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Agrupación Señor Serrano (ES): A House in Asia CAF e Budapest Contemporary Arts Festival
TAO Dance Theater (CHN): 6 & 7 CAFe Budapest Contemporary Arts Festival
Miet Warlop (B): Dragging the Bone Compagnie Pal Frenak: Lutte DATE: 23/09/2016 8pm 24/09/2016 8pm 25/09/2016 8pm 02/12/2016 8pm 03/12/2016 8pm TICKET PRICE: 3000 HUF / Student: 2400 HUF 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: 30/09/2016 8pm 01/10/2016 8pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / Student: 1900 HUF General Season Pass and Twin Pass are valid. Oracles, miracles, tunnel of thoughts and acupuncture on objects. For the last ten years or so, the exceptional Belgian artist Miet Warlop has been pursuing visual experiments in stage form. Addressing concepts such as ambition, enthusiasm and determination, this new creation merges the immaterial processes of the work into a “sculptural event”. Dragging the Bone, whose title refers to an Etruscan object in bronze with divinatory properties, stages a narrative, a life that becomes petrified, as though under Medusa’s gaze. Her mix of ‘serious’ humor and frightening ecstasy takes a dive into your imagination, a visual gem.
Dwarfs of East Agouza / Sote / Killing Sound /Alpár UH fest 2016
DATE: 02/10/2016 7pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF in advanced booking: 1900 HUF (the first 100 tickets) During the first days of October experimental music festival UH Fest returns with international and local live performances across various clubs and venues of Budapest. More than 40 concerts, lectures, workshops and talks will accompany the main program. This is the opening night of the festival.
Máté Mészáros: Hinoki 2.0
The Bug / Gábor Lázár / KAFR / Heather Leigh / UH fest 2016
DATE: 06/10/2016 8pm TICKET PRICE: 2000 HUF / Student: 1600 HUF | General Season Pass, Twin Pass and 200% Dance Pass are valid. Mortality – destruction – re-created reality: a unique triptych. The latest piece by Máté Mészáros, a member of the Belgian Ultima Vez company led by Wim Vandekeybus, focuses on this special trinity. For his creative partners, he has chosen Hungarian dancers studying in foreign schools and institutes, as well as others who are currently working abroad. A unique collaboration and a special challenge for both dancers and artists.
Eszter Kálmán: The Lake (premier) CAFe Budapest Contemporary Arts Festival
DATE: 08/10/2016 7pm
DATE: 11/10/2016 8pm 12/10/2016 8pm
TICKET PRICE: 2900 HUF in advanced booking: 2400 HUF (the first 100 tickets)
TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / Student: 1900 HUF General Season Pass and Twin Pass are valid.
UH Fest returns to Trafó for the closing night of the weeklong festival with four totally unique performances from a wide palette of genres: random algorhythmic music, pedal steel guitar slides, ultra harsh dancehall and pseudotraditional music.
The Hungarian visual artist Eszter Kálmán’s new project mixes genres and experiments with puppetry and dance. Using motives from The Swan Lake the performance is focusing on change and transformation, on the theatrical and visual possibilities of the living and the inanimate.
DATE: 21/10/2016 8pm 22/10/2016 8pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / Student: 1900 HUF General Season Pass is valid Twin Pass is valid
DATE: 14/10/2016 8pm 15/10/2016 8pm TICKET PRICE: 2800 HUF / Student: 2200 HUF | 200% Dance Pass is valid. Formed in 2008 by Beijing-based choreographer Tao Ye, TAO Dance Theater is known for its collaborations across art forms including film and visual art, creating dances that have a mesmeric, trance-like quality. In 6 & 7, he continues his numbered series of experimentations that explore the potential of the human body as a purely visual form, freed from the constraints of story-telling or representation.
The house where Geronimo is hiding in Pakistan. An exact copy of that house in a military base in North Carolina. A third twin house in Jordan, where a film is shot. The largest manhunt in history. A Sheriff obsessed with a white whale. The boy band Take That drilling for a historic mission. Cowboys and Indians. Airplanes and beers. Copies, reflections, imitations and cheeseburgers. Founded by Àlex Serrano in Barcelona in 2006, Agrupación Señor Serrano is a theatre company that creates original productions based on stories drawn from contemporary times. The company uses the richness of innovative and vintage tools to extend the boundaries of its theatre. Based on creative collaborations, Señor Serrano’s productions blend stage performance, text, video, sound, and scale models to stage stories about discordant aspects of today’s human experience.
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Duda Éva Dance Company / Movein Mission: Double bill DATE: 13/11/2016 8pm 17/12/2016 8pm
C!RCA (AUS): What Will Have Been Jazzaj 5th Anniversary presents AMM Trio Chemirani (IRN/FRA) Gift XII.
DATE: 29/10/2016 8pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF in advanced booking: 1900 HUF (the first 100 tickets) Djamchid Chemirani is one of the only two living masters of the classical Persian drum, the tombak. He learnt to play in Iran with the great tombak master Hossein Teherani, whose revolutionary work changed the tombak from an accompaniment to a solo instrument. The Chemirani Trio consists of him and his two talented sons, Keyvan and Bijan.
DATE: 04/11/2016 8pm 05/11/2016 8pm 06/11/2016 8pm TICKET PRICE: 3000 HUF / Student: 2400 HUF Three artists stretch the boundaries of contemporary circus in this intimate and deeply moving new production by Australian contemporary circus company Circa. Hauntingly beautiful and truly virtuosic What Will Have Been is a sublime display of interlocking bodies, aweinspiring 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 spinetingling electronica, this explosive new production is guaranteed to tug at your heartstrings.
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 / Student: 1900 HUF | 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: Waiting for Schrödinger DATE: 17/11/2016 8pm 18/11/2016 8pm TICKET PRICE: 2400 HUF / Student: 1900 HUF 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 & Sun Araw (US): The Play Zone / TBA / Trafó Gallery 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.
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