The following acts are the warm-up programmes related to the Nincs Lehetetlen festival, taking place before 22 April.  

Blue Note Trip
11 April 2009, 8 p.m.
A38

DJ Maestro met the challenge offered by Blue Note record label, a milestone in the history of jazz, when he was requested to present the jazz gods and goddesses from a contemporary perspective. The old, yet subtle songs were thus given blood transfusion, were provided with dance floor BPM, and with the trendy retro wave they became unbelievably popular. A double CD was released, and live act requests were coming in increasingly high numbers, the result of which was a club night the young jazz fans had been waiting for so long, an all-night dance to the music of the highest quality.
This special evening aboard A38 hosts Dutch groups and musicians such as Room Eleven, the sax player Susanne Alt, and magician of drums Cyril Directie, but also renowned acts of the Hungarian jazz and party scene.  

http://www.myspace.com/musicadimaestro

Meekers Uitgesproken Dans - Sound Playground
11 April 2009, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Millenáris Fogadó

The Klankspeeltuin, translated as Sound Garden, is unlike any other playground. This is a playground where children, as well as youngsters and adults, can play with sounds. Sound installations and computers especially developed for the Sound Garden make it possible to embody, draw or dance a sound. Anything is possible, because here everybody is a composer. There is no need to be able to read music or to play an instrument to have fun in the Sound Garden.
The Sound Garden opens your ears. In regular music education the way to teach is often by reproducing music, but the Sound Garden awakens the composer in you. It is in no way comparable to any other project. First of all because the installations are unique. Furthermore, these installations make it possible for children to play and compose music from the moment they enter the Sound Garden.

http://www.meekers.nl/

Stuffed Puppet - Cuniculus
14, 15 April 2009, 7 p.m.
Merlin Theatre

Neville Tranter moved to the Netherlands after Stuffed Puppet had taken part in the Festival of Fools in Amsterdam in 1978, where his visual and emotional adult puppet theatre developed to assume its present form. In his own brutal, ruthless but poetic way, he confronts the audience with their fears and dreams, urges and desires, personified by what are often life-size talking puppets. His combination of down-to-earth humour, deadly seriousness and virtuoso puppetry has already made permanent converts of many who had presumed that for them, puppetry had nothing to offer.

Cuniculus
The earth lay waste, barren and poisoned. Underneath the surface were holes with entrances to endless tunnels. In this dusky world they lived, with their diseased skin, their unending number of children; there they breathed in their stinking air, there they ate, nibbled, snorted and lay together in copulation. Now, in this world there lived a man who thought he was a rabbit…

http://www.stuffedpuppet.nl

Ivana Müller - Playing Ensemble Again and Again
18 April 2009, 8 p.m.
MU Theatre

It is the most prolonged bow ever. It lasts for more than an hour, because movements are extremely slow and the performers, encouraged by applause on tape, come back on several occasions. The six performers in Ivana Müller’s Playing Ensemble Again and Again play six performers who contemplate all sorts of things while saying goodbye to the audience – the performance they have just given, their career, their life. At first sight they form a homogenous ensemble: they are equally tall, wear the same everyday clothes and have pretty much the same experiences while on tour. And nevertheless, this unity is just appearance. That eternal smile on faces therefore says nothing about the thoughts behind it. The beauty behind it all is that, gradually, a touching image emerges – the image of a group of soul mates who are getting old and who have to say goodbye to their profession and the time spent together, to welcome loneliness that, in a way, was always there.

http://www.associationlisa.com/ivana/

New Cool Collective
19 April 2009, 8 p.m.
Millenáris Teátrum

Since 1994 New Cool Collective has been known for their unique sound: a mix of jazz, dance, latin, and salsa. Massive, energetic, and made for dancing, with the big band of 19 members or in the small formation of eight men. They are a group of travelling musicians who are close friends as well. The guys that once brought jazz to the dance floor have just released their seventh album: Out of Office. “We keep trying to cross boundaries. We are always on a journey.” A record with a whole new groove: the sound, though still jazzy and danceable, has become deeper and darker.
New Cool Collective always stands for a jazzy and highly danceable party. Still, these gentlemen keep showing that their music is always on the move.

http://www.newcoolcollective.com

Kinderactie – Children Trains
20 April 2009, 10 a.m.
Debrecen Committee of the Academy of Sciences

It was after World War I that families in the Netherlands and Belgium first invited to their homes Hungarian children who were in an appalling condition because of the privations of war. The “children trains” – as they were referred to in Hungary – carried thousands of poor children or orphans to homes in Holland, where they spent months or years as family members. The tragic events of 1956 in Hungary evoked the same feeling in Dutch families: again many young people and grown-ups found refuge in their homes. The Faculty of Dutch Studies at the University of Debrecen is dedicating a conference to this aid programme, as well as installing an exhibition showcasing documents and photos related to the history of the Children Trains.

http://gyermekvonatok.prohost.hu

New Cool Collective, this eight-member Amsterdam band also known in Hungary, made the small audience at Millenáris dance. They played in suits, like heroes from a Tarantino movie from the eighties.
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