Thomas Körtvélyessyat NAI
photography © 2005 Thomas Körtvélyessy (left)  © 2005 Cor Kapaan (right)


Thomas Körtvélyessy
artistic director, choreographer, dancer, performer, teacher, cultural thinker, writer

born 1972 in Hanau, Germany, living in Rotterdam, Netherlands since 1992
co-originator & inventor of the name  con·sens·us



long-term study and research of the work of intermedia-pioneer Elaine Summers since 1993
2007 certified teacher in Summers' movement approach Kinetic Awareness ®

2004 MA choreography DANCE UNLIMITED profile: Open Form Composition, ArtEZ Dance Academy Arnhem
2000 / 2001 guest student EDDC (European Dance Development Center) / Dansacademie Arnhem
1996 guest student SNDO (School for New Dance Development) Amsterdam
1996 BA equivalent, teaching modern dance and dance improvisation, Rotterdamse Dansacademie / codarts


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Hessenhuis, Antwerpen (BE) 2007 video-still by Dwight Marica / Cucosa
Thomas Körtvélyessy re-searches, re-forms and re-connects already existing structures in a highly individual way, to literally make sense in the moment.

Over the years, this has made him an inventive and thorough searcher, and an articulate choreographer,
dancer, performer, teacher, and writer.

Körtvélyessy explores adventure and diversity with craftsmanship and responsibility, combining a very broad & historically rooted training of European and American theatre dance within awareness and interaction with other disciplines.

His performances are marked by conceptual simplicity and a very honest and strongly sense-able kinesthetic way of embodiment.


Reàl Dance Company is the name of Körtvélyessy's one-man enterprise under which he has consistently created solo- and group pieces over the last ten years. This has happened in own productions as well as several project-based collaborators exploring very different contexts that are linked to movement. Performances were realised in galeries, small and alternative venues, theatres, as well as outdoors-locations in the Netherlands, Germany, Budapest and New York City.



graphic image © 2003 by Thomas Körtvélyessy  available tension / sensitive energy  and  con·sens·us
  are two specific trademarks of his work.

 



Both practices work with the living moment of performance. All present elements and participants of a situation (performers, audience, stage, music, visual elements etc.) are considered at any moment in their sense-able quality and condition of energy, weighed against each other to arrive at the best possible moment-to-moment decisions, in order to fulfill the specific intentions of the piece or what is needed to happen at optimum efficiency.

"Set" arrangements become an expendable option, to be used when useful, rather than a constantly demanded condition. Hard-edge frames make way for soft-edged centers, with a stronger core & more dynamic potential. This open-ended condition is not only reflected in the movement technique, but also in the choreography and the performance of the pieces.


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photography © 2008 by Konrad Szymanski. used with kind permission artist statements:

Performance can create a connecting moment of here and now, with direct human presence - no need for substitutes, "abstractions", or mucking about, or anything coming in between.

My goal as an artist is to help develop and encourage individual sensitivity and expression through the perspective of dance. This can happen along the entire spectrum of human experience. All the layers count, each in its own right.


form = function
- any function is manifested in its very own form
- "non-form" simply means the speaker hasn't understood a present form just yet...
- "formlessness" is a good indicator for in-formation, more reliable than many (former) forms that would merely offer assumptions instead of presently formed shortcuts and overview, formed by the response-able individual or group of individuals over space & time...


Tradition is important to me as a collection of comparable and original attempts to make life better.

If actual sensitivity can re-balance tradition successfully, then fundamentally more stable and stronger connections and methods will result.

in duet with Elizabetta Consonni - photography © 2008 by Konrad Szymanski. used with kind permissionI want to face the unknown, what is beyond my individual patterns, make us all more acquainted with situations where we don't really know what is going to happen next. I believe this can be trained, just like good dancing or any other craft....

Consequently it can become easier to deal with chaos and unpredictability through successful realisations of our creative imagination, helping the development of viable alternatives to present-day problems.










I am enamored with movement as change and potential, the fundamental experience we have of our existence.

Utopia, paradise, flying, you name it. I seriously believe that this is possible, that it can be realized and I believe that am working towards this, together with many others

Love X freedom!
maximum love
maximum freedom


               
   




black & white photography © 2008 by Konrad Szymański used with kind permission
from a workshop Improvisation by Claire O'Neal (Brussels)
organised by Rita VIlhena / Baila Louca Rotterdam, Netherlands 2008

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