The concerts of CAFe Budapest bring a refreshing breeze in the world of restrictions
The 29th CAFe Budapest Contemporary Arts Festival is going to launch on the 9th of October. At a recent press…
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No escape from Wagner’s magic – online festival launches in mid-June
This year, due to the extraordinary situation, the “Bayreuth on the Banks of the Danube”, the 15th Budapest Wagner Days, will be a virtual festival.
Hungary Live Talks – here you can watch the video!
A discussion of Beata Barda (Trafó House), Kristin Marting (HERE Arts Center) and Christina Liata (Onassis Stegi). Moderator: theater critic Tamás Jászay.
Hungary Live Talks – International Theater in the time of Coronavirus
L!ve Talks series is now online, posing the questions that every professional is facing right now to theater creators, managers, directors and performers.
Saturday night fun: sing Don’t Worry Be Happy with Bobby McFerrin!
Müpa brings superstars in our homes in the time of quarantine – but let us hope that we can soon return to concerts that are a real community experience.
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Seven videos you have to watch from Müpa’s archives!
Bored with the quarantine already? Here is some great music, dance, literature and fun to cheer you up! Great artists, instruments and genres. Enjoy!
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.
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.
#Advent #Anikó Magócsi #Bethlehem #Blue Rabbit Family #children #christmas #concert #contemporary circus #eco-consciousness #ecology #environment #family #folk dance #folk music #folk song #Frau Holle #garbage #God #Hahó #ice rink #Jesus #Joseph #Kaláka #mask #masquerade #Mother Hulda #Müpa #Müpa Winter Open Air #music #nativity #open space #puppetry #Recirquel #spirit #Szilárd Borbély #traditions #Virgin Mary #winter
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!
#absurd #acrobatics #Alexander Vantournhout #Aneckxander #Axel Guérin #Belgium #catabatics #circus #dance acrobat #Daniil Kharms #dictatorship #group performance #magic #Mozart #physical theatre #puppetry #Raphael #Red-Haired Men #redhead #resilience #Ruben Mardulier #Stalinism #suppression #totalitarian #Trafó #tragedy #Winston Reynolds #Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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.
#Béla Bartók Concert Hall #CAFe Budapest #choreography #contemporary dance #contemporary music #Csaba Káel #dance #Electra #Ernő Dohnányi Symphonic Orchestra Budafok #Euripides #Gábor Hollerung #Greek mythology #János Feledi #László Sallai #Mad Max #Müpa #music #mythology #Orpheus #revenge #Richard Strauss #Roland Szentpáli
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.
#Anna Rácz #baroque #Bence Gazdag #Bence Kurtik #CAFe Budapest #choir #contemporary music #Ecclesiastes #Ernő Dohnányi Symphonic Orchestra Budafok #Eszter Zemlényi #Gábor Hollerung #Gabriella Balga #György Orbán #Harry Potter #Image of God #Kodály Choir Debrecen #Krisztián Cser #Levente Gyöngyösi #mass #opera #orchester #Orsolya Sáfár #renaissance #romanticism #The Immortal Heart #The Master and Margarita #The Stork Caliph #traditions #violin #Violin Concerto
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.”
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