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Kitty Balkányi’s first dance theatre piece called „Oh but my Mother” focuses on the topic of oppression hidden behind love.
The choreographer wrote about the work in progress:

“May we are all concerned with questions like what made us and how we became the humans we are right now. Why do we react on a way to things and situations as we do? What does defines our thinking, everyday actions, routines.
Responding to these questions is a deeper and more complex process then it can be summarized in a few sentences, or can be showned in a 20-25 minutes performance. One thing is sure, first we have a relationship and connection to our Mother. We sense her already in the Womb, her fears, emotions, we are born with these experiences, and with growth and development we get more and more layers from others on us. So, the question is that in this huge cavalcade where do I begin? Until that very moment we do not find this Me within, we cannot controll our lives, we hide behind others and seek fulfillment by other people.
This oppression been hidden behind love is often inherited from generations to generations, and we do not even recognise when we turn to be oppressors from being oppressed.”