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About Klebelsberg Cultural Centre
Klebelsberg Cultural Centre is located in a picturesque area surrounded by Buda Hills in 2nd district of Budapest.
It would belong to the long-ago Kuno Klebelsberg estate. The institution opened in the summer of 2005 has a unique
architectural style inspired by the original mansion. Even after reconstruction it had maintained its classic features,
yet the former school building had kept its original style. Using different materials like rubble-stone, metal,
brick, concrete in the new side-wing represents the style of contemporary architecture. On the corridor there are
ramps to make movement of disabled persons easier.
This harmony of present and past applies not only to the building but our undertaken cultural requirements as well. Classic drama and modern music theatre (modern opera), folk dance and contemporary dance theatre, serious and high-level light music, traditional folk arts and contemporary arts exhibitions. These categories are seemingly different artistic genres, indeed they both arise from the same root. Klebelsberg Cultural Centre proposes to alloy these cultural requirements.
Our institution intends to show other cultural values too, we lay emphasis on cultural exchange with art groups beyond Hungarian frontiers. Sustainable development is also an important guideline of arranging our programs.
Events
Archive
And Romeo and Juliet…
August 29, 2010 21:00 — August 28, 2010 22:30Performing: Eszter Nagy- Kálózy, Péter Rudolf
Director: Horgas Ádám
Tickets: 1,500 HUF
Tango-serenade
August 29, 2010 19:30 — 21:00World Champions’ Gala – Art’s Harmony production
Part of the Budapest Tango Festival
Tickets: 1,500 HUF
Balázs Radványi & Friends
August 29, 2010 18:30 — 19:30Fun with tales and music with Balázs Radványi and his musician and poet friends.
Sir John
August 29, 2010 17:30 — 18:30MárkusZínház
Adapted from Sándor Petőfi by Robert Balogh & MárkusZínház
Snow White & The Three Variation
August 29, 2010 17:00 — 18:00performance of the sixth form (Lark) students of the Ecumenical School
Written and directed by Ildikó Járó
Three very different complexion on the tale of Snow White.
Swabian Afternoon
August 29, 2010 15:45 — 17:00Mondschein Orchestra
Meztelen Diplomaták (Naked Diplomats)
August 29, 2010 15:00 — 15:45Bachelor’s Band of post-punk style
Prom
August 29, 2010 11:30 — 12:30Vám- és Pénzügyőr Orchestra
Pupilla bird watching workshop
August 29, 2010 11:00 — 18:00Old Well Grove
Gingalló – Children concert of Ági Szalóki
August 29, 2010 10:30 — 11:30Tickets: 1,000 HUF
Botany excursion in Buda Hills
August 29, 2010 10:00 — 14:00Walking in the one-kilometer-long Ördögárok gorge.
Magda Szabó: An Old-fashioned Story
August 28, 2010 20:00 — 23:00Petőfi Theatre of Veszprém
Director: Géza Bereményi
Tickets: 2,500 HUF
Piper Paulie
August 28, 2010 18:30 — 19:30Kolompos Band’ fairy play
The Three Golden Hair of the Devil
August 28, 2010 17:30 — 18:15Fabatka Puppet-show’s fairy play
It exists and doesn’t exist, too
August 28, 2010 16:00 — 17:00Pantomime performance of Csaba Méhes
Hungarian Barn Dance
August 28, 2010 15:00 — 16:00Tabulatúra Historical Music Band
The World is Living Around Us
August 28, 2010 15:00 — 16:00botany workshop
Hungarian Marches – Prom
August 28, 2010 11:30 — 12:30Vám- és Pénzügyőr Orchestra
Ervin Lázár – Balázs Radványi: The Square-Round Fo
August 28, 2010 10:00 — 11:00Director: Péter Cseke
Tickets: 1,000 HUF
Summer Night Sky Observation with Telescopes
August 27, 2010 21:30 — 23:00Hungarian Astronomical Society
Beer and Blues
August 27, 2010 21:30 — 23:00Blues Night Long Band
Verbunkos Rhapsody
August 27, 2010 20:00 — 22:00In Memoriam Ferenc Erkel, who made Hungarian folk music and gypsy music popular.
Concert of Rajkó Orchestra with the participation of Lilla Vincze (singing).
