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The Art of Movement

A sensual and insightful film about three elderly dancers from Budapest.
Irén, Éva and Ágnes - all between 90 and 100 years old - were once part of the early modern dance movement in Hungary.
Taking the role of a dance student and dialogue partner Boglárka retraces how each of the elderly dancers transformed their lives and movement practices in order to survive the major socio-political changes of the last century.
The film takes us into a personal and bodily encounter with three very different personalities and their relation to their past and present. Returning to the stage and performing in their private rooms, Irén, Éva and Ágnes reveal to us an incredible richness of experience stored in their bodies. A choreography of memories.

  • Boglárka Börcsök
    Director
  • Andreas Bolm
    Artistic Collaborator
    JABA, THE SLEEPERS, All the Children But One,
  • Boglárka Börcsök
    Writer
  • Whole Wall Films
    Producer
  • Éva E. Kovács
    Key Cast
    "Éva"
  • Irén Preisich
    Key Cast
    "Irén"
  • Ágnes Roboz
    Key Cast
    "Ágnes"
  • Lisa Rave
    Cinamatography
  • Andreas Bolm
    Editing
  • Boglárka Börcsök
    Editing
  • Jochen Jezzusek
    Sound mixing
  • Elisa Calosi
    Production manager
  • David Robert Evans
    English translation
  • Whole Wall Films
    Production Company
  • Andreas Bolm
    Color and Sound
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    59 minutes 40 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 20, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    54,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Hungary
  • Language:
    Hungarian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:09
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • BIDF - Budapest International Documentary Festival
    Budapest
    Hungary
    March 5, 2021
    Hungarian Competition
  • Filmoteca de Catalunya
    Barcelona
    Spain
    October 15, 2023
  • TEA - Tenerife Espacio de las Artes
    Tenerife
    Spain
    April 29, 2021
  • Tanzquartier Wien
    Vienna
    Austria
    May 25, 2020
    World Premire
Director Biography - Boglárka Börcsök

Boglárka Börcsök (1987, Hungary) is an choreographer, artist and performer based in Berlin and Budapest. She is working at the crossroads between dance, choreography, film, video and voice work. Her projects depart from personal encounters and the practice of listening and looking. Her works deal with hidden histories, forgotten artists, unseen power-narratives explored through choreographic methods and practices of embodiment.

She studied dance and choreography at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Austria and at P.A.R.T.S. in Belgium. As a performer, she worked with several artists internationally. Previous projects include performances and exhibitions with Kate McIntosh, Ligia Lewis, Tino Seghal, Boris Charmatz and Joachim Koester presented in theaters, galleries and museums worldwide.

In the last years, Börcsök worked in close collaboration with Hungarian choreographer Eszter Salamon. Their latest works are The Valeska Gert Museum and The Valeska Gert Monument within Salamon’s MONUMENT series presented at Centre Pompidou, Kaaitheater, PACT Zollverein, ImPulsTanz Festival, Museu Serralves.

Boglárka Börcsök has been collaborating with Berlin based filmmaker Andreas Bolm since 2017. They made the documentary film The Art of Movement, a portrait of three over 90-year-old dancers from Budapest which was shown at 9th BIDF - Budapest International Documentary Festival, the film premiered online hosted by Pact Zollverein, Tanzquartier Wien and Montag Modus and it was screened at TEA - Tenerife and Festival Salmon in Barcelona among others.

Their performance and video installation Figuring Age, based on the film, was presented at Moving in November Festival Helsinki and ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna among others, where it received an honorable mention. The project was selected as part of the Aerowaves ‘Twenty23 Artists’ network and SHOWCASE 2023 of the Impulse Theater Festival and is currently touring across Europe.

Boglárka Börcsök is the recipient of the Rudolf Lábán Special Prize 2023 awarded by the independent performing arts scene in Hungary.

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Director Statement

"In 2015, I had the chance to meet several elderly dancers in Budapest. Wanting to work with some of them and knowing that their age would make it impossible to bring them back on stage, together with filmmaker Andreas Bolm we decided to create a documentary called The Art of Movement. It portrays Irén Preisich, Éva E. Kovács and Ágnes Roboz, who were once part of the early development of modern dance in Hungary.
During the filming, my role alternated between dialogue partner and dance student to stimulate the elderly dancers’ bodies and memories.

The aging body does not contain only one body. Rather, it is multiple bodies layered in time and decay, in memories and experiences"

Boglárka Börcsök