Nico & the Navigators (D):
HELden & KleinMUT /theatre
as part of the Intro Festival |
december 1-2. (Fri-Sat) 8pm
ticket: 2000 Ft
TRAFÓ season ticket is
valid |
“They turned off the lights to switch on the night… “ In a time
where fears breed small time heroes and big time fakes, where antibacterial soap
is bought for pore-deep safety while we numbly face the real threats of our
existence, NICO AND THE NAVIGATORS question their own fears, orientations,
meanderings and pretexts.
In a time where fears breed small time heroes and
big time fakes, where antibacterial soap is bought for pore-deep safety while we
numbly face the real threats of our existence, NICO AND THE NAVIGATORS question
their own fears, orientations, meanderings and pretexts.
The ensemble of NICO AND THE NAVIGATORS was founded 1998 at the
Bauhaus Dessau under the artistic direction of Nicola Hümpel. It is uniting
artists of different disciplines (theatre, dance, plastic arts, design, music).
Over the years, productive creative structures and a finely concerted
cooperation have emerged by the concurrence of the different disciplines. The
basic idea of developing the plays together in a thematic and practical working
process has been pursued by the ensemble until today.
More on the Trafó website!
Krétakör Theatre - Sorokin:
Ice /theatre
directed by Kornél Mundruczó |
december 4-6. (Mon-Wed) 7pm
ticket: 2000 Ft
TRAFÓ season ticket is
valid |
Krétakör Theatre presents its new piece in Trafó directed by
Kornél Mundruczó autumn 2006, based on Vladimir Sorokin’s novel called Ice.
Sorokin is one of the most controversial and exciting figures of contemporary
Russian literary scene, whose works have been translated to several languages
and who is considered to be ‘enfant terrible’ of the Russian public life and
contemporary culture. Sorokin does not believe in the moral power of literature;
his view is simply aesthetic and its boundaries are set by his demonic fantasy
and perceptiveness. His dramas and novels provoke and inspire their environment;
therefore their theatrical adaptation is an important challenge.
Actors:
Csákányi Eszter, Péterfy Borbála, Sárosdi Lilla, Tóth Orsolya, Bánki Gergely,
Gyabronka József, Katona László, Mucsi Zoltán, Nagy Zsolt, Rába Roland, Scherer
Péter, Terhes Sándor, Tilo Werner
Director: Mundruczó Kornél
More on the Trafó website!
Thomas Hauert / ZOO
(B-CH): Modify /dance
as part of the Intro Festival |
december 8-9. (Fri-Sat) 8pm
ticket: 1500 Ft
TRAFÓ season ticket is
valid |
A central theme in ZOO/Thomas Hauert’s work, the tension
between freedom and constraint, internal and external forces, informed the shape
as well as the content of this project, its development process as well as its
choreographic material. The music of Haendel and Schnittke, physically and
symbolically very imposing for a platform of six dancers, combines with the
visually complex set, lighting and costumes to create a baroque abundance of
sensations, aimed at drowning the spectator in information, disorientating him,
overwhelming his mental capacity and inviting him to approach the work in a more
intuitive way. To do, modify or surrender…
Concept and direction: Thomas Hauert
Choreography and dance:
Thomas Hauert, Martin Kilvady, Lisa Gunstone, Sara Ludi, Chrysa Parkinson, Mat
Voorter
More on the Trafó website!
| Compagnie Pál Frenák (H):
MILL&AN /dance |
december 14-16. (Thu-Sat) 8pm
ticket: 1500Ft
TRAFÓ season ticket is
valid |
The choreography of MILL & AN represents the story of two twins in five
tableaux. The twins are abandoned brothers whose only treasure is the company of
the other through the hardships of life. Or, perhaps, are we witnesses to a
couple of just one flesh-and-blood man and his Other charmed into being by his
imagination?
The twins are abandoned brothers whose only treasure is the company of the
other through the hardships of life. Or, perhaps, are we witnesses to a couple
of just one flesh-and-blood man and his Other charmed into being by his
imagination?
www.ciefrenak.org
Choreography and scenery : Frenák
Pál
Participants: Várnagy Kristóf és Stéphane Vaunthront
More on the Trafó website!
|
GRAHAM, LIMÓN, AILEY /dance |
december 20. (Wed) 8pm
ticket: 1000 Ft
TRAFÓ season ticket is valid
|
The choreographers, dancers and students of Budapest Dance
School present their work in Trafó each year. This december the evening will
focus on „modern dance legends”. The students will present pieces from legendary
masters and choreographers of the American modern dance scene. The work of such
great artists as Martha Graham, José Limón, Alvin Ailey has inspired several
other choreographers all over the world.
