right for fight
duet

​Premiere: Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany, 17.11.2021
Appx. 40 min (Performance: 20 min + Talk & Movement sharing: 20 min)
Concept, choreography: Anna ADAM
Performance: Anna ADAM - Eva MORA
Production & Distribution: Gray Box
​Support & Residency: Klara i Rosa (SRB), Le BAMP (B), Newcastle Dance Theatre (GB), Műhely Alapítvány / Workshop Foundation (HU), MoveIn Studio (HU)​, Institut Français de Saint-Louis (Senegal), Dekandoo Residency (Senegal)

From love to indifference, blindness to open eyes, idealization to deception, harmony to conflict and freedom to imprisonment, we want to break up but forgive, be alone but accompanied, set limits but cross them, to say "yes", "no", "maybe" all at once… Full of contradictions, oppositional emotions, ambivalent reactions, paradoxical decision, passionate and irrational choices, this duet conceives love as a universal combat sport without protective equipment, in which two vulnerable fighters, Anna Adam and Eva Mora, constantly rewrite rules, negotiate power, fight with each other, against each other, next to each other. Lost between doubts and convictions, tensions and tenderness, stabilities and imbalances, they are exhausting and emptying their bodies, hearts, and minds, exposing themselves for their integrity, dignity and freedom.

​Who is the boss?
solo

Premiere: A4, Bratislava, Slovakia, 19.06.2021
Appx. 30 min
Performance: Kiss Rebeka Petra / Visual, space installation and costumes: Anna Ádám / Production Managers: Jean François Bouillon, Gray Box / Concept, choreography and direction by Ádám Anna / Partners, Supported by: NKA Imre Zoltán Program, NKA Képzőművészeti Kollégium, ARTU - Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles Hauts-de-France (DRAC Hauts-de-France, FR) & Université d’Artois (FR), Abbaye de Maubuisson (FR), Dansarium (FR), ZFinMalta (MT), Mediterranean Dance Center (HR), MoveIn Stúdió, SÍN Művészeti Központ, A4 - Space for Contemporary Culture(SK), iPortunus (EU) - SometimeStudio (FR), Visegrad Fund - Performing Arts Residency / Photos © Zellei Boglárka, 2021.

MÖBIUS
SOLO

Premiere: A4, Bratislava, Slovakia, 19.06.2021
Appx. 30 min
Performance by: Eva Mora / ​Music: Komjáthy Boldizsár / Visual, space installation and costume: Anna Ádám / Production Managers: Jean François Bouillon, Gray Box / Concept, choreography and direction by Ádám Anna / Partners, Supported by: NKA Imre Zoltán Program, NKA Képzőművészeti Kollégium, ARTU - Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles Hauts-de-France (DRAC Hauts-de-France, FR) & Université d’Artois (FR), Abbaye de Maubuisson (FR), Dansarium (FR), ZFinMalta (MT), Mediterranean Dance Center (HR), MoveIn Stúdió, SÍN Művészeti Központ, A4 - Space for Contemporary Culture(SK), iPortunus (EU) - SometimeStudio (FR), Visegrad Fund - Performing Arts Residency / Photos © Zellei Boglárka, 2021.

CRISIS BEFORE CRISIS
solo

Premiere: A4, Bratislava, Slovakia, 19.06.2021
Appx. 30 min
Performance: Júlia Gaál / ​Music: Komjáthy Boldizsár / Visuals, space installation and costume: Ádám Anna / Production Managers: Jean François Bouillon, Gray Box / Concept, choreography and direction by Ádám Anna / Partners, Supported by: NKA Imre Zoltán Program, NKA Képzőművészeti Kollégium, ARTU - Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles Hauts-de-France (DRAC Hauts-de-France, FR) & Université d’Artois (FR), Abbaye de Maubuisson (FR), Dansarium (FR), ZFinMalta (MT), Mediterranean Dance Center (HR), MoveIn Stúdió, SÍN Művészeti Központ, A4 - Space for Contemporary Culture(SK), iPortunus (EU) - SometimeStudio (FR), Visegrad Fund - Performing Arts Residency / Photos © Zellei Boglárka, 2021.

