International Tanzmesse NRW, DĂźsseldorf, 2016
CONTENT Badora 2 Batarita Dance Company 4 bodylotion co-dance 6 Central Europe Dance Theatre (CEDT) 8 Eva Duda Dance Company / Movein Mission 10 Duna Dance Workshop 12 Feledi Project – János Feledi 14 FlamenCorazonArte Dance Theatre 16 Compagnie Pal Frenak 18 Hodworks 20 Noémi Kulcsár – Tellabor 22 Ballet Miskolc 24 National Dance Theatre 26 PR-Evolution Dance Company 28 Pro Progressione 30 SÍN Culture Centre 32 The Symptoms 34 Szeged Contemporary Dance Company 36 Trafó 38 TranzDanz 40
Medium-Large scale company
Dora Barta- choreographer +36/30 993 26 63 badoradance@gmail.com Laura Zsámboki- artistic administration +36/30 423 54 27 badoradancecompany@gmail.com I facebook-badora dance company I www.badora.hu 2
Badora Dance Company Dóra Barta, who landed the “Harangozó Gyula” award and has been honoured by the Hungarian state with the “Érdemes Művész” prize, decided that she will not only be the solo dancer of the Budapest Dance Theatre and the Szeged Contemporary Dance Company but she is going to start a new era in her career as a choreographer. She started a company named Badora Dance Company in December of 2008. Since then many theatres invited her to enhance ballet performances as a guest choreographer, her last cooperation was with the Hungarian National Ballet Company. The company contains well- qualified dancers, who acknowledge an uncompromising quality work based on creativity as their main artistic creed. As the years passed by they became one of the most unique dance company of Hungary. They perform a highly emotional dance, drifting towards the style of pure dance, but not forgetting the psychological grounding of ballet. Their show is based on soul-stirring feelings and experiences which are impersonated in a contemporary dance style mainly about freedom, searching self-identity, the inner fear and doubtfulness. Most of their performances were made in a cooperation with the Hungarian National Dance Theatre. We must mention the huge role of the cultic artworks in the rising career of Dóra Barta: Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet), Garcia Lorca (The House of Bernarda Alba), Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar), Tchaikovsky (Nutcracker), Mozart (Requiem), Debussy (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun), Vivaldi (The Four Seasons), Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály (Bartókodály) Wedekind (Lulu) Guest choreographers: Andrej Petrovic (Akram Khan Company), Zoltán Katonka, Kristóf Várnagy
Photo: Dániel DÖMÖLKY
Small-medium scale company
Batarita director, choreographer: +36 70 410 9012 1batarita@gmail.com, batarita@touchpointart.com Batarita Dance Company, www.batarita.hu Touchpoint Art Foundation, www.touchpointart.com BODY.RADICAL International Performing Art Biennial, www.bodyradical.com 4
„Harshly clearedout. At some moments it is so painful and unpleasant, the spectator would whine and yowl, what he feels is so inhuman and so relentless. Then he thinks: it is the nature only; it is the circuit of seasons, a fugitive beast, a squealing bird, a germ which is sprouting right now.” (Literature Today)
Batarita Dance Company The company was founded in 1998 by Batarita, choreographer and ambassador of contemporary dance of the Far-East. The work of the company is levitating on the metaphysical level, characterized by unusual movements as transmitters for the persistent flow of energy. One can hardly categorize the unique style that is strongly influenced by various performing art forms of Asia, particularly by the philosophy of Butoh. Graduated as a choreographer at the Hungarian Dance Academy and have created already more than 50 dance pieces, Batarita was awarded at the numerous prestigious performing, choreographic, educational and co-production grants: Dance-WEB (Aus), Asia-Europe Foundation (J), Unesco Ashberg Fellowship (Th), Foundation Royaumont (Fr), the Uchida Fellowship of the Japan Foundation (J) and CPI-SIDance (Kor), among others. In 2013 she received the “Parallel Culture” life achievement award by Mediawave Foundation, Hungary. She debuted as an opera director at the Hungarian State Opera in 2009 and directed her first film in 2016. She is the founder, director of BODY. RADYCAL International Performing Arts Biennial in Budapest and its Eastern-European touring program since 2009. The company has been invited to perform to numerous dance festivals and theatres worldwide: Japan (Tokyo, Yokohama, Tottori, Matsue), South-Korea (Seoul, Busan, Munmak), Thailand (Bangkok, Chiangmai, Ratchaburi), China (Xian, Chengdu), Mexico (Guanajuato, Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta), Ecuador (Quito), France, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania, Poland, Slovakia, Check Republic, Hungary. The company has educational program and also has been involved in collaborative works with artists from Japan, South-Korea, Thailand, Mexico, which all were coordinated by Touchpoint Art Foundation, Hungary.
