Through topics that should pique the interest of the youthful audience, the Long Live Petőfi dance drama from Kossuth Prize-winning Zoltán Zsuráfszky and the Hungarian National Dance Ensemble - who created and invented the genre themselves - will fully explore the most significant milestones of Petőfi's densely packed life. There will be freedom and love, too, of course. In this reconceptualised performance, there will be particular emphasis on the 1848 Hungarian Revolution and the role Sándor Petőfi played in it. In the title role, we can look forward to seeing and hearing Márk Horváth. They will alternately interpret iconic Petőfi poems accompanied by the dancers of the Hungarian National Dance Ensemble, giving the audience the opportunity to not only feel the patriotism emanating from his lines, but also to finally understand it on a profound level. The joint work of ensemble leader Zoltán Zsuráfszky and Zsuzsa Zs. Vincze will honour episodes from Petőfi's short-lived career with spectacular and colourful dance images and joyous, stirring dancing scenes. Because, in the words of Zoltán Zsuráfszky, Petőfi is a figure who "will always remain a shooting star, a genius who shows us the way forward with his revolutionism, his spirit and his poems.” The choreographer also hopes that the performers and members of the audience will recite Petőfi's great poems in unison. After all, it is essential for every Hungarian to be familiar with his life's work.

Age: 9- year
Presented by: Müpa Budapest