42 result(s) for contemporary dance in Events
Andrea Salustri: Materia, Trafó Budapest, 8 December
- 8 Dec 2022 8:00 PM
- contemporary
MATERIA aims to discover, explore and witness the aliveness of one material: polystyrene.
Object manipulation is taken from a different perspective: giving space to the objects themselves rather than the manipulator, and playing with the balance between these two subjects.
The piece tries not to force a narrative but rather let the audience project their own narrative on the material on ...
Giuseppe Verdi's Opera Attila, Margaret Island Open-Air Theatre, 14 August
- 14 Aug 2022 8:00 PM
- contemporary
Semi-staged opera in three acts, two parts, in Italian, with Hungarian and English surtitles
Giuseppe Verdi, the most brilliant of Italian opera's masters, created a fiery, dynamic, complex, and distinct work of art, inspired by Attila the Hun, “the scourge of God”, the most famous of the European Huns’ grand kings. The work’s libretto was written in part by both Temistocle Solera and ...
Don Quixote, National Dance Theatre Budapest, 19 January
- 19 Jan 2022 7:29 PM
- contemporary
Today, people dream of a world and life different from the masses, wear clothes and a mask to overcome everyday life and strive to make the world around them better, at least by condemning its decline. But a lonely person is thought to be mad by many people, and is marginalised.
The contemporary Don Quixote is a man who has been deceived, and is transformed from an ironic and carefree dreamer ...
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 ...
Recirquel Budapest: 'Crystal', Mupa Tent Budapest 26 December
- 26 Dec 2021 11:00 AM
- contemporary
This contemporary circus production conceived by artistic director Bence Vági recalls classic fairy tales with a story of how the mistress of the Kristály World loses her faith in human emotions and decides to freeze everything and seclude herself behind glittering walls of ice.
Together, the audience and the artists in the performance will seek hope in the warmth of love and light through a ...
Winter Contemporary Circus Fairy Tale, Palace of Arts Budapest, 26 December
- 26 Dec 2021 11:00 AM
- contemporary
Recirquel will return again this winter season with a new production evoking the atmosphere of the end-of-year holidays.
Awaiting adults and children alike in the enormous, snow-covered circus tent set up in front of the Müpa Budapest building is the magical world of Kristály, where amazing fairy-tale images frozen in glistening ice come to life before the eyes of the audience, and with their ...
Artus & Goda Gábor Company, Palace of Arts Budapest, 10 December
- 10 Dec 2021 1:03 PM
- classical
This production by Gábor Goda offers a fresh interpretation of the questions, aphorisms, topoi, sutras and myths that have arisen and have been explored in the course of years of artistic work.
As it follows up on fragments of creation jettisoned along the way, the production is informed by the essentials of the spirit of Artus's artistic credo, while it also allows the creators to summarize ...
Santa, the Merry Dance Performance for Children (and Their Parents), Hungarian National Dance Theatre, 5 December
- 5 Dec 2021 4:00 PM
- contemporary
This holiday season Kulcsár Noémi Tellabor company will take the members of their young audience on a journey to a magical world! Santa is on his way to deliver chocolate and little toys to all the good little boys and girls… But then an accident happens: his sled breaks down. Now Christmas is in danger! Will anyone help save it?
Harangozó Award winning choreographer, Noémi Kulcsár and her ...
Hodworks: Another Dance Show, Trafó Budapest, 26 October
- 26 Oct 2021 8:00 PM
- contemporary
In the recent years, cultural and political self-reflection became a central characteristic in the work of HODWORKS both on the levels of direct verbalisation and complex abstraction.
In the turbulent political climate Adrienn Hód and her co-creators are left with no other option but to constantly look for situations in which they can reflect upon the impossibility of the existential state of ...
Andrea Salustri: Materia, Trafó Budapest, 8 December
- 8 Dec 2022 8:00 PM
- contemporary
MATERIA aims to discover, explore and witness the aliveness of one material: polystyrene.
Object manipulation is taken from a different perspective: giving space to the objects themselves rather than the manipulator, and playing with the balance between these two subjects.
The piece tries not to force a narrative but rather let the audience project their own narrative on the material on ...
Giuseppe Verdi's Opera Attila, Margaret Island Open-Air Theatre, 14 August
- 14 Aug 2022 8:00 PM
- contemporary
Semi-staged opera in three acts, two parts, in Italian, with Hungarian and English surtitles
Giuseppe Verdi, the most brilliant of Italian opera's masters, created a fiery, dynamic, complex, and distinct work of art, inspired by Attila the Hun, “the scourge of God”, the most famous of the European Huns’ grand kings. The work’s libretto was written in part by both Temistocle Solera and ...
Don Quixote, National Dance Theatre Budapest, 19 January
- 19 Jan 2022 7:29 PM
- contemporary
Today, people dream of a world and life different from the masses, wear clothes and a mask to overcome everyday life and strive to make the world around them better, at least by condemning its decline. But a lonely person is thought to be mad by many people, and is marginalised.
The contemporary Don Quixote is a man who has been deceived, and is transformed from an ironic and carefree dreamer ...
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 ...
Recirquel Budapest: 'Crystal', Mupa Tent Budapest 26 December
- 26 Dec 2021 11:00 AM
- contemporary
This contemporary circus production conceived by artistic director Bence Vági recalls classic fairy tales with a story of how the mistress of the Kristály World loses her faith in human emotions and decides to freeze everything and seclude herself behind glittering walls of ice.
Together, the audience and the artists in the performance will seek hope in the warmth of love and light through a ...
Winter Contemporary Circus Fairy Tale, Palace of Arts Budapest, 26 December
- 26 Dec 2021 11:00 AM
- contemporary
Recirquel will return again this winter season with a new production evoking the atmosphere of the end-of-year holidays.
Awaiting adults and children alike in the enormous, snow-covered circus tent set up in front of the Müpa Budapest building is the magical world of Kristály, where amazing fairy-tale images frozen in glistening ice come to life before the eyes of the audience, and with their ...
Artus & Goda Gábor Company, Palace of Arts Budapest, 10 December
- 10 Dec 2021 1:03 PM
- classical
This production by Gábor Goda offers a fresh interpretation of the questions, aphorisms, topoi, sutras and myths that have arisen and have been explored in the course of years of artistic work.
As it follows up on fragments of creation jettisoned along the way, the production is informed by the essentials of the spirit of Artus's artistic credo, while it also allows the creators to summarize ...
Santa, the Merry Dance Performance for Children (and Their Parents), Hungarian National Dance Theatre, 5 December
- 5 Dec 2021 4:00 PM
- contemporary
This holiday season Kulcsár Noémi Tellabor company will take the members of their young audience on a journey to a magical world! Santa is on his way to deliver chocolate and little toys to all the good little boys and girls… But then an accident happens: his sled breaks down. Now Christmas is in danger! Will anyone help save it?
Harangozó Award winning choreographer, Noémi Kulcsár and her ...
Hodworks: Another Dance Show, Trafó Budapest, 26 October
- 26 Oct 2021 8:00 PM
- contemporary
In the recent years, cultural and political self-reflection became a central characteristic in the work of HODWORKS both on the levels of direct verbalisation and complex abstraction.
In the turbulent political climate Adrienn Hód and her co-creators are left with no other option but to constantly look for situations in which they can reflect upon the impossibility of the existential state of ...