Shared Values

Shared Values is a body-research based creative process led by choreographer Adrienn Hód. Four performers, with diverse personal biographies and professional backgrounds, turn towards each other with an experimental spirit to explore the knowledge, experiences and practices that have become important to them throughout their personal and artistic journey, that have enriched them, shaped their views and that can be shared in the playful space of performance. 

The creative process of Shared Values is organized according to the concept of curiosity, connection and coexistence – together with all the contradictions and challenges around us. Through long sessions of guided improvisations with various physical and performative tasks, the performers provide raw materials which are structured in a form aiming to keep the freedom and openness of the whole process but at the same time is inviting for the spectators to connect to the experience. Shared Values is based on an open exchange, through the cooperation of emerging individual performing strategies, which considers the performative situation not as an imperative that necessarily requires a rigidly structured spectacle, but as a fluid platform of encounters.

This performance is an experiment in preserving the format and atmosphere of the studio situation. What makes a material born of personal interests, improvisational impulses and the playful atmosphere of a rehearsal room peformative? How to preserve and present to the audience an organic creative flow and a spontaneous, fluid performance situation? How can the presence, attention and interest of the choreographer in the rehearsal room be maintained in the performance? How to show the interplay and interconnection of tasks, discussions, exchanges and actions? How to weave and sustain structure while shaping it to the participants’ agency as much as possible? What do we fix and how much is the free flow?