"Twenty years after the dismantling of the iron curtain, this programme is thanks for all Hungary has done in the past and a welcoming to the future of the country," said André Hebbelinck, the representative of the Flemish Government in Hungary.
Futurspektiv will open with a performance of Handel's Brockes Passion by the Collegium Vocale Gent together with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin in Budapest's Music Academy on April 9.
On the following day, the virtuoso jazz pianist Free Desmyter will play with his world music ensemble Ahoar, which mixes Flemish with Iraqi music.
A performance by the well known choreographer Arco Renz and is company Kobalt Works will explore femininity expressed in the language of 21st century dance.
The Trafó will host Wayn Traub's Maria Magdalene, the last of a trilogy of so-called cinema operas created over a decade, on April 17 and 18.
The musical group Zita Swoon will show audiences at the Millenáris how to mix the French chanson with progressive rock, soul and electronic dance music at a concert on April 17.
The Ernst Museum will show an exhibition of four Flemish artists.
Vérité Exposée, an exhibition by Sven Augustijnen, David Claerbout, Ana Torfs and Els Vanden Meersch, will examine fundamental questions of individual and historical memory.
Antwerp's most exciting artistic collective, BerlinBerlin, will bring its newest documentary video and performance about an American mining town to Budapest. On the literary front, Rachida Lamrabet, the Moroccan-born Flemish writer will present The Country of Women, a novel that explores the differences between traditions.
The Kopergietery theatre troupe will perform a piece called Run which speaks about a love of life using the language and gestures of techno culture.
Two Flemish electronic music acts will play at the A38: The Subs and Shameboy. The festival's closing act will be a concert by Vive La Fete.
Source: Fidelio
