{"id":319,"date":"2017-02-04T23:49:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T23:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/185.43.206.2\/~cedthu\/?page_id=319\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T12:34:37","slug":"a-ket","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cedt.hu\/en\/a-ket\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the KET"},"content":{"rendered":"
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THE DANCE THEATRE OF CENTRAL EUROPE<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The Central Europe Dance Theatre (KET) is one of the most adaptive and innovative dance companies in Hungary, which creates in the spirit of topicality and reflectivity. KET's shows speak to the audience in the diverse language of contemporary dance, presenting the unique movement world and themes of the Carpathian Basin. Its international presence and its Central European network of contacts give rise to collaborations that create unique collaborations, niche initiatives and exceptional projects - programmes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Among the Hungarian artists, it encourages the presentation of hidden or lesser-known talents, while among its recognised international artists, it seeks out and invites outstanding talents and high quality choreographers - performers to colour the palette of the Hungarian dance scene with personalities who are unattainable in Hungary. Its performances and programmes create impulsive events in traditional theatre settings as well as in space and site specific environments to offer audiences innovative and unique experiences.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

It also aims to promote and spread knowledge of the art of dance, forming fusions where professionals, masters, young artists at the top or beginning of their careers, choreographers and dance artists can step into the spotlight and connect. Its dance theatre education and awareness programmes and workshops explore new ways to stimulate interest in the profession and the arts. The focus of its ever-evolving festivals, both more classical dance theatre and revisionist-progressive genres can be traced.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

The KET, following in its tradition, carries out its research and workshop work as intended by its founders, while creating a future for today's performers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The Central Europe Dance Theatre (KET) has a long history: the first dance theatre in Hungary, it is one of the best known independent contemporary dance companies.<\/span><\/p>

The predecessor of the KET was founded in 1978 by the Ministry of Culture as a branch of the People's Theatre, merged from the 25th Theatre and the D\u00e9ryn\u00e9 Theatre in the Castle Theatre. The N\u00e9psz\u00ednh\u00e1z T\u00e1ncegy\u00fcttes represented a particular colour in the Hungarian dance art: the company's artistic work was based on folklore, yet its aspirations were still close to modern theatrical trends. The face of the repertoire was defined by the creative work of artistic director Katalin Gy\u00f6rgyfalvay. In 1988, Istv\u00e1n \u00c9nekes and Csaba Sz\u00f6gi took over the management of the N\u00e9psz\u00ednh\u00e1z Dance Ensemble. In 1989, the N\u00e9psz\u00ednh\u00e1z Dance Ensemble was renamed, and thus the Central European Dance Theatre was born, which operated as a branch of the N\u00e9psz\u00ednh\u00e1z until 1991, and then as a branch of the Budapest Chamber Theatre until 1996, becoming an independent public association in 1997.<\/span><\/p>

The company has performed in 44 cities in 22 countries, from the United States to Armenia, Finland and Egypt, and has given more than 120 premieres. KET is the first Hungarian company to perform on Broadway in New York.<\/span><\/p>

In September 1996, the Ministry of Culture decided to move the company to the former Bethlen Cinema. In 1997, the former theatre at 3 Bethlen Square was reopened as a rehearsal space, and since then, many unforgettable theatre evenings and performances have proven that they made the right decision. The results of their theatre-rehabilitating, home-making work are now widely known, both at home and abroad. In January 2012, the venue was renamed Bethlen Square Theatre, in which the dance theatre has played a lion's share.<\/span><\/p>

The ensemble is an open workshop led by the founder-director Csaba Sz\u00f6gi. During this time, more than 70 choreographers have worked with the constantly renewing company. Artists are invited who do not realise their artistic ideas in the clich\u00e9s of safe and proven forms of movement language, but who take the risks of the uncharted path and create their performances with courageous, original means of expression. KET's workshop remains a space for experimentation, a place of new exploration for creators and dancers alike, as the founders intended.<\/span><\/p>

