Freak Fusion: fightinGravity DATE: 11 January 2019 8 pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / 1900 HUF (student) Passes accepted Like everyone, a circus artiste’s life is dictated by the downward pressure of gravity – hanging in suspension, floating, hovering, tumbling, doubting. But through the medium of circus impossible situations can be brought to life in front of our eyes. What would it be like if gravity was inverted? How would it be to live life upside down? What would happen if we were literally able to ‘climb up the walls’? This performance takes theories and then shatters them, allowing the audience to experience for a moment what it is like to challenge this ever-present downward pressure.
Chen-Wei Lee (TPE) –Zoltán Vakulya (HU): Together Alone // nextfest_3 DATE: 16 January 2019 8 pm TICKET PRICE: 1998 HUF / 1600 HUF (student) NEXT Passes and General Passes accepted Together Alone is a solo in dancing together, which counters the individual loneliness with the power of being together. Deprived of all external concealment and decorations, the two of them return to the primitive in dance and face each other with their most naked selves. In this intimate space and time, they communicate with each other and learn to move forward through compromises and cooperation. Through constant giving and receiving, they explore the invisible border between the seemingly close bodies. By consistently linking up and then separating, the find harmony in conflicts and again trigger conflicts in harmony.
smART!
performance installation
theater / concert
contemporary dance
photo: Miklós Molnár
contemporary dance
photo: Reinout Hiel
contemporary dance
photo: János Szabó R.
photo: Krisztián Bokor
circus
Marcio Kerber Canabarro (BR) - Csaba Molnár - Zsófia Tamara Vadas – Imre Vass: Deeper // nextfest_3 Zsófia Tamara Vadas – Ábris Gryllus – Márton Emil Tóth: NIBIRU // nextfest_3
DATE: 18 January 2019 8 pm TICKET PRICE: 1998 HUF / 1600 HUF (student) NEXT Passes and General Passes accepted
smART! XTRA: IT’S A MATCH! // nextfest_3
Deeper is about constant movement, sinking into the understanding and experiencing the other. There is no end to this exploration, it is an inexhaustible process. The performance explores interaction through the sense of touch. Layer to layer, skin to skin, leather to leather, human to human, couple to couple; as a group they investigate the nature of proximity of social, physical, emotional bodies. How can one touch without touching? How can one be close without being too close? How can one be in a relationship that is trusting and intimate, but which provides enough space to maintain the freedom of interaction? Dancers-choreographers Marcio Kerber Canabarro, Csaba Molnár, Zsófia Tamara Vadas and Imre Vass know each other for a long time but this is their first collective work.
DATE: 20 January 2019 7 pm TICKET PRICE: 998 HUF NEXT Passes and General Pass accepted As part of the smART! XTRA series of interactive presentations, audiences are invited to discover interdisciplinary forms of collaboration between different areas of the arts and creative industries, through a number of ongoing projects. The IT’S A MATCH! event will focus on online and offline interactions and communication methods based on interface, media and visual identity design.
DATE: 22 January 2019 8 pm 23 January 2019 8 pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / 1900 HUF (student) Passes and NEXT Passes accepted Nibiru is creative process created by Zsófia Tamara Vadas dancemaker, Ábris Gryllus media artist and Márton Emil Tóth fine artist. The performance is presented by children, who were deeply involved into the creative process. The legends says that Nibiru is the tenth planet of the solar system, which when crashing into Earth will end the forms of life as we know them now. Real and fictitious worries about the planet, uncertainties of childhood and rituals of becoming adults are put in a playful, fantastic frame. Instead of being fearful this time the end of the world is a territory of dreams and utopia.
Compagnie Pál Frenák: W_all Miet Warlop (BE): Fruits of Labor DATE: 25 January 2019 8pm TICKET PRICE: 1998 HUF / 1600 HUF (student) NEXT Passes and General Passes accepted Let’s try to go beyond, leaning over the balcony of language. What else can be an alternative to plain reality than trying to grasp the soul of things? A night music performance - a painkiller for the world. In Fruits of Labor, Miet Warlop stages real people with open minds that reach straight for the heart. Five performers swing around major themes such as religion, martyrdom, slowmotion, terrorism, romanticism, tradition, leadership, psychosis, time, drugs, trips and nature.
DATE: 13 February 2019 8 pm 14 February 2019 8 pm TICKET PRICE: 2800 HUF / 2200 HUF (student) Passes accepted New faces, new energies and creative works of performers – which all stem from varying sociocultural backgrounds – masterfully intertwine in this performance along the artists’ individual conception, much like fragments - like components of a Rubik’s cube. While using walls as metaphors, ten artists present their views on social apathy, being different or even add their own, new perspectives. The W_all examines the current, tense world and although it does not portray it in a direct way, like a clinical picture, it reveals a truly thought-provoking and colorful universe, in which there is a constant quest for the gist of common sense.
