision
Dániel Kophelyi - web design
Alice Chauchat - writing coach
pavleheidler - photo
Thanks to: Marie Fahlin, Veza Fernandez, Fredrik Heimdahl, Jennifer Lacey, Claire Lefevre, Levente Lukacs, Albin Svedlund, Jimmy Svensson, Petter Wennardt, Andrea Bánóczy & Tamás Halász (OSZMI - Országos Színháztörténeti Múzeum és Intézet)
Residency support: Visegrad Fund, Centrum choreografického rozvoje SE.S.TA
Biography
gergő d. farkas (they/them) is a gathering of cells with a passion for choreography, dance, organisation, facilitation, romance and mischief. Being lost in Stockholm, Budapest, Vienna, or somewhere in between, they dream of belonging to sensual spaces where not only humans are invited to dance.
In season 2022-2023, gergő was a resident artist at Creative Europe’s Performing Gender program and toured their piece Deep Fake as a part of the Aerowaves Twenty22 selection. In 2021, gergő received the DanceWeb Scholarship, under the mentorship of Frederic Gies and Anne Juren.
As a performer, gergő has worked with Cullberg, Frederic Gies, Kata Juhász, Tanya Marquardt, Ofelia Jarl Ortega, Karin Pauer, Alma Söderberg, Viktor Szeri, Alex Franz Zehetbauer amongst others. Between 2021 and 2022, they were a part of the Budapest-based queer collective OMOH. gergő holds a BA in contemporary dance from the Amsterdam University of the Arts (MTD department).
