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Peter Brook (F): Battlefield
Timothy and the Things (HU): Waiting for Schrödinger DATE: 17/11/2016 8pm 18/11/2016 8pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / 1900 HUF (student) General Season Pass and Twin Pass are valid. Schrödinger’s cat is a thought-experiment, sometimes described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935. The scenario presents a cat that may be simultaneously both alive and dead, a state known as a quantum superposition, as a result of being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur. Neither the cat, nor Schrödinger will be present this evening, instead the doubts and questions that this problem raised in the choreographer, together with 6 fabulous dancers.
Trafó Electrify Series vol.11.: Laraaji (US), Sun Araw (US), The Play Zone (US), Bulk (HU) DATE: 19/11/2016 8pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF in advanced booking: 1900 HUF (the first 100 tickets) Presented by Trafó, ELECTRIFY is a contemporary electronic music series with a focus on adventurous sound and stimulus for memorable sonic experience. Featuring established and emerging artists the diverse line-up aims to push boundaries for challenging exploration of new musical dimensions. The eleventh edition of ELECTRIFY takes us through the ethereal harmonies of laughter yoga teacher and zither player Laraaji, who was discovered by Brian Eno in 1980. He will share the stage with legendary experimental and psychedelic guitarist-singer Sun Araw from California.
Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods (BE/DE/ US): VIOLET DATE: 25/11/2016 8pm 26/11/2016 8pm TICKET PRICE: 2800 HUF / 2200 HUF (student) General Season Pass and Twin Pass are valid. VIOLET is a whirl-dance whose energetic currents stir the wavelengths of both dance and imagination. An ensemble of five dancers embarks on a journey traversing the stage as if it were a mental landscape. They reveal simultaneously and singularly an energetic landscape, it’s a steep descent into a maelstrom, a swirl of energetic patterns and kinetic sculptures full of detail, partnered live on stage by musician Brendan Dougherty on electronics and percussion.
Kornél Mundruczó / Proton Theatre (HU): Disgrace DATE: 30/11/2016 8pm TICKET PRICE: 3000 HUF / 2400 HUF (student) 18+ General Season Pass and Twin Pass are valid. Hungarian director and producer Kornél Mundruczó transposes the post-apartheid novel by Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee to his world of merciless reality theatre. He sees in it a parable of the fears of a Europe – and particularly Hungary – confronted with radical change. Mundruczó’s production is a vitriolic lampooning of hatred and exclusion. In Hungarian with English surtitles.
Compagnie Pal Frenak (HU): Lutte DATE: 02/12/2016 8pm 03/12/2016 8pm TICKET PRICE: 3000 HUF / 2400 HUF (student) The latest creation by famous Hungarian choreographer Pal Frenak, Lutte is an intense, physical, but also poetic dance piece about our human struggles, our symbolic and everyday fights, about our social and emotional hierarchies. How can we overcome ourselves or the others? How can we defeat our ego? How can we handle our everyday fights? Lutte combines the elements of martial arts and contemporary dance, sign language and design, and also motifs of the Scandinavian mythology.
Forte Company / Sándor Tar – Tibor Keresztury (HU): Your Kingdom DATE: 05/12/2016 8pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / 1900 HUF (student) General Season Pass and Twin Pass are valid. The rise and fall of Hungarian writer Sándor Tar (19412005) is one of the most tragic and controversial episodes in the country’s literary scene in recent decades. This performance does not intend to present his personal story, but instead, by adapting the writer’s finest short stories, focuses on the mental disintegration of the personality. In Hungarian with English surtitles.
DATE: 14/12/2016 8pm 15/12/2016 8pm 16/12/2016 8pm TICKET PRICE: 3600 HUF / 2900 HUF (student) Three decades ago, Peter Brook’s production of the Mahabharata helped to redefine theatre. It not only made the ancient Sanskrit text available to a global audience but also proved a piece of epic theatre could be created out of the elementary ingredients of earth, fire and water. Now Brook and his long-time collaborator, Marie-Hélène Estienne, have returned to the same source and fashioned a remarkable 65-minute piece that is clearly intended as a parable for our times. Using four actors and a musician, Brook and Estienne evoke the apocalyptic aftermath of a great war between rival members of the same family. Yudhishthira, the king of the Pandavas, confronts the fact that, with millions lying dead on the battlefield, victory feels like a defeat.
