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SECRET GARDEN

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.

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

sorry not sorry

“sorry not sorry” 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.

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 - © László Mudra, 2018.
Video - © Biró Dávid, 2019.

Picnic in Eden

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.

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