Following
classical training as a dancer at Budapest’s National Dance Academy, Eszter
Salamon worked with different choreographers in France from 1992 to 2000. She
created the solo pieces “What a Body You Have, Honey” and “Giszelle” for the
Festival d’Avignon, in co-operation with Xavier Le Roy, in 2001. In 2002 she
presented “Répétition publique d’un travail en cours” at the Centre
Chorégraphique National de Montpellier in the “Hors Série” series together with
Herman Diephuis and Simone Verde. At the invitation of Clermont-Ferrand’s
Comédie, she created “Woman Inc.” with eighteen women aged between seven and
seventy-four in 2002. Eszter Salamon was artist-in-residence at Podewil,
Berlin, in 2004, where the group piece “Reproduction” was premièred. She holds
a scholarship from Villa Médicis Hors les Murs. In May 2005 she presented
“Magyar Tàncok” at Les Intranquilles festival (Lyon) and staged the music of
Karim Haddad as part of “Seven attempted escapes from Silence”, a project by
the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden. She appeared at PACT Zollverein with
the première of “NVSBL” in 2006. In 2007 she presented “AND THEN” and, together
with Aranxta Martinez, an a-capella concert/performance entitled “Without you I
am Nothing”.