It is also worth noting the dancers recite fragments of well-known hits as dialogue in the stage situations during the dance steps inspired by Latin rhythms (samba, tango, zouk, rumba, lambada). Some of the characters who meet in the café are taken from the works of contemporary Brazilian authors, “magical-realistic” figures—adventurers, rebels critical of the system, beautiful women, lonely intellectuals—who dance their adventures, sometimes frivolously, sometimes more intensely. The everyday, ordinary, and even self-consciously extreme characters who appear in the café according to the dramaturgical organising principle of the music are “a bit like you and me”. The dance production organises the small joys and great sorrows of people living here and now in Hungary, the cathartically uplifting or hilariously banal episodes of their life stories, stylised into dance, into a kaleidoscopically vibrant unity.
Performed by Márk Agárdi, Anna Manetti, Kamilla Ellenbacher, Attila Emődi, Hung-Ming Pan, Marialaura Savino, Márk Plita, Dolli
Szénási, Dániel Varga, Zsófia Winkelmayer
Dramaturge: István Pinczés
Music: montage
Music collaborator: Zoltán Nagy
Set and scenery: Tamás Vati
Costume: Nikolett Bati
Visual: László Sátori
Lighting Designer: József Pető
Assistant to Choreographer: Attila Emődi
Assistant: Alexandra Kiss
Stage manager: Ildikó Hódos
Choreographed by Tamás Topolánszky