The Budapest Dance Festival will be held again in the spring
Péter Ertl, director of the National Dance Theater, said at the festival’s press conference that it was possible to hold the festival again in the spring, close to World Dance Day.
Speaking about the opening performance, he highlighted that Martha Graham was one of the greatest figures in modern dance. At the special performance Hommage at Martha Graham, the dance ensemble brings a reinterpretation of Martha Graham’s now iconic choreography: a part of Graham’s original work, Panorama, which was believed to be lost for decades, Norman Lloyd’s original music.
As he added, it is a special pleasure that the interesting ballet master with the New York company will stage the production on the stage of Müpa with the participation of the students of the Hungarian University of Dance Arts.
The next day of the opening is also World Dance Day, on the occasion of which a joint gala program will be organized by the Association of Hungarian Dance Artists and the National Dance Theater, and professional awards will be presented at the event.
On the first of May, the audience will see the premiere of the Inversedance-Fodor Zoltán Company’s HOME, which is the personal testimony of Vietnamese choreographer Anh Ngoc Nguyen about the processes taking place in our world and affecting us all.
Peter Ertl said the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company will take to the main stage of the National Dance Theater on 7 and 8 May. One of today’s most renowned dance ensembles arrives with a choreography by Jacopo Godani called Hollow Bones. After the performances, an audience meeting will be held.
In addition to the well-known foreign bands, the Győr Ballet on May 3 has a shocking and dramatic Do Not Hurt! He arrives at the Dance Theater with his performance entitled. László Velekei, the director of the Győr Ballet, says that the play deals with the topic of domestic violence.
Péter Ertl mentioned as a novelty that the Ballet Ensemble of the Budapest Operetta Theater will also perform at the National Dance Theater this year. On May 2, The Age Without Limits will dance the world of ballet from Swan Lake through the Land of Smiles to contemporary ballet choreographies.
In the Small Room, the performance of János Feledi – Feledi Project, TestTérKép, which seeks out the basic events of human existence, and an always special-minded artist, Ferenc, awaits the audience with his piece Hakata Matata.
Speaking about Feledi Project’s lecture entitled TestSpacePicture, Feledi Project mentioned that the piece looking for answers to the basic questions of human existence was presented in the Castle ten years ago, the present lecture is a rethinking of this.
On May 5, the special English-Hungarian two-part evening entitled The four seasons / If the World Were Mine will arrive at the Dance Theater. Béla Földi, the founding director of the Budapest Dance Theater, said that it was his old desire to perform with foreign ensembles. In the first part of the performance, Vivaldi’s world-famous work The Music of the Four Seasons will be performed.
On 10 and 11 May, the festival will end with a dance performance by the Malandain Ballet Biarritz La Pastorale in France, based on the classical ballet, but spoken in a contemporary language. The work was made on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven and was based on the composer’s 6th Symphony of Serene, Idyllic and Glorifying Nature.
(MTI)