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small scale company
Luca KÖVÉCS – manager bodylotioncodance.com contact.bolocodance@gmail.com
bodylotion co-dance
bodylotion co-dance is an artistic partnership of Virág Arany and Júlia Hadi based in Berlin and Budapest. They created their first piece in 2009 and have been working together ever since. Their work finds choreographic approaches to highlight philosophical dilemmas and they often use the concept of limitation as a creative tool. They consider their duo to be a form of collaboration as well as an artistic and aesthetic practice. On-going projects: Bodyscape: Dar Winners A multimedia performance in collaboration with Stephane Kozik and Damien Pairon from Belgium. The futuristic, vibrating universe created on stage is composed of multi-layered spaces, repetitive movements and hypnotic music, with themes inspired by cloning, virtual reality and transhumanism. StepinTime The piece received the Rudolf Lábán Award in 2015. The duet focuses on capturing the invisible change in time. How do we perceive change in a process? Is there a graspable moment? The piece places shortened fragments of time into a larger environment, building a coherent sequence from small details. The form is minimalistic, functional, undecorated. S t e p i n T i m e ! MAXI! A participative performance involving professionals and amateurs in public space. The piece is an extended version of the duet “S t e p i n T i m e” in terms of space, time and the number of participants. In the frame of a workshop the applicants from the local community get to know the structure of the piece before the public showing is held, adapted to the context of the given event. Duel The new creation investigates the historical and philosophical concept of duelling, a widely spread phenomena in the 18th and 19th centuries. The piece is about searching contemporary substitutes and reflecting on the format itself by fantasising on what a duel would be like in our present time and society.
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Large-Medium scale company
Anna Dohy dohyanna@cedt.hu +36 20 411 8880 cedt.hu 8
Central Europe Dance Theatre (CEDT) Progressive. Stylish. Contemporary. The Central Europe Dance Theatre (CEDT) is one of the most powerful and impressive dance companies in the region: beside the expanding and developing repertory, education programmes play an essential role in our mission. DTIE – Dance Theatre in Education – is the only education programme which includes both contemporary teaching techniques and professional dance performances. On the basis of the British TIE programmes in 2014 we have developed a methodology for children and youth groups getting over 65 performances. Several times a year – within the framework of the Young Choreographers’ Platform (IKF) – we give the possibility for young and progressive choreographers to work with us. We also have an open dance educational project (D.E.E.P). Our repertoire is unique as well. In the 2016/2017 season we have 5 different collaboration premiers includes composers works such Bartok, Stravinsky, Ravel, Bach and Kodaly. Our new solo performance sequence Inner Outlines is based on the close collaboration of one choreographer and one performer. We run many emerging collaboration projects – with the Liszt Academy, Müpa Budapest, Trafó House of Contemporary Arts and Dohnányi Orchestra. In the past 27 years we have made shows in 22 countries, 44 cities, we have had 101 premiers, and we have worked together with 55 choreographers. The company believes that contemporary dance is current and our shows are relevant and reflective. The base of our work is Hungary and the Carpathian Basin, we are inspired by the various and living dance traditions of the region, but we are sensitive to the international trends and problems of the present. We are open to challenges.
