Katalin Bitó

March 2024

„Lonely Islands / Gazdátlan szigetek“

With the project “Lonely Islands / Gazdátlan szigetek “, dancer Katalin Bitó examines how various paid jobs – which she has pursued in addition to her artistic freelance work – influence her dance practice. She deals with her own position and the state of burnout and loneliness in the young independent scene in Hungary:

“Self-fragments, lonely islands of my fallen apart life… Why I’m not able to see them as a complete whole? After all deeply inside they are all connected and feed each other … I have the feeling that this kind of disjointedness is created by an outside force…”

The residency takes place as part of the festival “Nebenan/Mellettünk – Independent Art from Hungary” . In cooperation with the Workshop Foundation – a platform for international residencies and co-productions in Budapest – three residency projects by young dance and performance artists from the independent scene in Hungary have been selected.