“great success” – Eva and Júlia

 

“Visegrad miracle” – Júlia and Eva

 

This could be a disaster. Eva and Júlia didn’t know each other before. The governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia brought them together. They found common ground in nostalgia and pop songs and spent too much time doing shitty samples and loops. Now it’s a 40-minute long performance.

 

Júlia Vavra is a crossdisciplinary performer from Hungary, one of the most exciting figures of independent new generation Hungarian choreography. With strong music sensibility and awareness leaning towards folk and dance music deconstructions and reinterpretations, has previously worked with Hungarian experimental musicians Áron Porteleki and The Stanley Maneuver.

 

Slovak musician and film director Eva Sajanová performs as holé baby, her debut EP Tajnosty was released by Infant Tree. She directed a short film How to Listen to Fountains, and is a curator of POFO.sk, a sound map of Bratislava’s fountains. Her recent work includes pieces commissioned by mappa label for the compilation Synthetic water music, NEXT Festival for Ensemble of Future Noise Intoners, and LOM Space’s sound gallery Slúchadlo.

 

Vavra and Sajanová presented their new collaborative work last month at UH Fest, with the next stops being NEXT and Lunchmeat.

 

The project is co-financed by the governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from the International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.