October 27, 2008

Hungarian Rubik’s Cube Show Twists and Turns Washington Audience as Part of Kids Euro Festival

Mr. János Kovács, Chief Executive Manager of the Rubik Studio in Budapest and Mr. Milán Baticz, an 18-year-old speed cubing world champion and a high school student from Nagykanizsa represented Hungary in ten shows at several cultural institutions and public schools in Washington, DC as part of the first Kids Euro Festival from October 9 to November 9, the biggest children's festival in the United States. The one-month-long series of events presents 120 free performances ranging from kids' circus, storytelling, magicians, silent theatre, pantomime, puppeteers, children's cinema, traditional dance, interactive plays, and even soap-bubble blowing!

János Kovács gave a short computer slides presentation on the history of the Rubik Studio and its founder, Mr. Ernő Rubik, who invented the Rubik’s Cube and a dozen of other toys, while Milán Baticz performed with his competition cubes, solving them in the most amazing ways - including blindfolded and with one-hand! At the end of each show, the team asked questions about speed cubing from the audience, and gave free Rubik's toys as presents for correct answers.

The Hungarian team performed in 6 days at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Strathmore Mansion, the Shakespeare Theatre's Sidney Harman Center for the Arts, La Maison Francaise, the Goethe Institute,  the Embassy of Hungary, and three public charter schools: Beers Elementary School, Burroughs Elementary School, and Emery Elementary School.

 

János Kovács and Milán Baticz with teachers of the Burroughs Elementary School, and Principal Ms. Linda Little in the middle with free Rubik's cubes on Friday, October 10
 

János Kovács and Milán Baticz on Millenium Stage North in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, October 10
 

Milán Baticz solving the cube in the Sidney Harman Center for the Arts of the Shakespeare Theater Company on Saturday, October 11
 

Video presentation of the Magic, one of the lesser known Rubik games, at the Goethe Institute on Saturday, October 11
 

Milán Baticz solving the cube blindfolded in Strathmore Mansion on Sunday, October 12
 

Full house at the Millenium Stage South in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday, October 12
 

János Kovács, Milán Baticz and Cultural Attaché Béla Gedeon on stage at the Embassy of Hungary on Monday, October 13
 

János Kovács and Milán Baticz with the photo of Buda Castle in the back at Emery Elementary School on Tuesday, October 14
 

János Kovács and Milán Baticz with the photo of Hungarian Inventor Ernő Rubik at La Maison Francaise on Wednesday, October 15
 

János Kovács and Milán Baticz with the photo of the Chain Bridge and the Hungarian Parliament in Budapest at Beers Elementary School on Tuesday, October 14
 

János Kovács and Milán Baticz with Embassy Chef Lázár Kovács in the middle at the Embassy of Hungary on Monday, October 16 before their departure

For further information on the Rubik Studio, click on their official website: www.rubikstudio.hu or www.rubiks.com.

For further information on Milán Baticz, click on this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-RwAsuZSro

For further information on Kids Euro Festival, click on their official website: www.kidseurofestival.org.

To watch the promotion of the Kids Euro Festival on FOX5 Morning News, please click on their official website: http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/pages/InsideFox/Detail?contentId=7728051&version=3&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=5.2.1