Theatre, Ballet/Dance

Artistic director and director-choreographer Balázs Vincze is very familiar with the tastes of dance aficionados partial to the traditions of bourgeois theatre and is superb at adapting familiar and popular literary classics to the dance stage. His wonderful sense of proportion enables audiences to follow plots in the language of dance. His contemporary choreographies built on classical foundations are unique, spectacular and of a high professional calibre without losing sight of the need to please the audience.

Boris Eifman / ifj. Johann Strauss
THE PYGMALION EFFECT
Ballet in two acts

Pursuing happiness, love and affection through countless adventures across this great wide world, but still eventually finding a final peace in the arms of his beloved, Peer Gynt is one of the most complex characters in 19th-century drama. The challenges of staging and absorbing the play are always exceptional tests of strength for the director and the audience.

Some people need to immerse themselves in the world of a true classic every evening: this family fairy tale ballet by the Szeged Contemporary Dance Company gives every member of the family the opportunity to do just that.

A Székely gate is a symbol of ancient power, faith, hope, belonging to God, a channel of communication between heaven and earth. Its three posts represent the unity of body, soul and spirit, and its carvings are symbols that render protection, grace and blessing.

Johan Inger – William Forsythe – Hans van Manen – Sol León – Paul Lightfoot
FRENETIC DANCE
Four one-act ballet in three parts

Dance drama based on Mihály Munkácsy’s works

Anna-Marie Holmes – Tamás Solymosi / Adolphe Adam
LE CORSAIRE
Classical ballet in three acts

The World of Ballet Remembers a Hungarian Legend

Ballet school showcase in two parts

László Seregi / Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
Ballet in three acts

Rudi van Dantzig – Toer van Schayk / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
SWAN LAKE
Classical ballet in three acts

Gyula Harangozó / Léo Delibes
COPPELIA
Comic dance in three acts

Wayne Eagling – Tamás Solymosi / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
THE NUTCRACKER
Fairy-tale ballet in two acts

Ronald Hynd / Ferenc Lehár
THE MERRY WIDOW
Comic ballet in three acts

Sir Kenneth MacMillan / Jules Massenet / Martin Yates
MANON
Ballet in three acts

Marius Petipa – Albert Mirzoyan / Ludwig Minkus
LA BAYADÈRE
Classical ballet in three acts