2011 / 2012
June 28. - July 3. 2011.
10. Kontakt Budapest International Improvisation Festival (D#1)
SÍN Cultural Center (1139 Budapest, Gyutacs u. 10-18. www.sinarts.org)
Kontakt
Budapest is an annual International Improvisation Festival that has
been organized since 2002. As in previous years the annual
International Improvisation Festival was open for people with all
abilities. This year we celebrated our 10th addition with foreign
artists/teachers, who had been in our Festival in one or many of the
previous Festivals and of course the teacher staff includeed
Hungarians. What is also unique about this year that all three projects
was lead by two master teachers from the field of improvisation. They
collaborated and while teaching they explored different perspectives on
their offered material!
The festival, similar to last years, organized classes and workshops,
it offered space to research and explore movements, to work deeply with
different aspects of improvisation and it gave possibility to perform.
The festival welcomeed beginners and professional dancers, performers,
actors, musicians, composers, and those working with improvisation for
long.
Teachers of the festival 2011:
Projects: Éva Karczag (H/NL) with Kálmán Ferenc (H),
Mirva Makinen (FIN) with Lior Ophir (ISL), Karen Schaffman (USA) with
Peter Pleyer (D)
Intensive: Sabine Parzer (A)
Open classes, warm up, Lab: Bárdos Adrienne, Bóta Ildikó, Csuday Dóri,
Dombi Kati, Farkas Dorka, Gábor Júlia, Gál Eszter, Györke Tímea,
Hargitay Ákos, Kéri Judit, Kovács Kata, Kovács Vera, Lipka Péter, Nagy
Zoltán, Szilágyi Enikõ
PERFORMANCE EVENING
On the 2nd of July, 2011- Saturday.
Performers are the teachers of the festival and invited guests. (Company Tánceánia)
Number of participants: 112
Number of teachers: 21
Artistic leader: Eszter Gál.
Partner in organizing: Kontakt Budapest
September 2011. –May 2012.
workshops organised by New Performing Arts Foundation (D#1)
Goli Dance Place (1036 Bp. Perc u. 2. www.tanc.org.hu)
Planned workshops:
Csaba Molnár contemporary dance and composition
Éva Karczag release technique
Rasmus Ölme contemporary dance
Zvi Gotheiner ballett workshop
Gill Clarke release technique
Eleonora Valére-Lachky contemporary dance
Partner in organizing: New Performing Arts Foundation
October – December 2011.
Research into the Unknown (improvisational laboratory) / Autumn (D#1)
Trafo Studio (1094 Bp. Liliom u. 41. www.wsf.hu)
MU Theatre (1117 Bp. Kõrösy József u. 17. www.mu.hu)
Research into the Unknown is a residency program that aims at
encouraging artists to research on improvisation as an artistic tool,
as a means of creation in contemporary dance. Improvisation in dance
and other art forms, and its relation to awareness and perception of
performer and audience organized by Michaela Hargitay (A) (curator) and
Zsóka Nej (H)/Workshop Foundation (coordinator), artistic coach: Eszter
Gál (H)
Final presentation at MU Theatre: 13th December 2011.
Katalin Dombi (HU)
Rebecca D’Andrea (IT)
Partner in organizing: Workshop Foundation
November 13. 2011.
Contact and Improvisation Celebration CI38 (D#1)
Trafo (1094 Bp. Liliom u. 41. www.trafo.hu)
Kontakt Budapest is an annual International Improvisation Festival that
has been organized since 2002 and it is open for people with all
abilities.
After last years’ successful CI celebrations we have again an
open jam day at the Trafó. You are all welcome to join from noon to 10
pm. There will be led warm up, moderated discussion, short performances
with foreign and Hungarian guests from 5:00 pm, historical video
showings, free drinks and food and of course JAM!
Invited performers: Stephanie Maher (USA/D); Peter
Pleyer; Bakó Tamás, Nagy Csilla, Nagy Zoltán, Lipka Péter, Györke
Tímea, Gál Eszter, Kovács Kata, Kovács Vera, Szilágyi Enikõ, Tánceánia
Együttes - dance; Sõrés Zsolt, Rubik Ernõ, Oli Mayne, and others – music.
Partner in organizing: Kontakt Budapest
November 29-30. 2011.
DÉPARTS evening (D#3)
Trafo (1094 Bp. Liliom u. 41. www.trafo.hu)
Two choreographies made for the request of Trafó:
Eléonore Valere-Lachky (F/B): Whirling
The five dancers of Whirling are constantly pushing their physical
boundaries, by distributing and reusing the energy they gain from
themselves and each other. Vitality, simplicity and raw power appears
as an energy field on the stage – on one of the field, the various
personalities confront with each other, while on the other end is a
quiet, calm, idyllic place, a sanctuary where everyone would love to
lull themselves asleep.
Choreographer: Eléonore Valere-Lachky
Performers: Zsuzsa Jónás, Dávid Mikó, Csaba Varga, Bea Egyed, Péter Juhász
Molnár Csaba (SK/H): KITTY 2012
The events of Kitty 2012 appearing in the post-apocalyptic atmosphere
created by its music are searching for their place and meaning.
Thousands of meanings and solutions surface, but there’s nothing to
understand about KITTY 2012.
Concept: Csaba Molnár
Creative partners and performers: Júlia Garai, Csaba Molnár, Marco Torrice, Imre Vass
January 2012. – May 2012.
Initiation program (D#3)
Trafo (1094 Bp. Liliom u. 41. www.trafo.hu)
Trafó House of Contemporary Arts is organizing "introduction/initiation
dance performances, presentations, workshops and discussions" with
young, emerging dancers and choreographers and secondary school
students in order to help them develop an appreciation for contemporary
dance pieces at a young age. In this special “making your own audience”
project we are working together with young talented dancers, involving
dance teachers with a high level of pedagogy skills and choreographers
so as to invent new forms and methods of thinking about dance and
creating performances together with the youngsters.
Involved companies: The Symptoms, Forte
Pedagogical mentor is: Eszter Gyevi-Bíró (KOHÓ)
Blog of the program: http://beavato.freeblog.hu
February – May 2012.
Research into the Unknown (improvisational laboratory) / Spring (D#1)
Trafo Studio (1094 Bp. Liliom u. 41. www.wsf.hu)
MU Theatre (1117 Bp. Kõrösy József u. 17. www.mu.hu)
Research
into the Unknown is a residency program that aims at encouraging
artists to research on improvisation as an artistic tool, as a means of
creation in contemporary dance. Improvisation in dance and other art
forms, and its relation to awareness and perception of performer and
audience organized by Michaela Hargitay (A) (curator) and Zsóka Nej
(H)/Workshop Foundation (coordinator), artistic coach: Eszter Gál (H)
Researchers:
Bari Kim (ROK), partner: Márton Simon
Brigitta Horváth, partner: András Tucker
Final presentation at MU Theatre on 26 April, 2012
Partner in organizing: Workshop Foundation
May 3-4. 2012.
Ferenc Fehér: new presentation (D#3)
Trafo (1094 Bp. Liliom u. 41. www.trafo.hu)
In 2010, the choreographer won the Lábán Rudolf award for her greatly
successful piece entitled Tao Te. This is a new premiere of his.
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