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A man - woman - dancer stands in the empty space defined by the walls of the theatre. She waits patiently for her witnesses - the audience - to settle in and begin her revelation. Her body and her personality serve as a medium through which, by opening it, she is connected to a collective information channel.

It projects images, sensations, feelings, concrete thoughts, opinions, problems, from the past, the present and the future, from the flood of information, accumulated and undigested, creating chaos and confusion. It is not an explicit, unanimous opinion, but it does present options and possible solutions. The multiplicity of the multiplicity of what is happening and the juxtaposition of multiple options is the opinion itself. Much like the ancient character of "Lilith", which is contested and carries many interpretations: female demon, ancient Sumerian deity, deity of the winds of the high altitudes, witch. She is a symbol of the educated, strong woman and also a symbol of emancipation.

"A choreographer, a performer and a multitude of interlocking figures, telling the story of the female principality through a kind of distorting mirror and in a witchy, chilling tone. The K-Arcs series is one of Central European Dance Theatre's (KET) most exciting and forward-looking ventures. Invited choreographers create a solo for a member of the company of their choice. Both creator and dancer take the plunge into the unknown, a genre that dance has rarely been more risky and trusting. However, this seems to have been unthinkable for choreographer Csaba Molnár and dancer Zsanett Jakab, who were apparently very much on the same page when they created LILITH, a piece about a Sumerian female demon that has become a feminist symbol, or in other words, a mythical female persona that is believed to be the inverse of the biblical Eve, and that does not submit to patriarchal tradition."
Laudation by Csaba Králl for the 2017 Rudolf Lábán Prize nomination (excerpt)

creators

Rapporteur

  • Zsanett Jakab

Sight

  • Csaba Molnár

Light

  • Zoltán Fogarasi

Choreographer

  • Csaba Molnár

Csaba Molnár: LILITH (Central Europe Dance Theatre - K-Arcok)

Related Press Releases

Krisztina Horeczky:  Speaking at  (Theatre.net) - 16/05/2017 The Central European Dance Theatre (KET) launched in 2015 K-Arcok this time the two guest artists painted a unique portrait of Zsanett Jakab and László Mádi, a member of the company.
Csaba Králl:  One face, two faces and many  (AND) – 19/05/2017 A LILITH the high school of illusion. A metamorphosis avalanche, in dozens (and more) of chapters. The list goes from Andrea Ladányi to Gergye to Anna Réti (and beyond), all of whom have successfully played these strings in the solo genre in this country. Now they are joined by Csaba Molnár, who offered Zsanett Jakab a long series of situations, roles and role-playing, and she plunged into them with death-defying courage, shaping them in her own image and likeness. It is not Jakab, not his faces that we see, the play has no personal dimension, no private weight, but faces whose authenticity and suggestiveness could not have been achieved without a deep dive into the personality (which was not sprayed).
"Touch is the most instinctive form of communication" - Interview with Csaba Molnár 
(PS Magazine) – 27/04/2017 It also means the interpenetrability of good and evil of free will - Csaba Molnár peels back the layers of female identity to the point of complete nakedness in her new performance Lilith with Zsanet Jakab. We also spoke to the acclaimed choreographer, who is known and respected across Europe, about self-centred art, perspectives, flesh and blood, among other things.
Péter Márta: Locked to ourselves  (Dance review) – 01/05/2017 It seems the K-Arcok the creators and performers of his recent performance have not avoided a personal confrontation - nor, presumably, have the other contributors to the performance.
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