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Zita Thury
ABOUT
I am a freelance creator and performer in the field of contemporary dance. In my works, I address social issues through contemporary dance using elements of performance and video art with a documentarian approach. The performances „Reset” (2021) and „Deep Impact” (2021) delved into the issue of climate change from different perspectives. „XXXY” (2017) observed what defines our gender, while „Strip-tease” (2023) sought to navigate between various female roles and qualities. The documentarian approach is a crucial part of my creations, involving a research process before rehearsals where I collect material specifically for the piece, reflected in the performance. Additionally, my artistic work is defined by a participatory, sensitizing, collaborative, and process-oriented approach (seen in „Social Parasitism/Dangerous Work Avoidants,” 2023). I am interested in performing in public spaces and schools to make these topics and culture more available and accessible to a wider audience. Currently I am working on a musical in public space (Heroine’s Square) which deals with gender inequities in the dimension of the city and built environment.
As a performer I worked with Lili Raubinek, Patrik Kelemen, Júlia Vavra, Réka Oberfrank, László Fülöp (Timothy and the things), Beatrix Simkó, Willi Dorner, Lior Lazarof. In movies I worked with Nina Kov, Adrienn Hód, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Viktória Jaross. Now I am a member of the Willany Leo Collective.
PROJECTS FOR TOURING
Dangerous work avoidants, 2023
My latest work, co-produced with my siblings, is a community theater performance that draws on family heritage: our grandfather played an important cultural role in the workers’ movement that was banned and then repressed in the 1930s. Carrying on the gesamtkunstwerk and community character from a hundred years ago, we have created a show about a typical 21st-century working-class group: the freelancers. We wanted to transform this lonely experience into a collective one. We published an open call for freelancers, with whom we spent a year reflecting on the relationship between work and leisure, the burdens and beauties of freelancing, vulnerability, constraints, self-exploitation, and burnout.
