Grotesque Gymnastics

The silent ones

Day 2 ticket
4900 HUF
3700 HUF - student, teacher, retired
Trafo passes are accepted

Accompanying program

Roundtable discussions

26.04. 16.30 - Finance your Art (ENG)
27.04. 16.30 - Artistic process in circus (ENG)
28.04. 16.30 - Future of circus in Hungary (HU)
#silence #order  #discipline

With dignity and silence, the performance reflects on the confusion and chaos that settles unnoticed on the universe and beautifully consumes us all. Inspired by the poem The Mute (Renato Fehér), the new performance of the Grotesque Gymnastics company is almost identically titled.

Our tools are our physicality, our silent form, the sight of our bodies stretched on the swinging bars, our slow movements, with which we scratch silent signs in the air to draw attention to important phrases hidden in our silence.


The public discourse has been diluted. Both freedom of expression and freedom of speech have been misinterpreted. There is so much noise that even if someone is not saying anything, we cannot hear it. Those who are silent should speak, those who speak should shut up. Words have become worthless. Because they've been filled with rants and proles spouting precious empty words. 

The performance is a journey through time. To a time when the towering hands of the iconic figures were still able to call attention to the impending doom. There were still people alive who could hear the silent sentences.

The company was founded in 2013 by Gáspár Téri and Ilka Bardóczy. The language of the company's performances is more lyrical than traditional circus, more harsh and raw than lyrical
Choreographer: Ilka Bardóczy, Gáspár Téri
Ilka Bardóczy, Gáspár Téri, Eszter Kudlák, Lacek Takács
Text to be performed by Renátó Fehér - Poem of the Silenced
Music: montage
Light: Gáspár Téri
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Box Office opening hours:
  • Main hall performance days: 5 pm - 10 pm
  • studio and club performance days: 5 pm - 8:30 pm
  • other days: 5pm - 8 pm
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  • Performance days: 4-10pm.
  • Opening hours: Tuesday - Sunday: 4pm-7pm.
  • Closed on Mondays.

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