NEXTFEST – celebrating emerging artists and experimental forms in Budapest
NEXTFEST, Trafó’s mini-festival for emerging artists and experimental forms is back again between 5-9 March 2025, with a great selection of cutting-edge works, ranging from contemporary dance, performance and theater to visual arts, music and cross-disciplinary practices — this time not only in Trafó, but also in public spaces and special locations across the city!
If you don't want to miss out on anything, a limited number of festival passes are available for HUF 25.000 at the Trafó box office. You can ask for more details on how to use your passes at jegypenztar@trafo.hu or in person at our ticket office.
Line-up: Alagya (Szilvia Bolla & Áron Lődi), AHA Collective, Emília Boda-Novy / Independent Theater Hungary, gergő d. farkas, Gida Labus & guest, Sára Gálhidy / Sámuel Gyulai / Lilla Szauer, Haibo Illés & Richárd Melykó, Irene Plaque (Katalin Bitó & Alja Branc & Zsófia Szász), Maja Juhász & Luca Kovács,
Dorottya Szonja Koltay & Anna Seress, Rebeka Kupihár, Csaba Molnár /
Nicole Clore, Zsolt Miklósvölgyi & Zemlényi-Kovács Barnabás,
National Performance Theatre Collective (Rebeka Zsófia Kozma, Noya Noémi
Szántusz, Emese Mikolt Tózsa), Balázs Oláh, b*tches & w*tches - folk dance workshop, Persephone Collective,
Project833, Seven Trials Theatre Troupe (Attila Lestyán & Veronika Szabó),
Zsófia Szász, Viktor Szeri, SVUNG Research Group, Júlia Vavra / Willany Leó Improvisation
Dance Theatre
FESTIVAL PROGRAMME
Mon 3 March - NEXTFEST Day 0
19:00 Open Studio: Irene Plaque (Katalin Bitó, Alja Branc, Zsófia Szász) (90') / dance / in English - Studio
Wed 5 March - Grand Opening
19:00 Csaba Molnár / Nicole Clore: The Show Must Go On / The Graduation (60’) / dance/performance / in English - Main Hall
20:30 Seven Trials Theatre Troupe (Attila Lestyán, Veronika Szabó): Opening Speech (15') / performance/theatre / in Hungarian with English translation
Alagya (Szilvia Bolla, Áron Lődi): NEXTFEST visual identity (15') / visual arts/conceptual design / English-friendly - Main Hall
21:30 Live act: Gida Labus & guest (40') / experimental music - Club
Thurs 6 March
18:00 Emília Boda-Novy - Independent Theater Hungary: Cannibals (60') / theatre / with English subtitles - Club
20:00 gergő d. farkas: babes (35') / dance / selected for Aerowaves 2025 / English-friendly - Main Hall
Fri 7 March
21:30 National Performance Theatre Collective (Noya Noémi Szántusz, Emese Mikolt Tózsa, Rebeka Zsófia Kozma): Miss Hungary (ca. 45’) work-in-progress showing / performance/theatre / English-friendly - Club
22:30 gergő d. farkas - Vavra Júlia - Oláh Balázs: b*tches & w*tches - folk dance workshop (ca. 60’) / participatory dance workshop and community event / English-friendly - Club
Sat 8 March - Feminist focus on International Women's Day
10:00 Szabó Veronika - Vavra Júlia: Mani Me - Workshop about money for freelance artists and representatives of cultural institutions. (240') / workshop - Club #freeschool
14:00 This is Not a Love Talk S01E01 / The Cultural Disenfranchisement of Art - moderators: Barnabás Zemlényi-Kovács & Zsolt Miklósvölgyi, guest: Tamás Seregi, aesthete (90') / discussion, visual arts (in Hungarian) - Club #freeschool
16:00 Dorottya Szonja Koltay & Anna Seress: Brickology (90’) / performance-walk in public space (English-friendly) - Meeting point: Trafó ticket office #feministfocus
19:00 Rebeka Kupihár: To the God of Heteros (60') / performative poetry reading, in collaboration with Freeszfe film acting class 2023/2024 (in Hungarian) - Club #feministfocus
Sunday 9 March
14:00 SVUNG Research Group: Cold Comfort - Extended Version / performance (in Hungarian) (120') - special location (outdoors): to be announced soon!
14:00 SVUNG Research Group: Cold Comfort - Extended Version / performance (in Hungarian) (120') - special location (outdoors): to be announced soon!
17:00 Gálhidy Sára - Gyulai Sámuel - Szauer Lilla: The Man Turns Serious, The Woman Starts To Feel Cold, At Least They Didn’t Kill Themselves / theater (in Hungarian) (110') - special location: Arzenál Club
18:30 Irene Plaque (Katalin Bitó, Alja Branc, Zsófia Szász): The NEXT Meeting / dance (in English) (50’) - Club
20:00 Júlia Vavra - Willany Leo Improvisation Dance Theatre: ripples in silence, The misty waltz (50’) / dance (English-friendly) - Main HallThe festival program is being finalised, the full line-up is coming soon!
The organiser reserves the right to change the program.
Partners: Arzenál, Independent Theater Hungary, Workshop Foundation, PLACCC Festival, SÍN Arts Centre
