{"id":27173,"date":"2021-08-19T14:51:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T12:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pecs.hu\/pecsi-balett\/"},"modified":"2022-11-29T13:53:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T12:53:20","slug":"pecs-ballet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pecs.hu\/en\/pecs-ballet\/","title":{"rendered":"P\u00e9cs Ballet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The first modern Hungarian ballet company was founded by Imre Eck in 1960 from the dance department of the National Theatre of P\u00e9cs. The art of modern dance inspired by the founder laid the foundations for modern ballet dance in Hungary. The directors of the company were S\u00e1ndor T\u00f3th from 1969, Isvt\u00e1n Herczog from 1992, G\u00e1bor Keveh\u00e1zi and Attila Egerh\u00e1zi from 2001, and Bal\u00e1zs Vincze has been the director since 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pivotal achievements under the leadership of Bal\u00e1zs Vince include creating a professionally acclaimed ballet company, retaining and expanding their dance loving audience, and becoming independent of the National Theatre of P\u00e9cs. After 11 years of struggle, the independent ballet company was established. In January 2017, P\u00e9cs County Seat founded the professionally and economically independent P\u00e9cs Ballet Non-profit Limited Liability Company and appointed Bal\u00e1zs Vince director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore, since 2017 P\u00e9cs Ballet has been operating as an independent cultural organisation drawing on the greatest traditions of modern dance. The Company has become indisputably one of the most renowned and leading professional dance companies in Hungary. Prestigious domestic and international guest performances, and the continued interest of the audience all point to the quality work the Company has been doing. The unique and distinct dance language of the company draws on a wide range of traditions. The artistic unity achieved in their successful dance theatre is the result of integrating dancing with innovative visual and dramaturgical devices. The strong, closely-knit, and highly professional company has staged many significant performances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2017, the seat of P\u00e9cs Ballet has been in Zsolnay Cultural Quarter \u2013 a venue that represents the goals and ideals of P\u00e9cs 2010 European Cultural Capital (ECC) Programme. It has a symbolic significance that the two easily exportable brands of P\u00e9cs \u2013 \u2018Zsolnay\u2019 and \u2018P\u00e9cs Ballet\u2019 \u2013 have become intertwined. Since P\u00e9cs Ballet was a European Cultural Capital Ambassador, it is only fitting that the company has become the resident ballet company of Zsolnay Cultural Quarter \u2013 the venue of the largest ECC investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since 1 October 2017, Teod\u00f3ra Uhrik, one of the founding members of the company has been the managing director of P\u00e9cs Ballet. Her name is inextricably intertwined with P\u00e9cs Ballet, since as a founding member, she has been working for the first Hungarian modern dance company for six decades. First, a leading ballet dancer, then a dance teacher, she is currently fulfilling a well-deserved role within the company as managing director. Bal\u00e1zs Vincze is taking care of operational matters as art director. Although they both seek to continue the direction they started at the new millennium, being an independent dance company, they also wish to strengthen their Hungarian and international renown as a major cultural export brand of P\u00e9cs. As an independent dance company, it can spread the good reputation of P\u00e9cs in the world via the universal language of dancing, thus fulfilling its ECC mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

P\u00e9cs Ballet, established in 1960 as a department of the National Theatre of P\u00e9cs, was the first modern dance company in Hungary. The founder, Imre Eck\u2019s modern approach to ballet resulted in a paradigm shift in dancing, which paved the way for the development of modern dance in Hungary. The success of the dance company drawing on Eck\u2019s new approach served as inspiration for Gy\u0151r Ballet, established 20 years later, then for Szeged Contemporary Dance Company, and for many other bigger and smaller modern and contemporary dance groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The domestic and international performances of P\u00e9cs Ballet and the role it has played for decades in Hungarian dance culture do not only represent but also shape our national and cultural identity.  The dance artists, choreographers, composers, set- and costume designers seek to create an artistic experience that presents the most important and most salient features of Hungarian and Central-European dance culture when staging a dance performance. The choreographies have frequently been based on the music of significant Hungarian composers. Their form of expression draws on classical ballet using modern dance techniques \u2013 suitable for addressing contemporary audiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The professional and public recognition of artists and creative people involved with the company demonstrates the continued high-quality work of P\u00e9cs Ballet.<\/p>\n\n\n

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