Boglárka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm, Figuring Age
Saturday 19 Sep 2026 from 3pm to 4:15pm
Sunday 20 Sep 2026 from 3pm to 4:15pm
8€ (reduced) / 15€
In English, with simultaneous translation into French.
Figuring Age is a transgenerational, immersive and haunting performance-installation set at the liminal space between film, dance and theater.
In a fictional ghost séance visitors encounter three elderly dancers, Éva, Irén and Ágnes, aged between 90 and 101 years old, and who were part of the development of modern dance in Hungary in the 1930s. Based on recordings of the dancers filmed in their private homes, Boglárka Börcsök and Andreas Bolm have sculpted a meticulous choreography of embodiment that lets their protagonists return on stage through Börcsök’s body and voice.
The collaboration between Andreas Bolm and Boglárka Börcsök began in 2017 with The Art of Movement, a documentary focusing on these three dancers. Through a series of meetings and during filming, Börcsök engaged with them in a process of physical transmission and the reactivation of movement, which continued well beyond the film. From this immersion emerged Figuring Age, which was presented at festivals including Moving in November in Helsinki and ImPulsTanz in Vienna, where it received several awards.
In Figuring Age, the artist duo retraces how each of the interviewed women transformed their life and dance practice to survive the socio-political changes of the 20th century. The performance therefore explores how resilience, silence, and trauma are inscribed in the body and movement.
Credits
Concept, choreography & production: Boglárka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm
Elderly dancers: Éva E. Kovács, Irén Preisich, Ágnes Roboz
Performance: Boglárka Börcsök
Light & sound: Andreas Bolm
Costume & scenography: Boglárka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm
English translation: David Robert Evans
French translation: Kenza Latfi
Performance produced by: Boglárka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm
Performance supported by: Die Irritierte Stadt Festival of Arts, Moving in November Festival Helsinki, Montag Modus, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, PACT Zollverein Atelier No.63 - Experimental Platform for the Arts, Hellerau – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste - Residency Program, Neustart Kultur – an initiative for the Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media as part of the support program DIS-TANZEN, an Umbrella Association for dance in Germany.
Part of the work was developed in the frame of the performance exhibition 20 Dancers for the XX Century by Boris Charmatz/Terrain.
She studied contemporary dance at Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz, and at P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios) in Brussels. Currently, she is based in Berlin and Budapest.
Her work draws from archival research, personal encounters, as well as from the practices of listening and looking. She is interested in how memory and history are accessible not only in archival form but can be expressed through voices, gestures and movements, as a coexisting dimension of the present.
As a dancer and performer, she participated in the works of Tino Sehgal at documenta (13), Stedelijk and KIASMA – Contemporary Art Museum. Börcsök has been performing and collaborating with Eszter Salamon for several years in her acclaimed MONUMENT series shown at RuhrTriennale, Centre Pompidou, Festival d’Avignon, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, and Tanz im August, amongst others. Since 2016, she has been featured in several editions of 20 Dancers for the XX Century by Boris Charmatz/Terrain. Currently, she is performing in Still Not Still and Study Now Steady by Ligia Lewis.
After working as musician and sound engineer in Manchester, England, he began to experiment with photography, sound, and video. He studied film at the film academy FAMU in Prague and at the documentary department of the University of Television and Film in Munich. Andreas is currently working between Germany, Hungary and France.
His films portray people in their social and familial environments, examining the fine line between documentary and fiction. His works have been screened at many festivals worldwide. His short film Jaba (2006) was presented at the Festival de Cannes and won the “Golden Mikeldi” for best documentary at the Zinebi film festival in Bilbao. In 2009, Bolm attended the renowned Cinefondation Residence Festival de Cannes where he developed his first feature The Revenants (2013), which premiered at the 63rd Berlinale, and presented at MoMA in New York. In 2014, he was invited for a fellowship at the artist-residence Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, where he developed and shot his second feature film Le Juge with the French actor and film director Jacques Nolot in the leading role.