Freeing bodies and minds trapped and tortured by professional dance training, Nicole Clore proudly presents the most promising graduates of its dance school at the opening event of Nextfest.

"The Show Must Go On / The Graduation is the first stage of a trilogy I have been working on since 2023.

The piece is a genre-bending performance event that reimagines the traditional exam and graduation ceremony format within the fictional Institute of Unapologetic Self-Expression, an art school founded by Nicole Clore.

Nicole was originally born during an educational project: through its character I led dance workshops and proposed a dance class platform based on role-playing and collective world-building.

That's when I became interested in how I could develop this character further and place it in the context of a traditional dance performance.

This gave birth to the first part of a trilogy that mirrors the stereotypical and problematic aspects of institutionalised dance education, within the framework of a fictional dance exam and graduation event." - Csaba Molnár - Nicole Clore

Place: Trafó Budapest

Address: 1094 Budapest, Liliom u. 41