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Ultima Vez (BE): In Spite of Wishing and Wanting Light Years
THOMAS DE POURQUERY & SUPERSONIC (FR) DATE: 11 November 2017 8 pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / 1900 HUF (in advanced booking, the first 100 tickets) The Award-winning French saxophonist and vocalist Thomas de Pourquery is back with his band Supersonic for a second album called Sons of Love. The first one Play Sun Ra was awarded as the best French Jazz Album in 2014.
Opening night of 14th Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival
DATE: 14 November 2017 7 pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / 18+ Opening night of 14th Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Verzio is the only human rights documentary film festival in Hungary, organized yearly since 2004.
DATE: 20 November 2017 7 pm TICKET PRICE: 500 HUF Just a few people know that light art is a Hungaricum; Hungary and local creative communities occupy a leading position in the international contemporary scene. The film Light Years is trying to expose a progressive genre from the point of view of artists and theorists and at the same time it allows a new generation openminded for innovations to display their artistic tastes and requirements.
Electrify vol. 14 // Holly Herndon (US), Stine Janvin (NO), Bartha Márk (HU)
The 10th anniversary of The Bélaműhely Sound Art
DATE: 21 November 2017 8 pm
DATE: 23 November 2017 8 pm 24 November 2017 8 pm
TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / 1900 HUF (student) General Season Pass and Twin Pass accepted
TICKET PRICE: 2800 HUF / 2200 HUF (student) General Season Pass and Twin Pass accepted
This evening they celebrate their 10th anniversary with Soharóza. The Bélaműhely Sound Art has been building sound producing devices and playing them since 2007. We have experimented with developing musical games and we research people’s attitude towards music, sounds and creating them. Soharóza – founded in 2008 to fulfill the wish of renowned theatre director, Viktor Bodó – experiments and improvises with the human voice, language, movement, folk music as well as composed pieces: continually searching for new forms and sounds.
For the production In Spite of Wishing and Wanting, Vandekeybus made a radical decision and set to work with an entirely male cast. With success. This piece was a smash all over the world. This is because, with the minimum of theatrical resources, Vandekeybus succeeded in capturing risky topics in superb images. Familiar icons of dreams and desires are stripped of their psychoanalytical clichés and converted into the spectacular and poetic dance idiom of Ultima Vez.
DATE: 25 Novober 2017 8 pm TICKET PRICE: 2900 HUF / 2400 HUF (in advanced booking, the first 100 tickets) Intimate posthuman pop and beatbox based improvised music – the 14th edition of the ELECTRIFY series focuses on the exploration of human voice as an instrument. Holly Herndon, the American singer-producer at the height of her artistic career will present her forthcoming full length album with a large choir, while her choir’s member Stine Janvin will perform her latest live show for voice, echo, lights and spatial distribution entitled Fake Synthetic Music and Hungarian composer Márk Bartha is also preparing a new performance for ELECTRIFY.
Timothy and the Things (HU): Waiting for Schrödinger DATE: 1 December 2017 8 pm TICKET PRICE: 1500 HUF / presented as part of the dunaPart4 Platform of Hungarian Contemporary Performing Arts 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. 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.
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Middlemist Red (HU) Csaba Molnár (HU): Eclipse
DATE: 1 December 2017 9.15 pm TICKET PRICE: 1500 HUF / presented as part of the dunaPart4 Platform of Hungarian Contemporary Performing Arts A show evoking the improvised masses of the party culture. Through the reinterpretation of the stereotypical situations created by the dancing crowd a new, fictitious, comic-like world is born. Beyond the dramas of the night life human games are resolved and a new trans-like state is achieved, in which the ego and the instincts are shadowed.
Freak Fusion (HU): fightinGravity DATE: 2 December 2017 9 pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / 1900 HUF General Season Pass and Twin Pass accepted presented as part of the dunaPart4 Platform of Hungarian Contemporary Performing Arts Hungarian new circus company Freak Fusion is taming gravity in its new piece. The juggling tools fall sooner or later, no matter how much training the acrobats survive. The tightrope walker has to return to the ground, cannot remain in the air – gravity always calls him. The artists of Freak Fusin want to resist gravity.
The Qualitons (HU)
DATE: 28 December 2017 8 pm DATE: 27 December 2017 8 pm TICKET PRICE: 1900 HUF / 1500 HUF (in advanced booking, the first 100 tickets) Middlemist Red gives you the atmospheric soundscape of psychedelic rock showing respect to its ascendants with nostalgia while giving it a new elucidation in a 21st century context. The foursome formed in 2012; soon they had great impulse on the music scene of Budapest, Hungary as well as significant international acknowledgement.
TICKET PRICE: 1900 HUF / 1500 HUF (in advanced booking, the first 100 tickets) The Qualitons was formed in 2008. Their music is inspired by the sound and energy of early rock, mod-beat and funk music of the ‘60s and ‘70s. Their debut album Panoramic Tymes was released in 2010 by German funk-soul label Tramp Records and after some lineup changes it was followed by Tomorrow’s News in 2014. With their second album they took a garage rock direction with an emphasis on psychedelic rock, as well as elements from other genres such as ‘60s dance music and soul, building on solid guitar grooves with thoughtful vocal harmonies.
Trafó Gallery Fran Palermo (HU)
DATE: 29 December 2017 8 pm TICKET PRICE: 1900 HUF / 1500 HUF (in advanced booking, the first 100 tickets) Fran Palermo was formed by the singer-songwriter Henri Gonzo in late 2011 in Budapest, Hungary. The band’s music and style are characterized by different genres, mostly by indie, rock and roll, afro pop and even by Mediterranean vibes.
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: +36 1456-2044 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