Dance For Nothing, a Solo by Eszter Salamon

Eszter Salamon is a choreographer, dancer and performer living in Berlin. She studied classical ballet at the National Dance Academy of Budapest and Hungarian folk dance. Since 2001, she creates and presents her work internationally in dance and performing arts venues and festivals in Europe, Asia, USA and South America. Beside movement, she is using voice and music as well as documentary and fictional narration as choreographic extensions in her work.”

In Dance for Nothing, Eszer Salamon performs John Cage’s music, “Lecture on Nothing” (1949) and simultaneously dances with the aim of creating choreography of movements to be juxtaposed to the text piece. The idea of using music done by words and performing a parallel action as another temporality follows the desire for interaction with non-interference. “The dance in ‘Dance for Nothing’ should be autonomous and never become an illustration or a commentary on the text.” (Eszter Salamon)

Special Formula:Concept & Dance: Eszter Salamon
Music by John Cage
Organisation: Alexandra Wellensiek, extrapole/ Agnès Henry