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There are realms where poetry and song are inextricably intertwined. This joint production by the ensemble known as Kaláka and the actor Zsolt Bogdán pays tribute to the remarkable poetic world of Sándor Kányádi.

The highly prolific and versatile Greek singer, Savina Yannatou has been considered among her country’s most significant performers since the early 1980s. She began her career performing progressive electronic music (releasing several albums with Lena Platonos), and has since explored a vast range of musical worlds, from medieval songs to improvisatory genres. The internationally acclaimed artist is already familiar to the Müpa Budapest audience, having performed previously on the Festival Theatre stage back in 2006.

Recirquel’s new production, Paradisum explores the myth of rebirth following the silence of a destroyed world, where the means of communication is the body, and the only common language is movement. The creatures of this idyllic existence unfold from the ever-changing, swirling natural forces of the ‘fabric of life’ that pulsates around them, so they can reach the anima mundi, the world soul, through scenes of purification, birth, awakening and ritual.