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Film screenings at 15th Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival
Terry Riley (USA): In C DATE: 11 November 2018 8pm TICKET PRICE: 1500 HUF
DATE: 08 November 2018 8 pm 09 November 2018 6 pm
WHS (FI): Departure (Lähtö)
TICKET PRICE: 1100 HUF / Verzio pass accepted
DATE: 09 November 2018 8pm 10 November 2018 8pm
Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, the only festival of its kind in Hungary, has been organized on an annual basis since 2004. It aims to promote open society, democratic values, rule-of-law, freedom of expression, political and cultural pluralism, and to expose abuse and global human rights violations through creative, quality documentaries. 8th November 20h: Srbenka (r. Nebojša Slijepčević , Croatia, 2018 ,72’, croatian) 9th November 18h: The Poetess (r.: Stefanie Brockhaus, Andy Wolff, Germany , 2017, 90’, Arabic, English)
TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / 1900 HUF (student) Feelings and words are not communicated through lines in this work of WHS, but through movements and vibrant surroundings. The story is formed about a relationship, a game of closeness and distance. “Lähtö mixes up dance, theatre, circus, and magic into a compellingly beautiful imagery, that lingers to haunt the mind for a long time.” -Turun Sanomat
An early piece of the endlessly repetitive minimalist style Terry Riley’s In C was written in 1964. It is unique in terms of collision between the fashionable open form aleatory and the hypnotic, slowly transforming repetition of rhythmic-melodic patterns, which in a few years became a central element of the mainstream American minimalism. In other words, In C created a wedge between two eras of musical composition by unifying techniques that were thought never to be unified, and the unusually liberal and soft approach to performing a written score, which allows a large number of people to participate freely, and get the insider’s experience, or just listen, and still get the insider’s experience in a different way. The psychedelic effect of repetition and polyrythm was discovered here, and a possibility of using a sophisticated technique to get music that everyone can enjoy.
Lucy Guerin Inc. (AUS): Split Anton Lachky (SK): Special Society Máté Mészáros (HU): Insoundout DATE: 15 November 2018 8pm 16 November 2018 8pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / 1900 HUF (student) General Season Pass and Twin Pass accepted SPECIAL SOCIETY Work of Anton is based on physicality capacity of body its simplicity and complexity. He has invented system of puzzle work system of complexity that invites dancers to explore their complexity limits. Speed and precision is always part of his choreographically work. INSOUNDOUT What does a dancer do when there is no dance? The experience of the show is transferred to the audience by the dancer, whom is the “medium” for accessing the physical and musical expression of the piece.
ELECTRIFY vol. 17 Demdike Stare & Michael England (UK), Kelman Duran (US), Asio Otus (HU) DATE: 17 November 2018 8 pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / 1900 HUF (in advanced booking, the first 100 tickets) General Season Pass and Twin Pass accepted The 17th night of the ELECTRIFY series will see the collaboration of Manchester’s dark-ambient techno duo Demdike Stare and visual artist Michael England. Dominican multimedia artist Kelman Duran will present politically charged recontextualised reggaeton sounds and local artist Asio Otus will showcase his hypermeditative, carefully crafted ambient atmospheres.
DATE: 23 November 2018 8pm 24 November 2018 8pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / 1900 HUF (student) General Season Pass and Twin Pass accepted This is a square, a stage, a world, a life. Space is getting tighter and time is getting shorter. In Split, the dancers Melanie Lane and Lilian Steiner, one clothed and one naked, are framed by ever-diminishing dimensions of space and time with escalating intensity. This dance revels in Lucy Guerin’s sharp, elegant choreographic investigations, reflecting the dilemmas of negotiating with oneself and others in a world of increased pressure and reduced resources. Split received a prestigious Helpmann Award for Best Dancer (Lilian Steiner) as well as numerous other award nominations. Featuring a musical score by UK composer Scanner, Split is a thought-provoking structural meditation rendered in movement and delivered by one of Australia’s most fearless dance companies.