Tickets: 1,500 HUF
Sándor Petőfi: The Hammer of the Village
August 27, 2010 18:30 — 19:30Árpád Besenczi
Mill-Tale – Ciróka Puppet-show
August 27, 2010 17:00 — 18:00Tale about the devil, the mill and God
Writer: Ilona Szász
Designer: Ákos Mátravölgyi
Director: Balázs Szabó
Performing: Eszter Aracs, Balázs Szabó, Zoltán Tímár
Medicinal mushrooms
August 27, 2010 17:00 — 19:00Mária Kökény fitotherapist
Hungarian Fun
August 27, 2010 16:00 — 17:00Szárma Tambura Band
Opening Ceremony of the 12th Annual Summer Art Fes
August 26, 2010 19:00 — 23:00Opening speech: Dr. Zsolt Láng 2nd district Mayor of Budapest
Open-air theatre
My Homeland, My Everything – honour to Ferenc Erkel – the composer of the music of Hymn, the National Anthem of Hungary, creator of the national opera, founder of the first Hungarian choral society
Performing: Honvéd Male Choir
Gábor Eckhardt pianist
Interval
Ghymes Concert
Tickets: 2,000 HUF
Hidegkút Salon
August 26, 2010 10:00 — September 2, 2010 18:00Opening ceremony of the exhibition of graphic and handicraft artists of Hidegkút
Saluting the artists: Dr. Zsolt Láng 2nd district Mayor of Budapest
Opening speech: Hédi Szepes art historian
Exhibitors:
Dorka Borbás glass artist, Péter Czér sculptor, Edit Finta painter, László Fördős goldsmith artist, András Gönci textile artist, Johanna Götz sculptor, Hedvig Harmati textile artist, Miklós Hegedűs painter, Orsolya Hideg textile artist, Zsuzsanna Jándi painter, Gyöngyi Kerezsi ceramist, Géza Kertész goldsmith artist, Ferenc Kisnémeth graphic artist, János Kubisch sculptor, István Kulinyi graphic artist, László Lukácsi glass artist, Mária Manninger textile artist, István Mazzag painter, Attila Nemesi goldsmith artist, Katalin Oláh ceramist, Mátyás László Oláh sculptor, Emília Pájer textile artist, Zoltán Papp painter, Janka P. Fára painter, Éva Penkala textile artist, József Scherer applied artist, Valéria Sóváradi painter, Mária Sövegjártó ceramist, Nánda Stössel ceramist, Árpád Szabados painter, Teréz Szemereki ceramist, Szika Szidu painter, Enikő Szöllőssy sculptor, Zoltán Vida painter Judit Tankó textile artist, Ferenc Töreky graphic artist, Beáta Zoltai painter
12th Annual Summer Art Festival of Pesthidegkút
August 25, 2010 19:30 — 21:00Festival Eve
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
7.30 p.m. Thousandfaced Accordion – Balkan Project – Zoltán Orosz Trio
Members of the trio:
Zoltán Orosz (accordion)
Zoltán Balogh (guitar)
Csaba Pengő (double-bass)
Open-air theatre
Tickets: 2,500 HUF
Thursday, August 26, 2010
6.00 p.m. Hidegkút Salon – Opening ceremony of the exhibition of graphic and handicraft artists of Hidegkút
Salon
Saluting the artists: Dr. Zsolt Láng 2nd district Mayor of Budapest
Opening speech: Hédi Szepes art historian
Exhibitors:
Dorka Borbás glass artist, Péter Czér sculptor, Edit Finta painter, László Fördős goldsmith artist, András Gönci textile artist, Johanna Götz sculptor, Hedvig Harmati textile artist, Miklós Hegedűs painter, Orsolya Hideg textile artist, Zsuzsanna Jándi painter, Gyöngyi Kerezsi ceramist, Géza Kertész goldsmith artist, Ferenc Kisnémeth graphic artist, János Kubisch sculptor, István Kulinyi graphic artist, László Lukácsi glass artist, Mária Manninger textile artist, István Mazzag painter, Attila Nemesi goldsmith artist, Katalin Oláh ceramist, Mátyás László Oláh sculptor, Emília Pájer textile artist, Zoltán Papp painter, Janka P. Fára painter, Éva Penkala textile artist, József Scherer applied artist, Valéria Sóváradi painter, Mária Sövegjártó ceramist, Nánda Stössel ceramist, Árpád Szabados painter, Teréz Szemereki ceramist, Szika Szidu painter, Enikő Szöllőssy sculptor, Zoltán Vida painter Judit Tankó textile artist, Ferenc Töreky graphic artist, Beáta Zoltai painter
7.00 p.m. Opening Ceremony of the 12th Annual Summer Art Festival of Pesthidegkút
Opening speech: Dr. Zsolt Láng 2nd district Mayor of Budapest
Open-air theatre
My Homeland, My Everything – honour to Ferenc Erkel – the composer of the music of Hymn, the National Anthem of Hungary, creator of the national opera, founder of the first Hungarian choral society
Performing: Honvéd Male Choir
Gábor Eckhardt pianist
Interval
Ghymes Concert
Tickets: 2,000 HUF
Friday, August 27, 2010
Master of Ceremony: Lukácsházi Győző
10.00 a.m. “With Whistle, Drum and Hurdy-gurdy” – announcing the Festival at the Hűvösvölgy bus terminus
3.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m. Fun in the Fairy Garden:
Griphon’s swing
Paprikajancsi’s sling-shot
Paprikajancsi’s space station
Sárvíz Handicratfs Workshop
Handicrafts women from Újszász
Sky-high Hill, Griphon’s highlands
4.00 p.m. Hungarian Fun – Szárma Tambura Band
Market Promenade
5.00 p.m. Mill-Tale – Ciróka Puppet-show – Tale about the devil, the mill and God
Writer: Ilona Szász
Designer: Ákos Mátravölgyi
Director: Balázs Szabó
Performing: Eszter Aracs, Balázs Szabó, Zoltán Tímár
Óperenciás court
5.00 p.m. Medicinal mushrooms – Mária Kökény fitotherapist
Salon
6.00 p.m. Old Friends – Hungarian Folk Music Fun with Marci Kovács (Felvidék) and Béla Micsik (Vajdaság) and feast of Hungarian wines with Péter Korom’s wine quiz
Market Promenade
6.30 p.m. Sándor Petőfi: The Hammer of the Village – Árpád Besenczi
Market Stage
8.00 p.m. Verbunkos Rhapsody – In Memoriam Ferenc Erkel, who made Hungarian folk music and gypsy music popular.
