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Kintsugi

Székesfehérvári Ballet, Hungary

Director-choreographer: Attila Egerházi
Scenography and lighting design: Yaron Abulafia
Costume design: Patrícia Pajor and Anett Herman
Assistant choreographer, rehearsal director: Cristina Porres Mormeneo
Production manager: Bence Cselle

Photos by © Yaron Abulafia

World Premiere at SzekesFehervar, Hungary - March 2025

Dance

The Japanese word kintsugi means the beauty inherent in imperfection, the main characteristics of which are asymmetry, incompleteness, and the praise of simplicity. Kintsugi is nothing more than a beautiful metaphor for life.

 

The philosophy of kintsugi shows how a person can recover from their traumas, grief, and injuries – not by sweeping them under the rug – and become a new person. Kintsugi teaches that it is not worth living cautiously; Traumas are a natural part of life, and by processing and incorporating them, we can become a stronger, more exciting personality, while our uniqueness is also carried by these fault lines.

 

Ballet poetically depicts the spiritual and emotional vulnerability of humans and human relationships, and the necessity of letting go. The philosophy of kintsugi, in the case of broken objects, preserves the history of the object's damage by gluing gold along the fracture lines, in the form of wonderful and unique works of art. In the case of spiritual and relationship fractures, the "glue", gold, expresses love and the binding power inherent in art.