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Ziggurat Project

Ziggurat Project is an independent, interdisciplinary art collective connecting contemporary dance to other fields of art (theatre, visual arts, digital arts, music and literature). Our main focus is to create site-specific or site-sensitive performances and socially conscious projects. The company is based in Budapest, Hungary, but involved in many international cooperations.

In recent years the company participated in international cooperations such as Picture Project (HU, NO), FAR – Fight Against Radicalisation (HU/FR/IT/PT), Performing Arts residency of Visegrad Fund (HU/SK), CAPP – Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme (UK, IE, FI, DE, ES, HU), and presented works for PLACCC festival (HU), Trafó House of Contemporary Arts (HU), European Parliament, Strasbourg – EYE2018 (FR), Art&Tech Days Kosice (SK), White Night (SK), D-CAF Festival (EG), Spotter Trip (A), Valley of Arts (HU), Let me in Performing Arts Festival (DE),  L1dance Fest (HU), etc.

Legal representative of the company is Ziggurat Project Cultural Association.

ARTISTIC STATEMENT

Our main focus is to create site-sensitive or site-specific performances as we are willing to contribute to an art that exists out of the walls of a theatre or a museum. Site-sensitive dance creation gives us the possibility to engage with people in a more democratic, but mainly in a more personal way. As an art collective we believe in cooperative and research-based cultural and art projects. It is important to us to search for innovation and for that not only cross artistic fields, but to step into other sectors. Interdisciplinary cooperation means that we go out our comfort zone, that we try to understand and work together with someone who thinks in a different way. It means to be challenged, to be confronted by conflict and learn to negotiate without losing intention. We also believe that only good art can communicate with people and only good communication can create art based on real cooperation. By doing art we are able to surprise ourselves. From one’s initial research through to the creative process and into the doing we should not forget to be courageous. As most of the time it is the only way to get society’s attention to matters at hand.

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FLUID SPACE

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URGENT NEED TO BREATHE

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STYX 2.0

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ARBORETUM

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STELLA

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OUR HOME PLACE

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