Concert of Rajkó Orchestra
with the participation of Lilla Vincze (singing).
Open-air theatre
Tickets: 1,500 HUF
9.30 p.m. Summer Night Sky Observation with Telescopes
Hungarian Astronomical Society
Sky-high hill – Dragon’s Wall
9.30 p.m. Beer and Blues – Blues Night Long Band
Market Stage
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Master of Ceremony: László Gulyás, the Wandering Musician
8.45 a.m. Fleet-of-Foot-Family: foot race in the streets of Pesthidegkút
Entering and registration at the entrance of the Fairy Garden at 8.30 a.m.
9.30 a.m. Award
9.45 a.m. Cycling Tour between Pesthidegkút and Solymár in memoriam Ferenc Erkel, the nature-lover hiker – marches with the Vám- és Pénzügyőr Orchestra
Assembling at the entrance of the Fairy Garden at 9.30 a.m.
Orchestra stops at:
Old Main Square (Temető Street – Hidegkúti Street crossing)
Old bus terminus
Széphalom department store
10.00 a.m. Ervin Lázár – Balázs Radványi: The Square-Round Forest – Katona József Theatre of Kecskmét
Open-air theatre
Director: Péter Cseke
Tickets: 1,000 HUF
11.00 a.m. - 18.00 p.m. Fun in the Fairy Garden:
Tintaló Circus
Griphon’s swing
Paprikajancsi’s sling-shot
Paprikajancsi’s space station
Sárvíz Handicratfs Workshop
Handicrafts women from Újszász
Cimbora Historical Workshop from King Matthias’s court to the reform period – Tournament and field event:
Codex Puzzle, crossbow competition, fortress building, painting restoration, siege of a castle, steam-engine driving.
Sky-high Hill, Griphon’s highlands, Fortress lowlands
11.00 a.m. - 18.00 p.m. Fairy Coach in the streets of Pesthidegkút
11.00 a.m. - 18.00 p.m. Movie Cave: Non-stop screening of documentary films about environmental protection, sustainability, the wildlife of Hungary and other places of the world
11.30 a.m. Hungarian Marches – Prom – Vám- és Pénzügyőr Orchestra
Open-air theatre
2.30 p.m. The Secrets of the Old Well – Uncle Marci, Uncle Béla and the Wandering Musician (László Gulyás)
Old Well Grove
3.00 p.m. Hungarian Barn Dance by the Tabulatúra Historical Music Band
Óperenciás court
3.00 p.m. The World is Living Around Us – botany workshop
Green terrace & garden
4.00 p.m. It exists and doesn’t exist, too – pantomime performance of Csaba Méhes
Óperenciás court
4.45 p.m. The Bean-pole Wizards Are Coming!
Market Promenade
5.30 p.m. The Three Golden Hair of the Devil – Fabatka Puppet-show’s fairy play
Market Stage
6.15 p.m. Organic wine quiz by Péter Korom
Market Promenade
6.15 p.m. Well Tales – Wandering Musician (László Gulyás)
Old Well Grove
6.30 p.m. Piper Paulie – Kolompos Band’ fairy play
Óperenciás court
8.00 p.m. Magda Szabó: An Old-fashioned Story – Petőfi Theatre of Veszprém
Director: Géza Bereményi
Tickets: 2,500 HUF
Open-air theatre
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Master of Ceremony: László Gulyás, the Wandering Musician
10.00 a.m. Botany excursion in Buda Hills
10.30 a.m. Gingalló – Children concert of Ági Szalóki
Open-air theatre
Tickets: 1,000 HUF
11.30 a.m. Prom – Vám- és Pénzügyőr Orchestra
Open-air theatre
11.00 a.m. – 18.00 p.m. Pupilla bird watching workshop
Old Well Grove
11.00 a.m. - 18.00 p.m. Fun in the Fairy Garden:
Tintaló Circus
Griphon’s swing
Paprikajancsi’s sling-shot
Paprikajancsi’s space station
Sárvíz Handicratfs Workshop
Handicrafts women from Újszász
Cimbora Historical Workshop from King Matthias’s court to the reform period – Tournament and field event:
Codex Puzzle, crossbow competition, fortress building, painting restoration, siege of a castle, steam-engine driving.
