Coming to Our Secrets this weekend? Interested in spies, government surveillance, and censorship?
Panel—Secrets & Spies: Artists in the Eastern Bloc
Thursday, January 12
5:00-6:30 PM
Haldeman 41
Director Béla Pintér joins faculty
to discuss German, Hungarian and Russian culture under 20th century Communism, including government surveillance, censorship, samizdat and the fetishization of folk traditions.The
panel discussion will be followed by a reception and
exhibit of photos in the Haldeman Center's Russo Gallery by Norwich, VT photographer Seth
Goodwin. Goodwin's "Images from the Soviet Union, 1988" will be on display from January
9th - January 18th. For more information on the exhibit, see what the Valley
News and the Daily
UV have
to say!
SPEAKERS
Stuart Finkel, Visiting Associate Professor of History and Russian Studies
Yuliya Komska, Associate Professor of German
Edit Nagy, Hungarian Language Lecturer, University of Florida’s Center for European Studies
Béla Pintér, Director of Our Secrets
Moderated by Stephanie Pacheco, Hopkins Center for the Arts
Co-sponsored by the Dickey Center and the Hopkins Center for the Arts.
Programmed in conjunction with
Béla Pintér and Company’s Our Secrets
Fri & Sat Jan 13 & 14, 8:00
PM, The Moore Theater
Tickets
and info here.
Hungary’s leading theater director, Béla Pintér offers potent, biting insight into a specific absurdity of early ‘80s Communist Hungary: the secret police’s infiltration of amateur folk dancing. A musician confesses
unspeakable sexual desires—unaware his government is taping every word. In between the playwright’s pointed political jokes, pressure builds, until seeping distrust compels lifelong friends to inform on each other, poisoning even the innocent desire to flirt,
stomp and twirl.
In Hungarian with English supertitles. Adult language, graphic sexual content.
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