EURO18 EUROPEAN POETRY SLAM CHAMPIONSHIP 2018 Finals DATE: 30 November 2018 7 pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / 1900 HUF (student) Hungary is hosting the European Poetry Slam Championship in Budapest between November 26 – December 1, 2018! Slam Poetry, perhaps the most active grassroots cultural movement in the world, appeared in Hungary in 2006, twenty years after its birth in the USA. The central force behind the Hungarian slam community is Slam Poetry Hungary Association /SPM. Our local community boasts nearly 20,000 Facebook fans and 6400 YouTube subscribers with more than 2.8 million channel views. The European Slam Championships are organised every year in a different country, it is mainly coordinated and united by Belgian organiser Philip Meersman of Creatief Schrijven.
DATE: 01 December 2018 8 pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / 1900 HUF (in advanced booking the first 100 tickets) General Season Pass and Twin Pass accepted Volkova Sisters are a four piece band from Hungary now in England who borrowed their name from a cyberpunk novel by William Gibson. The Volkova Sisters have their very own compelling take on dark electronica with a sharper emphasis on industrial pop and adding their own twists of depth, breath an dynamism. Infused with the dark side of cold wave, the infinite deepness of their music touches the intuitive and sensual part of human soul. Terra Profonda formed in Budapest in September, 2012. The trio’s compositions consist of conventional songs inspired by the fertile lap of blues, jazz and folk music, mixed with improvisation and free musical processes, all twisted around visionary poems. As the group’s name suggests, the earth and an earthy approach to sound are crucial to their music.
Hodworks (HU): Sunday Hodworks (HU): Dawn DATE: 03 December 2018 8pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / 1900 HUF (student) General Season Pass and Twin Pass accepted 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. The continuous interaction between and never-ending series of developments turn this daring piece into a performance which demands an exceptionally high level of awareness, strength, and refinement from the dancers. An avant-garde, radical, prejudice-free investigation of the body, as one would expect from Adrienn Hód.
DATE: 04 December 2018 8 pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / 1900 HUF (student) General Season Pass and Twin 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. Their new creation, 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.
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Gábor Palotai (HU): Zoo, Landscapes, Cosmos
The Symptoms (HU): Head first or The Contractions of Expanding Time DATE: 10 December 2018 8pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / 1900 HUF (student) General Season Pass and Twin Pass accepted 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 brand new 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.
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Mary PopKids Christmas Special
DATE: Opening: 31 November 2018 7pm. On View: 02 December 2018
DATE: 27 December 2018 8 pm
TICKET PRICE: Free entrance
TICKET PRICE: 1900 HUF / 1500 HUF (in advanced booking, the first 100 tickets) General Season Pass and Twin Pass accepted “Mary PopKids is an eight-piece funk-soul-blues-rock-pop squad, known for their eclectic live shows and audiencepleasing pieces that are played by Hungarian radio stations in heavy rotation. Unlike many other bands on the scene, they name acts like Foster The People, Jamie Lidell, James Blake, Kanye West, and other forwardthinking bands as inspirations; it’s no surprise that they describe their sound as futurepop.” (welovebudapest.com)
photo: Gábor Palotai: ZOO, 2017 / Detail from the graphic design novel ZOO
Volkova Sisters (HU): Terra Profonda
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photo: Peter Hencz
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photo: photo: Herman Márton Sorgeloos Mónus
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Gábor Palotai (1956) is a notable member of the international graphic-design scene, his autonomous artworks were presented at several Hungarian and international exhibitions. Palotai’s artistic and designer practice operates with an expanded concept of design, and uses the artistic methods of repetition, modularity and abstraction. His artworks are centred around such systems and rules, like the process of categorisation, the scientific construction of a collection and the investigation of urban structures or of the centuries-old basic rules of the representation of landscapes. His exhibition at Trafó presents a selection of his most recent series; Zoo, Landscapes and Cosmos. Curators: Emese Mucsi, Júlia Salamon
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