seventhseven
basic tech requirements
420 min
4 June 2026, Budapest (HU)
site-specific
1 performer
on all 4 sides of the stage
4 speakers, min. 1 sub woofer,
3.5 mm aux out,
1 mixer,
1 LED UV Flood or euivalent,
min. 12 light bulbs
natural light
Duration
Premiere
Venue
Team
Audience
Sound
Lights
One performer simply continues. For seven hours, dance unfolds without interruption. Spectators continuously reshape the musical architecture while movement, light and time slowly alter the experience of everyone present. Emerging from an improvisational system based on seven Hungarian men's solo dances, sevenTHseven unfolds as a shared duration whose shape cannot be known in advance.
"I've already been exhausted more than once. Doubt comes and goes. Then, almost without noticing, something settles. The spinning no longer feels like effort. Around me, the audience, the cameras, the music, the light and the space seem to breathe together. For a moment, there is no separation."
I simply continue.
The music changes without warning. The audience continuously reshapes the musical architecture through which my movement unfolds. Seven Hungarian men's solo dances gradually dissolve into an improvisation that never repeats itself in quite the same way.
Time passes. Energy rises and falls. Certainty gives way to doubt, concentration to distraction, exhaustion to unexpected clarity. The light shifts with the passing day before fluorescent colours slowly emerge in the darkness.
There is nothing to resolve. The performance simply continues. Spectators arrive, leave, return or remain. We inhabit a shared duration whose shape cannot be known in advance.
Author & performer - Gyula Cserepes
Composer - Miguel Angel Frausto
Promotion producer - Péter Boldizsár
Graphic designer - Ramóna Takács
Cameraman - Máté Batka
Second cameraman - Botond Nagy
Chief light technician - Zoltán Zagyva
Stream technician - Arthur Kulcsár
Web - Zsolt Sárközy
Production - Atelier 21220
Co-production partner - OFF Foundation
Project coordinators - Gitta Nyolczas, Gréta Süveges
Supported by
Artus Stúdió (HU), Imre Zoltán Program (HU), International Visegrad Fund, Kulturanova (SRB), Ministry of Human Resources (HU), National Cultural Fund (HU), Regional Creative Atelier (SRB), Záhrada – Centrum Nezávislej Kultúry (SK), Workshop Foundation (HU)