6 result(s) for prisoners in Events
Julie Sassoon, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 5 February
- 5 Feb 2025 8:00 PM
- contemporary
“Sassoon is a fascinating original, her piano world inhabited by Keith Jarrett’s lyricism and driving hooks and Steve Reich’s minimalism … This is music that splices lyrical shapeliness with bursts of take-no-prisoners abstraction, but Sassoon’s sensitivity to that balance is as alert here as her listeners have come to expect.” – John Fordham / The Guardian
Whoever immerses themselves in the ...
Yvette Bozsik Company: 'Circulation', National Dance Theatre Budapest, 19 January
- 19 Jan 2025 7:00 PM
- contemporary
Celebrating its 30th anniversary, the Bozsik Yvette Company presented its most recent production Körforgás (Circle) at the National Dance Theatre. During the rehearsal process, the dance artists created their own role and presence together with the choreographer through self-discovery and common thinking.
Just as people take off their worn clothes and put on new ones, so does the soul give up ...
Circulation, National Dance Theatre Budapest, 23 May
- 23 May 2024 7:00 PM
- contemporary
Just as people take off their worn clothes and put on new ones, so does the soul give up old and useless bodies to accept new ones in their place." – quote from the Bhagavad Gita.
Celebrating its 30th anniversary, the Yvette Bozsik Company presents its new production “Circulation” at the National Dance Theatre. During the rehearsal process, the dancers of the Company shaped their own role and ...
Feledi Project: Liliom, National Dance Theatre Budapest, 5 April
- 5 Apr 2024 7:00 PM
- contemporary
Written in 1909,‘Liliom, or the Life and Death of a Villain' captivates audiences everywhere. It tells the story of a powerful and chaotic love affair between a maid and a carousel operator.
It’s a story of misery, raw emotions and fragility. The characters take ownership of their fate and lock themselves in their failures; it is as if they’ve been down the same road a hundred times without ...
Dead Man Walking, Eiffel Art Studios Budapest, 23 January
- 23 Jan 2022 7:00 PM
- contemporary
Jake Heggie’s opera Dead Man Walking poignantly reveals the reality of the death penalty, as well as the internal conflicts of the condemned prisoners and those who resist social pressure in order to help them.
The San Francisco Opera commissioned Heggie to write his first opera based on the actual events related in Sister Helen Prejean’s world-famous book.
This was also the first opera ...
Romanian Jazz Days, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 27 October
- 27 Oct 2021 8:00 PM
- contemporary
The formation borrowed its name from the Greek language, where Ξενοι or Xenoi means ‘outsiders, strangers’. The word refers to individuals who have not integrated into a particular community, only enjoyed its hospitality for an extended period of time.
At the same time, foreigners who had lost their freedom (slaves, prisoners of war) could not be members of the xenoi group, so freedom is the ...
Julie Sassoon, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 5 February
- 5 Feb 2025 8:00 PM
- contemporary
“Sassoon is a fascinating original, her piano world inhabited by Keith Jarrett’s lyricism and driving hooks and Steve Reich’s minimalism … This is music that splices lyrical shapeliness with bursts of take-no-prisoners abstraction, but Sassoon’s sensitivity to that balance is as alert here as her listeners have come to expect.” – John Fordham / The Guardian
Whoever immerses themselves in the ...
Yvette Bozsik Company: 'Circulation', National Dance Theatre Budapest, 19 January
- 19 Jan 2025 7:00 PM
- contemporary
Celebrating its 30th anniversary, the Bozsik Yvette Company presented its most recent production Körforgás (Circle) at the National Dance Theatre. During the rehearsal process, the dance artists created their own role and presence together with the choreographer through self-discovery and common thinking.
Just as people take off their worn clothes and put on new ones, so does the soul give up ...
Circulation, National Dance Theatre Budapest, 23 May
- 23 May 2024 7:00 PM
- contemporary
Just as people take off their worn clothes and put on new ones, so does the soul give up old and useless bodies to accept new ones in their place." – quote from the Bhagavad Gita.
Celebrating its 30th anniversary, the Yvette Bozsik Company presents its new production “Circulation” at the National Dance Theatre. During the rehearsal process, the dancers of the Company shaped their own role and ...
Feledi Project: Liliom, National Dance Theatre Budapest, 5 April
- 5 Apr 2024 7:00 PM
- contemporary
Written in 1909,‘Liliom, or the Life and Death of a Villain' captivates audiences everywhere. It tells the story of a powerful and chaotic love affair between a maid and a carousel operator.
It’s a story of misery, raw emotions and fragility. The characters take ownership of their fate and lock themselves in their failures; it is as if they’ve been down the same road a hundred times without ...
Dead Man Walking, Eiffel Art Studios Budapest, 23 January
- 23 Jan 2022 7:00 PM
- contemporary
Jake Heggie’s opera Dead Man Walking poignantly reveals the reality of the death penalty, as well as the internal conflicts of the condemned prisoners and those who resist social pressure in order to help them.
The San Francisco Opera commissioned Heggie to write his first opera based on the actual events related in Sister Helen Prejean’s world-famous book.
This was also the first opera ...
Romanian Jazz Days, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 27 October
- 27 Oct 2021 8:00 PM
- contemporary
The formation borrowed its name from the Greek language, where Ξενοι or Xenoi means ‘outsiders, strangers’. The word refers to individuals who have not integrated into a particular community, only enjoyed its hospitality for an extended period of time.
At the same time, foreigners who had lost their freedom (slaves, prisoners of war) could not be members of the xenoi group, so freedom is the ...