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Duda Éva Dance Company / Movein Mission (HU): Double Bill DATE: 13/11/2016 8pm 17/12/2016 8pm
C!RCA (AUS): What Will Have Been
Árpád Schilling (HU): The Day of Fury - the song of a foolish heart DATE: 02/11/2016 8pm TICKET PRICE: 3000 HUF / 2400 HUF (student) General Season Pass and Twin Pass are valid. In the beginning of 2015 an unknown Hungarian nurse was the first to talk to the public with ruthless honesty about the unprofessional, inhuman circumstances in the Hungarian hospitals. The woman dressed up in black and called for all nurses to join her in the streets. The character of the outspoken nurse inspired the play. However, no detail of her true story will be used.
DATE: 04/11/2016 8pm 05/11/2016 8pm 06/11/2016 8pm TICKET PRICE: 3000 HUF / 2400 HUF (student) Three artists stretch the boundaries of what we think possible in this intimate and deeply moving new production by Australia’s leading contemporary circus company Circa. Hauntingly beautiful and truly virtuosic What Will Have Been is a sublime display of interlocking bodies, awe-inspiring movement and pure physical beauty. Circa’s intrepid artists will challenge your perceptions of what is possible within the human body and draw you deep into a world of physical daring. Accompanied on stage by a live violinist and fusing together the music of Bach and spine-tingling electronica, this explosive new production is guaranteed to tug at your heartstrings.
Jazzaj 5th Anniversary presents AMM (UK), Backer-Somló-Bolcsó-Hock-Porteleki (NO/HU) DATE: 12/11/2016 8pm TICKET PRICE: 1500 HUF The independent JAZZAJ (meaning jazz-noise in Hungarian) concert series has become one of the most prominent platform for improvising musicians in Budapest in its five-year history. On this special occasion we are proud to present the now re-united AMM: Keith Rowe, John Tilbury and Eddie Prévost. The legendary British trio is one of the most radical groups reaching beyond free jazz towards pure improvised music. Founded originally by Eddie Prévost, Keith Rowe and Lou Gare in 1965 their “meta-music” escapes existing musical patterns by putting sound itself into the focus.
TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / 1900 HUF (student) | General Season Pass, Twin Pass and 200% Dance Pass are valid. One, two, three. One company, two pieces, three choreographers. This evening features two performances by the Éva Duda Company/ Movein Mission, the first choreographed by Spanish creative partners Maria Campos and Guy Nader, the second presenting Éva Duda’s latest work. MESH Like particles pursuing their paths in space, continuously collaborating and networking, five dancers search for spatial harmony by connecting together and sculpting an assemblage of systems, creating an collective organism that, by constantly building up and falling apart, leads to different encounters and constellations. BREATHE! We hurry. We hurry a lot. Then we wait. I am always waiting for myself to arrive. I have to wait for my soul to arrive too. We always want to rush ahead. The last time I was in such a rush, I had to wait a long time for myself to catch up. Why do we rush so much? It’s so good to stop. To take a breath. To breathe. To not rush, to not catch up again. Because that might mean coming face-to-face with myself. It’s good to stop. To take a breath. To breathe. To be free.
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.
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Peter Brook (F): Battlefield
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.
DATE: 14/12/2016 8pm 15/12/2016 8pm 16/12/2016 8pm
Compagnie XY (F): Il n’est pas encore minuit…
TICKET PRICE: 3600 HUF / 2900 HUF (student)
DATE: 06/01/2017 8pm 07/01/2017 8pm
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.
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.
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.
Trafó Gallery 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 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