Júlia Vavra

Júlia Vavra is a Hungarian freelancer maker/choreographer and performer/dancer. Recently she finished her studies in the School for New Dance Development – SNDO (2017-2021, Amsterdam) and before that she studied contemporary dance in the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy – BCDA (2010-2015, Budapest).

At the moment, she is based and active in the Hungarian freelancer art community.

One of my main motivation – to try to make my living as a freelance choreographer/dancer – is that this job gives me the opportunity to embrace my constantly changing interests and helps me to combine and reflect upon my conscious and intuitive ideas and thoughts. This profession is a way for me to reflect, understand, study, share knowledge, communicate and manifest feelings, thoughts in specific, not usual ways. I like to think about bodies as mysterious, never fully understood, information loaded entities. I trust movement and a creation process has transformative power.

In my works I’m interested in contradictions and I am looking for tabus. I use character building, re-contextualised symbols, twisted codes, irony and humor as a tool to make us reflect on our implicit rules, ethics, behaviours and patterns. I am interested in the motion of activating decentralised territories, hidden and unseen segments within the world of the theatre. I like dancing, I like good music, I like magic in a black box and outside of it. I like to think about composition as a way of reconstructing ruling structures. Through building strong atmospheres with light music and visuals in a space I seek to affect and manipulate the mood, the sensations and the feelings of the audience.

For an upcoming work, I research the aesthetics, dynamics and formats of a Hungarian horror folk show.