Press File - Kunstenfestivaldesarts

Edit Kaldor was born in Budapest. She left Hungary at the age of 13, together with her
mother, and after a couple of stops on the way, finally settled in New York. It was there that she
completed her studies in literature and drama. In 1993 she joined the New York-based Love
Theater (formerly Squat Theater) headed by Peter Halasz. Innovative and experimental, Halasz
rejects all affectation and theatrical convention, working from life and proximity and around
events in everyday life. His very visual work makes use of different media and includes the
news, making detours into everyday life. Kaldor continued to work with Halasz until 1999 as
dramaturge and video-maker on more than thirty theatre performances in Hungary, Belgium, the
Netherlands, France, Slovenia and the U.S. She then moved to Belgium, where she spent a
couple of years working with computer graphics and animation before returning to study drama
at DasArts in Amsterdam. Since then she has been living in Amsterdam and Brussels.
Or Press Escape was developed and refined from a first piece of theatrical work which formed
part of her individual project for DasArts.
This performance sharpens your view of the intimate relationship between human and
computer, and leaves you astonished at the inevitability with which this apparatus has nestled
itself so deeply into our lives. (Vrij Nederland)
Edit Kaldor creates the unexpected: her ‘desktop theatre’ becomes a refined and
dramaturgically effective theatre performance, (…). Not only does an entertaining and intelligent
story emerge on the large projection of the screen, but at the same time, rather paradoxically,
also a fascinating, strong presence of the performer. (Frankfurter Rundschau)
Daring, fatally and intelligently funny, as well as astonishingly theatrical in the tension between
the large dimension of the projection and the active presence of the small body of the performer.
(Theaterszene Lateinamerika)
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