Sky-high Hill, Griphon’s highlands, Fortress lowlands
11.00 a.m. - 18.00 p.m. Fairy Coach in the streets of Pesthidegkút
11.00 a.m. - 18.00 p.m. Movie Cave: Non-stop screening of documentary films about environmental protection, sustainability, the wildlife of Hungary and other places of the world
Hidegkút Cavalcade
3.00 p.m. Meztelen Diplomaták (Naked Diplomats) – Bachelor’s Band of post-punk style
Open-air theatre
3.45 p.m. Swabian Afternoon – Mondschein Orchestra
Market Stage
5.00 p.m. Snow White & The Three Variation – performance of the sixth form (Lark) students of the Ecumenical School
Written and directed by Ildikó Járó
Three very different complexion on the tale of Snow White.
Open-air theatre
5.30 p.m. Sir John – MárkusZínház
Adapted from Sándor Petőfi by Robert Balogh & MárkusZínház
Óperenciás court
6.30 p.m. Balázs Radványi & Friends
Market Stage
Fun with tales and music with Balázs Radványi and his musician and poet friends.
7.30 p.m. Tango-serenade – World Champions’ Gala – Art’s Harmony production
Part of the Budapest Tango Festival
Open-air theatre
Tickets: 1,500 HUF
9.00 p.m. And Romeo and Juliet…
Performing: Eszter Nagy- Kálózy, Péter Rudolf
Director: Horgas Ádám
Tickets: 1,500 HUF
During the Festival on Saturday and Sunday there are:
Treasure House Workshop with recycled materials, fair trade coffee, tea tasting, waste recovery workshop– Hungarian Society For Environmental Education (MKNE), Fair trade, Buda’s Compost Masters – Green terrace
„How the paintings are made?” – BUKET Fence Art Exhibition in the Garden
Non-stop screening of documentary films about environmental protection, sustainability, the wildlife of Hungary and other places of the world
Organic and traditional food and sweets are available during the Festival. Organic wine, beer trolley are waiting for the visitors.
Handcraft goods and workshops.
Tickets can be bought at the information desk of Klebelsberg Kulturkúria and on the network of Interticket (www.jegy.hu)
Information:
www.kulturkuria.hu
Main supporter of the Festival:
2nd district Town Hall of Budapest
Supporter:
General Assembly of the City of Budapest – Economic Committee
Thousandfaced Accordion – Balkan Project – Zoltán
August 25, 2010 19:30 — 21:00Festival Eve
Members of the trio:
Zoltán Orosz (accordion)
Zoltán Balogh (guitar)
Csaba Pengő (double-bass)
Open-air theatre
Tickets: 2,500 HUF
12th Annual Summer Art Festival of Pesthidegkút
Clutter keeps company - Birds of Paradise Theatre
May 31, 2010 19:00 — 20:30Next performance: June 1, 2010 19:00 — 20:30
Birds of Paradise Theatre Company presents
CLUTTER KEEPS COMPANY by Davey Anderson
Directed by Morven Gregor
Designed by Hazel Blue
Lighting Designer: Paul Sorley
Choreographer: Lindsay John
Cast: Jo Freer, Keith MacPherson, Scott Fletcher and Nicola Miles-Wildin
It’s a school night… your mum’s at work and your dad’s away. Your sister is supposed to be looking after you. Instead she’s wearing bright red lipstick and a tartan miniskirt. And you? You’re tucked up in bed, with a tape cassette under the pillow, dreaming of jellyfish… or are you?
The shows are in town. Scream if you want to go faster!
Birds of Paradise returns with a bittersweet comedy thriller about running away from an unholy mess and plunging into utter chaos!
Clutter Keeps Company is written by the acclaimed playwright, Davey Anderson, whose credits include NTS’s Black Watch, Architecting, Rupture and Be Near Me. As well as performances in Scotland, Clutter Keeps Company will also tour to Italy and Hungary.
All performances are surtitled and audio description is embedded within the text.
‘engaging with Scott Fletcher’s Stevie a persuasively nuanced study of a boy struggling to make sense of his world’
THE HERALD
‘Hugely enjoyable’
THE SCOTSMAN
‘brilliantly energetic, with some lovely poetic moments and lots of truly witty character-based humour’
THE LIST
‘lively presentation by Birds of Paradise’
HI ARTS
‘seamlessly slick choreography’
THE LIST
‘innovative subtitling of the script for the benefit of hearing-impaired theatregoers is very much to the credit of director Morven Gregor and her company, which is both inclusive and aesthetically consistent’
SUNDAY HERALD
‘Morven Gregor’s excellent direction deserves a mention too: the whole production has clearly been rehearsed with near-military precision, but the actors make it look spontaneous’
THE LIST
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu4nfyi_mmM&feature=PlayList&p=2985947116722991&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=16
Nagyváry String Quartet
May 17, 2010 19:30 — 21:00Program:
String Quartet in D major, Op. 76 no 5 by Franz Joseph HAYDN
String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810 „Death and the Maiden” by Franz SCHUBERT
Performers:
Nagyváry String Quartett – Dániel PAPP (Violin), Éva DÚLFALVY (Violin), Réka SZABÓ (Viola), György DEÁK (Cello)
Grazioso Music Salon
May 14, 2010 18:00 — 21:00Program:
Sonata in A minor for Arpeggione and Piano, D. 821 by Franz SCHUBERT
Sonata for cello & piano No. 2 in F major, Op. 99 by Johannes BRAHMS
Performers:
Tamás MIGRÓCZI – (cello)
Márta GÁL – (piano)
members of the Hungarian National Philharmonic
Guest: Rezső PERTORINI cello artist
Host: Marcella DETVAY M.
