If you love to laugh; you enjoy watching acrobats perform heart-stopping stunts; you like hearing parrots sing songs; and you’d love to see elephants cycling to their heart’s content; then the Budapest International Circus Festival is sure to excite you. This event is being arranged and hosted by the Capital Circus Group from Hungary for the 9^th successive year. They present the audience with the best forms of spectacular aerobics and stunt shows from Hungary. The event was last held in 2010, and is hosted every two years in search of new talent. From different corners of Hungary and Europe, budding professionals participate in this show to make a name for themselves and to begin an illustrious career.

When and Where is the Budapest International Circus Festival?

The Budapest International Circus Festival will be held at the Hungarian capital of Budapest from the 2^nd to the 6^th of February, 2012. This event is a launching platform for many with the involvement of the prominent people in the industry. The jury this year will comprise of people from Canada, Italy, Germany, England and France. The event will also offer Gold, Silver and Bronze medals for a podium finish.

Let the Performers Astonish You!

The Budapest International Circus Festival is a competition presented in the form of a mega event. This year’s event will feature more acts than the last year. There will be thirty-four different breath-taking events and stunts performed by well-picked artists from all over the world. These performers are divided into two different groups,  A and B. Group A will perform acts like juggling, Hula-hoop shows, comedy shows, musical clowns, orchestra performances, violin and silk players, high wire performances and a performance of tigers and panthers from Russia. Group B will feature performances like aerial hammocks, golf juggling, dog acts and comedy acts as well.

Like previous years, this year will also witness shows in the format of shows A-B-B-A. These groups will be judged by individuals in the jury. Depending on this judgment the winning group will get an opportunity to perform in the Gala event on the final day. The performers from this winning group A or B will be judged individually for various awards like best Foreign Act, the best Hungarian Act, and the best Pierrot awards. Tickets are available online for international visitors in three categories.

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Theater had a realistic slope for many years. It was not until the late nineteenth century when it started to appear a change in this trend, mainly due to the various artistic vanguards and the advent of modernity. So, thanks to advances in visual media through symbolism and abstraction, theater took a step to higher levels of representation, staging and proposals. Today, contemporary drama uses a variety of new resources ranging from video, installation and increasingly minimal and conceptual staging, in which new records interact with aesthetic, political, current and controversial stories.

Perhaps the greatest example of total contemporary theater is the King Ubu by Alfred Jarry, a piece with multiple variations and recurring themes, works both the in stage and the subject matter from a political irony and humor truly amazing for its time. Jarry was a visionary, and as such, a precursor of Dadaism and other “isms” of the time. The curious thing about a piece like King Ubu, is that besides its high sarcasm, questioning the political environment of its time, anarchic and volatile capacity, is structured from the meaning and quite complex language games, in which the reader or anyone who witnesses the piece, simply get carried away by logic staged games. In this work, too, shedding is minimal nature of the staging of contemporary art.

Antonin Artaud took a step forward in creating theater. With his theories on the “Theatre of Cruelty,” Artaud not only proposes new means even more abstract and metaphysical included in the staging. It was after his explorations in Mexico with peyote in the Tarahumara tribes Theatre Artaud understood as a profound exploration of the unconscious, which also reveals a ritualistic nature scene on the set. So Artaud makes plays in their colors appear as substances, or occurrences that increased the volume on stage. What encourages Artaud is not stable look over the world, but rather quite the contrary. Artaud reveals the short depth of human spirit and the horror of the void, the inability to be present or be in the unrecognized breath by breath, no more than a pathetic construction of meanings around us, and that reality invention is also empty, no other culture density that gives, and which confuses us, contra lateral and manipulated.

The Contemporary Drama Festival Budapest has over ten years. During this period, there have been more than a hundred international performances in the festival, which each year continues to cause interest at the Hungarian public as well as internationally. The festival is a very interesting space in which new proposals for theater and performance converse, mingle, and generate new creations. For more information, visit the following website: http://dramafestival.hu/

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The pleasures of wine are told from remote times. This pleasant drink has accompanied the whole world during millenniums and it�s a true traditional in a large part of the tables in the Western world. The relation of wine with culture are diverse and deep, as is its symbology that goes from the religious rituals to pagan and profane ones. It is, undoubtedly, the drink that blesses churches and turns into Christ�s blood, with the sacred elixir that encourages intoxication, poetical deliriums and sexual romance. And there�s nothing more exciting that wine to increase the temperatures at the time of making love. Many of the well-known poets have sung odes to wine and its delicacies, the chaos that it provokes, its magical power and the inspiration that it produces.

Charles Baudelaire, father of modern poetry without a shadow of a doubt, is one of the main poets that made of wine a constant subject and from which many lessons can be learned. In his poetry, wine is a powerful narcotic that not only becomes the inciter of lust and passions, the blood of the lamb that spills and drinks to reach those �Artificial Paradises� that he talked about so much and he provoked with his harmonious and melancholic writings, but at the same time, in the voluptuous condition that, in the intoxication from wine, you can reach states of illumination and sacred pronunciation. That�s how wine provokes visions, brilliant ideas, even miraculous, and it�s the drink where dark and secret poetry reside.

That�s how the ancestral ceremonies to Baccus are a type of calling to the invocation of the unseen. The stupor that wine generates makes of the body a tame machinery for the gathering of imagination and dreams. And effectively, dreaming under the influences of wine becomes an experience that is blurred and filled with images of many colours. At the same time, wine incites lust and sexual desire in men and women, and is therefore the nocturnal drink that best favours romance. Imagine what it must be like to have some wine in Budapest and in the International Wine Festival. Certainly, a favourable moment for romance and to meet beautiful people who are open to adventure. This international festival takes place every year where thousands of exhibitors from around the world participate, as well as music, meetings and, above all, the animated participation of thousands of people searching for the perfect wine, the sweetest aroma that the mind can manage, romance and, who knows, maybe love too. For more information and the timetables of events of this festival on each day, visit this webpage:  http://www.aborfesztival.hu/

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