EMPOWERmental

Bodily Traces is an invitation to sense the city in a different way, by being taken by strangers, trusting them, giving your weight to them, finding new sensations, gaining sensorial information, and leaving an invisible trace in the space.

‘Beautiful, such organic group work’ 

‘The space felt like endless possibilities of sensory research’ 

‘I was confronted with the realization how rarely we trust others to this extent’

“Meditation, trip, journey”

“It was a spiritual experience”

Points of interest in the project:

• to challenge trust in a physical way and cross boundaries of social intimacy
• to raise awareness about the importance of physical closeness / physical touch / physical contact (to defeat loneliness, depression or isolation)
• to create a sensorial way of perceiving the city physically: its surfaces, heights, energies, forms, temperature, light, etc

The project has been developed and presented in the frame of Metropolis Residency, in Copenhagen, in July 2019

Duration of the performance in general: 15 minutes (1 participant at a time is taken to the physical, sensorial journey by 4-5 performers.

Performers and co-creators (Denmark): Alice Presencer, Nuno Catharina Pedersen, Giorgia Reitani, Kalliopi Siganou, Flóra Eszter Sarlós

Performers and co-creators (Hungary): Ádám Bot, Emese Kovács, Gergő Lukács, Eszter Mórocz, Krisztián Szilágyi, Boglárka Varga

Concept: Flóra Eszter Sarlós

Further dates:
3rd June 2022, Nehru part, Budapest (HU)
4th June 2022, Nehru part, Budapest (HU)
29th July 2023 – Művészetek Völgye (HU)

Supporters: Metropolis Residency, Copenhagen, PLACCC Festival (HU)

Special thanks to: Trevor Davies (DK), Stine Emilie Fløe Dalby (DK), Lucile Seguier (FR), Kathrine Thorbjørg H. (DK), Sarah Bostoen (BE), Anne Glassner (AT), Mette Sanggard Dideriksen (DK), Caterina Moroni (IT), Jin Yeob Lee (KR)