Kazar dictionary

Launched in 2013, the primary aim of the talent search programme is to improve the opportunities for young choreographers and to empower young choreographers. The IKF's open competition gives young choreographers the opportunity to create. The winners will work with KET dancers for a week, followed by a public performance and demonstration in a theatre setting at the end of the week. This time, the KET dancers will present the work of Anikó Kiss.

The starting point of the lecture is Milorad Pavić's novel Kazar's Dictionary, which explores the history of the Khazar people from three different perspectives, using Christian, Islamic and Hebrew sources. The characters in the story are also key figures in the discussion of the Khazar question, which in fact serves merely as a prop to note how differently the three religions interpret and explain the same past events. Who is right, what is the truth?
The performance, like the novel, encourages the audience to find their own individual reading, to choose their own version, to use their imagination and, above all, to associate freely.
The individual thinking and movement of the dancers also play an important role in the scenes/events, which are taken from the novel and put together like a montage.

Supported by the Imre Zoltán Programme of the National Cultural Fund.