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Hungary among most peaceful countries - EIU survey
Budapest, May 30 (MTI) - Hungary is among the most peaceful countries on a world list compiled by the London-based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

The EIU's Global Peace Index published on Wednesday found that Hungary, in 18th place, stands in similar territory to its regional peers while Norway was judged to be the most peaceful country among the 121 surveyed.

The least peaceful was Iraq, according to the index.

May 31. 2007 Thursday 7:00

50th Artistic Jubilee (Galambos, Tímár, Kricskovics)

Palace of Arts
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Phone: +36-1/555-3001, 555-3002

Festival Theatre

50TH ARTISTIC JUBILEE

My dance drama entitled ’Lucidium Intervallum – the Way to Light’ commemorates the poet of greatest influence in Croatian literature, who set modernism on its way: Sylvie Strahimir Kranjcevic. It is a new chapter and a new revelation of my career as a choreographer at the same time.

The movements of the piece are birth and family, love wanderings, faith and piety, the relationship of power and the individual, the ontological ring embracing the irrevocable solitude and passing that are enclosed in the body.
(One has seen much in so many years...)
Antal Kricskovics
Artist of Excellence and Merit

I profess myself to belong to those with the task of depicting their age realistically. The world in which we live has become distorted, ruthless and malignant, but also smart and technocratic, still emotionless or dazzling like a fake pearl - partly owing to our own activity. There are is an infinite number of experiences waiting to be interpreted, still I am only interested in our beautiful and extraordinarily rich mother tongue of dance.
Tibor Galambos

It is great pleasure for me to appear in a homely program together with three of my dancer-choreographer colleagues walking on different roads after decades of dance festivals and dance anthologies, in order for us each to introduce an element of our dance-poetry.

I adhere to Asian roots and build on Hungarian folk dance and folk music to follow the example of Sándor Petőfi, Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály. I also love work with dances of minorities and neighbouring nations and make choreographies for composed pieces of music, too.
Sándor Tímár
state distinguished Artist of Merit

Edited by: TIBOR GALAMBOS

We, as three artists of different character but all inspired by the determining choreographic workshop of István Molnár, all date the start of our choreographic activity from 1957. We have followed each other’s works with sympathy and curious attention and now we appear together with the following program to congratulate each other:

Antal Kricskovics: LUCIDUM INTERVALLUM – THE WAY TO LIGHT
Music: a montage of folklore and contemporary music
Art collaborator and costume designs: Mária Szilcsanov
Sound engineering: Pál Örsi
Light engineering: István Kiss
Performed by: the Fáklya Croatian Art Ensemble

Tibor Galambos: Bartók: ALLEGRO BARBARO
Performed by: the graduate students of the College of Dance
Kodály: UP FLEW THE PEACOCK
Performed by: the Erkel Ferenc Folk Dance Ensemble
IN CRIESOFPAIN – IN FLAMES (premier)
(In the program paying hommage to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and Imre Nagy, Tamás Lossonczy’s pen drawings accompany Gyula Illyés’s poem ‘One Sentence on Tyranny’, and the film also includes several Hungarian and foreign artistic documents.)

Music: László Rossa

Photo processing and AV programming: János Dozvald
Film direction: Tibor Galambos
Performed by: the graduate students of the College of Dance and the Erkel Ferenc Folk Dance Ensemble

SONGS AND RUNES FROM THE 21TH TURN OF CENTURIES
A debate with God and men for humanum, with Menyhért Tamás’s poem montage

Music: László Rossa
Előadják: the Erkel Ferenc Folk Dance Ensemble, the Vasas Art Ensemble Ballet and the Vadrózsák Folk Dance Ensemble

Sándor Tímár: A FEAST OF KALOTASZEG
A WHITE LILY

THE JOC BEGINS (Romanian dances from Békés County)
Bartók: PAIRING
Kodály: CHILDREN’S DANCES
DANCES OF SZATMÁR
Art director: Bözske Tímár
Music: Húros Folk Music Band
Assistant: Orsolya Mayer, Mihály Tímár
Costumes: Rita Nánási
Performed by the Csillagszemű Dance Ensemble

Thanx 4 Shearing with us...
Adeel Khan Sherwani from Atlanta

Thanx 4 shearing with us..
Adeel Khan Sherwani from Austin

The girl in the first few photos giving "ingyen oleles", or free hugs, is me.
I am an American student who lived in Budapest for four years during high school and a few friends and I decided to have some fun and do "Free hugs", one of the most memorable parts of my time in Hungary.