Nikolay Gogol: Diary of a Madman
April 24, 2010 19:00 — 21:00Saturday 24 April 2010, 19.00h
"Diary of a Madman" (1835) (Russian: Записки сумасшедшего) is a farcical short story by Nikolai Gogol. Along with "The Overcoat" and "The Nose," "Diary of a Madman" is considered to be one of Gogol's greatest short stories. The tale centers on the life of a minor civil servant during the repressive era of Nicholas I. Following the format of a diary, the story shows the descent of the protagonist, Poprishchin, into insanity. "Diary of a Madman" is the only one of Gogol's works written in first person, as the story follows diary entry format.
Plot summary
"Diary of a Madman" centers on the life of Poprishchin, a low-ranking civil servant and Titular counsellor , who yearns to be noticed by a beautiful woman, the daughter of a senior official, with whom he has fallen in love. His diary records his gradual slide into insanity. As his madness deepens, he begins to suspect two dogs of having a love affair and believes he has discovered letters sent between them. Finally, he begins to believe himself to be the heir to the throne of Spain. When he is hauled off and maltreated by the authorities, the madman believes he is taking part in a strange coronation to the Spanish throne. It is only in his madness that the lowly anti-hero attains greatness in life.
The story satirizes the rampant petty officialdom of the bureaucracy in the 1830s in St Petersburg, and has been interpreted by some as going beyond this to being an allegory about the political state of Russia at the time, revealing Gogol's view of the government from the standpoint of a lowly citizen. The story also portrays the average man's quest for individuality in a seemingly indifferent, urban city. The description of Poprishchin's "insanity" is further claimed to be one of the earliest portrayals of schizophrenia as now known.
Poprischin. László Tahi Tóth
Ticket: 1.500 HUF
Leroy Jones in the Klebelsberg Kulturkuria
March 20, 2010 19:00 — 21:00March 20, 2010 19.00h
Concert of Jazz Steps Band, the trumpeter Leroy Jones from New Orleans and Micheller Myrtill. Leroy Jones was a significant figure amongst the new breed of aspiring young musicians participating in the renaissance of New Orleans brass bands playing with nearly all the famous jazz bands in town. Side by Side concert in Budapest is presented only in Klebelsberg Kultúrkúria.
About Leroy Jones
Born in New Orleans in 1958, Leroy began studying the trumpet at age 10, in school band. By the time he was 13 years old, he was already playing gigs and leading Danny Barker's young Fairview Baptist Church Brass Band. The Fairview Band performed at church events, Social & Pleasure Club events, Funerals, and Second Line Parades all over the city of New Orleans. The band has performed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Smithsonian Institute Festival of Culture & Folklore. The Fairview band later evolved into the Hurricane Brass Band, which became the seed of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band.
Leroy Jones was a significant figure amongst the new breed of aspiring young musicians participating in Barker's renaissance of New Orleans brass bands.
After a brief stint in the Jazz Studies Program at Loyola University's Conservatory of Music, Jones joined the musicians union and went on to pursue his career as a professional musician. He has played with nearly all the famous jazz bands in town, and has performed at festivals and clubs throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, South America, Southeast Asia, Japan and Australia.
The past decade Jones has been a member of the Harry Connick, Jr. Big Band, performed on numerous recordings with various artists, leads one of the Preservation Hall Jazz Bands and has released several acclaimed solo albums. Jones continues to travel and record the world over.
Leroy Jones Quintet
The Leroy Jones Quintet was formed during the 1980s. But the band's first real international exposure came when it was the opening act for Harry Connick, Jr.'s "She" tour. The Quintet has toured the United States, Canada, South America and Australia. After releasing two critically acclaimed recordings on the Columbia label, the band toured on it's own, performing at festivals and club dates throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe, and has appeared on NBC's "Tonight Show". The quintet has also made numerous appearances at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
The Leroy Jones Quintet performs an energetic swing style that encompasses both old and new jazz idioms.
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Revenge - Dance Performance In Two Acts
September 12, 2009 20:30 — 22:00REVENGE
DANCE PERFORMANCE IN TWO ACTS
September 12, 2009 8.30 p.m.
’Our aim is to create a more spectacular and monumental show than ever before…'
- promised the Production while preparing the show.
The show was measured accordingly on the premiere evening in 2003 and numerous performances afterwards - it was crowned with great success.
The Production has taken the story of “Ludas Matyi” (a popular Hungarian tale of a heroic character and his gooses) into the present after 8 months of strenuous work according to the artistic form of the tale and the well-known ExperiDance style.
