Festival program: 

Mon 3 March - NEXTFEST Day 0

19:00 Open Studio: Irene Plaque (Katalin Bitó, Alja Branc, Zsófia Szász) (90') / dance / in English - Studio

Wed 5 March - Grand Opening

19:00 Csaba Molnár / Nicole Clore: The Show Must Go On / The Graduation (60’) / dance/performance / in English - Main Hall

20:15 Seven Trials Theatre Troupe (Attila Lestyán, Veronika Szabó): Opening Speech (15') / performance/theatre / in Hungarian with English translation

Alagya (Szilvia Bolla, Áron Lődi): 2025 (15') / visual arts/conceptual design / English-friendly - Main Hall

21:00 Live act: Gida Labus & elod janky (40') / experimental music - Club

Thurs 6 March

18:00 Emília Boda-Novy - Independent Theater Hungary: Cannibals (60') / theatre / with English subtitles - Club

20:00 gergő d. farkas: babes (35') / dance / selected for Aerowaves 2025 / English-friendly - Main Hall

21:00 Maja Juhász & Luca Kovács: undjetzt (60') / performance/theatre / in English - Club

Fri 7 March

10:00 Workshop Foundation - NextStage: Backstage Club - International Collaborations / workshop - Cabin #freeschool
18:00 Haibo Illés & Richárd Melykó: RAW Spell (45') / performance / in English - Club

20:00 Viktor Szeri: I Quit Ordinary Dancing (45') / dance / English-friendly - Main Hall

21:30 National Performance Theatre Collective (Noya Noémi Szántusz, Emese Mikolt Tózsa, Rebeka Zsófia Kozma): Miss Hungary (ca. 45’) work-in-progress showing / performance/theatre / English-friendly - Club

22:30 gergő d. farkas - Júlia Vavra - Balázs Oláh: b*tches & w*tches - folk dance workshop (ca. 60’) / participatory dance workshop and community event / English-friendly - Club

Sat 8 March - Feminist focus on International Women's Day

10:00 Workshop Foundation - NextStage: Backstage Club -Technical coordination / workshop - Studio #freeschool
10:00 Szabó Veronika & Vavra Júlia: Mani Me - Workshop about money for freelance artists and representatives of cultural institutions. (240') - Cabin #freeschool

14:00 This is Not a Love Talk S01E01 / The Cultural Disenfranchisement of Art - moderators: Barnabás Zemlényi-Kovács & Zsolt Miklósvölgyi, guest: Tamás Seregi, aesthete (90') / discussion, visual arts (in Hungarian) - Club #freeschool

16:00 Dorottya Szonja Koltay & Anna Seress: Brickology (90’) / performance-walk in public space (English-friendly) - Meeting point: Trafó ticket office #feministfocus

18:00 Zsófia Szász: Softloneliness (40') / dance (in English) - Main Hall #feministfocus

18:00-22:00 Project833 - Haibo Illés & Richárd Melykó: How to Boil the Flow? (30’ guided tours) / visual arts/performance - special location (outdoors), meeting point: Friedrich Born rakpart, Déli irány 3
19:00 Rebeka Kupihár: To the God of Heteros (60') / performative poetry reading, in collaboration with Freeszfe film acting class 2023/2024 (in Hungarian) - Club #feministfocus

21:00 AHA Collective: Sweat Set (45') / dance (English-friendly) - Main Hall

22.00 DJ set by Persephone, a queer-feminist artist collective / music/party - Club #feministfocus

Sunday 9 March

14:00    SVUNG Research Group: Cold Comfort - Extended Version / performance (in Hungarian) (120') - special location, meeting point: Hengermalom entrance

17:00    Gálhidy Sára - Gyulai Sámuel - Szauer Lilla: The Man Turns Serious, The Woman Starts To Feel Cold, At Least They Didn’t Kill Themselves / theater (in Hungarian) (110') - special location: Arzenál Club

18:30    Irene Plaque (Katalin Bitó, Alja Branc, Zsófia Szász): The NEXT Meeting / dance (in English) (50’) - Club

20:00    Júlia Vavra - Willany Leo Improvisation Dance Theatre: ripples in silence, The misty waltz (50’) / dance (English-friendly) - Main Hall

The festival program is being finalised, the full line-up is coming soon - the organiser reserves the right to change the program.

If you don't want to miss out on anything, a limited number of festival passes are available for HUF 25.000 at the Trafó box office. You can ask for more details on how to use your passes at jegypenztar@trafo.hu or in person at our ticket office.

Line-up: 
Alagya (Szilvia Bolla & Áron Lődi), AHA Collective, Emília Boda-Novy / Independent Theater Hungary, gergő d. farkas, Gida Labus & guest, Sára Gálhidy / Sámuel Gyulai / Lilla Szauer, Haibo Illés & Richárd Melykó, Irene Plaque (Katalin Bitó & Alja Branc & Zsófia Szász), Maja Juhász & Luca Kovács, Dorottya Szonja Koltay & Anna Seress, Rebeka Kupihár, Csaba Molnár / Nicole Clore, Zsolt Miklósvölgyi & Zemlényi-Kovács Barnabás, National Performance Theatre Collective (Rebeka Zsófia Kozma, Noya Noémi Szántusz, Emese Mikolt Tózsa), Balázs Oláh, b*tches & w*tches - folk dance workshop, Persephone Collective, Project833, Seven Trials Theatre Troupe (Attila Lestyán & Veronika Szabó), Zsófia Szász, Viktor Szeri, SVUNG Research Group, Júlia Vavra / Willany Leó Improvisation Dance Theatre

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