Ladder Art Company

Ladder Art Company is an emerging art company based in Budapest, Hungary. We have been organizing cultural events, workshops and collaborations between artists working in different areas of art, and producing theatre productions since our establishment in 2016. Our purpose is to encourage responsibility, consciousness, acceptance, open-mindedness, and supportive way of life through artistic projects.

Performances

Ab ovo

In our performances, we combine new circus, clowning, physical-, movement- and visual theatre elements, which go beyond classical theatre genres, with the aim of creating a special world that attracts the attention of our audience to innovative theatrical concepts and contemporary art forms. We believe that theatrical tools have a social-forming power. That is why we take great emphasis on choosing themes and issues that affect a broader section of society.

Our projects are gaining professional recognition, we have been touring in several national and international festivals (Valley of Arts Hunggary, Infinite Dance Festival Oradea, Voila! Europe London, Istanbul Fringe Festival, Bergen Fringe Festival).

Ab ovo

Workshops

As well as creating productions, our association plays a significant role in the further training of national and Europian theatre profession. We organize training opportunities for theatre professionals and amateurs with the involvement of international teachers, we lead theatre courses and participate in international educational and research projects.

Our motivation is to support the acquisition and raise the consciousness of established expertise and techniques for a new generation of actors, performers, and theatre practitioners.

International projects

InPerTrain

In the framework of our Theatre Master Courses project, we have been organizing 12 workshops in Budapest, inviting internationally acclaimed teachers and practitioners (Ian Morgan, Oleg Zukovsky, Vladimir Granov, Gretchen Egolf, Joan Catala). In the summer of 2021, we implemented the first International Theatre Workshop Forum with the participation of leading teachers from the Polish Gardzienice Centre for Theatre Practices and the SITI Company in New York, among others. The event also included a two-day conference, the Environmental Weekend, with talks and presentations on climate change and environmental issues.

In 2022-23 we lead the InPerTrain international Erasmus+ research project in the field of performing arts. This program is an innovation in the performer’s training practices on individual performer training structures and methodologies.

Production team

Mátyás Marofka – artistic director

Artistic director of Ladder Art Company, director and performer of Awakening, Matyas Marofka, is an actor, coach, director, aerial acrobat in circus arts.A student of the Michael Chekhov International Academy in Berlin, Leandre Ribera is a collaborator of the world-famous Catalan clown. After studying acting (MA Acting at University of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest), and learning actor-training (MA Actor Training and Coaching at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London), worked as an actor in wide variety of theatre shows in Hungary, before founding Ladder Art Company. He is also a researcher and teacher of psycho-physical actor training approaches and physical theatre practices. (www.matyasmarofka.com)

Jázmin Nagy – Artistic assistant

Jázmin is the artistic assistant of the 2084 project and is responsible for Ladder Art Company’s social media pages and website. She completed her studies at Eötvös Lóránd University, Faculty of Arts, majoring in Liberal Arts, aesthetics, and theater studies. Previously, she worked as an actress at East-West Collective and as a director’s assistant at Epic Theater Company. At the former organization, she did not only artistic work but also operational and background work. She also worked as a marketing consultant, tender writer, and event organizer. In recent years, she has worked on several independent short film projects, mainly as a screenwriter and dramaturg.

Eszter Lovrity – project manager

Eszter is a production assistant and project manager at Ladder Art. She graduated in Design and Art Theory from Moholy-Nagy University of Arts in Budapest in 2020. During her university years, she spent an exchange year in Marseille, France, studying photography. Later, she remained in France for its vibrant multicultural environment for an additional four years. She began her career as a production assistant, working on a cultural event series. With her multidisciplinary background, she navigates both the visual and performative art scenes, having worked for several art galleries and contributed to social events. As a French-speaking project manager at Ladder Art Company, she now contributes to bringing the company’s productions to France.

Creative team

Ádám Boncz

Mondays for Future

Máté Czakó

Mondays for Future, Ab Ovo

Krisztián Kiliti

Awakening

Adrián Kovács

Awakening

Balázs Kulcsár

Awakening

Fanni Lakos

Mondays for Future

Leandre Ribera

Ab Ovo

Ákos Lengyel

Awakening

Esztella Levko

Mondays for Future

Aletta Lokodi

Mondays for Future

Mátyás Major

Mondays for Future

Ádám Munkácsi

Mondays for Future

Sári O. Horváth

Mondays for Future, Ab Ovo

Marcell Pető

Ab Ovo

Victor Morato Ribera

Awakening

Mirabell Kirkland

InPerTrain

Gábor Viktor Kozma

InPerTrain

Katalin Gordos

InPerTrain

Anna Seress

InPerTrain

Aliz Győri

photographer

Luca Molnár

graphic designer

Board of the association

Balázs Kulcsár

president

Mátyás Marofka

vice president

Fruzsina Horváth

secretary

Support us!

HUF (MBH Bank):
Bank account holder: Létra Kulturális Egyesület
Bankszámlaszám: 10103104-80275400-01004009

EUR (Wise):
Bank account holder: Ladder Art Company – Létra Kulturális Egyesület
BIC: TRWIBEB1XXX
IBAN: BE68 9671 1174 1134
Wise’s address: Avenue Louise 54, Room S52 Brussels 1050 Belgium

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