gergo d. farkas

mama

WUK performing arts
Dance Austrian premiere in English | Duration: approx. 65 minutes
imagetanz 2025
{Organ} {Membrane} {Pull}

The ensemble of mama by gergo d. farkas, together with WUK performing arts, has decided not to present the guest performance as originally planned. Instead, the solo performance Deep Fake, the first choreographic work by gergo d. farkas, will be presented on 28 and 29 March.

All tickets reserved and purchased for 28 and 29 March remain valid. If you still wish to cancel your tickets, please let us know by 14:00 of the respective day at the latest via performingarts@wuk.at. The guest performance was curated in collaboration with imagetanz 2025 / brut Wien and is funded by WUK performing arts.

, © Dénes Babai

gergo d. farkas – mama

, © András Szombatyh

gergo d. farkas – mama

, © Dénes Babai

gergo d. farkas – mama

, © András Szombatyh

gergo d. farkas – mama

, © András Szombatyh

gergo d. farkas – mama

, © Dénes Babai

gergo d. farkas – mama

, © András Szombatyh

gergo d. farkas – mama

mama is a choreographic space at the intersection of the enigmatic and the sensual. By exploring a set of mysterious organs, mama blurs the boundaries between inside and outside and opens up an embodied experience of self-alienation – the human being is challenged and stimulated less as an identity than as material. The performance creates a web of countless entanglements in which sensuality and eroticism go beyond interpersonal contact and become the driving force of belonging. Like tears, folds or stones, the scenes are organised around and within each other and thus form the fragile structure of the work. In mama, gergo d. farkas continues ‘organing’ – a choreographic research technique that has already been developed and tested in earlier works. ‘Organing’ combines physical experiences with fictional elements to spark new fantasies that interweave with the already inscribed narratives of the body. This practice aims to create a form of ‘worlding’ that does not end at the boundaries of the body – a space in which the material and the fantastic merge in a constant interplay.

 

gergo d. farkas (born 1996, they/them) loves choreography, dance, romance and mischief. Being lost in Vienna, Budapest, Stockholm or somewhere in between, they dream of belonging to sensual spaces where not only humans are invited to dance. They hold a BA in contemporary dance from the Amsterdam University of the Arts (MTD) and an MFA in choreography from the Stockholm University of the Arts. In 2021, gergo d. farkas received the danceWEB scholarship as part of ImPulsTanz (mentors: Anne Juren and Frédéric Gies). Between 2021 and 2022, they were part of the Budapest queer collective OMOH. In 2022/23 they were a resident artist in the Performing Gender program of Creative Europe and toured with the piece Deep Fake as part of the Aerowaves Twenty22 selection. The second piece babes was selected for Aerowaves Twenty25. Works have been presented at Trafó House of Contemporary Arts (HU), Dansehallerne (DK), Open House Festival (CY), MTD Legacy Festival (NL), Dansmakers Amsterdam (NL) and MDT Moderna Dansteatern (SE), among others. As a performer, gergo d. farkas has worked with Cullberg, Frédéric Gies, Kata Juhász, Tanya Marquardt, Ofelia Jarl Ortega, Karin Pauer, Alma Söderberg, Viktor Szeri and Alex Franz Zehetbauer, among others.

Credits

Concept & text gergo d. farkas Performance Adél Juhász, gergo d. farkas, Júlia VavraChoreography gergo d. farkas in collaboration with the performers Composition Márton Csernovszky Objects Balázs Ágoston Kiss Lighting design Kata Dézsi Costume design, image composition, scenographic consulting Csenge Vass Assistant costume designer Panna Makai Outside eyes Ádám Czirák, Tamara Zsófia Vadas

Please note that due to availability issues performer Csaba Molnár will be replaced by gergo d. farkas.

A production of SÍN Arts and Culture Center

The production takes place within the framework of the Staféta programme announced by the Budapest Municipality/Budapest Városháza.

With the support of Staféta, Budapest Municipality, Budapest Városháza, Nemzeti Kulturális Alap, SubLab Events Productions, Trafó House and International Visegrad Fund.

The guest performance was curated in collaboration with brut Wien and is funded by WUK performing arts.

Dates & Tickets

March 2025

Fri. 28.03.2025, 19:30
Cancelled * Substitute: gergo d. farkas with Deep Fake

Sat. 29.03.2025, 19:30
Cancelled * Substitute: gergo d. farkas with Deep Fake

WUK performing arts
Währinger Straße 59, 1090 Vienna

Info

Content Notes
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Recommended from the age of 12.

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