Anna Szilvási

Balint is 18. He crushes on a girl, and then the next one, and the one after. In the rapidly passing Hungarian summer, the impermanence of his desires fills him with despair. When his heart becomes divided between a mysterious girl living in the forest, and a melancholic virgin, he decides he will have two first loves, not just one.

When a runaway prisoner’s taste for power wipes out his mission to lead his fellow inmates to freedom, their path to a much-desired liberation steers them to a new kind of oppression. Zenith uses dance language to illustrate the power dynamics that have shaped the political landscape in recent decades, not only in Europe but also around the world.