’With the support of the Culture 2000 Programme of the European Union.’



2007 / 2008

30. June - 7. July 2007.
Kontakt Budapest International Improvisation Festival (D#1)
MU Theatre (1117 Bp., Körösy J. u. 17. Tel: 466-4627)
Artus Studio (1116 Bp, Sztregova utca 7. Tel: 204-3755)
Fonó Music House (1116 Bp, Sztregova u. 3. Tel: 206-5300)

Kontakt Budapest is an annual International Improvisation Festival that has been organized since 2002 and it is open for people with all abilities. The festival organizes classes and workshops taught by internationally recognized teachers/performers (Hungary, Austria, Germany, Holland/Sweden, Greece, Italy, USA) and it offers space to research and explore movements, to work deeply with different aspects of improvisation and it gives possibility to perform. The festival welcomes beginners and professional dancers, performers, actors, musicians, composers, and those working with improvisation for long. Artistic director: Eszter Gál.
Partner in organizing: Kontakt Budapest


21-25. August 2007.
International Contemporary Dance Workshop (D#1)
Goli Dance Place (1036 Bp. Perc u. 2. tel.: 250-3046)

Five-day workshop for advanced and professional dancers with Jozef Frucek (SK), Linda Kapetanea (GR), Bakó Tamás (H), Vladká Malá (CZ).
Partner in organizing: New Performing Arts Foundation


September 2007. - May 2008.
Training program of MU Terminal for the 2007/2008 season (D#1)
MU Theatre (1117 Bp. Kõrösy József u. 17. tel.: 209 4014)

MU Terminal is a dance and movement theatre workshop/laboratory that offers young graduated dancers a possibility to work for a season with Hungarian and foreign internationally recognised dancers, choreographers. Artistic director: Ádám Fejes.
(Open workshops of MU Terminal can be seen in chronologic order on this site.)
Partner in organizing: MU Terminal


October - December 2007.
Research into the Unknown (improvisational laboratory) / Autumn (D#1)
Trafo Studio (1094 Bp. Liliom u. 41. tel.: 456-2052)
MU Theatre (1117 Bp. Kõrösy József u. 17. tel.: 209 4014)

Residency program furthering co-operation of dance and other fields of art, organised by L1 Independent Dancers' Partnership and Workshop Foundation. Concept: Michaela Pein
December 21. premier - MU Theatre
· Hód Adrienn (choreography)
· Oborni Katalin (choreography) - Fuchs Péter (videoperformer)
Partner in organizing: Workshop Foundation


2-25. October 2007.
Zsuzsa Rózsavölgyi (H/B) and Laia Puig (E) workshop
Goli Dance Place (1036 Bp. Perc u. 2. tel.: 250-3046)

Zsuzsa Rózsavölgyi attended Budapest Dance School, SEAD and PARTS. She worked as a dancer with David Zambrano, Thomas Hauert and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, now is a freelance dancer, choreographer): repertoire, Laia Puig studied in SEAD, worked in Wienna, studied in Movement Researche and Trisha Brown Company, and worked with Keila Cordoba in New York, now lives in Brussels. Here she teaches ashtanga yoga.
Partner in organizing: New Performing Arts Foundation


8-11. October 2007.
Miguel Gutierrez (USA): The Big Mess (D#1)
L1 DanceLab (1095 Bp. Soroksári út 164. tel.: 358-1006)

Workshop for participants of 2006 summer course.
Partner in organizing: Workshop Foundation, L1 - Independent Dancers' Partnership


15-19. October 2007.
Zoltán Fodor (H) modern dance workshop (D#1)
MU Theatre (1117 Bp., Körösy J. u. 17. Tel: 466-4627)

He studied Hammadi technique, danced in the company of Béla Földi for years and worked with several choreographers and companies in Hungary. His own style developed during his choreographic and teaching activity requiers high technical skills and physical intensity. It is offered for advanced and professional dancers.
Partner in organizing: MU Terminal


7-10. November 2007.
Heine Rosdal Avdal (NO): Box with holes (D#3)
Metropolitan Ervin Szabo Library (1088 Bp. Szabó Ervin tér 1.)

