„Leölni és leölelni”. Raubinek Lili „Respect for the 23.000” című koreográfiájához

Abstract

"To Slay and Embrace". On the Choreography of Lili Raubinek’s “Respect for the 23.000”
Is it possible to find a language for unnarratable and seemingly hopeless human anger, powerlessness, and pain that not only performatively represents the experiences of those directly affected – individuals who have been in state care – but also consciously attempts to manage its impact on the audience?
This article explores and analyzes Lili Raubinek's recently Lábán Rudolf Award-winning performance “Respect for the 23.000” from the perspectives of dance, movement, and touch. Drawing inspiration from the movement language of Brazilian jiu-jitsu martial arts, the performance represents an experimental attempt to kinetically capture sensations of powerlessness, violence, confinement, and destruction—depicting an ultimate, unresolvable struggle. The performance strategically addresses the potentially traumatizing audience experience through a post-performance ""decompression"" phase: the negative, destructive physical interactions are ultimately dissolved by soft, reciprocal relaxation practices. This approach represents a genuinely political theatrical intervention.
Initiated with a lecture performance format and featuring five dancers, the work contemplates the world of a marginalized youth demographically rendered invisible within social space—young individuals who have been systematically abandoned and traumatized, not only by their families but continuously by state institutions. All of this occurs against a backdrop of societal indifference.