Medium- Large scale company
Movein Mission/ Eva Duda Dance Company International relations info@evaduda.net | +36 30 201 79 29 www.facebook.com/dudadance www.evaduda.net 10
Eva Duda Dance Company / Movein Mission The Eva Duda Dance Company developed into an independent collective in 2009, based on the initiative of the choreographer, who earned her reputation as a freelance artist having choreographed various theatrical genres including spectacular operas, musicals and progressive contemporary dance pieces. By now, the company has a wide repertoar, and functioning as a creative community, developed its unique dynamism of movements characterized by the use of expressive and powerful elements of physical dance and spectacular visual solutions on stage, but most importantly claimed to approach dance not only aesthetically, but as a form of theatrical language concerning important human issues. Beside creating new works year by year, they also invite foreign choreographers to make new creations, and regularly organize international workshops, professional events, and stays devoted to co-productions and international collaborations with other professional collectives of performing art. Over the past few years, the team turned into one of Budapest’s key independent dance collectives and created its remarkably distinct image. Recently, all repertoar pieces have been presented at several international platforms and festivals. (Internationale Tanzmesse, Bipod Festival Beirut, Fronta Festival Slovenia, Zagreb Dance Centre, Amman Dance Festival, Schrit_tmacher – Just Dance Festival, Divadlo Štúdio Tanca, Be_Festival Birmingham, Dance & Non-verbal Theatre Festival San Vincenti, Dance. Movement.Theather Festival Romania, etc).
Photo: Dániel DÖMÖLKY
Medium scale company
Fanni NÁNAY, 1139 Budapest, Gyutacs u. 10-18, +36/30 997 01 15 | nanay.fanni@gmail.com | www.dunatancmuhely.hu 12
Duna Dance Workshop
Duna Dance Workshop, founded in 1999, aims to create innovative dance performances using the elements of folk dances as a specific dance technique, intends to elaborate a unique language of movement mixing contemporary and folk dance. The Workshop is a flexible formation of professional dancers, working together on independent productions. Its performances are always co-creations by choreographer Zsolt Juhász and invited dancers, musicians, designers. The creative collaboration of dancers from the field of folk dance, contemporary dance, ballet etc. gives the opportunity for the participants to experiment on the borderline of different dance techniques and with divers artistic expressions, and to create cutting-edge productions. The most important productions of the past years: Round Dance (2016), Bird-Women (2015), Dim and Silence (2014), The Islands of Silence (2013), Anthem (2010), The Cave (2010). The workshop also aims to adress the younger audience with its „teen performance” What is on your heart (2012). The Workshop is also engaged in organising the Contemporary Dance Festival in Budakalász, focusing on cross-disciplinary performing art and dance.
Medium scale company
H-1149 Budapest, Pillangó Park 4/A. 3/17 +36 70 545 66 19 felediproject@gmail.com www.felediproject.com 14
Production: In the course of time Physpacomphysical space communication Puccini’s Le Villi (The fairies) Suicidal feelings The Swan Prosody Psyche Requiem New premier: Splinters (10.18.2016)
Feledi Project – János Feledi The Feledi Project was established by Janos Feledi dance artist. He graduated at the Hungarian Dance Academy ballet faculty in 2003. He began his career as a member Ballet of Győr, he spent four years at the Budapest Ballet Company as a principal dancer and choreographer. After obtaining his Ballet Master diploma he joined the PR–Evolution Dance Company and later he became a member of the Badora Dance Company . He appeared with this first independent choreography in 2010. That motivated him to start the FELEDI PROJECT. Up to today eight so-called fullevening shows were created by Janos, all these productions are continuously on and played in front of full houses in the National Dance Theatre , Theatre Szkéné and at renowned domestic and international festivals. The core team of the project consists of dancers from the elite of the national and international dance scene, but an opportunity is always given to young talents. The choreographies specialness are shown in the way the basics of classical ballet and modern dance elements are combined, demonstrating each time the mature individual style and expression and the creative world of the Project manager.The quality of work and the various productions gained the love and appreciation of national dance professionals, as a result in 2014 the Feledi Project was elected as a full member into the Association of Hungarian Dancers and Choreographers Society. The Company was invited to the USA 3 times during the 2015-16 season, participated and gained the audiences’ admirations at the New York Dumbo Festival, the Sant Barbara HH11 Dance Festival and again in New York at the Solo Duo festival by Whitewave.
