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Plexus is a scenic optical theatre that could well be a contemporary circus. Head to Budapest's Trafó on May 8-9, for a unique show, presented by the French director and physicist Aurélien Bory.

“The way I intended to portray Kaori Ito mostly implied portraying her body: a study of the innermost marks her dance carved in her living body,” says Aurélien Bory. This atypical director concentrates on the movement of body and image, turning it into pure theatre. In Plexus, he uses delicate brush strokes to outline the features of the Japanese performer Kaori Ito. A puppet-woman, encased in a cube pervaded with taut strings, she strives toward freedom in spite of hurdles, alternatively as a warrior and a fragile fugitive.