Hidden in Plain Sight

The most recent work of dance company Hungry Sharks is a choreographed jigsaw puzzle with components of urban dance that invites audiences to join an adventure trip searching for mutual interrelationships. By repeating the same movement sequences again and again, twelve dancers create space for interpretation regarding human encounters and social change.

The idea for the piece originates from the production Nein Naus by Felix Strasser and Yulia Izmaylova (VADA). Loosely based on motifs from the Oscar-winning 1980 short film Tango by Zbigniew Rybczynski, the piece evolves along moments of dance intended to make the importance of impulses from our fellow humans transparent and tangible for the audience.

Choreographer Valentin Alfery and producer Dusana Baltic founded the urban dance company Hungry Sharks in 2011. In order to establish the movement language of urban dance styles in theatre as well, the company regularly produces feature-length, urban dance pieces for international performance. They perform their productions in Austria, Spain, Turkey, Italy, Croatia and Romania. The non-verbal dance piece #fomo – the fear of missing out was awarded a bonus for performing arts by the Federal Chancellor’s Office.