Heine Rosdal Avdal, dancer, performer, choreographer and video maker created Box with holes - a performance-installation to be visited by one spectator at a time - in search for an answer to the above question. In his work Avdal often questions how new media and new technologies are and could be used to create new meanings and perceptions of the human body and its surroundings.
In Box with holes he tries to make the spectator go through a physical experience during the performance and see if this can affect perception. Box with holes is at once a venture to explore the relationship between touch and its visualisation and also an intimate and anonymous experience that feels real.
Organizer: Trafó


18-22. November 2007.
Andrea Boll (NL/CH) workshop on choreography (D#1)
MU Theatre (1117 Bp., Körösy J. u. 17. Tel: 466-4627)

Boll has various choreographic and performing experience. You can taste the conception about dance and art of a ripe creator. It is offered for advanced and professional dancers.
Partner in organizing: MU Terminal


10-14. December 2007.
Éva Duda (H) modern dance workshop (D#1)
MU Theatre (1117 Bp., Körösy J. u. 17. Tel: 466-4627)

She expresses her own feminity in her dance with a totally unique movement style. If you love challenge, come and get to know her world. It is offered for advanced and professional dancers.
Partner in organizing: MU Terminal


3-8. January 2008.
Eleonora Valere (F) and Anton Lachky (SK) workshop (D#1)
Goli Dance Place (1036 Bp. Perc u. 2. tel.: 250-3046)

Both of them graduated in P.A.R.T.S., then Lachky worked with Akram Khan Company, Valere with Ultima Vez Company and Michele Anne de Mey. They teach reperoire on physical theatre.
Partner in organizing: New Performing Arts Foundation


14-18. January 2008.
Riina Saastamoinen (FIN) contemporary dance workshop (D#1)
MU Theatre (1117 Bp., Körösy J. u. 17. Tel: 466-4627)

After Rotterdamse Dansacademie (1994-95) and PARTS (1995-98) she worked with Jan Fabre, The Flemish Theatre and Manuela Rastaldi. Her teaching method emphasizes the connenction of dynamic, space, weight and dash. Keeping in balance the concordance and disharmony of the body is important for her.
Partner in organizing: MU Terminal


February-April 2008.
Research into the Unknown (improvisational laboratory) Spring (D#1)
Trafó Studio (1094 Bp. Liliom u. 41. tel.: 456-2052)
MU Theatre (1117 Bp. Kõrösy József u. 17. tel.: 209 4014)

The residency program continues with two choreographers, one from Hungary and another from abroad.
Premier - 20. May 20.00 - MU Theatre
Partner in organizing: Workshop Foundation


1-2. February 2008.
Inspiration - Young Choreographers' Evening (D#3)
Trafo (1094 Bp. Liliom u. 41. tel.: 215-1600)

Workshop Foundation's program Inspiration - supporting new ideas and young talents - was first organised over a decade ago and have supported many emerging artists up to the present. In 2008 two young Hungarian choreographers will be invited and MU Terminal with choreography of Riina Saastamoinen (FIN).
Partner in organizing: Workshop Foundation


8-9. February 2008.
Andy Deneys/Galothar (B): Mudar (D#3)
Trafo (1094 Bp. Liliom u. 41. tel.: 215-1600)

Mudar is a choreography that visualizes universal principles and structures of natural phenomena. The choreography consists out of two almost oppositional parts: a tension between the cosmos and the chaos is being translated in two contrasting aesthetics.
Organizer: Trafó


18-22. February 2008.
Vladka Malá (CZ) Pilates workshop (D#1)
MU Theatre (1117 Bp., Körösy J. u. 17. Tel: 466-4627)

Malá is the vanguard of the Pilates method in Hungary. She used the method on her own body for a decade than she got her degree in Toronto as a Pilates teacher. She has teaching experience from several years, that made her the best Pilates teacher in Hungary. It is offered for advanced and professional dancers.
Partner in organizing: MU Terminal