Dear Members of the Audience,
We normally meet in spring!
For more than two decades, it has become our habit to invite you fans of contemporary theatre and dance on stage to a meet-up in the season which brings the rebirth of nature. Somehow the spring weather of May always used to enhance the atmosphere and dynamics of the festival and went hand in hand with the expectation of something new. This year, because of well-known reasons, it has happened differently.
Our festival is now organised in late summer – early autumn. This is the time of harvest and the upcoming grape picking. It is also a lovely season; let it create the basic mood for the demonstrative gathering of performances, which has always been meant to give the widest possible selection of the Hungarian contemporary dance “produce” from the latest seasons. In addition to long-time “regulars”, well-known and well liked companies and artists in Veszprém, this year we offer you brand new works by four young choreographers who hold scholarships under the Zoltán Imre Programme.
The most exciting news in the festival’s life is that we have taken the first steps towards becoming international.
In this spirit, we have invited the production entitled Hakanaii by Compagnie Adrien M.&Claire B. from France to be performed in the main auditorium of Hangvilla. This show fascinates spectators with the interaction between state-of-the-art video technology projected digital images and the movements of the human body.
We are also offering an international ballet gala, also performed in Hangvilla’s main auditorium. Excellent solo dancers from seven countries are going to arrive to perform scenes from the gems of classical ballet and emblematic works of modern ballet theatre. This is going to be a celebration, the celebration of dance.
We are looking forward to meeting you in Hangvilla, Petőfi Theatre, Agóra, and Latinovits-Bujtor Studio Theatre. Let’s meet again, experience in person the miracle of the art of dance, and make use of the healing power of art.
Let us come together again and do everything we can to make being together safe!
László Vándorfi and György Krámer