Thomas Körtvélyessyat NAI
photography © 2005 Thomas Körtvélyessy (left)  © 2005 Cor Kapaan (right)

Thomas Körtvélyessy
artistic director, choreographer, dancer, performer, teacher, cultural thinker
born 1972 in Hanau, Germany
home-base in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, since 1992


certified teacher of Kinetic Awareness ®
co-originator & inventor of the name con·sens·us

education:
2004 MA choreography DANCE UNLIMITED profile: Open Form Composition, ArtEZ Dance Academy Arnhem

2000 / 2001 guest student EDDC (European Dance Development Center) / Dansacademie Arnhem
1996 guest student SNDO (School for New Dance Development) Amsterdam
1996 BA equivalent (HBO) teaching modern dance and improvisation, Rotterdamse Dansacademie / codarts

study, research,and publications on the work of intermedia-pioneer Elaine Summers since 1993

Grants: Rotterdam Arts Council, the Borough of Delfshaven, European Cultural Foundation, Kinetic Awareness® Center, Akasha Foundation, Fleur Groenendijk Foundation.

guest teacher / professor at
Korean National University of Arts, Seoul (
2008) DANCE UNLIMITED / ArtEZ School of Dance Arnhem (2011)

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Hessenhuis, Antwerpen (BE) 2007 video-still by Dwight Marica / Cucosa
Thomas Körtvélyessy has been working consistently on the premises of dance-making for the 21st century for almost 20 years. He re-searches, re-forms and re-connects to literally make sense in the moment, and his instrumental medium of communication and understanding is dance, informed by a strong awareness from all the other senses.

Process and development, guided by inspiration and a concern for understanding, empowerment and liveliness in the moment of communication are key words to his interests.


Cross-overs and tilting the established
are not only his logo, but also his generally preferred method of working.


Reàl Dance Company is the name of Körtvélyessy's one-man enterprise under which he has created solo- and group pieces since 1996. These were own productions as well as projects with several collaborators which explored many different contexts centered around movement. Performances were realised in small and alternative venues, galeries, theatres, as well as many outdoors-locations, in the Netherlands, particularly in Rotterdam, New York City, Budapest, Bucharest, and Seoul. The works range from very accessible community-dance work to highly individual solo-performances.

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graphic image © 2003 by Thomas Körtvélyessy  available tension / sensitive energy  and  con·sens·us
  are two practices and trademarks

 
Both focus on the living moment of performance:
  All present elements and participants of a situation (performers, audience, stage, music, visual elements etc.) are considered at any moment in their specific quality and condition of energy, and weighed against each other to arrive at the best possible moment-to-moment decisions -- in order to fulfill the specific intentions of the piece or what is needed to happen at optimum efficiency.

"Set" arrangements become a useful option, rather than a habitually demanded condition.
Hard-edge shapes make way for soft-edged centers, with a stronger core & more dynamic potential.

This open-ended condition is not only reflected in the movement technique, but also in the choreography and the performance of the pieces.


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photography © 2008 by Konrad Szymanski.
                        used with kind permission artist statements:

Performance can create a connecting moment of here and now, with direct human presence - no need for substitutes, "abstractions", or mucking about, or anything coming in between.


My goal as an artist is to help develop and encourage individual sensitivity and expression through the perspective of dance. This can happen along the entire spectrum of human experience. All the layers count, each in its own right.


form = function
- any function is manifested in its very own form
- "non-form" simply means the speaker hasn't understood a present form just yet...

- "formlessness" is a good indicator for structures that are in-formation. I find them more reliable than many (former) codes which would simply offer assumptions instead of presently formed understanding / shortcuts and overview. In-formation has a chance to be created by response-able individuals or group(s) of individuals over space & time...


Tradition is important to me as a collection of comparable and original attempts to make life better.

If actual sensitivity can re-balance historic tradition successfully, then fundamentally more stable and stronger connections and methods will result.

in duet with
                Elizabetta Consonni - photography © 2008 by Konrad
                Szymanski. used with kind permissionI want to face the unknown, what is beyond my individual patterns, make us all more acquainted with situations where we don't really know what is going to happen next. I believe this can be trained, just like good dancing or any other craft....

Consequently it can become easier to deal with chaos and unpredictability through successful realisations of our creative imagination, helping the development of viable alternatives to present-day problems.










I am enamored with movement as change and potential, the fundamental experience we have of our existence.

Utopia, paradise, flying, you name it. I seriously believe that this is possible, that it can be realized and I believe that I am working towards this, together with many others

Love X freedom!
maximum love
maximum freedom

           
 
black & white photography © 2008 by Konrad Szymański used with kind permission
from a workshop Improvisation by Claire O'Neal (Brussels)
organised by Rita VIlhena / Baila Louca Rotterdam, Netherlands 2008

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