Macras will bring Open for Everything ? ?a travel through the life of Roma communities in Europe where itinerant traditions have been replaced by sedentary confined life in ghettos and the actual expulsions from many European societies? ? to the Trafó.
The production is a collaboration between the five-member DorkyPark and 17 Roma musicians, dancers and amateurs of different ages from Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic.
Macras said earlier that the performance aims to combine Roma folklore with the scope of contemporary expression. She added that this shared dictionary of expression was the result of improvisation among youth from different backgrounds.
The performers in the piece were chosen in Budapest, Miskolc, Kosice and Prague. The youth include some amateurs whose only experience is in folk dancing as well as dancers who are practiced in contemporary dance, street dance or hip-hop, Macras said.
Macras said there were political elements in the production, but she added that the intention of Open for Everything was not to answer the question ?What happens to the Roma??
She said audiences who come to the performance could expect to see ?composed chaos?.
The project that resulted in Open for Everything started in February. The dancers rehearsed in Budapest for the first five weeks, then traveled to Macras?s studio in Berlin before going to Vienna.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
