IN PARI – Dance and Music #1

This programme is held in Hungarian. 

IN PARI is a series in which music is paired with different art forms – in pairs, equally, as the title of the series suggests. This time, after five evenings focusing on the connection between music and text, and four evenings focusing on the connection between music and image, music and dance come together for the first time. The movements of dancer Bea Egyed are paired with the music of two double bassists, Ernő Hock and Róbert Benkő. As is customary in the IN PARI series, the performers prepare for improvisation and react to each other's performances. The dramaturgy of the evening is shaped by the back-and-forth effect, and by the end of the production, we are left with the impression that the genres were on equal footing, rather than in a subordinate relationship. The curator of the IN PARI series is Albert Márkos.

Bea Egyed
Bea Egyed, dancer, creator, performer Born in 1988, she has been dancing since the age of four and has lived in Budapest since 2007. After graduating from the dance department of the Pécs Art High School, she continued her studies at the Hungarian Dance Academy. In the 2008/2009 academic year, she was a scholarship holder at the Vendetta Mathea La Manufacture Contemporary Dance Academy (Aurillac, France). In recent years, she has worked with numerous Hungarian and international artists, including: the Éva Duda Company (Guy Nader, Maria Campos, Quan Bui Ngoc, Rosana Hribar, Gregor Lustek) Eleonóre Valére Lachky, the Forte Company, Cie Pal Frenak, the Tünet Ensemble, Hodworks, and Viktor Bodó. As a creator, he made his first performances in collaboration with Milán Újvári in their joint formation (Radioballet). He is currently working with the Artus (Gábor Goda) company.

Róbert Benkő
Born in 1949, Róbert Benkő studied piano and classical guitar at a basic level, then played rock music for a while, before being influenced by jazz to study classical and jazz bass at the Bartók Conservatory. He became a member of the Binder Quartet, formed in the late 1970s, and after its breakup, he continued in Mihály Dresch's quartet, which sought to explore the common possibilities of Hungarian folk music and jazz improvisation. He has also played with the Grencsó Collective since 1984, and in 1985 he became a member of the MAKUZ band led by György Szabados, in which he played until the bandleader's death in 2011. It was within the framework of this work that he came into contact with the practice of free improvisation. During this time, he performed with the above bands at numerous Eastern and Western European jazz, avant-garde, and contemporary music festivals. He has worked as an occasional partner with numerous representatives of the Hungarian and international free music scene, as well as performing solo. He is a member of the Dél-Alföldi Saxophone Ensemble and Béla Ágoston's formations, and has also played with EKTAR since 2000. He has contributed to more than forty albums. He has also worked with dancers, for example at Josef Nadj's Jel Theater: The Death of the Governor - 1989, Eden - 2000, Entracte - 2008. He has also participated in numerous theater productions.

Ernő Hock
Ernő Hock was born in 1979 and is a double bassist and bass guitarist. Since his youth, he has been a fan of many musical genres, including jazz, funk, heavy guitar music, Afrobeat, Hungarian and various folk music, as well as hip hop. He works continuously with his regular bands and on various projects throughout Europe. His long-term collaborations include joint projects with Szilárd Mezei, István Grencsó, Szabolcs Bognár (Ábàsé) and Máté Pozsár. He has worked with György Szabados, Mihály Dresch, Gábor Gadó, Ab Baarss, Kjetil Møster, Charles Gayle, Chris Potter, Sainko Namtchylak, Rudi Mahall, and Axel Dörner. His regular bands are Jü, The Qualitons, Zuboly, Less is More 4, and Decolonize Your Mind Society, with whom he works continuously and collaborates on various releases.