The Budapest Fringe Festival is an annual event held every spring in

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. It is a fringe festival, on the model of the

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. The Budapest Fringe Festival was first held in 2006. The festival brings more than 500 artists in about 50 shows to produce a wide range of interesting works in alternative theatre,

dance Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoir ...

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and

comedy Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term o ...

outside the mainstream.

History

The Budapest Fringe Festival was first held between 31 March and 2 April in 2006 in seven different locations in the centre of the Hungarian capital, Budapest.

Previous years

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* {{Fringe festivals in Europe Theatre festivals in Hungary Events in Budapest Fringe festivals Festivals in Hungary Tourist attractions in Budapest 2006 establishments in Hungary Recurring events established in 2006 Annual events in Hungary Spring (season) events in Hungary