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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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(BE) 2007 video-still by Dwight
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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.
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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.
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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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.
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I 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
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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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