Eszter Salamon

Eszter Salamon (b. 1970) lives in Berlin and Paris. She is a Hungarian choreographer, dancer and performer. Since 2001, she has been creating solo and group works that have been presented in performing arts venues and festivals throughout the world including Centre Pompidou, HAU Berlin, Tanzquartier Wien, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Avignon Festival, Festival d’Automne Paris, Holland Festival, Dance Triennale Tokyo κα. She is frequently invited to present her work in museums, including MoMa, Witte de With, and Fondation Cartier.
Eszter Salamon’s work revolves around choreography, which she uses as a way of navigating between different media: video, sound, music, text, voice, bodily movement and actions.

Since 2005, her interest in documentary and female autobiography has given rise to a multitude of formats, such as a dance lecture revisiting her experience of Hungarian traditional dances and giving insight to the historicity of her body and poetics, a video-performance made with her homonyms, as well as a monodrama focusing on the life of one of those Eszter Salamons. Often in her work, sound is a key choreographic element to create relationships with the participant or the public. Recently, Eszter Salamon has started working on a series of pieces exploring both the notion of monument and the practice of ‘rewriting’ History and dance history. Beside her choreographic pactice, Eszter Salamon engages in research. In 2008, she participated in 6Month1Location, an artistic research project based on selforganisation and self-education at the CCN, Montpellier.

She is the author of the solos “What A Body You Have, Honey” (2001) and “Giszelle” (2001) in collaboration with Xavier Le Roy, and “Dance for Nothing” (2010). Among her group performances are: “Reproduction” (2004), “Magyar Tàncok” (2005), “Nvsbl” (2006), “AND THEN” (2007) in collaboration with Bojana Cvejić, “Without You I Am Nothing” (2007) together with Arantxa Martinez, “Dance#1/Driftworks” (2008), and “Dance#2” (2011) with Christine de Smedt. In 2011, she created “TALES OF THE BODILESS” with Bojana Cvejić, Cédric Dambrain and Terre Thaemlitz, and “Melodrama” (2012), a solo documentary performance.

In 2014, she created a group piece for six dancers: “Monument 0: Haunted by war (1913-2013)” and was invited by the Jeu de Paume in Paris to present a performative exhibition “Eszter Salamon 1949” (October – November 2014). Her new piece “Monument 0.1: Valda and Gus” premiered in October 2015. As a dancer, she collaborated with Sidonie Rochon, Mathilde Monnier and François Verret.