A performance troupe will be articulating the experience of childbirth through images, words and dance. Head First is a new production by Hungarians The Symptoms, playing for one night only on 29 November. The four dancers will take the audience on a journey through pain, triumph and euphoria as they recall personal memories of giving birth, and articulate the experience through body movements, images and the written word. The show is English-friendly.
“We don’t remember how we were born, and we won’t be able to tell the story of our dying. Giving birth,” says the troupe, “is a rarefied experience, elemental-borderline, outside of real space and time”.
The Symptoms are a performance collective organised around Hungarian dancer and choreographer, Réka Szabó. The artists bring their personalities and creativity to each piece staged by the studio, mixing intellectual and humorous dance with text-based acting and pantomime. Over the years, The Symptoms have performed in festivals and venues around Europe, including in London, Prague, Cologne and, of course, Budapest.
The performance will take place on Friday, 29 November at 8pm at the Trafó House.
Tickets can be purchased online.
