The PLACCC Festival awaits the audience with a special series of artistic and professional programs between May 26 and 31, 2026.
As part of the PLACCC Weekend, dance performances, monodramas, contemporary dance performances and performance workshops will take place in various locations in Budapest, while the festival will also host international professional programs with the support of the European IN SITU Platform.
The Creative Europe-supported program, which will take place between 2025 and 2028, will provide emerging artists with the opportunity to share knowledge, research and create within the framework of the IN SITU Platform, including in the framework of intensive creative laboratories organized by partner festivals.
Performers and scene:
On May 28, Luca Borsos and Máté Kőrösi‘s participatory dance performance Dance the District invites city dwellers to move together. The special feature of the event is that there are no performers in the traditional sense: the participants dance to the same live-streamed music for an hour on the streets of Budapest, transforming the city space into a spontaneous community experience. Venue. Sandwich Bar Community Square, district VII., 27.István street Budapest.
On May 29, in her monodrama The Princess Weeping the Sand, artist Maria Nasr of Egyptian origin, who lives in Budapest, talks about the difficulties of escape and how personal traumas and immigration policy can steal years from people’s lives through her personal story. Venue: DANTE Közösségi Alkotótér, Venue: District II., 1. Török Street – Budapest.
On May 30, the audience is invited to a premiere. The Kata Juhász Company‘s production Wasteland examines the relationship between nature and urban civilization. The performance, created with the participation of the six dancers, reflects on the social meanings of pollution, consumption and “garbage” using the expressive tools of contemporary dance and music. Venue: Hungarian University of Fine Arts Department of Scenic Design.
The program series will conclude on the 31st of May with an event titled: Rite Workshop #5: Crowd by Dávid Somló.
International artists from France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Poland, Greece, Cyprus, Kosovo and Ukraine will arrive for the professional programs related to the PLACCC Weekend, so that the artists selected in the open competition will present their upcoming public art projects.It will take place in the vicinity of Boráros Square – Budapest.
The professional programs are held in English language and are free to attend with prior registration @
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