Kontakt and Improvisation Celebration

     
free entrance
As part of the Contact Budapest International Improvisation Festival, we await all of our visitors with free dance, performances of foreign and domestic guests and interactive programs. We will have guided warmups, commemorations of the past, screenings, live music and spontaneous happenings through the Trafó, coupled with discussions on on the foreign and domestic history of contact improvisation, its current situation and future directions, coupled with a lot of dancing!
 
Detailed program:
 
13:00 Warm up led by Goda Gábor, free dancing – Main hall
15:15 - 16:00 Family contact for all, led by Farkas Dorka – Studio
16:00 Reception at the café
16:1517:00 Round-table conversation on the foreign and domestic history of contact improvisation Participants: Nagy József, Goda Gábor, Gál EszterModerator: Peter Pleyer - Café


17:00–17:15 Performance: Tánceánia EgyüttesMain Hall
17:15 – 19:00 Free dance with the Tánceánia Company, led by: BÓTA Ildikó -Main hall
19:00–22:00 Performance and free dance - CI 40 Contact celebration – Performance: Bakó Tamás, Bolcsó Bálint, Ferencz Krisztina, Gál Eszter, Györke Tímea, Hock Ernő, Lipka Péter, Peter Pleyer (D), Goda Gábor, Nagy Zoltán, Kovács Vera, Meszerics András, Molnár Csaba, Petrovics Sándor, Marcio Canabarro (BR), Rubik Ernő – Nagyterem
 
Director: Gál Eszter – Kontakt Budapest
Lights: Tucker András
 

Throughout the day at the Café and the foyer of the Trafó:
Historical video recordings on Contact Improvisation, summer festival photos and 9 hours of “pass the dance”, keep on dancing!
 
Supported by: Départs, Műhely Alapítvány, Trafó, SÍN
TRAFÓ KORTÁRS MŰVÉSZETEK HÁZA
ticket office:
  • Main hall performance days: 5 pm - 10 pm
  • studio and club performance days: 5 pm - 8:30 pm
  • other days: 5pm - 8 pm
Trafó Gallery opening hours:
  • Performance days: 4-10pm.
  • Opening hours: Tuesday - Sunday: 4pm-7pm.
  • Closed on Mondays.

  • The Trafó Kortárs Művészetek Háza Nonprofit Kft. works in the maintance of Budapest Főváros Önkormányzata.

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