Mezőség – Mikrokozmosz / BARTÓK TAVASZ 2025

Performed by: actors of Forte Company, dancers of the Corvinus Közgáz Folk Dance Ensemble, students of the Academy of Drama and Film

Featuring: Balázs Fülei – piano, Attila Mihó and friends

Dramaturgy: Nóra Földeáki

Costumes: Mari Benedek

Stage set, design: Imre Bukta

Video: Dávid Egon Burkus, Ágnes Éva Molnár

Lighting: Ferenc Payer

Choreography: Zoltán ‘Batyu’ Farkas, Ildikó ‘Fecske’ Tóth

Director: Csaba Horváth

 This multi-art production draws on the song, dance and literary traditions of Mezőség (Câmpia Transilvaniei), a region in Transylvania with a very exciting and colourful culture. Musically, the show is centred around movements from Mikrokosmos, Béla Bartók’s piano cycle, as well as the melodies from Mezőség that inspired him. The former will be performed by Balázs Fülei, the latter by Attila Mihó and his band.

The production fuses an authentic dance and musical heritage with contemporary dramatic theatre that holds both language and movement in its focus, an abstract visual representation of peasant culture, and the movements of Béla Bartók’s piano piece. In the prose sections, scenes from András Sütő’s novel, Mother Promises a Light Dream, come to life. Set in the writer’s home village, Pusztakamarás (Cămărașu, Romania), the story is about the fate, survival and perseverance of the locals in the 1950s and 1960s.

The performance is a report, staged sociography, a piece of drama that seeks to find points of alignment, spiritual security and human stability for renewal and recreation in an age of cultural decay.