Photo: Lรกszlรณ SZIGETI
Small scale company
Zsófia Pirók - choreographer, dancer, artistic manager pirokzsofi@gmail.com | www.zsofiapirok.com HU +36 20 615 0494 | ES +34 690 392 100 Youtube: /pirokzsofi | Facebook: FlamenCorazonArte 16
FlamenCorazonArte Dance Theatre Zsófia Pirók, the young soloist dancer of the FlamenCorazonArte Dance Theatre continues her mother’s artistic work which started 20 years before. The mother, Andrea Lippai founded her company in 2006 which aims to create dance theatre shows using the language of flamenco in fusion with other styles of music/dance techniques. Nowadays, this way of thinking is getting to be popular on the international stages, since world-music is flourishing. In 2013 Zsófia graduated as the first foreign student in the art of Flamenco dance of the Spanish institute Conservatorio Profesional de Danza, in Seville. Hereby she perfectly mastered the authentic form of Flamenco. Now she feels totally free to create her own style using all the techniques that she had studied in addition to flamenco. (Classical ballet, Hungarian/Spanish folkdance, Step-dance, Salsa, Acrobatic Rock&Roll, Contemporary dance). She believes that roots should be very well-studied in order to create something new. The Spanish and Hungarian artists, who join her work, are prestigious individually acknowledged. Her performances are always accompanied with live music, thus creating a unique sound for every piece which includes contemporary, authentic, and also world music directions. In 2011 she choreographed the year-end gala for the European Commission. In 2014 Zsófia recieved the Fülöp Victor Award as a choreographer and in 2016 she was honoured with the Season’s Best Young-Stage Dancer Award in Hungary. Her last work SIGHS which is a solist performance was invited to Madrid to the Flamenco Festival ‘Flamencos y Mestizos’ and will be presented in Erfurt on the 5. International Dance Theatre Festival, in Novembre 2016.
Medium scale company
Dóra Juhász, Artistic Manager: +36 30 291 4832 dora.juhasz@frenak.hu compagniepalfrenak Facebook: CIE.Pal.Frenak | www.frenak.hu 18
“Pál Frenák always enthralls his audience, who are transported into a special, fascinating environment, richly saturated with feelings, surrounded by dancers who are wonderful in every sense of the word.” (Le Figaro)
Compagnie Pal Frenak
The award-winning choreographer-dancer, Pal Frenak honored among many others with the Villa Kujoyama Prize, founded his French company in 1989 in Paris and established his Hungarian-French ensemble in 1999. Based in Budapest and Paris at the same time, the company is touring regularly all over the world and invited to perform by the most important venues and dance festivals in Europe. Compagnie Pal Frenak is widely known for its unique style of dance that integrates mimicry, sign language, combined with carefully chosen elements of new circus, theater, fashion and contemporary music. The company always combines the powerful choreographic structure with apure but extraordinary scenery– inspired by contemporary architecture and design – which has a strong influence on the movement material. Not only does Pál Frenák have a wide repertoire as a choreographer that includes such award-winning and emblematic pieces like Tricks& Tracks, InTimE or The Hidden Men, he also has a busy schedule as an instructor. The company regularly organizes audience-engagement workshops, gives initiation shows to highschool students, collaborates with hospitals and frequently meets its public, always putting great emphasis on the dialog with other art forms and the continuous, adequate cooperation with the audience. Pal Frenak works together with some of the most renowned people in contemporary European music such as György Kurtág, Patrick Schneider, Fred Bigot or Fabrice Planquette.
