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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: freaks and marvels, the uncategorized and the unexplained, always pulsating with stubbornly resilient life…

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.