FRIDA - Eva Duda Dancecompany
The renowned Hungarian Eva Duda Dance Company is bringing their acclaimed production FRIDA to Austria for the first time, performing at the Odeon Theater in Vienna.
On November 4th and 5th, 2024, the Eva Duda Dance Company from Hungary will perform FRIDA for the first time in Austria, marking its Austrian premiere at the Odeon.
Choreographer Eva Duda created the dance piece FRIDA with her company in 2022. After numerous performances at the National Dance Theatre and the Városmajor Open-Air Stage in Budapest, the successful production was most recently showcased at the Düsseldorf Festival. Now, it will debut in Vienna at the beginning of November.
"We can’t wait to bring FRIDA to Vienna, especially after the great success we had in Germany. Vienna's incredible cultural atmosphere and enthusiastic audience make this city the perfect place for us to present our work," says Eva Duda, artistic director of the company, expressing her excitement about the performances in Vienna.
This spectacular show about the life and work of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo transports the audience into an exotic dream world, based on the rich expressive power of music, dance, and visual art. Like an extraordinary guided exhibition, the dance images reveal the beauty and challenges of Frida’s fate as an artist, express the passion of her love life, and depict some remarkable moments from her personal life.
Frida is a globally beloved artist, and this performance offers many admirers of her works the opportunity to see her life and art from a completely new perspective. She has inspired many with her unique artwork, unconventional life, progressive views, and incredible resilience.
The dance show, from the perspective of the 21st century, immerses itself in the atmosphere of Frida’s homeland, Mexico, with all its surprises and revelations, and gives a modern face to the passions and emotional waves that so strongly influenced her life.
FRIDA was developed in collaboration with the Hungarian National Dance Theatre.
More information: https://www.odeon-theater.at/frida/
15 Years of the Eva Duda Dance Company
After 15 years, the company is one of the most established independent contemporary dance groups in Hungary. With its work, it aims to build a bridge between well-known and more progressive genres. This bridge helps people understand and enjoy unconventionality, irregularity, abstraction, and complexity in dance.
In the past fifteen years, approximately 50,000 audience members and visitors from fifteen countries have participated in various programs.
International collaboration has been crucial to the company from the beginning. The Duda Dance Company regularly invites guest artists from Hungary and abroad. In recent years, they have worked with eight different guest choreographers from around the world. Over these years, the Duda Dance Company has built close relationships with various venues, such as the Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, the Hungarian National Dance Theatre, and the MU Theatre, where they present their work. They have also formed strong connections with various national and international festivals, participating in workshops or performances.
More information: https://evaduda.net/