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BREAK DANCE BREAK

Hajnal Németh, “BREAK DANCE BREAK”, 2025, cyclical, repetitive live show at 2B Gallery, Budapest, 2025
Performed by Mark Ballyk (drums), Júlia Koffler (speech, vocals), and break dancers via Cyper Town – Kevin Bradács, Adrián Simori, Nándor Szegedi.
Photo by László Böröcz

Cyclical, repetitive live show at 2B Gallery, Budapest, 2025.

The compositional segments of this process-based piece, which combines sound and movement—field recordings, rival street dance choreography, experimental percussion improvisation, and randomised poetry recited at intervals—fit together and adapt in a recurring constellation, yet are renewed each time.

The 120-minute piece consists of 20-minute sections repeated several times, each presenting a transition from an active to a passive state, combining recorded and live elements. The components from different sources—rhythms, texts, sounds, movements, and stillness—arranged side by side or in sequence, relate to each other randomly, creating harmony or contrast. The entire show guides us through the process of transformation through repetition, as well as physical and mental exhaustion.

At the same time, the work is a further development of the earlier site-specific Berlin piece entitled “DANCE BREAK” (2025), as the “strike against action” presented there is broken here.

Western crimson
Western daze
Eastern stumble
Eastern standby

Western attention
Eastern flirt
Western fetish
Eastern jealousy

Western boredom
Eastern silence
Eastern sunset
Western dusk

(Detail from the 80-line poem “Eastern Dusk” by Hajnal Németh)

Hajnal Németh – “BREAK DANCE BREAK” 2025
Cyclical, repetitive, 120-minute live show
Featuring the field recording “German Dawn” (2025) and the poem “Eastern Dusk” (2025)
Performed by Mark Ballyk (drums), Júlia Koffler (speech, vocals), and break dancers via Cyper Town – Kevin Bradács, Adrián Simori, Nándor Szegedi.

2B Gallery, Budapest
October 18, 2025, 8 pm – 10 pm

The realization of this project was supported by: Goethe-Institut Budapest, EventStudio, Péter Barta, György Jaksity, Iván Mozsgai.