Almost every nations’ folk heritage has a tale, a story in which a character – though not having the traditional means of power – prevails over those richer and much more powerful than himself. From Harun al Rasid till Robin Hood they all possess those virtues that lift them out of the others and enable them to pay back for all the offences suffered by the poor and the oppressed. Their main weapon is their unusual mental alertness, their soul always ready for a game or laugh, and not least their slyness by means of which they can turn each situation for their own benefits. Our main character just as well has these characteristics - though he doesn’t know about it until he suffers such an offence that cannot be swallowed. His life, that has been cloudless and full of joy despite the poverty –in which friends, nature, entertainment and animals play the most important role – changes all of a sudden when the representative of the evil might deprives him of his only treasure: his friend, his mate, the little goose. As an effect of the physical and mental humiliation Matyi gets appetite for revenge and avenges it back 3 times using the foolishness, boundless ambitions and narrow-mindedness of the mighty itself. He stops the lecturing before he would become obsessed with thirst for revenge as he is fundamentally a bright and playful character and his personality doesn’t allow him any abuse. This story reminds us to have control over our manner even if we are suffering offences – this is the only way to avoid becoming like those who we are fighting, to remain human. The fight of Matyi shows us with the means of the playfulness and the humour what an average man can do against the mighty.
BACKGROUND
Although the writer, Mihály Fazekas called his work an original Hungarian tale, the figure of the poor man who revenges three times the unfair punishment suffered from the rich is common in the world’s folk art since far back in the past. The earliest version is a 2 500 years old legend from Mesopotamia: The tale of the poor man of Nippur
MUSIC
‘The different layers piled one upon the other made of customs, ceremonies, fashion trends what are shaped by the changes of the society, the history, the economy, and the melodies, artistic forms, presentation styles that reflect them truly, make a picture appear to the researcher who digs to the profundity. This sight is similar to the view that an archaeologist sees when examining an excavation wall cut smoothly on which the footprint of centuries of history become distinct such as the colourful stripes of layers. The past going through the consciousness of human communities shows a rich variety alike.’
These poetic thoughts of Ferenc Sebő tend to make it feel how direct it is Imre Czoma’s relationship with folk music. There could hardly be a more difficult and delicate mission for a composer than creating a modern, original world based on the tendencies of various previous musical eras. However Imre Czoba’s theatre music is based on folk traditions, it incorporates audacious instrumentations of folk strains and ‘popularization’ of classical tunes, it wanders from the jazz to the space music of sci-fi. His music makes an organic unit with the play. Each and every character of the story has its own manifestation in the music. The two musical worlds, that of the common people with Matyi and Döbrögi’s, also differ from each other sharply. Finally, the three surreal revenges succeed in making the audience feel like flying over centuries and even further, until they enter a fabled dimension.
CAST:
Mother of Matyi - narrator: Törőcsik Mari
/actress of Kossuth Award/
Matyi: Újszászi András
Galiba, the little goose: Nádas Judit
Döbrögi: Varga Attila
Mrs. Döbrögi: Horváth Mónika
Prefect: Görög Zoltán
Friends: Dénes Nándor, Kovács Dénes, Patonai Norbert
Sub-Prefects: Pintér Ágota Lotti, Sátori Júlia
Pounders of Döbrögi:
Bistei Judit, Cseke Ágnes, Deák Vince, Falvai Miklós, Holman Enikő, Iványi Tamás, Klausz Bernadett, Kiss Levente, Morvai Veronika, Patonai Zsolt, Petrovics Petra, Rajna Eszter, Reszneki Domán, Vajda Nikolett, Varga Zsuzsa, Vass Judit, Zsombori Miklós
Final song: Kovács Ákos
Set Design: Mira János
Costumes: Debreczeni Ildikó
Music: Czomba Imre
Dance Choreographer: Vári Bertalan
Producer: Vona Tibor
Lighting: Szimeiszter Balázs
Sound: Rostás Tibor, Kupcsik Bertalan
Director & Choreographer: Román Sándor
CREDO
’This peace of earth tomorrow will be a mighty fount,
we dig until the deepest point,
rise its’ people to the light…
though today we have nothing else but the dance.’
Raining day: September 13, 2009 8.30 p.m.
Tickets 4.900 HUF
11th Annual Summer Art Festival of Pesthidegkút
August 27, 2009 19:00 — 22:00August 27-30, 2009
Klebelsberg Kultúrkúria
(2-10 Templom Street
2nd district of Budapest)
www.kulturkuria.hu
Festival Eve
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
7.00 p.m. Indian classical music and dance -
SANDHYADIPA KAR (India) odissi dancer solo performance
Calcutta Trioclassical Indian music
Opening speech: Ranjit Rae Indian ambassador
Compčre: Dr. András Molnár
Bengali tee house in the pause
Tickets 1,500 HUF
Thursday, August 27, 2009
5.00 p.m. Street Theatre announcing the Festival at the Hűvösvölgy bus terminus
5.00 p.m. Opening ceremony of the exhibition of the Hungarian Ceramist’s Association
Opening speech: György Fekete interior decorator, writer
6.00 p.m. Opening ceremony of Imre Molnár leather work artist’s exhibition
Opening speech: György Szemádám painter, writer
7.00 p.m. Opening Ceremony of the 11th Annual Summer Art Festival of Pesthidegkút
Opening speech: dr. Zsolt Láng 2nd district mayor of Budapest
Dance, Dance, Dance...
