Artist
Eszter Salamon (HU)
Eszter Salamon is a Hungarian choreographer living in Berlin. Following her classical dance studies at the National Academy of Dance in Budapest, she moves to France in 1992 and works with choreographers such as Mathilde Monnier and François Verret.
Since 2001, she creates her own work: the solos "What A Body You Have, Honey" (2001) and "Giszelle" (2001) in collaboration with Xavier le Roy for Le vif du sujet at the Festival d'Avignon and the group pieces "Reproduction" (2004) at Podewil (Berlin) where she was artist-in-residence, "Magyar Tàncok" (2005) with Hungarian folk dancers and musicians at the Les Intranquilles festival in Lyon, the quartet "Nvsbl" (2006) at the Pact Zollverein (Essen), the film-choreography "AND THEN" (2007) at Les Subsistances (Lyon) and the concert-performance "Without You I Am Nothing" (2007) in collaboration with Aranxta Martinez. Her work, "Dance#1/ Driftworks", a duo with Christine De Smedt, was created at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2008 (Brussels). In 2008, she participated in 6Month1Location, an artistic research project based on self-organisation and self-education at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier.
Salamon assisted in the direction of the opera "Theater der Wiederholungen" by Bernhard Lang at Steirischer Herbst (Graz - cultural capital 2003). In 2005, she staged the music of Karim Haddad in the frame of the project Seven attempted escapes from Silence at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin).
Photo: © Eszter Salamon