Short Cuts

• choreography: Istvan Juhos-Putto
• music: Arvo Pärt, Steve Roach, Robert Rich
• costumes: Adriana Cygankiewicz
• duration: 26 minutes
• premiere: 26.03.2006.

After graduation from the Budapest ballet school, Istvan Juhos – Putto cooperated with the world’s top-notch contemporary dance companies, inter alia Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, Baatsheva Dance Company and Tanz – Forum Köln. This experience is pronouncedly marked in his choreographic language, which is, on one hand, based on the contemporary dance technique, and, on the other hand, gives rise to pristine new and unique stylistic as well as thematic structures.

Putto describes his show in the following way:
“When walking down the street, imagine the emotional ties between passerbys. Try to guess who likes (or dislikes) whom. They all want to strike a business with one another, some want to keep something under wraps and somebody else make a clean breast. We all tend to transcend various boundaries in order to come into contact with others. I was thinking about my childhood, when I would run across a playground, through mud, grass, sounds, words, bliss and sorrow…If you are running fast, you need to watch your steps. Running like a lightning and getting to know the world around – these are the first things a child experiences. It might be compared to an asymmetric and unpredictable travel or to a role-model and life-style quest. This is exactly what I am after. Now I am adopting forms to build ties between dancers, but I do not wish to create something finite. I am more about telling a story, which has its beginning, and which binds people, rather than a story that shuts people from one another. Unpredictable short cuts.”