5th September 2026 //
Counter-Scores is a choreographic counter-map: a collection of choreographies and memories that resist the official history of a district or a building. The score is composed of fragments of conversations with people living in modernist housing blocks.
Using the choreographic practice of marking (the act of practicing a given choreography in a reduced or simplified form), Rybicki transforms memories collected in the housing blocks of Csepel into choreographic material. The performance thus becomes an archive of invisible choreographies exploring the intersystemic feeling of stagnation: through traces of feelings, gestures, and experiences suspended between past political systems and uncertain futures.
“At some point in history, we will all be forgotten. Time will pass, and people will forget us, our faces and voices, our bodies and dances. Everything we love and fear, will disappear. In historical accounts of dance, whose dancing bodies are remembered, and whose are forgotten? Why are the memories of some dances preserved, while others disappear from the pages of history? So let us disappear – but in the meantime, let us dance with memory.” (Wojciech Rybicki)
Choreographer and performer: Wojciech Rybicki (PL)
Contributors: Mia Kovacsics, Eszter Rákóczi
Times:
6PM, 5th September 2026
Meeting point: Csepel, in the bus stop in front of 1211 Budapest, Kossuth Lajos u. 91.
The performance includes a short walk, so wearing comfortable shoes is recommended.
Length of the performance: 60 minutes
Language: no language barrier
The performance is free of charge
Partners and supporters
Wojciech Rybicki has won a grant from the EFFEA (European Festivals Funds for Emerging Artist) for artistic residencies related to his creation Counter-Scores. The partners of PLACCC Festival in implementing the residency programme: LIFE Festival (Milano, IT) and 4 + 4 Days in Motion Festival, Prague, CZ).
The implementation of the project in Budapest is supported by the Polish Cultural Institute.
Special thanks: Czech Center Budapest