Photo: Tamรกs BOCZKร
Small scale company
Lilla Eredics, general manager lilla@hodworks.hu +3670 229 6552 www.hodworks.hu
“When are our experiences and sensations legitimate? Many human feelings or states are “forbidden”, not allowed to be shown. Art can be an alibi for all this. On the altar of art you can do things that are forbidden in real life. Thus, art is a game, an alibi that sets us free.” Adrienn Hód
Hodworks
Hodworks was founded in 2007 by Adrienn Hód, a unique and innovative creator of the Hungarian contemporary dance scene, well-known internationally. Hodworks pieces, always taking a new and progressive direction, are result of a long, creative body research based on improvisation, which appears in a strictly structured form on stage. Hód’s choreographies own a delicately developed, fine, high-quality language balancing between the exact and the very abstract representation. They tend to deconstruct, destabilize, and re-build already existing dance structures. The focus of her work is the body itseld and performer’s status, as related to extreme human states and verbal and physical expression. Hód’s pieces challenge taboos, enriched with a robust but delicate humour: a radical study of the body, free of prejudice. She opens up a parallel reality, which is built up from the unconscious and the ecstatic. Her audience is attracted to a “grey zone” where “presence” dominates “meaning”. Her pieces, Basse danse in 2012, Dawn in 2014 and Conditions of Being a Mortal in 2015, have been selected into the 20 most outstanding contemporary dance pieces by Aerowaves European dance network. The Budapest-based company, Hodworks regularly appears at international festivals and in theatres all over Europe. Open studio : 1 Sept 19h, tanzhaus nrw, Studio 6
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Small-Medium scale company
Kulcsár Noémi Tellabor tellabor@gmail.com www.kulcsarnoemi.hu phone: +36 20 999 82 28 22
Noémi Kulcsár – Tellabor Choreographer and dancer Noémi Kulcsár began her carrier as a dance artist in Hamburg and München. She has been working as a freelance dancer and choreographer in Hungary as of 2005. She was a member of the Badora Company at the Géza Gárdonyi Theatre in Eger, Hungary between 2008 and 2013, and received the Viktor Fülöp Scholarship in 2013. She has created many different dance pieces at the Géza Gárdonyi Theatre in Eger, along with works for the annual Jewish Summer Festival, for the Győri Ballet, Miskolc Ballet, and also for the Hungarian State Opera. In 2012 she founded her own company, Kulcsár Noémi Tellabor, an experimental workshop of contemporary dance and ballet, which bases its productions on classical ballet, but also uses elements of modern dance. The company is not a fixed ensemble, rather a collective of returning artists, whose joint works reflect youthful vigor, honoring classical dance traditions, but also searching for new dance forms. Tellabor productions always show a connection with other art genres. In Garden (2012) and Body Building (2013) there was a dialogue between dance, media art and video art, in The Streetcar Named Desire (2014) Tellabor adapted a classic play by Tennessee Williams, while Tale (2014) was an exciting experiment in fusing contemporary classical music and dance as an art form. Recent Tellabor productions include a great Shakespearean tragedy (Macbeth, National Dance Theatre, 2015), a contemporary Hungarian play (Beasts, Miskolc Ballet, 2015), a two-act modern ballet piece (The Great Gatsby, Miskolc Ballet, 2015), an interactive dance theatre game (Home Base, National Dance Theatre, 2016) and a dance piece set in ruinpub (Woody Wood, Jewish Summer Festival, 2016.) As of 2011 she has been a teacher of modern dance at the Hungarian Dance Academy, where she became head of the Modern Dance Department in 2014.
