The multi-arts performance reenacts the poetry of the famous Hungarian poet Sándor Weöres on stage by a special theatrical language in which the different art forms - dance, fine arts, visual arts, music - become an integral unit and evoke the world of the poem. The drawings are manipulated live on stage using the latest technology, thus creating the surrealistic world of the performance.

The Miracles of the Night is English friendly, there is no text in the performance.

The Miracles of the Night - tulle, tablet and dance

Have you ever lain awake through the night with someone by your side, without “anything” happening between the two of you? And risen in the morning to a changed world inside nonetheless?

A girl busy with her drawing and a boy recreate this strange, dream-like state of something like awe in which two people just stare at each other.

The performance is inspired by the eponymous poem by Sándor Weöres, a poetic vision that is free-ranging, erratic and unfettered by rules, as Weöres’s poetry often is. In short, no age limit or PG rating applies. This special linguistic idiom is reenacted here on stage with the backing of paintings, drawings and animation by two artists, Ildikó Mezei and Éva Taskovics.

The Animata software — a work in progress developed by Bence Samu since 2007 — has been instrumental in breathing life into the objects and figures created by the girl as she draws them on stage. The projected world and the dancers thus enter an entirely bizarre, surrealistic relationship whereby the drawn lines are personified to engage and interact with the live actors.

As reality and imagination blend together in a perpetual mutual palimpsest,

„Comes the sweeping-machine with a muffled yawn,
followed by the dawn, dashing with her blond hair all undrawn;
morning clatters, light soars high...
and that wide miracle of the night,
this strange whatever in quick flight
was only seen
by you and me”

Director-coreographer: Réka Szabó
Director’s collaborator: Máté Czakó

Dates and time:
10/01/2016 7pm
04/04/2016 7pm
10/05/2016 7pm

Duration: 60'

Ticket price:

2000 HUF / Student: 1600 HUF
General Season Pass is valid
Twin Pass is valid

Venue: Trafó Theatre Hall
Address: 1094 Budapest, Liliom u. 41.,
Tel.: (+36 1) 456 2040