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from Müpa Műsorfüzet - Recirquel: Solus Amor (2023. március 6-10.)

RECIRQUEL: A MAGYAR ÚJCIRKUSZ-TÁRSULAT

Solus Amor (2020) is the final piece of a trilogy created in the cirque danse genre by Bence Vági and Recirquel Budapest, Hungary’s premier contemporary circus company. Their 2015 production Non Solus brought audiences to their feet at New York’s Brooklyn Academy of Music and other venues, while their 2018 première My Land was declared the best production at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Solus Amor talks about faith and love, about the universe and nature. Appearing on stage this time alongside the humans, who have always taken the lead roles thus far, will be an animal as well: Vági has commissioned South African puppeteer and puppet theatre director Janni Younge to construct a lifelike bear. While the key medium in My Land was earth, Solus Amor largely takes place in the air, enacting a veritable “ballet in the air” in front of the viewers’ eyes. Cirque danse is a hybrid genre, presenting a sequence of breathtaking tricks that defy the laws of physics as the acrobats simultaneously execute graceful and lyrical dance movements. All of this fits the central theme of the show: love and its various manifestations, which the creators have collectively thought through in terms of how many people, ideas and things one can feel love for in one’s life, and in how many ways.

As with every Recirquel production, the closely unified acoustic and visual world of Solus Amor is a key aspect. Together with Gábor Terjék, composer Edina Szirtes has written some complex and multi-layered music. The early chamber music sound and crystal-clear singing mixed with primaeval melodies and futuristic effects combine to create something unexpected. And as with the music, it is also not possible to determine whether the visuals credited to set designer Péter Klimó and costume designer Emese Kasza were inspired by the distant past or the near future. One of Hungary’s most successful cultural brands today, Recirquel has a busier travel schedule than any other artistic company in the country. They have dazzled their constantly expanding audience everywhere from Edinburgh, Paris and Avignon to Bogotá, Montréal and New York.

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