Martha Graham: STEPS IN THE STREET
Teacher: László
Mónika
Martha Graham: LAMENTATION
Performed by: Lőrinc
Katalin
José Limón: CHOREOGRAPHIC OFFERING - 1. part
Teacher: Fekete
Hedvig
Alvin Ailey: REVELATIONS
Teacher: László Mónika, Lőrinc
Katalin, Vámos Veronika
José Limón: THERE IS A TIME -
részletek
Teacher: Blaskó Bori
Director: Angelus Iván
More on the Trafó website!
|
Egy Kiss Erzsi Zene (H) /concert |
december 28. (Thu) 8pm
ticket: 1000 Ft
TRAFÓ season ticket is
valid |
There is a variety of folk and drum and bass motives, but you
may hear darker tones of ballad-like tales, and sunny bright chansons, or rock
songs of the 70's as well. You may experience the variety of melodies through
the wordless singing language, which expresses itself in quotation marks,
deludes you in illusion, but communicates from the 21st century. And this
"language" is characteristic only of this group.
Kiss Erzsi Music
composed the musical material for many films and dance performances: Artus
Dancetheater, Sándor Román (Experidence), Zsófi Murányi, Orkesztika Movement
Theater, Miklós Jancsó, Szabolcs Hajdú, Árpád Sopsits, TV Documentaries, TV
Programmes.
More on the Trafó website!
| Songwriters Klub /concert
|
december 29. 8pm
ticket: 1500 Ft |
Songwriter’s club is a weekly concert series in Trafó Bár Tangó lead
by the well-known Hungarian group Sziámi. They invite one musician-songwriter
each week to present his/her new song specially written for this occasion. On
this „songfestival“ we can hear a fine selection of their favorite songwriters
appeared in the club during the year and we can also hear the group
Sziámi.
More on the Trafó website!
| Litera Pre-New Year’s Eve
party /literature |
december 30. 8pm
ticket: 2000 Ft |
Ghost Stories Pre-New Year’s Eve party organized by the literary website
LITERA Ghosts, temptations, nightmares in a transformer station.Adrenalin on the
cube.Participants: authors, goosebumps, cold shivers. 5th annual party organized
by Litera.
More on the Trafó website!
|
The Other City /exhibition |
december 7 - january 21.
Opening: december 7. (Thu) 7pm
Location:
Trafó Gallery |
The exhibition explores a peculiar field of East European
urbanity – the world of housing estates, the architectural experiments of
industrialized production. These manifestations of the 20th century modernism's
social utopias offer a rich terrain for artistic reflection. Architecture and
its cultural-political dimensions more and more often become the subject of
contemporary art – our exhibition aims to map the intellectual context created
by the dualities of communal cooperation vs. autonomous artistic activity;
social-scientific concepts vs. civil uses; political representations vs.
spontaneous identities; utopias vs. localities; planned economy vs. personal
latitudes in the context of prefabricated housing estates.
Exhibiting artists: Balázs Beöthy, Miklós Erhardt, Marcel
Esterházy, Zsolt Keserue – Levente Polyák, Szabolcs Kisspál, Société
Réaliste
Curators: Hajnalka Somogyi, Samu Szemerey
More on the Trafó website!
|
november 3-4. (Fri-Sat) 8pm
ticket: 1500 Ft
TRAFÓ season ticket is
valid |
SWIFT is Ros Warby’s internationally acclaimed solo dance work
depicting the multifaceted layers existing simultaneously within a female
character. These characters are pulled apart, played out and exaggerated. SWIFT
traverses two worlds: that of the imagined, the made up, the fairytale, the
gremlin, the diva; and that of transformation - and the complex, and often
unknowable qualities that prompt such transformations.
”Ms Warby is a
treasure. She moves with an operatic fullness and emotes with shameless abandon,
all the while remaining fascinatingly inscrutable.’ (New York Times, Feb
13th 2004)
More on the Trafó website!
