Sleeping nails
This performance is dedicated to the memory of our friend, composer Ferenc Kiss
(1954–2024).
Sleeping Nails…
Dance poetry inspired by the works of Hungarian poets
The latest premiere by Zoltán Zsuráfszky, Artist of the Nation and Kossuth Prize laureate, is more than a dance performance. It is an intellectual challenge: a dialogue between movement and poetry. Sleeping Nails… begins in the deeper layers of poetry and finds its fulfilment in movement. It is not an illustration, but a sensitive extension of lyrical thought.
The programme brings to life the poetry of László Nagy, Mihály Vörösmarty, János Arany, Miklós Radnóti and János Pilinszky, interwoven with music by Ferenc Kiss and Tamás Szarka. The Arrival of the Guests, The Old Gypsy, Bridge Inauguration and Radnóti’s Notebook raise questions that are both timeless and unsettlingly present: communal fate, personal responsibility, faith and hope.
Sleeping Nails… is remembrance and recreation at once. Alongside choreographies that have become classics, new works build a bridge between past and present. The performance gains it's particular intimacy from the fact that the ensemble dedicates it to the memory of Ferenc Kiss (1954–2024), composer, friend and creative companion.
This evening is more than dance theatre: the enduring questions of Hungarian poetry take form in movement, while the traditions of folk dance meet the dilemmas of the present day.