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Compagnie XY (F): Il n’est pas encore minuit… Hodworks: Dawn (HU) DJ Bootsie (HU) DATE: 27/12/2016 8pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF in advanced booking: 1900 HUF (the first 100 tickets) The most renown Hungarian turntablist and sound sample magician DJ Bootsie will present his new album coming out this autumn.
Jónás Vera Experiment (HU) DATE: 28/12/2016 8pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF in advanced booking: 1900 HUF (the first 100 tickets) Hungarian singer and songwriter Vera Jónás is one of the most promising talents of her generation. Her debut album concert was held in Trafó in 2013, now she celebrates the 5th anniversary of her band Vera Jónás Experiment with a special concert for this occasion.
DATE: 03/01/2017 8pm 04/01/2017 8pm TICKET PRICE: 2000 HUF / 1600 HUF (student) 16+ General Season Pass and Twin Pass are valid. In this Hodworks production, the naked human body takes centre stage. It opens up in front of us like a landscape, dressed in the veins of the muscles, and the wrinkles and flushed nature of the skin, highlighting the body’s anatomical-mechanical nature or ‘animal-like quality’ which in recent times has been suppressed and become taboo.
DATE: 06/01/2017 8pm 07/01/2017 8pm TICKET PRICE: 3200 HUF / 2600 HUF (student) / 1700 HUF (under age 12) The 22 acrobats of Compagnie XY poke fun at gravity: they fly, flap and float. Bodies are catapulted from springboards; swirl through the air and cross each other in their flight in order to then form a human tower. One image follows the other in wild rhythms from a tumultuous tussle up, through a graceful hanging pose to the Lindy Hop of the 1920’s. Carried by a physical engagement with every instant and a vividly communicated energy, the company explores the concepts of crowds and solitude, of carrying and being carried, of being together, and of flights and falls.
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Mohammad / MMMD (GR), Rhys Chatham (US) DATE: 11/02/2017 8pm TICKET PRICE: 1900 HUF in advanced booking: 1500 HUF (the first 100 tickets) Mohammad (Antifrost, PAN) have been forging their deep monolithic sound for the past 6 years, bringing together low frequencies, inter-modulations, dark textures, and distant folk nuances through custom made instruments and software. Rhys Chatham is a composer and multi-instrumentalist from Manhattan, currently living in Paris, who fused avantgarde minimalism with the electric crunch of punk rock.
Trafó Gallery is a 120 m2 exhibition venue in the basement of Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest. It is a middle-sized non-profit venue, unique in Budapest as it bridges the gap between the city’s large national art institutions and its smaller galleries and flamboyant offspaces. The program of Trafó Gallery focusses on the Central European region, creating a regional context for local emerging and more established artists. At the same time it allows fresh air of international art to enter the Hungarian contemporary art scene. At Trafó Gallery you can see the hottest local contemporary artists together with rising international stars, a combination which is definitely worth checking out! 41, Liliom utca, Budapest 1094. Tel/Fax:+36 14562044. gallery@trafo.hu, www.trafo.hu Open: Tuesday to Sunday 4-7 pm, performance days 4-10 pm. Free entrance.
Trafó House of Contemporary Arts Groundbreaking Hungarian and international independent theatre groups, innovative circus performances, dancers working with elemental forces, smart technologies in the hands of artists, musicians you won’t hear on the radio, and a contemporary art gallery. Leave your comfort zone behind and check out the things you’ve been missing out on (and that everyone else has been talking about), that you promised yourself you wouldn’t skip again this year. International, innovative, contemporary – right here in Budapest. Trafó. It turns you on. 41, Liliom utca, Budapest 1094. | www.trafo.hu facebook, tumblr, instagram, youtube, twitter: @trafohouse