WArd/waRD - Ann Van den Broek (BE/NL): The Black Piece
Máté Mészáros (HU): United Space of Ambivalence
DATE: 23 March 2019 8 pm 24 March 2019 8 pm
DATE: 29 March 2019 8 pm
TICKET PRICE: 3000HUF / 2400 HUF (student) Pass accepted The Black Piece is 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. Through the ages people have attached various meanings to the color black. 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.
TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / 1900 HUF (student) Pass accepted Endless game, art of precision and self-parody or fake documentary insight into the creative processes of art making? It is already a task to decide where the stage ends and where it faces, the stage on which Patrik Kelemen, Dávid Mikó, Gáspár Téri, Tamás Bakó and Máté Mészáros, the choreographer – although there are several contestants to his position here – move with enormous energies. The scenography is an ever transforming live installation in which the dancers are either just present, or choreograph and animate each other. The roles are changing all the time, direction and free will become fluid and open questions. What seemed clear all turn upside down in the next moment. In the new creation of Máté Mészáros the creators approach the body as a dynamic object: it does not feel, but seeks, moves, executes.
ELECTRIFY vol. 19: Gaika (UK), Huerco S (US), Alpár (HU) DATE: 30 March 2019 8 pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / 1900 HUF (in advance) The season’s last Electrify will present Gaika, British rap’s freshest, most provocative voice, the Kansas born musician Huerco S who brought back the nostalgic vibes of airy ambient and Alpár who is a master of wonderful interlocking synth melodies.
contemporary dance
David Somló (HU): Listening Club - Half Asleep
Zsófia Tamara Vadas – Ábris Gryllus – Márton Emil Tóth (HU): Nibiru
DATE: 08 April 2019 7 pm
DATE: 10 April 2019 8 pm
TICKET PRICE: 1000 HUF Pass accepted
TICKET PRICE: 2000 HUF / 1600 HUF (student) Pass accepted
Where is that fine line between being awake and asleep? Can we dream together? Can sounds direct our dreams? David Somló’s series of events explores the boundaries of listening in the plain, empty space of Trafó Studio. During this performance a live composition, utilizing simple elements and combining multichannel light and sound, will slowly unfold on the senses, creating an immersive, field recording-inspired environment that will envelope the listener. Thus, Listening Club will transcend the individual nature of those attending to create a collective experience.
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.
contemporary dance
contemporary dance
Timothy and the Things (HU): Hunting Emanuel Gat (FR): SUNNY DATE: 12 April 2019 8 pm 13 April 2019 8 pm TICKET PRICE: 3200 HUF / 2600 HUF (student) 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.
DATE: 16 April 2019 8 pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / 1900 HUF (student) Passes accepted Three boys go hunting in the forest. Just like in a tale. But what is it that they hunt for if there are only the three of them in the sterile space? For each other? Or for themselves? And by the way, where is the forest where there is neither grass nor trees to be seen? And after all does it make a difference who holds the gun and who the prey is? Perhaps all that matter is that three boys have gone hunting. As if we go further than this we’ll just end up in the same place. It’s easy to get lost in the forest.
photo: Imre Kővágó Nagy
music
photo: Julia Gat
concert
photo: László Bellai
contemporary dance
photo: Gergely Dobos
contemporary dance
SUN RA ARKESTRA (US) under the direction of Marshall Allen Eva Duda Dance Company (HU): Utopia DATE: 26 April 2019 8 pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / 1900 HUF (student) Pass accepted Are we able to change our lives? Do we understand our own responsibility in the development of our community, our environment? Are we willing to take the time and the energy to live in a healthier world? What does tolerance mean to us? Do we understand our roots? Are there any aspirations for us to accept others? Do we understand our differences and recognize the similarity between us? Éva Duda, with her fellow creators, raises these very hot questions in her latest performance.
DATE: 27 April 2019 8 pm
The Symptoms (HU): Head first - or The Contractions of Expanding Time DATE: 30 April 2019 8 pm
TICKET PRICE: 3900 HUF / 3400 HUF (student)
TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / 1900 HUF (student) Pass accepted
Honoring the 105th anniversary of Sun Ra’s arrival on Planet Earth and the 95th Birthday of Marshall Allen, Sun Ra Arkestra starts another European tour in Spring 2019. Sun Ra left this planet in 1993. Since 1995, the group has performed under the direction of alto saxophonist Marshall Allen. Marshall Allen, as Musical Director of the Arkestra, is now in his 60th year of continuous activity within the Arkestra. Marshall has been in the Sun Ra Arkestra 23 years longer than Sun Ra himself. In Spring 2019 Marshall Allen will turn 95 years young, an incredible achievement which they are going to celebrate with an unforgettable European Spring tour.
We don’t remember how we were born, and we won’t be able to tell the story of our dying. Giving birth is an equally elementalborderline event, outside real space and time — a rarefied experience. In their production, The Symptoms attempt to recall, unravel and articulate this experience of childbirth, using body parts, words, and images. The four dancers rely on their own personal memories of giving birth, including body functions, traumatic and euphoric at the same time. They try to turn inside out everything that happened to them inside the unconscious realm, beyond the closed eyes and beneath the skin.
contemporary dance
Hodworks (HU): SUNDAY DATE: 01 May 2019 8 pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / 1900 HUF (student) Pass accepted Challenging taboos, robust but delicate humor, radical, prejudice-free studies of the body – these are the main characteristics of performances by HODWORKS, the multiple award winning and internationally-renowned contemporary dance company led by Adrienn Hód. One of their previous creations, Dawn, has been presented at Trafó since 2013. SUNDAY takes the fundamental theoretical questions of contemporary dance as its starting point and reflects them through the practice of dance itself, in a fiercely intense display of physicality. The five performers transform the components of theatre and dance into an essential bodily experience, which inevitably also has an effect on the audience. SUNDAY a gloomy day of rest, but a high performance trip.
contemporary dance
photo: Dániel Dömölky
contemporary dance
photo: Márton Mónus
concert
photo: Réka Bogdán
contemporary dance
exhibition
Beatrix Simkó (HU) – Jenna Jalonen (FI): Long time no see! DATE: 13 May 2019 8 pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / 1900 HUF (student) Pass accepted
András Cséfalvay: In a world without facts only goodness remains
Beatrix and Jenna were born in isolated European countries. They have the same amount of muscles and bones. They are movers, acrobatics, comfortable with steam and water. Women of the Y-generation. Blonde and brunette. Nordic and Central-European. One’s ancestors lived under the Turkish, the other under the Swedish empire. One drinks pálinka the other one Koskenkorva. Almost sisters. Not quite. Long time no see! is a research project about common roots and isolation, social similarities and differences, meaning of words and metacommunication, actions and reactions, understanding and misunderstanding, nearness and distance, sisterhood and cousinship. A performance by a Brussels-based Finnish and a Hamburg-based Hungarian young artist that explores the unfamiliar and familiar aspects of two cultures that used to be related.
opening: 04 April 2019, 7 pm on view: 05 April 2018 - 19 May 2019 In his artistic practice based on alternative strategies of storytelling, András Cséfalvay seeks new perspectives on the functioning of knowledge and language, as well as the effects of science on our interpretation of reality. In his video works, he borrows voice to a variety of living and non-human entities; historical figures, objects, dinosaurs, or even an ambassador from a distant planet. His latest video works on display at Trafó Gallery introduce different religious, superstitious and scientific worldviews. Cséfalvay loosely shifts perspective between the different paradigms in order to light on the most effective tool in a given situation that enables us to understand the present or to imagine our future.
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