"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!"
Lear — A Storm of Love, Madness and Power
World Premiere – International Debut in Brussels, Cirque Royal, December 4, 2025 Prepare to be shaken to your core. LEAR is not just a show — it's an emotional earthquake. A blazing, incandescent creation that resurrects Shakespeare’s tragedy through dance of breathtaking intensity. Brought to life by the Szeged Contemporary Dance Company, this world premiere transforms King Lear into a visceral, visual, and heart-rending masterpiece. A storm of bodies, light, and sound where every movement screams of love lost, and every silence becomes a plunge into the abyss. "Who is it that can tell me who I am?" This is the story of a king undone not by war — but by the absence of love. A sudden collapse. A majestic fall into darkness. Fusing explosive choreography, cinematic scenography, and raw emotion, LEAR sweeps you into a whirlwind of beauty and pain. A punch to the soul. A storm that shakes the heart and senses. This is not theatre. This is not ballet. This is LEAR — as you’ve never seen it before. A choreographic event of rare power. Unmissable.
Choreographer
Tamas Juronics
Artistic Director, dancer, choreographer and director (born February 5, 1969, Tata). After graduating from the Folk Dance Faculty of the Hungarian Dance Academy in 1987, he accepted the invitation of Zoltán Imre to join the Szeged Ballet where he became soloist from 1989. In 1990 he created his independent studio within the company for his choreographic experimentations. He started introducing his own choreographies from 1991 and remained the company’s leading soloist. In 1993, after the departure of Zoltán Imre, he became the Artistic Director of the renewed Szeged Contemporary Dance Company. In his creations, philosophy and emotions are mixed with intellectual motives. Among the Hungarian choreographers, he was the first to use the elements of contemporary dance which are characterized by clear technical skills; this partly lies in the modern methods such as Limon or Cunningham, partly in his own improvisational dance moves. As a guest teacher, he attended masterclasses in Amsterdam and Zurich (1994) and in Italy (1999, 2005). By now Juronics has grown to be an internationally acclaimed creator with 65 choreographies under his name. The careful combination of his storylines, the clear, unified form of dancing and the dramatic structure make his works a cathartic experience. Spectacular staging, lighting, effects, and music are also well-integrated parts of his works. Juronics successfully introduced himself as a director in the world of prose theatre as well and has also become a popular choreographer, director of several musicals and operas in many theatres.
Company
Szeged Contemporary Dance Company
The classical music repertoire of the company consists of theatrical dances based on the works of composers such as Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Bartók, Orff, Eötvös, and the company’s varied repertoire also contains choreographies composed to musical montages. Besides the leading choreographer Tamás Jurionics, several renowned European choreographers created modern art dances for the company. In 1993 they picked up the name Szeged Contemporary Dance Company, with appointing Tamás Juronics as artistic director and András Pataki as executive director. Since 2000 the Szeged Contemporary Dance Company is working as an autonomous company in a form of prominently public benefit foundation. Besides their national successes, they have won the recognition of the audience and professionals while performing abroad on diverse occasions. Tamás Juronics had an outstanding role in forming their especially unique artistic identity. He considers the continuous training of the dancers and the enrichment of the repertoire to be his most important task. The ability of reception and individualization of the contemporary and modern techniques, the high quality of the artistic expression based on the technical safety makes the repertoire to be incredibly varied, yet unique. Among the peculiarities of the artistic characters, we should emphasize the diverse effect-elements of performing styles that compose originality. Respecting the ‘laws of stage’ is a defining attribute in their shows, so is the using of theatrical means - in the literal sense of the word - that are enhancing the effect and intensity of vision. The Szeged Contemporary Dance Company is a constant guest of local and oversea dance stages. The company itself and its dancers have also been rewarded by international and national, vocational and as well audience prizes. During their tours, the ensemble performed in 22 different countries 134 times in the last 22 years.
