Eszter Salamon, world-renowned choreographer and performance artist, returns to Warsaw after many years! Salamon's work often addresses issues of female experience, feminism, and intergenerational bonds. In the M/OTHERS project, the artist explores the relationship between mother and daughter. Through movement, gesture, and emotion, she creates a shared space where both people can be together and empathize with each other.
This is the second time Salamon has invited her mother to perform with her. Their duet creates an atmosphere of empathy, care, and understanding. Through attentiveness to the body and the senses, the artists create a poetic world in which meanings shift fluidly. Being together on stage allows them to discover and transform their identities—both personal and shared—without rigid roles and boundaries.
M/OTHERS is part of the Dance and Other Performing Arts Pavilion program, which supports creators and audiences with parenting or caregiving experience. The program showcases the presence of different generations on stage and promotes care, nurturing, and the creation of a more open
and diverse environment for all participants in the arts.
* During the performance, we provide childcare for children aged 3-11. Details in the news tab > childcare.
** After the performance, at 8:30 p.m., there will be a discussion in English on the topic of multigenerationality in dance, choreography, and performance with the participation of Eszter Salamon (MONUMENT 0.7: M/OTHERS), Magdalena Fejdasz-Hanczewska (Co-domestication – Warsaw versions), and Iza Szostak (Co-domestication – Warsaw versions). Need translation? Please contact the event staff.
This is the second time Salamon has invited her mother to perform with her. Their duet creates an atmosphere of empathy, care, and understanding. Through attentiveness to the body and the senses, the artists create a poetic world in which meanings shift fluidly. Being together on stage allows them to discover and transform their identities—both personal and shared—without rigid roles and boundaries.
M/OTHERS is part of the Dance and Other Performing Arts Pavilion program, which supports creators and audiences with parenting or caregiving experience. The program showcases the presence of different generations on stage and promotes care, nurturing, and the creation of a more open
and diverse environment for all participants in the arts.
* During the performance, we provide childcare for children aged 3-11. Details in the news tab > childcare.
** After the performance, at 8:30 p.m., there will be a discussion in English on the topic of multigenerationality in dance, choreography, and performance with the participation of Eszter Salamon (MONUMENT 0.7: M/OTHERS), Magdalena Fejdasz-Hanczewska (Co-domestication – Warsaw versions), and Iza Szostak (Co-domestication – Warsaw versions). Need translation? Please contact the event staff.
Duration: 65 minutes
Childcare available
COMPANY
Concept and artistic direction: Eszter Salamon
Choreography and performance: Erzsébet Gyarmati and Eszter Salamon
Excerpts from Composition As Explanation by Gertrude Stein
Set design: Eszter Salamon and Sylvie Garot
Lighting design: Sylvie Garot
Outside eye: Liza Baliasnaja, Boglárka Börcsöök
Costumes: Sabin Gröflin
Production: Botschaft GbR / Alexandra Wellensiek, Studio ES / Elodie Perrin
Choreography and performance: Erzsébet Gyarmati and Eszter Salamon
Excerpts from Composition As Explanation by Gertrude Stein
Set design: Eszter Salamon and Sylvie Garot
Lighting design: Sylvie Garot
Outside eye: Liza Baliasnaja, Boglárka Börcsöök
Costumes: Sabin Gröflin
Production: Botschaft GbR / Alexandra Wellensiek, Studio ES / Elodie Perrin
Producer: commissioned by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez and If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, Amsterdam
Co-production: If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution (Amsterdam), Project Arts Centre (Dublin), Ménagerie de Verre (Paris), Dance Fund – Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
Partners: Tanz im August Berlin, Elisabeth
Culture Office Co-financed by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe in Berlin, the Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs in Paris – Ministry of Culture and Communication, and the Nationales Performance Netz (NPN).
Co-production: If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution (Amsterdam), Project Arts Centre (Dublin), Ménagerie de Verre (Paris), Dance Fund – Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
Partners: Tanz im August Berlin, Elisabeth
Culture Office Co-financed by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe in Berlin, the Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs in Paris – Ministry of Culture and Communication, and the Nationales Performance Netz (NPN).
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Photo: Ferenc Salamon
Choreographer, artist, and performer living between Berlin, Paris, and Budapest. She is currently pursuing a PhD in artistic research at the National Academy of the Arts (KHiO) in Oslo. In 2019, she received the Evens Art Prize, and in 2020, an award as part of the La vie bonne project granted by the French National Center for Visual Arts and AWARE.
Salamon uses choreography to activate and organize various media—image, sound, music, text, voice, movement, and body—exploring the poetic and conceptual possibilities of performance. Since 2001, she has been creating both solo and large-scale productions presented at international venues and festivals, including the Centre Pompidou, Festival d’Automne, Festival d’Avignon, HAU Berlin, and Holland Festival.
Her work has been shown at leading institutions, including MoMA, MACBA, Museo Reina Sofía, mumok, and Fondation Cartier. Eszter Salamon's exhibition 1949 was presented at the Jeu de Paume (Paris), and her performative installation Study for the Valeska Gert Pavilion was shown at the 16th Lyon Biennale in 2022.
Salamon uses choreography to activate and organize various media—image, sound, music, text, voice, movement, and body—exploring the poetic and conceptual possibilities of performance. Since 2001, she has been creating both solo and large-scale productions presented at international venues and festivals, including the Centre Pompidou, Festival d’Automne, Festival d’Avignon, HAU Berlin, and Holland Festival.
Her work has been shown at leading institutions, including MoMA, MACBA, Museo Reina Sofía, mumok, and Fondation Cartier. Eszter Salamon's exhibition 1949 was presented at the Jeu de Paume (Paris), and her performative installation Study for the Valeska Gert Pavilion was shown at the 16th Lyon Biennale in 2022.
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