7 result(s) for antigone
V4 Festival to Offer 100+ Programmes
- 11 May 2023 6:59 AM
- hungarymatters.hu
- entertainment
The VéNégy Festival (Visegrad Four) and Theatre Meeting will offer a mix of programmes including theatre and music productions, workshops, film screenings, art exhibitions and folk dance shows in Nagymaros, in northern Hungary, on June 22-25.
Yvette Bozsik Company: 'Antigone', National Dance Theatre Budapest, 27 December
- 27 Dec 2021 7:00 PM
- contemporary
The Antigone, like Oedipus Rex, is based on the Theban plays.
In Sophocles’s drama, on the basis of which the musical was composed, Antigone's brothers die by each other's hands, the King calls one of them a traitor, but Antigone wants to bury him despite his command.
In the ancient Greek story, morality comes to power, love is trying to overcome the law, but the story eventually ends up ...
PR-Evolution Dance Company: Agape, National Dance Theatre Budapest, 25 October
- 25 Oct 2021 8:02 PM
- contemporary
I was born to share love, not hate. - Sophocles: Antigone (523)
This proves that agape, the purest form of love that is altruistic, unconditional, active and forgiving, already existed before the advent of Jesus.
Today many people feel that they got into a dead-end street, sinking into the dominant belief of external reality, chasing their own shadows, getting lost in dissatisfaction as ...
New Great Read: Xpat Community Newsletter - 29 October – 4 November
- 29 Oct 2020 7:23 PM
- specials
The fresh newsletter for the International Community in Hungary - described by readers as a "Great read each week" - is now available for your review via the link below.
Yvette Bozsik Company: Oedipus Rex, Mupa, 17 March
- 11 Mar 2016 8:04 AM
- community & culture
Although Sophocles wrote his Oedipus Rex after completing Antigone, the former work deals with the events preceding those of the latter. With expressive scenes following the structure of tragedy and opera, but nevertheless firmly grounded in the present day, the choreography depicts the primal sin and the catharsis that it brings.
Yvette Bozsik Company: Antigone, Festival Theatre Budapest, 27 December
- 22 Dec 2015 8:04 AM
- entertainment
Following on from The Magic Flute and Orpheus and Eurydice, the Yvette Bozsik Company once again adapts a large-scale opera for the dance stage: on this occasion, it presents Carl Orff's 1949 musical setting of Sophocles' tragedy Antigone. In the drama that serves as the basis for the work, Antigone's brothers die by each other's hand.
Films In Competition On Titanic International Film Festival
- 31 Mar 2015 9:02 AM
- entertainment
Titanic International Film Festival runs between 10-18 April in five different venues in Budapest. Since 2005 Titanic operates as a Competition Festival: this year 8 films are in competition for the Breaking Waves Award representing 10 nations. Two of the competition films are feature debuts and each of them are extraordinary women stories speaking about contemporary social tensions, motherhood, ...
V4 Festival to Offer 100+ Programmes
- 11 May 2023 6:59 AM
- hungarymatters.hu
- entertainment
The VéNégy Festival (Visegrad Four) and Theatre Meeting will offer a mix of programmes including theatre and music productions, workshops, film screenings, art exhibitions and folk dance shows in Nagymaros, in northern Hungary, on June 22-25.
Yvette Bozsik Company: 'Antigone', National Dance Theatre Budapest, 27 December
- 27 Dec 2021 7:00 PM
- contemporary
The Antigone, like Oedipus Rex, is based on the Theban plays.
In Sophocles’s drama, on the basis of which the musical was composed, Antigone's brothers die by each other's hands, the King calls one of them a traitor, but Antigone wants to bury him despite his command.
In the ancient Greek story, morality comes to power, love is trying to overcome the law, but the story eventually ends up ...
PR-Evolution Dance Company: Agape, National Dance Theatre Budapest, 25 October
- 25 Oct 2021 8:02 PM
- contemporary
I was born to share love, not hate. - Sophocles: Antigone (523)
This proves that agape, the purest form of love that is altruistic, unconditional, active and forgiving, already existed before the advent of Jesus.
Today many people feel that they got into a dead-end street, sinking into the dominant belief of external reality, chasing their own shadows, getting lost in dissatisfaction as ...
New Great Read: Xpat Community Newsletter - 29 October – 4 November
- 29 Oct 2020 7:23 PM
- specials
The fresh newsletter for the International Community in Hungary - described by readers as a "Great read each week" - is now available for your review via the link below.
Yvette Bozsik Company: Oedipus Rex, Mupa, 17 March
- 11 Mar 2016 8:04 AM
- community & culture
Although Sophocles wrote his Oedipus Rex after completing Antigone, the former work deals with the events preceding those of the latter. With expressive scenes following the structure of tragedy and opera, but nevertheless firmly grounded in the present day, the choreography depicts the primal sin and the catharsis that it brings.
Yvette Bozsik Company: Antigone, Festival Theatre Budapest, 27 December
- 22 Dec 2015 8:04 AM
- entertainment
Following on from The Magic Flute and Orpheus and Eurydice, the Yvette Bozsik Company once again adapts a large-scale opera for the dance stage: on this occasion, it presents Carl Orff's 1949 musical setting of Sophocles' tragedy Antigone. In the drama that serves as the basis for the work, Antigone's brothers die by each other's hand.
Films In Competition On Titanic International Film Festival
- 31 Mar 2015 9:02 AM
- entertainment
Titanic International Film Festival runs between 10-18 April in five different venues in Budapest. Since 2005 Titanic operates as a Competition Festival: this year 8 films are in competition for the Breaking Waves Award representing 10 nations. Two of the competition films are feature debuts and each of them are extraordinary women stories speaking about contemporary social tensions, motherhood, ...