The term platform means an intensive session in which, in the course of a short time (two to four days) the organisers will introduce the performing arts of a given country or region, or a special section of them, primarily to their foreign colleagues. The programme will consist of meetings, conversations and visits to theatres and workshops and similar events. 

On the first occasion the dunaPart – Hungarian Contemporary Performing Arts Platform, which was held in 2008, proposed to offer a solution to one of the burning problems of the Hungarian contemporary performing arts. Before dunaPart, artists and companies operating outside the established system had no forum in which to display their productions to foreign experts and programmers, or to gain invitations or new partners.

The aims of the platform, in 2011 as in 2008, are the following:

·      to give a sensitive and up-to-date impression of the state of the Hungarian society and performing arts of today

·      to provide opportunities for Hungarian and foreign professionals, artists, managers and journalists to meet

·      to create an international context in which tendencies, deficiencies and local and global interests can be outlined

·      to assist the region and creators to form a more realistic  – and at the same time motivating – self-image

·      by means of the collaborations that would come into being, to the reduce the (material) vulnerability of artists.