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Autumn in Budapest means festival, and between the 8th and 17th of October, the Autumn Festival takes place there, where contemporary art an artists from 12 countries will gather and show new trends in dance, music, digital art and photography.
This festival is now has been going on for twenty years in Europe´s festival programme and it has achieved a position which attracts contemporary art lovers from all over Europe who will enjoy this year with its 90 programmes of music, opera, dance, theatre and film.
The abundant programme has interesting proposals, among which we can find the Austrian futurepop duo Mind.in.a.box, which will be playing on the 16th at Diesel Club. This electronic music band has established itself quickly on the world map, imposing new sound mixes which the two members, Stefan Poiss and Marcus Hadwiger, have created from their love of videogames, science fiction and futuristic imagination. Their album ´Lost Alone´ is already a classic among the fans and worshipers of this danceable electronic music genre.
Another of the acts to highlight is New Music Studio 1970-1980, which presents itself with the concert of László Vidovszky and László Sáry, among eight other interpreters who will be on stage on the 15th of October at the Millenáris Teátrum. New Music Studio was founded in 1970 to gather the generation of post-war, avant-garde musicians. This musical forum allowed the spreading and experimentation of contemporary avant-garde music and that musicians such as Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen could expose their ideas on music.
Without doubt, one of the most interesting contemporary dance shows is the presentation of Kris Verdonck, at the Thalia Theatre on the 13th. Kris Verdonck is an image and dance creator, an exquisite mix of elements where he imposes his thoughts on his angsts, which is the human self-extermination through irreversible damage to nature. His works are always a simile to Greek tragedy, where the root of the conflict is located in the human mind governed by the dominant power and where low passions are the enemy to dominate. His formation as an architect brought him to create aesthetically ordered worlds, despite their chaos.
Because theatre could not be left out of this autumn festival, on the 13th of October, Radio Muezzin by Rimini Protokoll will be presented at the TRAFÓ House of Contemporary Arts. Rimini Protokoll is the fantasy name of the German group formed by Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi and Daniel Wetzel, who created clubs with a new radiophonic live theatre style. Their theatre close to performance is very interesting and has won its place all over the world.
For more information: http://bof.hu/2010/?l=en
Nancy Guzman
If you´re thinking of spending some relaxing days in apartments in Budapest don´t forget to book your seat in the different programmes of this Autumn Festival and make of your stay a moment of catharsis with art and entertaining culture.
Translated by: aleixgwilliam
