There should be no sacred cows in arts – interview with choreographer Roy Assaf
I consider it a continuous process and with Girls in particular there has been a sense of great discovery over the past year – Roy Assaf recalls.
Theater
I told the dancers: we will be music, guys! – interview with Christos Papadopoulos
There are four instruments in Bach’s work: flute, cello, bass clarinet and violin, and each is represented by a human body. ‘Opus’, performed in the Trafó.
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Müpa Winter Open Air: Family fun from advent-eco-concert to nativity masquerade
A family concert, a hot chocolate, and a few rounds of skating surely help us all to get in Christmas mood. Come to the Müpa Winter Open Air!
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Can physical theatre and circus visualize totalitarian dictatorship? – Alexander Vantournhout and the Red-Haired Men
It will work out very well in Trafó to awake feelings with the mere method of looking at people – says Alexander Vantournhout.
Exploring the idea of the collective between utopia and instrumentalization
For “Coexist”, Hód, along with her company Hodworks, and Bremen based dance company Unusual Symptoms collaborate with each other for the first time.
Child actors evoke the story of a horrendous child killer on Trafó’s stage
Rau uses the biography of the Belgium’s most notoriously shameful criminal to reflect on (re)presentation of human feelings on stage.
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Electra is a murderer in my view – says choreographer János Feledi
Characters stay the same, but we put them in contemporary situations. Swirling and flowing emotions will be easy to understand and feel.
Angels fly to Budapest – Péter Eötvös’ opera for the first time in Hungary
The Budapest premiere will happen on the 10th of October as part of the CAFe Budapest Contemporary Arts Festival, together with the Neue Oper Wien.
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If it is worth showing the audience, I never hesitate – interview with Gábor Hollerung
Gábor Hollerung, conductor of the Ernő Dohnányi Symphonic Orchestra in Budafok, believes that neither romantic nor emotional music can go out of fashion.
Did the Nazis put their hand on our arm forever? – director Oliver Zahn on the art history of the outstreched arm
The ‘outstretched arm‘ says a lot about how contaminated signifiers work, and the interconnections between art and politics in general – says Oliver Zahn.
Japanese lady found alternative ways that led to Hungarian composer – interview with Ryoko Aoki
After the concert, Toshio Hosokawa introduced me to Peter. He knew that I am Noh singer, he said “Please sing my piece Harakiri”.
Great things are coming to the reconstructed Trafó next year – interview with director Beáta Barda
A system of multiannual support could sustain independent theatre groups – says Beáta Barda, executive director of the Trafó.
L-E-V: a heart dancing in living love
Love Chapter 2 is about that kind of love that is always lacking something. A show by L-E-V Dance Company on May 24 in the Trafó.
Traumas of the past come to light in the sordidest ways – interview with Kristóf Kelemen
“You could think agent network was a hidden and secretive organization, but actually it happened in front of public eyes, invisibly.”
Europe through the eyes of a Finnish and a Hungarian girl – interview with Jenna Jalonen
“Language was the base idea, and we moved towards culture, stereotypes, isolation, communication” – Jenna Jalonen on the performance ‘Long Time No See!’
Trafó welcomes season 22 with new spaces – here are some visualizations
Trafó gets a metal skeleton, with insulation, covering and wood panels getting on it, most of them being prepared on the spot.
These three films can profoundly change audience’s view on dance – interview with Gábor Pintér
They liberated dancers from following the rhythm, the tonality, or the structure of music; everything exists on its own in the same space and time.
Presenting All the Beauty of Vertical Dance
Strings will be important elements of the performance, both literally and metaphorically. We’d like the people in the audience to discover common threads…
The Everlasting Dance
He got his name from Sholem Aleichem, his fame from Fiddler on the Roof, but Tevye’s true creator was Eastern European history…
Even the conductor was outraged because of my blonde wig – interview with Karine Babajanyan
The Land of Smiles, Müpa, 1 February 2019, 7 pm We caught the incredibly nice opera singer, Karine Babajanyan, for…
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