They have created the first dance theatre performance for children (Prince Mesenincs) and the first educational dance theatre performance (Horda2), they are the creators and organisers of festivals (International Monodance Festival, Sissi Autumn Dance Week), they run their own talent search programme (Young Choreographers Forum), they hold workshops and are constantly expanding their contacts with Central European performing arts organisations.<\/span><\/p>

Since 1988, five of the creators have been involved in the company's work as artistic directors: Istv\u00e1n \u00c9nekes (1988-1993), Csaba Sz\u00f6gi (1993-1994), Mikl\u00f3s K\u00f6ll\u0151 (1994-1997), Csaba Sz\u00f6gi (1997-2000), Csaba Horv\u00e1th (2000-2006), Csaba Sz\u00f6gi (2006-2013) and Attila Kun (2013-2018), each of whom marked an era in dance theatre.<\/span><\/p>

For the 2018\/19 season, J\u00e1nos Feledi became Artistic Director of the company and, as part of his application, he developed the programme for the next three seasons.<\/span><\/p>

After that, the daily artistic work of the company was taken over by Csaba Sz\u00f6gi, director, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 M\u00e1di, artistic director, Katalin Fodor, artistic collaborator, Vir\u00e1g S\u00f3thy, artistic manager, Adrienn M\u00e1di-Horv\u00e1th, training manager. The Presidium Csaba Sz\u00f6gi (President), Katalin Kov\u00e1csn\u00e9 Fodor (Vice President), Kl\u00e1ra \u00c9berhardt (Vice President).<\/span><\/p>

The association has been classified as a public benefit organisation since 2002, and in 2016 it was awarded the status of \u201eOutstanding Performing Arts Organisation\u201d.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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In 1995, Dr. Imre Vil\u00e1gos created the Foundation with the aim of helping young performers and creators in the field of movement culture, dance and non-verbal theatre: it continues its educational, training and further training activities for the continuous renewal, preservation of cultural heritage and cultural promotion. It is responsible for identifying the professional, technical and financial conditions, applications, grants and potential partners and supporters necessary for the realisation of these objectives. <\/span>The founder is Vir\u00e1g S\u00f3thy, the members of the Board of Trustees are J\u00f3zsef Karlik (chairman), Kl\u00e1ra \u00c9berhardt, Zolt\u00e1n Sz\u00e9plaki.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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R\u00f3lunk Bemutatkoz\u00e1s A K\u00d6Z\u00c9P-EUR\u00d3PA T\u00c1NCSZ\u00cdNH\u00c1Z A K\u00f6z\u00e9p-Eur\u00f3pa T\u00e1ncsz\u00ednh\u00e1z (KET) Magyarorsz\u00e1g egyik legadapt\u00edvabb \u00e9s leginnovat\u00edvabb t\u00e1nct\u00e1rsulata, amely az aktualit\u00e1s \u00e9s reflektivit\u00e1s jegy\u00e9ben alkot. A KET m\u0171sorai a kort\u00e1rst\u00e1nc v\u00e1ltozatos nyelv\u00e9n sz\u00f3lnak a k\u00f6z\u00f6ns\u00e9ghez, bemutatva a K\u00e1rp\u00e1t-medence egyedi mozg\u00e1svil\u00e1g\u00e1t \u00e9s t\u00e9mav\u00e1laszt\u00e1sait. Nemzetk\u00f6zi jelenl\u00e9te, \u00e9s k\u00f6z\u00e9p-eur\u00f3pai kapcsolatrendszere, olyan egy\u00fcttm\u0171k\u00f6d\u00e9seket h\u00edv \u00e9letre, amelyek unik\u00e1lis kollabor\u00e1ci\u00f3kat, hi\u00e1nyp\u00f3tl\u00f3 kezdem\u00e9nyez\u00e9seket, \u00e9s kiv\u00e9teles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-319","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cedt.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cedt.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cedt.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cedt.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cedt.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cedt.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61723,"href":"https:\/\/cedt.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/319\/revisions\/61723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cedt.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}