Medium scale company
3525 Miskolc, Déryné u. 1. Phone: +36 46 516 700 Web: miskolcibalett.hu 24
Ballet Miskolc
Miskolc Ballet was founded in 2012 at the National Theatre of Miskolc, and became the fourth ballet company in Hungary, with Attila Kozma as its artistic director. It is a professional contemporary ensemble that incorporates classical and contemporary styles of dance, mixing these with different genres. The new, neoclassical contemporary ensemble works advantageously from the perspective of theatregoers – it is easier to understand for larger audiences. Miskolc Ballet considers Nederlands Dans Theater as a model: according to its dance concept all forms of movement have to be matched with contemporary motions on a high technical level. Whilst keeping the form of the movement, the chosen genre is renewed scenically and dramaturgically. The ensemble consists of twelve classically trained dancers that are all well-versed in the elements of contemporary dance. The repertoire is made up of various classical and contemporary pieces: Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Medea, a classical and contemporary version of Cinderella, along with Men, Women, Fellini (based on the Fellini movie „La Strada”), The Great Gatsby, and Quixote. During the 2014/2015 season Miskolc Ballet was invited to perform at the Shakespeare Festival (Gyula, Hungary) and the Infinite Festival (Oradea, Romania), with further performances in the 2015/2016 season at the following festivals: Studio Theatre Dance Festival (Eger, Hungary), Autumn Dance Week Sőt7/Sissi7 (Budapest, Hungary). This year audiences outside of Hungary had a chance to see the company perform as well.
Péter ERTL, managing director, Balázs ARATO, artistic manager H-1122 Budapest, Városmajor u 13. info@tancszinhaz.hu www.tancszinhaz.hu
National Dance Theatre
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The most significant centre of the Hungarian dance scene opened its stages when, on 1st December 2001, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage founded the National Dance Theatre, which is the supporter and preserver of the Hungarian dance tradition and contemporary dance art - as the legal successor of 20 years of successful work of the Dance Forum. The institute provides an opportunity for dance ensembles classified as national, prominent or independent to perform in the capital city, and also to make their début on the national or international dance scene in order to make Hungarian dance culture available to receptive audiences . Their repertoire ranges from folk dance through classical ballet to contemporary dance. Their theatre-education activities for children and young people – along with the introductory programmes – have been complemented with a type of performance which is unique. With the successful amalgamation of the art of dance and theatre education, they introduced their dance/theatre education programme which won one of the professional awards at the biennale of theatres for children and young people (ASSITEJ) in January 2014. The Budapest Dance Festival is also connected to the National Dance Theatre. Its aim is to establish the Hungarian capital on the international dance scene by inviting renowned foreign ensembles. In the past years we have organised Budapest performances by ensembles such as Shen Wei Dance Arts (USA), the Netherlands Dance Theatre (NL), The Forsythe Company (D), Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (USA), Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras (E), the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (USA), Dortmund Ballet (D), Grupo Corpo (BR) and the Company fabrik Potsdam (D), Cullberg Ballet (S) or Kylián Productions (NL).
Photo: Péter HAPÁK
PURE DANCE
Medium scale company
Zsófia Nemes – choreographer - +36/70 772 44 39 zofianemes@gmail.com ; info@pr-evolution.hu PR-Evolution Dance Company www.pr-evolution.hu 28
PR-Evolution Dance Company PR-Evolution Dance Company is a Hungarian contemporary dance company that was founded in 2003. Since 2008 it became one of the most productive and promising company of the Hungarian contemporary dance scene under the leadership of Zsófia Nemes, whose choreographies won several awards (Blue men – Fringe Festival, professional award; Flowing water – Fringe Festival, professional award). The company has committed itself to value-oriented mentality, and by combining contemporary and classical techniques it has created a highly qualified dance technique. The company aims to search for new ways while portraying our daily visions, moods and feelings through the play of human body, the beauty of dance, the expressiveness of movements, and popularizing contemporary dance is also a must. Throughout the years the usage of cross art elements – from literature, contemporary music, fine and video art - in their performances have become more and more articular. The majority of their repertoire consists of medium scale productions with at least 5 dancers on stage. The company also have some smaller scale performances, which they often perform in non-theatrical spaces, like museums, galleries, cafes or art cinemas. The company creates performances for children as well and along with that they regularly visits schools and kinder gardens with their educational program. National and international cooperation plays an important part in the company’s life, not only in production, but in research and organizing workshops.
