On 17 and 18 May in the Festival Theatre, the Hungarian Festival Ballet, which was founded in 1996 by Iván Markó (the Kossuth Prize-winner Artist of Merit who turns 60 this year), will present two choreographies of Markó. The Message of Angels will be performed between the male and female versions of Bolero. In the Markó-choreography created to the most erotic piece of music history, Ravel’s Bolero, Desire assumes a form, and chases men and women towards ecstasy and each other. Desire resurre...cts repeatedly to annihilate itself in the fulfilled loving embrace and revive itself afterwards. The choreographies of the male and female versions are almost completely the same, still the difference is immense: in Markó’s words ’as much difference as there is between the woman and the man.’ At the beginning of the third millennium, we have encountered a yet unparalleled need to protect our Earth and to revive the love and responsibility of people towards each other. The Message of Angels tries to interpret this feeling with the help of Bach’s wonderful music, and the through the means of movements and spectacle. The joy of music and dance, the eternal desire of man to overcome the force of gravity (that is to experience the feeling of flight) inspired the choreographer, Iván Markó. The emotional, spiritual and dynamic depth, soar and intensity of Bach’s music face the ensemble with an extremely difficult task. In our distressed and tense situation, the Message of Angels gives light and faith, which shows us the way to each other and helps us recognise our interdependence.
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