Somnakaj: Gypsy Musical

Somnakaj, the first Gypsy Musical, came to life due to the dedicated hard work of several well-known Hungarian performing artists. The show was first introduced at the Budapest Spring Festival in April 2014 in the Palace of Arts with the support of the Ministry of Human Resources. The performance went on a national tour from Spring 2015 until the end of that year. It is visited 10 county towns to show wide audiences how mutual work and thinking together can build bridges between nationalities and members of the society of majority. The outstanding virtue of the production is the intention to make fields of contemporary art meet on stage. Besides the dance and the music naive roma, fine art also gets a role. The spectacular artistic works created by the roma-rooted Hungarian, Kossuth-awarded artist, István Szentandrássy, have become an important part of the image and scenery. This way the intention to maintain traditions and find modern ways to express ourselves is fulfilled. The performance is a union of concert and theatre, dance and literature, traditional fine art, keeping of traditions and meeting of modern forms. It is a unique crossover. Real music of joy. At the birth of the performance the most important intention was to introduce the roma and gypsy culture as a part of both the national and the European culture. Furthermore, to ensure such high-level artistic cultural experience that encourages the start of a positive change of point-of-view in the field of discrimination in society.