Folk dance performance by the students of the Hungarian Dance University. Artistic director: Mária Zorándi
Break
Concert of the Csík Band
Tickets 2,000 HUF
Friday, August 28, 2009
Nostalgia
Master of Ceremony: László Gulyás
11.00 a.m. “With Whistle, Drum and Hurdy-gurdy” – announcing the Festival at the Hűvösvölgy bus terminus
Fun in the Fairy Garden
Miraculous space station
Paprikajancsi’s sling-shot
Griphon’s swing
Treasures of Earth: gifts made of clay, ribbon, leather, plants, making candle and jewels – Sárvíz Handicratfs Workshop
4.00 p.m. Wandering musician – László Gulyás
5.00 p.m. The Tale of Lúdas Matyi, Kukoricza Jancsi and Toldi Miklós – Vojtina Puppet-show
6.00 p.m. Nostalgia and Jazz – Jager Quartet
8.00 p.m. Old Boys – Concert and Dance
Tickets 2,000 HUF
10.00 p.m. Summer Night Sky Observation with Telescopes
Saturday, August 29, 2009
History and Feast of Nature
Master of Ceremony: Gábor Pilári
07.30 a.m. Bird watch excursion with Emese Schmidt.
Meeting point: Hűvösvölgy bus terminus
Entering: till August 26, e-mail address: laskovics.katalin@kulturkuria.hu
9.00 a.m. Festival Run: foot race in the streets of Ófalu.
Entering: from 8.00 a.m. at the entrance of the Fairy Garden
10.00 a.m. Award
10.00 a.m. – 6.00 p.m.
Fun in the Fairy Garden
Ludibundus – Renaissance fairyland
Fairy Coach in the streets of Ófalu • Bird watching workshop • Environmental workshops and playgrounds
10.30 a.m. Children's Games - Bozsik Yvette Compagnie and the Kolibri Theatre
Tickets 1,000 HUF
11.30 a.m. Stormy Balkan Folk Music -Cimbaliband Concert
2.00 p.m. Organic wine-tasting with folk music meanwhile
2.30 p.m. Organic wine quiz show
3.00 p.m. János Habók’s jugglery
3.30 p.m. Puppet-show and folk music ¬ Gyöngyi Écsi’s children programme
4.30 p.m. The Wings of King Matthias – MárkusZínház
5.30 p.m. Kristóf Simai: The Jealous Márton Gyapai – Street comedy – Coach Theatre
6.30 p.m. Afternoon dixieland by the Brass on Brass Band
8.00 p.m. Paul Portner: Shear Madness – The Comedy Where Every Night A Murder Is Committed performed by the company of Katona József Theatre of Kecskemét.
Tickets 2,500 HUF
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Family weekend
Feast of Hungarian Organic and Traditional Wines
Wine-tasting and gastronomical presentations
Master of Ceremony: György Csák (Uncle Thorn)
10.00 a.m. – 6.00 p.m.
Fun in the Fairy Garden
Tiny circus and cloud hunting with Tintaló Company
Fairy Coach in the streets of Ófalu • Bird watching workshop • Environmental workshops and playgrounds
10.30 a.m. Tale of the Tuba Tiger and the Trumpet Horse
Brass Circus – Csaba Méhes and the Brass in the Five Quintet
11.30 a.m. Uncle Thorn in the Market – Trambulin Theatre
12.00 a.m. Clowns on stilts
2.00 p.m. Folk music performance
2.30 p.m. Uncle Thorn’s organic wine-tasting and quiz show
3.00 p.m. Children’s barn dance by the Tabulatura Historical Music Band
4.00 p.m. Market Circus – Ládafia Puppet-show
4.00 p.m. Coffee - the Black Gold – film played and discussion with Györgyi Újszászi, chairman of Hungarian Fair Trade
5.00 p.m. Clown in the Arena – Bábakalács Company
5.00 p.m. Tittle-tattle party with the Mondschein Band
7.30 p.m. Final Concert in the Basilica of the Nativity of Mary, Máriaremete
(1 Templomkert Street, 2nd district of Budapest)
Haydn: Nelson Mass
Mozart: Coronation Mass in C Major
by Bea Fodor (soprano), Atala Schöck (mezzo), József Mukk (tenor), László Jeckl (bass)
The Budapesti Stúdió Kórus and Pannonia Kamarazenekar conducted by: Kálmán Strausz
Free entry
Organic and traditional food and sweets are available during the Festival. Organic wine, beer trolley are waiting for the visitors. Handcraft goods and workshops.
Tickets can be bought at the information desk of Klebelsberg Kulturkúria and
on the network of Interticket (www.jegy.hu)
Main supporter of the Festival:
2nd district Town Hall of Budapest
Supporter:
General Assembly of the City of Budapest – Economic Committee
SUMMER STAGE OF PESTHIDEGKÚT
August 24, 2008 10:00 — 21:0010th Annual Summer Art Festival of Pesthidegkút
August 21-24, 2008
European guests in the court of King Matthias and in the present-day Hungarian culture
Sunday, 24 August
10:30 Beatrice’s Tales – Aranyszamár Theatre
12:00 Music of Hetedhét Land – world music by Hetedhét Band
14:00 Feast of Hungarian wines: playful quiz about wine with music meanwhile
Musicians: Béla Micsik
14:30 Parade on wooden legs – Ort-Iki Company
15:30 “Sramli” music with beer, wine and roast joint – Music by Mondschein Band
16:50 Kökény Matyi – performance by Ort-Iki Company
17:00 Matthias the Rightful – perfomance by the students of Máriaremete-Pesthidegkút Ecumenical School
17:30 Concert of Kaláka Band
19:00 Aladdin: – dance play for chlidren and grown-ups – Botafogo Dance Group
SUMMER STAGE OF PESTHIDEGKÚT III.
