The G.A.L.A. is the first public performance of the Contemporary Dance BA students at BCDC in this academic year.
GALA – just a little differently: Grow A Little Affection. Feelings not only have a place within us, but they can also be celebrated; we can give them, and we can receive them.
But what does this have to do with dance? Dance harmonizes. The subtle constellations of attention and presence, sensation and emotion, physicality and movement, connection and encounter shape not only the dance itself, but also the relationship between performer and audience. We can give them, and we can receive them.
During the evening, the students will present two pieces composed and directed by the invited artists – Zsuzsa Rózsavölgyi and Dávid Mikó – alongside their own independent creative works, offering a glimpse into the fresh ideas, experiments, and encounters that animate their practice.
We welcome friends, relatives, and all those interested in getting to know the language of contemporary dance and our work when researching different forms of performing arts.
Date: 9 December 2025, 7 pm
Venue: Artus Studio, 1116 Budapest, Sztregova utca 7.
The duration of the event is approximately 90 minutes.
Please fill out the registration form so we can estimate the number of attendees!
Donation
If you can, please support the event with a financial contribution. Your donation will help fund additional professional programs for the students.
The suggested donation amount is 3000 HUF.
Supporter of the event: NKA
Detailed program
Vacuumed Realities (10’)
Creators: Bánk Bagyinszki, Nikolett Molnár
Performers: Bánk Bagyinszki, Kiara Fülöp, Lili Kiss, Viktória Kitanov, Kíra Lugosi, Nadin Nóna Pálvölgyi, Nikolett Molnár
Isolated, humanoid beings in a physically oversaturated space. What happens when we disrupt this environment and the space becomes completely emptied? How can we adapt to this, and can we ourselves endure within this transformation?
Blink twice if (16’)
Choreographers and Dancers: Lili Hirsch-Nagy, Szellő Tirza Kővári, Kriszta Kovács, Nicole Messner, Anna Lázár
Music: recordings created by the creators and edited by Hirsch-Nagy Lili and Lázár Anna
Blink twice if, is a piece based on collective work. It processes the relationships between people meeting in space through different concepts. The key is mutual attention and honesty, discovered in the context of individuality appearing in a community.
Circular Transpiral (30’)
Choreographer: Dávid Mikó
Performers: Bánk Bagyinszki, Kiara Fülöp, Lili Kiss, Viktória Kitanov, Kíra Lugosi, Nadin Nóna Pálvölgyi, Nikolett Molnár
Music: Varázsló-Hall of Purity, Mathias Grassow-Leaving Through the Endlessness, Ettore Rigadello-Ooteca
Circular cycles, transformation in an environment where universal rules prevail. Infinity in a closed system. Transition and fusion between extremes: dark-light, fast-slow, soft-hard, static-dynamic. Process about process. A self-reacting system in the flow of eternal change. Circulation, rotation, flow, spiral. Individuals emerging from an infinite loop…
Baroque Beats – Composition Studies (10’)
Choreographer: Zsuzsa Rózsavölgyi
Dancers/Creators: Lili Hirsch-Nagy, Szellő Tirza Kővári, Kriszta Kovács, Nicole Messner, Anna Lázár, Veera Laurila, Simona Lazurová, Katalin Huszár, Sára Csaba, Benedek Jácinta
The choreography explores the union of mathematical precision and the elegance of movement, drawing inspiration from the refinement of Baroque music. This work was created using the textbook “Tools for Movement Composition” by the composer and dance-film director Thierry De Mey. This process unites structure and grace, achieving an equilibrium in which the systematic framework serves as the “skeleton” for poetic expression.
This is how we walk (12’)
Choreographers and Dancers: Veera Laurila, Simona Lazurová, Katalin Huszár, Sára Csaba, Jácinta Benedek
Walking is our most fundamental movement — an act so ordinary, yet profoundly layered. Anatomically, we are built to walk; every movement we make traces back to this primal gesture. In This Is How We Walk, we explore walking not merely as locomotion, but as a source of endless choreographic potential.
Host of the event: Tamás Bakó
Special thanks to Gábor Kocsis
