The soul of Sziget Festival: Fuerza Bruta, Cirque du Sziget, Artzone, Luminarium and more!
Sziget Festival, recently crowned as the Best Major European Festival, will be as colorful and diverse as the audience expects it to be for 23 years now. The week-long festival holiday in the heart of Budapest will be the place to be this summer between 10-17 August on the beautiful green island in the Hungarian capital.
Sziget Festival is the reigning ‘Best European Major Festival’ award winner and aims to keep this title with its original program and unique atmosphere. When “Szitizens” (Citizens of the Festival in Szigetish) go through the legendary bridge they arrive to an island with extraordinary visuals and decorations. We can easily describe the location as ‘a great place to get lost’ as visitors can choose from more than 50 program venues with around 1000 programs at the week-long event. In addition, the amazing city of Budapest is a capital also worth to explore.
In 2014 the festival hosted more The multicultural festival that is held in the middle of Budapest on an island, hosting more than 415.000 people for 7 days is a real festival holiday with non-stop parties and to-dos. Sziget is one of the few major festivals you could even enjoy without a single second of music on the stages, but presenting a cool mixture of new and already established acts is still an important mission for the organizers.
The programs, that actually make Sziget different from any other festival, are those that are spread all around the island on numerous locations, making the festival vibe a real cultural experience. One of the most exciting highlights is this year’s Giant Street Theatre brought by Fuerza Bruta. “The Bubble” is not just theater – it is a never slowing party that enchants the viewer, and makes the audience engage in the act. Called as interactive freedom – the experience is dependent on the individual attending the show. There is no stage, the audience is the main stage, and everything happens all around them. They are engulfed in a 360-degree featuring mind-blowing effects. A must see.
We flash back to our Magical time at Sziget 2012:
Sziget Festival Full Show: Island in the Danube Budapest
In additiont his year, the Cirque du Sziget venue, home for magnificent “new-circus” productions, will be an enchanted place to be on the Island. Szitizens can enjoy companies as Akoreacro from France, Cirk La Putyka form Czech Republic, ManoAmano, Manic Freak, Muruya, Tony Fratello from Argentina and Grotesque Gymnastics from Hungary.