​SORRY NOT SORRY: Second BOOK
TRIO

Premiere: ISBN Books+Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, 02.10.2021
Appx. 40 min
Concept, creation, direction and visual by: Anna Ádám
Performed by: Rebeka Petra Kiss, Júlia Gaál, Eva Mora
Music: Boldizsár Komjáthy
Light: Mátyás Major
Production Manager: Jean François Bouillon / Gray Box
Partners, Supported by: Budapest Autumn Festival, Budapest Ballet Academy, Budapest Brand, Budapest VIII. district, Józsefváros Community Nonprofit Zrt, SÍN Cultural Centre, Workshop Foundation
Photos © Zellei Boglárka, 2021.

"sorry not sorry: second book" is a performance that shines light on female pleasure which has been tainted by sins and taboos. It is the sequel of "Sorry Not Sorry: First Book", premiered in 2018. In this performance, three women battle with the puritan cultural and sexual-ethical heritage of the Judeo-Christian religious morality which, for two millennia, has tried to encode in us what is moral and immoral, natural and unnatural, acceptable and sinful in sex. The performance is an ode to the clitoris, a love letter to the cyprine, a celebration of the visibility and liberation of women's desires, bodies and sexualities.

UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA
TRIO

Premiere: National Dance Theater, dance performance, Budapest, Hungary, 17.07.2021
Appx. 40 min
Co-created and performed by: "CRISIS BEFORE CRISIS": Gaál Júlia / "Möbius": Eva Mora / "Who is the boss?": Kiss Rebeka Petra /
​Music: Komjáthy Boldizsár / Music Consultant: Doriane Balin / Lighting: Juraj Čech / Visuals, space installation and costumes: Ádám Anna / Dramaturgy: Sally O’Neill / Mentor and Professional Consultant: Lőrinc Katalin / Production Managers: Jean François Bouillon, Gray Box / Assistant: Fejős Adrienn / Concept, creation and direction by Ádám Anna / Partners, Supported by: NKA Imre Zoltán Program, NKA Képzőművészeti Kollégium, ARTU - Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles Hauts-de-France (DRAC Hauts-de-France, FR) & Université d’Artois (FR), Abbaye de Maubuisson (FR), Dansarium (FR), ZFinMalta (MT), Mediterranean Dance Center (HR), MoveIn Stúdió, SÍN Művészeti Központ, A4 - Space for Contemporary Culture(SK), iPortunus (EU) - SometimeStudio (FR), Visegrad Fund - Performing Arts Residency / Photos © Zellei Boglárka, 2021.

UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA is a vision of hope with a dark side, a dreamland with an apocalypse on the horizon. Through three solos inside of an immersive environment, the performance explores the psychological consequences of climate change on those people who will bear the worst consequences of processes they did not initiate, and over which they have little or no control: the youngest. More lonely, depressed, and suicidal than any previous generation, post-millennials are at the same time among the most “traumatized” by climate change, and the key to fighting it. However, light instead of darkness, warriors instead of victims, smiles instead of tears, the three dancers celebrate life and honour nature through their powerful energy, strength and neverending combativity.

HOT PAPER LIVE LOVE
LIVE STREAMED VIDEO PERFORMANCE

Premiere: Divadlo X10, Online live performance, Prague, Czech Republic, 18.05.2020
Appx. 30 min
Concept, choreography, visual, performance: Anna Ádám / Supporters: Divadlo X10 / Production: Gray Box

CLASH
SOLO

Premiere: E-Werk Kulturzentrum, Erlangen, Germany, 19.06.2019
Appx. 30 min
Concept, choreography, visual: Anna Ádám / Performance: Gaál Júlia / Music: Boldizsár Komjáthy / Lights: Mátyás Major / Supporters: MoveIn Studio, NKA Imre Zoltán Program, SIN Arts Centre / Production: Gray Box / Photos © Mátyás Gyuricza-PINCE, 2019.

I want to, and I don’t want to. I desire it, but I don’t. I feel like I have to, but it’s not allowed. I want to do it, but know I shouldn’t... and still do it. Or don’t I? The performance investigates the ideological, social, and political parameters of “good” and “bad”. It explores what designations such as “right/wrong”, “acceptable/unacceptable”, “conform/non-conform”, “pure/impure” mean, and who is empowered to make these distinctions. The piece focuses on how we confront, if we confront, social norms and expectations, our religious, cultural, and moral heritage, how do we deal with rules and systems in which we are socialized and familiarized with. What does it means and how does it feels to take the path of the “other”, the “not allowed”? What happens when we want to go against, to challenge, to change, to switch, but we don’t dare to? How do we negotiate and how do we deal with our rational side? What does our intellectual, spiritual, psychological, and emotional fight look like when desire takes over reason? Questioning, stretching, cutting - “CLASH” is about the duel between temptation and control, will and self-restraint, instinct and retention, where energy and strength is created by the tensions between opposite forces in both a physical and moral sense. An ode to desire and a song of lamentation to abandonment, both at once.

