Tricks & Tracks - 1999

This cross-sectional project is built upon Pal Frenak’s encounters and experiences during his many travels between Budapest, Paris and Japan.

It is a treatise upon the personal encounter and our need to exist in the face of other people. Its tone is deliberately ironic and scathing. It is a fresco of rampant sexuality in a world that has never been white. The characters are in conflict with one another and with themselves. Hips hurl themselves against walls and hunt for others with greed.

Its gestural vocabulary is convulsive and wild. Its tone, branded by shocks, ascensions and crossings, is amplified by the beat of Fred Bigot’s electronic score.

To leave one’s imprint, to leave tracks; to hurl sweat, blood, and fluid at the devil…

A duo where the characters cannot stop tangling themselves in one another only to unravel again… Cannibals who suck and suckle, who gnaw the flesh of others, who vampirize their substance, only then to dispossess them : In this form of ejection, life leaves its trail inside and outside, on the self and across the walls.

The blank page is left stained with life. At the heart of the battle between memory, smeared bodies, tattoos, and soft amnesia, the performance writes itself.

Choreography : Pal Frenak

Performers :

Lisa Kostur
Kata Juhasz
Christine Merli
Attila Gergely
Miguel Ortega
Adam Zambrzycki
Pal Frenak

Script : Andy Varga
Music : Fred Bigot
Lighting : Janos Marton
Technician : Laszlo Ferenczi
Alpine technics : Tamas Rab