Photo: Imre KŐVÁGÓ NAGY
Small-Medium scale company
Barna Petrányi: petranyi.barna@pro-cult.com 11. Hunyadi Street, Budapest 1011, Hungary +36 70 601 5248 pro-cult.com 30
Pro Progressione
Pro Progressione is an agency for cultural management founded in 2010 in Budapest. We have been active in three main fields related to performing arts: organizing national and international performances, participating in production processes and representing the works of the cultural scene in Hungary and beyond. Pro Progressione has been implementing numerous international projects supported by the European Commission, International Visegrad Fund, European Culture Fund. Our project RIVE was designated as “Ambassadors of Culture” in The New York Times and our project Beyond Front@ was selected as a success story by the Commission. We just introduced the performance of our Mixdoor project which is the fusion of vertical dance, contemporary circus and 3D mapping. All of our represented artists are sharing our longing to create and present innovative and interdisciplinary aspects in the field of performing arts. Zoltán Grecsó is a dancer and choreographer with an own improvisation studio. His new performance is about the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, a relationship in light and shadow. Although Anna Gulyás is a very active young artist. Her new project is an experiment to connect prehistorical findings and collections with dance, a new approach to artistic interpretation of our heritage. Our focus is on identity and other specific historical stories put into new narratives often with site-specific elements (such as EHL) Our largest upcoming project this year is Festive Comedy 1956-68-80/16 in cooperation with the Balassi Institute of New York. The performance commemorates the revolutions against the communist repression in the Central European region in a new contemporary frame choreographed by Krisztián Gergye.
Anikó Rácz – international relations +36 20 525 1551 racz@sinarts.org ww.sinarts.org
SÍN Culture Centre
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SÍN Culture Centre is a Budapest-based production house with 4 spacious dance studios, operating in the field of contemporary performing arts. Beyond the infrastructure we offer a professional environment to work in: production assistance, fund raising, help and advice in the artists’ career development, assistance in finding the best possible context and partners for their work. Additionally, we organise workshops led by local or international artists, initiate discussions and cooperations between the stakeholders. We play an active role in the strategic thinking of the field’s present and future in Hungary and beyond the borders. SÍN has the aim to develop a flexible and innovative, yet strong community of the local artists and partakers within Hungary and beyond the borders. We are proud to have produced a variety of progressive and successful performances for the past few years in partnership with a wide range of Hungarian and international professional organisations. We take part in various local and international cooperations and partnerships. We are regular hosts of the artists in residency project of the Visegrad Fund, co-organisers in Open Latitudes3, a Culture Europe partnership project and are partners of an Erasmus+ dance research project Reflex Europe, coordinated by Wiener Tanzwochen, Austria. We have also recognized the growing need for social and community involvement. In cooperation with MU Theatre, Budapest we organise OPEN festival, an annual event in November with a focus on participatory theatre to present international examples of the genre. Artists we are currently producing: Viktória Dányi, László Fülöp, Máté Mészáros, Csaba Molnár, Anna Réti, Zsuzsa Rózsavölgyi, Gáspár Téri, Zsófia Tamara Vadas.