ARTE films in the Művész
cinema /screening
as part of the The Temps d'Images Festival |
october 5-8. (Sun-Wed) 7pm
free entry! |
The 2006 Temps d’Images Festival which focuses on visual and
performing arts starts with a special treat: projection of ARTE films which can
only be seen once in Művész film theatre. The four day long programme presents
four different genres: puppetry, circus, dance and music.
Program:
November 5. 19.15 (puppetry)
Anima -
L'esprit des marionnettes (directed by: Marc Hureaux and Sylvie
Martin-Lahmani)
November 6. 19.15 (circus)
La Symphonie du
Hanneton (choreographed by: James Thiérrée)
November 7. 19h
(dance)
Noces (directed by: Patricia Desmontiers, Angelin
Prejlocaj)
99 Duos (directed by: Dominique
Thiel)
2 Iris - 1st part (directed by: Philippe
Decouflé)
November 8. 19h (music)
Portait of György
Ligeti (directed by: Michel Follin)
Kurtág and
Bartók
More on the Trafó website!
Compagnie UBU (CAN): The
Blind / Dors mon petit enfant (Sleep You Little Child of Mine)/theatre-video
installation
as part of the The Temps d'Images Festival |
november 8. (Wed) 7pm, 9pm, november 9-10. (Thu-Fri) 5pm, 7pm, 9pm, november
11. (Sat) 5pm, 7pm
ticket: 1500 Ft
TRAFÓ season ticket is
valid |
Is it vision? Is it reality? As part of Temps d’Images (Time of
Images) festival Canadian director Denis Marleau and his company UBU will make
their Hungarian debut with their technological phantasmagory series.
Twelve
faces suddenly appear out of the darkness. Six faces of men and six of women.
Their gaze is aimless, directionless, unfocussed… All twelve are blind. Lost in
a shadowy forest, far from the hospice where they live, they are waiting for
their guide. They talk to hide their distress and to reassure themselves that
they are not alone. They listen with fear or hope for the slightest sign around
them. Their guide no longer answers. The Blind no longer know if it is day or
night and are suspended in a metaphysical space between life and death; they
feel abandoned...
Dors mon petit enfant is a creation of UBU, coproduced with the
the French Theatre of the National Arts Centre of Canada and Le Manège-Scène
nationale de Maubeuge.
Dors mon petit enfant by Jon
Fosse
translated by Terje Sinding
a technological phantasmagoria created
and directed by Denis Marleau with Céline Bonnier, Ginette Morin and aul
Savoie
The Blind is a creation of UBU, coproduced with the Musée
d’art contemporain de Montréal and the Festival d’Avignon.
The Blind by
Maurice Maeterlinck
a technological phanstamagoria created and directed by
Denis Marleau with Céline Bonnier and Paul Savoie.
More on the Trafó website!
Verdensteatret (N): Concert
for Greenland /concert-theatre-video
as part of the The Temps d'Images
Festival |
november 14-15. (Tue-Wed) 8pm
ticket: 1500Ft
TRAFÓ season ticket is
valid |
„Concert for Greenland“ is an audio-visual composition where rusty mechanics
meet new technology on the backside of a „video-shadow-theatre“ on Greenland. A
performance/installation where visual art, sound and video, installation, text
and theatre try to unite into one composition.
More on the Trafó website!
Alexandre Castres
(F): Monsieur Zero, Famous When Dead? /dance
as part of the The Temps
d'Images Festival |
november 17. (Fr) 8pm
ticket: 1500 Ft
TRAFÓ season ticket is valid
|
In this solo performance, Alexandre Castres, formerly a dancer
with Pina Bausch, slides into the skin of Mr. Zero, a unique character set in a
film noir universe with references as diverse as Cioran, or Pierre Desproges.
Mr. Zero decides to interrogate the image of his death, to play with the way it
reveals itself in order to understand it better, and to try to accept it. In
this work which blends dance, theatre and video, Alexandre Castres takes the
audience on a journey packed with humour and poetry.
More on the Trafó website!
