TAKE OFF FESTIVAL 2026 PROGRAMME 2

Take Off Festival 2026 features two international choreographer's works, chosen from Aerowaves Twenty25 selected artists presented on Shared programmes. Programme 2 features works by The Parsley Collective and gergő d. farkas.

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TRACES The Parsley Collective

The physical body is only part of what matters for these five dancers. They also seek to draw attention to immaterial and invisible realms. What matters to them is 'emptying to receive'. Through movement and stillness they reveal impulses, images and fragments of stories as they emerge through the density and porosity of their bodies and the space(s) they occupy. Visible, invisible, passing through ....

Score for improvisation The Parsley Collective

BABES gergő d. farkas

Through a set of fantastic organs, babes introduces a sensous world that doesn't stop at the body's borders. These organs don't have vital functions: their byproducts are dances, sounds, objects and poems - a gathering of lovers in lust for touch.

babes cultivates a space where fantasy does matter, matter does fantasy, and where sensual experiences are one's primary way of staying in touch with the world. babes is the prelude to farkas' first evening-length group piece mama and the first work created through organ-ing, a choreographic research which queers the body by weaving together fantasy with its physical felt sense.

Choreography, performance, costume, scenography, text gergő d. farkas

Music Márton Csernovsky

Virtual Objects Balász Ágoston Kiss

Costume, textile installation sigge lissa

Lights M Ali Dönmez

Outside eye Áron Birtalan, Anne Juren

Web design Dániel Kophelyi

Writing coach Alice Chauchat

Premiere MDT Moderna Dansteatern

Thanks to Marie Fahlin, Karin Hauptmann, Veza Fernandez, Fredrik Heimdahl, Jennifer Lacey, Claire Lefevre, Levente Lukacs, Albin Svedlund, Jimmy Svensson, Petter Wennardt, Andrea Bánónczy & Tamás Halász (OSZMI - Országos Színháztörténeti Múzeum és intézet), and the MDT crew.

gergő d. farkas is an Aerowaves Twenty25 Artist.

Established in 2023, The Parsley Collective comprises of Mary Nunan, Angie Smalis, Rachel Sheil, Salma Ataya, and Isabella Oberländer. Individually, and together, these dance artists work in the fields of choreography, performance, improvisation, interdisciplinary collaboration, writing and education.

The Parsley Collective are Dance Artists in Residence in Dance Limerick 2025/26. The residency is funded by The Arts Council, Dance Limerick, and Limerick City and County Council.

gergő d. farkas is a gathering of cells with a passion for choreography, dance, organisation, romance and mischief. Being lost in Stockholm, Budapest, Vienna or somewhere in between, they dream of belonging to sensual spaces where not only humans are invited to dance. Their choreographic work has been presented in venues and festivals such as Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Trafó House of Contemporary Dance, Dansehallerne, Open House Festival, MTD Legacy Festival, Dansmakers Amsterdam and MDT Moderna Dansteatern amongst others.