Csaba Molnár: Eclipse (photo: Gábor Dusa)
Máté Mészáros: Hinoki (photo: Dániel Dömölky)
Medium scale company
Flóra Kovács manager +36 70 321 2991 | www.thesymptoms.hu management@thesymptoms.hu H-1027 Budapest, Jurányi u. 1. 34
“Performed to thudding jazz, the piece plays out a waking dream shot through with bizarre terrors… Vignettes of pain, fear and sadness swim dreamily against a lighting track of eye-popping strangeness. Extraordinary.” (Luke Jennings, The Guardian)
The Symptoms
The Symptoms is a performance collective organized around the Hungarian dancer and choreographer Réka Szabó. Originally a mathematician, Szabó has been building her company with dancers and actors since 2002, and has been actively present in the contemporary dance theatre scene since 1995. Over the years, The Symptoms have created 27 productions, 2 short films and collected 17 awards. The company recognizes no generic boundaries, handling text, movement, music, and visual effects as ingredients of equal rank. They examine social and political trends and treat everyday problems that preoccupy all of us, addressing these themes in a deeply personal language. The repertoire includes genres as diverse as a main stage multi-arts performance informed by interactive video technology, a confessional solo performance, an intimate duet of two women, a 90-year-old Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor and a young dancer, as well as an interactive dance-theatre fairytale play for kids. Over the years, The Symptoms have been invited to various festivals and venues in Europe, including The Place in London (UK), National Theater of Prague (CZ) , Schauspiel in Köln (DE), Tanzlabor in Bielefeld (DE), Savoy-teatteri Helsinki (FI), INFANT festival in Novi Sad (RS), Flora Theatre Festival in Olomouc (CZ) and Alexander Kasser Theater of Montclair University, New Jersey (US).
Photo: Csaba MÉSZÁROS
Large scale company
Szeged Contemporary Dance Company +36 20 571 56 92 international-relation@szegedikortarsbalett.hu facebook.com/SzegediKortarsBalett | www.szegedikortarsbalett.hu/en 36
Szeged Contemporary Dance Company The classical music repertoire of the company consists of theatrical dances based on the works of composers such as Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Bartók, Orff, Eötvös, and the company’s varied repertoire also contains choreographies composed to musical montages. Beside the leading choreographer Tamás Jurionics, several renowned European choreographers created modern art dances for the company. In 1993 they picked up the name Szeged Contemporary Dance Company, with appointing Tamás Juronics as artistic director and András Pataki as executive director. Since 2000 the Szeged Contemporary Dance Company is working as an autonomous company in a form of prominently public benefit foundation. Besides their national successes they have won the recognition of the audience and professionals while performing abroad on diverse occasions. Tamás Juronics had an outstanding role in forming their especially unique artistic identity. He considers the continuous training of the dancers and the enrichment of the repertoire to be his most important task. The ability of reception and individualization of the contemporary and modern technics, the high quality of the artistic expression based on the technical safety makes the repertoire to be incredibly various, yet unique. The Szeged Contemporary Dance Company is a constant guest of local and oversea dance stages. The company itself and its dancers has also been rewarded by international and national, vocational and as well audience prices. During their tours the ensemble played in 29 different countries 172 times in the last 28 years.
Photo: Zoltรกn TARNAVร LGYI
Trafó
SZABÓ György – House of Contemporary Arts www.trafo.hu | phone: 3614562048 mobil: +36 20 479 57 68 | skype: szabogyorgy.trafo 1094 Budapest, Liliom utca 41.
House of Contemporary Arts
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Trafó House of Contemporary Arts in Budapest is an open-minded venue unique in Hungary, and is also a cornerstone of the international contemporary arts scene, showcasing various genres – theatre, dance, new circus, music and other visual arts – in a unique and authentic manner. Our aim is to enhance creativity on stage and increase innovation in dance and theatre. Dance was all the time essential part of our program and dominating genre with a strong focus on its development. Trafó produces around 10 productions yearly and is being determined to distribute these productions all over the world. The institute’s professional programme of events, presented in a post-industrial performance space, is based on a unified, yet diverse approach. Experimental and audience-friendly at the same time, and inspired by new innovations as well as cultural heritage, it provides a space for the presentation of work by both domestic Hungarian and international artists. Trafó is a forum dedicated to social issues, and a platform for establishing values and contexts as well as generating new ideas and productions. Its performances, concerts, exhibitions, and community and audience-building programmes, while focusing on younger generations, are accessible to members of any generation who are looking for something new.
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TranzDanz
cie. Gerzson Péter Kovács
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