Charlotte Vanden Eynde (B): Map Me /body-image-action
as part of the The
Temps d'Images Festival |
november 18-19. (Sat-Sun) 8pm
ticket: 1500 Ft
TRAFÓ season ticket is
valid |
In the duet MAP ME Charlotte Vanden Eynde and Kurt
Vandendriessche investigate performance as different medium next to dance and
theatre. Performance as a collection of physical, visual, and/or theatrical
'actions' and 'non-actions'. Charlotte Vanden Eynde integrates the medium video
in a live-performance and this by projecting images on the body: the body as
canvas, the projected images as moving element. This makes the creation of a
poly-layered image possible, an image in which the material quality of the body
and the almost immaterial one of the video image fuse. The video image shows us
the hidden sides of the body and visualizes what is going on inside the body.
MAP ME is an investigation of one's own identity and of the meeting with another
identity, another body.
More on the Trafó website!
György Árvai / Collective of
Natural Disasters: PRE-ACTIO /theatre
as part of the The Temps d'Images
Festival |
november 24-26. 8pm
ticket: 1500 Ft
TRAFÓ season ticket is valid
|
“Terrorists, human bombs, martyrs, murderers…” György Árvai and
the Collective of Natural Disasters focus on the reprehensible facts of genocide
and assassination. Using suicide terrorists’ notes and other documents, the
performance attempts to dislodge us from the safety of the everyday-life, and to
bring us closer to the Other questioning the certainty of „it cannot happen to
me".
More on the Trafó website!
Staring Into Space /artist
film-video anthology
as part of the The Temps d'Images Festival |
october 27-28. 8pm
ticket: 800 Ft
TRAFÓ season ticket is valid
|
Staring Into Space is a new video compilation that is built
from a previous video compilation, The Peninsula (2006,) shown earlier this
spring in the Singapore History Museum with The M1 Singapore Fringe Festival.
From the over 5 hours of video works that were screened in The Peninsula, we
each compiled two 80 minute programs, in order to concentrate the subjective
experience of the viewer. The two new programs, with their overlaps and
differences, reveals the inclinations, favourites, and possible variations
inherent in the curatorial process. But in both programs we can somehow catch
the pulse of contemporary video production from urban centers from around the
world.
Curators: Heman Chong & Rodney
LaTourelle
Participating artists: Colonel (FR/DK), Daniel K. & Rob
Fowler (SGP/UK), Dellbrügge & deMoll (DE), Dorinel Marc (SE), Egill
Saebjörnsson (IS), Esra Ersen (TK), Ho Tzu Nyen (SGP), Pepo Salazar (ES),
Jannicke Låker (NO), Jereon Kooijmans (NL), Johanna Billing (SK), Jon Mikel Euba
(ES), Jun Yang (AT), Köken Ergun (TK), Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi (JP),
Maryam Jafri (USA/DK), Sriwhana Spong (NZ), Tsui Kuang-Yu (TW)
More on the Trafó website!
| Bugge Wesseltoft Jazzland
Community (N), The Cinematic Orchestra (GB) /concert |
november 29. 8pm
ticket: 4000 Ft |
On The Cinematic Orchestra: ”…a stunning fusion of loose, live
jazz-dance and chillout grooves with lush ambient textures and clever audio
manipulation all in all you’ve got a classy album that makes good on everything
that the jazz/dance crossover ever promised.” (THE INDEPENDENT) On Bugge
Wesseltoft: "A full, epic scale jazz assault with a stringent left field house
attitude, stunning to the verge of addiction, drifting along like tranquility
given wings. Lovers of music, not scenes, need this".
On Bugge Wesseltoft: "A full, epic scale jazz assault with a
stringent left field house attitude, stunning to the verge of addiction,
drifting along like tranquility given wings. Lovers of music, not scenes, need
this".
More on the Trafó website!
The revolution is not a
garden party /exhibition opening
as part of the The Temps d'Images
Festival |
october 26 - november 26.
Opening: october 26. (Th) 7pm
Location:
Trafó Gallery |
The exhibition 'Revolution is not a Garden Party' is a tribute
to the revolutionary spirit of the Hungarian Uprising and considers the
resonances of social and political revolution in contemporary art. In 1956,
artists were deeply involved in the revolution through demands for artistic and
political freedom. Today, contemporary art deals with the complex histories of
specific revolutionary struggles, the place of revolution in popular culture,
the role of public monuments in preserving and distorting memories of
revolution, the rituals of revolutionary behaviour, and the individual
experience of revolution. The truth about revolution is part of a contested
history, a living process of rewriting and interpretation, in which art takes a
decisive part.
More on the Trafó website!