August 23, 2008 09:00 — 23:0010th Annual Summer Art Festival of Pesthidegkút
August 21-24, 2008
European guests in the court of King Matthias and in the present-day Hungarian culture
Saturday, 23 August
King Matthias’s court: renaissance games
08:30 Festival Run: running contest in the streets of Ófalu
10:00 Festival Cup: with participation of families, friends, resindents of a street or square
Football game of Hidegkút Sport Club in the Szabadság street sports-ground
10:00 Cipity Lőrinc – children’s concert by Ági Szalóki
11:30 The Goldenhair Sheep – Berbencés Theatre
14:00 Feast of Hungarian wines: playful quiz about wine with music meanwhile
Musicians: Béla Micsik
14:30 Renaissance court music – Igriczek Band
15:00 Lecture on King Matthias by Lajos Szántai
15:00 The Fisherman and his Wife – Figurina Puppet Theatre
16:00 Herbal tea tasting with music meanwhile by Kiss Zenede Wind Quintet
16:30 Textiles painting with natural materials – demonstration of Györgyi Varga’s Book of Paint
16:30 Music of the royal court – Igriczek Band
17:00 Renaissance music – Igriczek Band
17:30 King Matthias’s Foolish Court Clown – Maszk Puppet Theatre
18:30 Renaissance in the fashion of present-day: fashion show
19:30 Jean Letraz: Rampant Morality – comedy by Turay Ida Theatre
22:00 Dance party in the garden
SUMMER STAGE OF PESTHIDEGKÚT II.
August 22, 2008 11:00 — 24:00Friday, 22 August
Let’s celebrate the ten-year-old festival together!
11:00 Opening of the Garden of Tales
King Matthias’s hunting tent
Food and drink of valiants – Tökmag Workshop
Treasures of Earth: gifts made of clay, ribbon, leather, plants, making candle and jewels – Sárvíz Handicratfs Workshop
Shift of lace arts, weaving and “guzsaly”
Swing of Fairy-garden
King Matthias’s falconer
Paprikajancsi’s sling-shot
Festival coach
Vital plants: litter workshop – SZIKE Association
Ecological footprint
Ornitology for children – Pupilla Workshop
King Matthias’s court and servants
11:00 Historical circus of the court – Ládafia Puppet Theatre
15:30 Feast of Hungarian wines: playful quiz about wine with music meanwhile
Musicians: Béla Micsik
16:00 Joust in King Matthias’s court – Art’s Harmony Company
17:00 Getting rid of being nuts: the Operation – renaissance comedy with giant puppets by Bab Company
17:30 Opening ceremony of the exhibition of Judit Tankó textiles-artist accompained by fall and winter clothes’ show
18:00 Evergreen music concert – Ernő Keil Winds Band
19:00 Birthday Gala:
I. Gifts for the audience by artists of Pesthidegkút
II. Concert and dancehall – Muzsikás Band
21:30 A bit of renaissance – Tabulatura Historical Band
SUMMER STAGE OF PESTHIDEGKÚT
August 21, 2008 17:30 — August 24, 2008 24:00SUMMER STAGE OF PESTHIDEGKÚT
10th Annual Summer Art Festival of Pesthidegkút
August 21-24, 2008
European guests in the court of King Matthias and in the present-day Hungarian culture
Thursday, 21 August
Our guest – Italy
17:30 Renaissance of Nature
Opening ceremony of the exhibition of graphic and handicraft artists of Hidegkút
Renaissance passages in the historical Hungary – Zoltán Bagyinszki’s photo exhibition
18:30 Pavane – renaissance flagwaving and dance group show and dancehall
20:00 Rossini: The Italian Girl in Algiers – renaissance of comic opera
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
May 31, 2008 19:00 — 22:00”The body is not a thing but a way of relating to things, bound amongst us and society, sketches of our projections.”
The dance piece starts with the previously mentioned thoughts of Simone de Beauvoir, showing the body as a manual tool which is able to renew, recreate itself and communicate as a form with other forms or bodies.
The chatartic moment of the play is when the Man is awaking for his self sexuality, the inner fight of experiencing his desires or suppressing them. As Simone de Beauvoir writes - ”One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” Does the form really border these desires as a female or male body? Or could it be broken through?
Simone de Beauvoir has shaken up his age with her thoughts, and would celebrate her 100. anniversary of her birth in this year. Her art inspired the S.T.ART Company to create such a choreography in which the human emotions, attractions and the moments of affinity towards others and ourselves are shown. All these scenes give an inner look for the public into the mechanism and mystery of the writer's mind.