Kaori Ito (JP): I dance because I do not trust words 21 February 2019 8 pm 22 February 2019 8 pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / 1900 HUF (student) Passes accepted This project will deal with the relationship between a father and daughter. “I want to recreate a meeting with my father, to retrieve something which is lost.” A personal and artistic meeting, the meeting of two people separated by thousands of miles and by a sort of cultural distance. Kaori Ito was born in Japan, she has been dancing since her young age. At age 20, she moves to New York, she is continuing her studies there and later in Tokyo. She is dancing with Philippe Découflé, James Thierrée, Angelin Preljocaj, and even Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui before coming to her own choreographic work: I dance because I do not trust words.
Anton Lachky (SK): Special Society | Máté Mészáros: Insoundout DATE: 17 March 2019 8 pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / 1900 HUF (student) Passes accepted SPECIAL SOCIETY / Choreographer: Anton Lachky In this performance the surrealistic visions of a special society run before our eyes, where dream and fantasy come to life right in front of us. Fantastic, sometimes grotesque pictures pulsate on stage. The constantly changing characters seek unconscious, spontaneous revelation and are freed from the control of the conscious mind. INSOUNDOUT / Choreographer: Máté Mészáros What does a dancer do when there is no dance? The experience of the show is transferred to the audience by the dancer, whom is the “medium” for accessing the physical and musical expression of the piece.
WArd/waRD - Ann Van den Broek (BE): The Black Piece DATE: 23 March 2019 8 pm 24 March 2019 8 pm TICKET PRICE: 3000 HUF / 2400 HUF (student) Passes accepted The Black Piece, a production with a group of dancers and a cameraman, taking place largely in the dark. In this dance performance, which is also a dance film, the spectator is constantly wrong-footed. Choreographer Ann Van den Broek was inspired by the book ‘Black, The History of a Color’ by Michael Pastoureau. Van den Broek lets black be the red thread in a piece that is gripping one moment and alienating the next. An ambience is created similar to a darkroom; suspenseful, as if there could be a secret to uncover. Sometimes reality is stranger than you think. Images, light, movement, sounds, the soundscape by Arne Van Dongen, the voice of singer Gregory Frateur; all these elements in The Black Piece are sure to heighten senses and undermine expectations.
contemporary dance
Some people believe the Sun used to be yellow
Hailu Mergia (ET), Stella Chiweshe (ZW) DATE: 06 April 2019 8 pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / 1900 HUF (in advance) Passes accepted Many times we enjoyed telling this amazing story: It is about the triumphant return to the music biz of one of Ethiopia’s leading performers - an instrumentalist who was forced into exile by a dictatorial regime hostile to the arts and ended up driving cabs for almost 30 years. Early in 2018, Hailu Mergia’s amazing account is finally coming full circle: after the blogger, DJ and label owner Brian Shimkovitz had tracked down Mergia in DC, he released three fantastic reissues of the keyboardist’s older materials. The maestro started to perform publicly again late in 2013 with sold out venues and amazed fans over three continents. Now Awesome Tapes From Africa, Shimokivitz’ imprint, will release “Lala Belu”, Mergia’s long-expected comeback album of all new music. To celebrate this amazing achievement, Mergia will be on the road again, backed by America’s leading Ethiopian bassist Alem Kebede and the longtime drummer of reggae legends Culture, Ken Joseph, to present more elegant excursions in Ethio-Jazz.
exhibition Julia Crabtree and William Evans: Clenched, 2018 Glass, uranium glass, pond life, rope
music
photo: Julia Gat
contemporary dance
photo: Maarten Vanden Abeele
contemporary dance
photo: Orsolya Véner
photo: Gregory Batardon
contemporary dance
Emanuel Gat (FR): SUNNY DATE: 12 April 2019 8 pm 13 April 2019 8 pm
Exhibiting artists: Julia Crabtree & William Evans, Elena Damiani, Rowena Harris, Adrien Missika, Ana Vaz Curator: Borbála Soós on view: 15 December 2018 - 27 January 2019
TICKET PRICE: 3200 HUF / 2600 HUF (student) Passes accepted
The exhibition transplants us into a fictional landscape. It is a strange, yet familiar place, potentially of the future. Clearly dependent on human interaction, it is a result of complex forces, pre-determined by hybrid histories.
Emanuel Gat together with Awir Leon, producer, musician and performer, created SUNNY as a multilayered event, juxtaposing a live musical concert with a vibrant choreographic exploration. An explosion of ideas, SUNNY is a flowing free-form merging new sounds with an in-depth questioning about contemporary choreograpic possibilities. “Emanuel Gat delivers a master piece, SUNNY, echoing Marvin Gaye’s song around which Awir Leon builds in live the musical unfolding of the piece. Gat stays loyal to his way. Beyond the dance itself, which evolves freely to the point of virtuosity, it’s a piece tainted by the relations created between the dancers. Stretches of silence, costumes, games, piercing looks and bursts of laughter create a world overflowing with youth and cheerfulness.” - Ariane Bevalier - Le Figaro
With the effects of the ongoing climate change and a sense of a looming disaster of toxic pollution, we have to think about our future in the view of past mistakes. But how to go forward if the future and past are not where you would normally find them? Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival (dir. Fabrizio Terranova) film screening 16 January 2019, 6pm Next exhibition: Solo show of Gergő Szinyova opening: 8 February 2019, 7pm on view until: 24 March 2019
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