CREDO HYSTERICA

„Credo Hysterica” is an exact, bitter and sophisticated performance representing at the same time the power of beauty, the spiritual hunger of desire, and the bondage of femininity becoming a fate. Frenák – this time also – has created a choreography which comprises of very familiar but embarrassingly explicit elements of secret gestures. This is how the dynamic and amazing confession (their „Credo Hysterica” as the subtitle of the performance says) of the four dancers is born, and becomes in almost every motion and gesture a meaningful message.

As for its structure and motives „Credo Hysterica” can be linked to „The hidden man”; for example the parabola-like „bath” appearing in the last scene of „The hidden man” becomes a dominant and returning element in “Credo Hysterica”. There are 3+1 dancers in both performances, as if three dancers represented three different aspects of the same reality, while the fourth one is playing a different role and wearing a different costume.

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In this performance, Pál Frenák again deliberately and consistently neglects all kind of narrativity and plainness. What we see on the stage does not communicate any position, even less make any judgment or conclusion; its struggle for the accurate representation and the radicalism of honesty gives a cathartic confession of women, of man.

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Premier: 20.05.2004.