Cardiology (2023)
These could’ve been the words of Dr. Carter from the series ‘ER’, Season 2, Episode 1.
However, you’re reading the lyrics from a 1996 track by the Hungarian dance group Emergency House, off their album Emergency House Party.
In this song, they name eight defining aspects of life: dance, music, rhythm, fever, dance, music, tempo, strength. Dance and music appear twice: that's how important they are.
The rest we might examine from cultural, social, and even physiological-biological angles.
That’s what Cardiology sets out to do: dancing to music, tuning bio-rhythm feverishly, dancing some more to music, metabolizing the tempo employing muscular strength.
But of course, that’s all really just another excuse to dance.
We are to interrogate our playful and painful hearts.
Cardiology is a collective choreographic framework, within which Patrik Kelemen proposes a scenario where performance is an ever-present part of the whole process. Its essence lies in performative togetherness and peer knowledge-sharing.
Over a series of nine sessions in public spaces, he calls on dance professionals from the BP dance scene to bear witness and offer each other renewed certainty:
Dance is metaphysical, all you need is but a stern heart.
--- a practice based dance performance based practice ---
performance: Alja Branc, Julija Pecnikar, Réka Szabó, Talia Ordonez,
Lili Raubinek, Vilma Braun, Zita Thury, Zsófi Szász, Kati Bitó, Vera Klausz
assistance: Alja Branc
DJ + music: Julija Pecnikar
partners: PLACCC Festival Budapest, FiDo Center for Youth Budapest, Workshop Foundation Budapest