PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL – UTRFEST.ORG

CREATURE

WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY

TAMÁS MARQUARDT

WITH CO-CREATORS

GERGO D. FARKAS, BALÁZS OLÁH AND JÚLIA VAVRA

DIRECTED BY

MALLORY CATLETT

CO-PRODUCED BY

MABOU MINES & TAMÁS MARQUARDT

THURSDAY JAN 14 | 5:00 PM THURSDAY JAN 14 | 5:00 PM FRIDAY JAN 15 | 8:00 PM SATURDAY JAN 16 | 3:00 PM SUNDAY JAN 17 | 6:00 PM TUESDAY JAN 19 | 8:00 PM THURSDAY JAN 21 | 8:00 PM FRIDAY JAN 22 | 8:00 PM SATURDAY JAN 23 | 3:00 PM

MABOU MINES THEATER

PRICE: $20-50 / SLIDING SCALE 

RUN TIME: 75 minutes

CREATURE brings Tamás Marquardt’s transmasculinity into collision—and communion—with their Hungarian lineage and traditional men’s folk dance. Moving between lecture-performance, ethnography, folk practice, and ancestral invocation, Marquardt’s performance is in dialogue with 19th-century Hungarian queer writer Count Sándor Vay, whose work and life troubled the literary and gender norms of his time. At the work’s center is the legényes, a virtuosic Hungarian men’s folk dance or ‘Lad’s Dance’; a solo using contra-rhythmic body percussion to express masculinity in community, with fiddlers and singers calling out instructions. Performed with co-creators gergo d. farkas, Bálazs Oláh, and Júlia Vavra, CREATURE reclaims the legényes as a site of transformation—choreography as archive, body as counter-history— where fluidity in the self, in the body, and a being connected to Land is not a condition unique to trans experience but to the condition of being human.

Encodes the queer, the trans, the fantastical, and everything in between…

SARAH CECILIA BUKOWSKI, DANCE ENTHUSIAST

CREATIVE TEAM

Writer – Tamás Marquardt

Director – Mallory Catlett

Scenography– David Benjamin Smith

Sound  – Jaye Kovach

Dramaturg – Gyula Muskovics

Choreographic Support – zavé martohardjono

Video – Tamás Szabó Sipos

Assistant Director  –  Jing Dong

PERFORMERS

Tamás Marquardt

gergo d. farkas

Balázs Oláh

Júlia Vavra

PRODUCTION TEAM

Stage Manager – Neva Guido

Line Producer – Sarah Jones

Production Manager and Technical Director – Žilvinas Jonušas

Support for CREATURE includes Arts Quarter Budapest (AQB), Banff Centre for the Arts, BrickAUX, Canada Council for the Arts, Hunter College, PSC-CUNY, Sín Cultural Centre, SuprOmen, U500 Fesztival, and Workshop Foundation.