SECRET GARDEN
SOLO

Premiere: Otthon Project, Budapest, 2019
Adaptable length: 15-30 min
Concept, direction, setting, costumes: Anna Ádám / Choreography: Anna Ádám, Rebeka Petra Kiss / Performance: Rebeka Petra Kiss / Music, Sound: Boldizsár Komjáthy / Supporters: Hungarian University of Fine Arts, L1 Association, MU Theater, National Cultural Fund of Hungary Imre Zoltán Program, OFF-Biennale Budapest, Otthon Project, SIN Cultural Center, Summa Artium / Photos © Oliver Sin, Csaba Meszaros, 2019.

What are the consequences of a sin? What is the relation between punishment, conscience, and guilt, and what is their relationship with the sin? Does guilt has different types, levels, and ways of absolution? Where does the feeling of shame comes from? What are the different phases of regret? Which types of penitence, redemption or remission do we know? Under the pressure of social norms, conventions, and expectations, the dancer faces up to what she has done, gives the account, confesses, expiates, and wash herself with the cleaning power of water and flowers.

sorry not sorry: First Book
TRIO

Premiere: MU Theater, Budapest, HU, Oct – 2018 ​
Appx. 30-45 min
Concept, direction, scenography: Anna Ádám, Gray Box / Choreography: Anna Ádám, Gergő Farkas, Attila Horváth, Rebeka Petra Kiss, Levente Lukacs, Réka Rácz / Performance: Gergő Farkas - Réka Rácz, Rebeka Petra Kiss, Levente Lukács - Attila Horváth / Music, Sound: Boldizsár Komjáthy / Light design: Mátyás Major / Assistant director : Endre Cserna / Mentor: Adrienn Hód / Production: Krisztina Soltesz / Supporters: L1 Association, MU Theater, National Cultural Fund of Hungary Imre Zoltán Program, SIN Cultural Center / Photos © Oli Lassmann, 2019

“sorry not sorry: first book” explores the impact and the heritage of Biblical teachings on sexuality in today’s society, with attention to the relation between contemporary spiritual consciousness and gender identity. Entering the theater, we find ourselves in the middle of thee stages with as setting three gardens. The first stage presents and questions biblical laws and teachings from the heart of a ‘Forbidden Garden’ - constructed on the duality of good-bad, desire-disgust, soil-sky, material-spirit. From both a psychological and physiological perspective, the second stage studies the moment of committing a sin in the environment of an ‘Interior Garden’ - wild and cheeky. The third stage puts the emphasis on punishment and atonement under the smoke and the dust of a ’Secret Garden’ - robbed, abandoned and destroyed by the time and the pain. Happening simultaneously, the three stages sometimes complete and sometimes contradict each other, they talk, join, and separate again to make their own way.

Picnic in Eden
​4 performers, 2 live musicians

Premiere: AQB Sound Studio, Budapest, HU, May – 2018
Appx. 30-60 min
Concept, direction, creation, scenography, installation, scenery setting, objects, props: Ádám Anna / Curator: Maj Ajna / Dancers, Actor, Singer: Ádám: Lukács Levente, Ádám's boyfriend: Horváth Attila, Éva: Nagy Edi, Snake: Záhonyi-Ábel Vanessza (DancehallQueen Vanessa Diamond), Lilith: Gunther Dóra / Installation-setting: Ádám Anna / Sound, Music: Cserne Kata, Dányi Dániel / Costume, Styling, Makeup: Gray Box / Supporters: AQB Sound Studio, Küszöb Festival, MVM Group  / Photos © Oliver Sin, 2018.

Reality show straight from the Paradise with a soap opera romance, sweaty bodybuilding, and liturgic karaoke party. Our evergreen Biblical superheros write together and alternative Genesis story between the Garden of Eden, Instagram, Messenger, and a fictional fitness club.