International Tanzmesse NRW, Düsseldorf, 2014

Although numbers in themselves cannot convey the essence of the current state of a branch of the arts, it is still worth

adding the numerical data of the dance institu-tions not present at this year’s expo, together with the thirteen institutions – foundations and ensembles, studios and soloists – appearing now. These numbers are: in Hungary, which has a population of barely 10 million, currently 8 larger, 14 medium sized and 17 smaller ensem-bles operate and along with these there are 12 independent artists who perform either as so-loists or in formations of different composition, since they only assemble for certain projects each year with new premieres, and there are 6 performance areas and workshops assisting the artists and the pieces to regularly meet their au-diences. These figures only illustrate one of the aspects of the wealth of the Hungarian dance scene. Numbers cannot convey the diversity of genre and dance language ranging from ballet and the reinterpretation of folk dance tradition, particularly strong in Hungary – such as Szeged Contemporary Ballet, TranzDanz – through the new-aspect research of body and movement – Hodworks, the Compagnie Pal Frenak, Batarita – to experiments spanning the boundaries of arts (e.g. Tünet Ensemble) or to conceptual experi-ments (L1 Association). Only the experience of live performances can reinforce this.

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Among the ensembles and workshops now appearing, there are some that formed following the dance explosion sweeping through the whole of Europe in the 1980s, and still containing the distinctive aesthetic features of the era. However, the coexistence of different creative generations and the birth of ever new dance interpretations is a natural part of dance life. Therefore, there are younger choreographers as well among those now appearing for whom even the post-modern is a part of the past. However, age alone doesn’t necessarily entail the rejection of the past. So there are those among them who interpret the role of choreographer within the traditional (dance)theatre forms, while others reject the questions and artistic answers of their prede-cessors concerning dance, movement, the body, theatre and the audience. So the audience has lots of different things to choose from depending on what they are expecting from a performance themselves or how bold and open they feel to enter into an unfamiliar world.

Lívia Fuchs – art critic, dance historian

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„Harshly cleared-out. At some mo-ments it is so painful and unpleasant, the spectator would whine and yowl, what he feels is so inhu-man and so relent-less. Then he thinks: it is the nature only; it is the circuit of seasons, a fugitive beast, a squealing bird, a germ which is sprouting right now.”

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THE COMPANY WAS FOUNDED IN 1998 BY BATARITA, CHOREOGRAPHER AND AMBASSADOR OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE OF THE FAR-EAST. Works of the company are levitating on the metaphysical level, character-ised by unusual movements as transmitters for the persistent flow of energies. One can hardly categorize the unique style that is strongly influenced by various performing art forms of Asia, particularly by the philosophy of butoh, the avant-garde Japanese dance theatre.

Graduated as a choreographer at the Hungar-ian Dance Academy, Batarita was awarded nu-merous prestigious performing, choreographic, educational and co-production grants: Dance-WEB [Austria], Asia-Europe Foundation [Japan], Unesco-Aschberg Fellowship [Thailand], Foun-dation Royaumont [France], the Uchida Fel-lowship of the Japan Foundation [Japan] and CPI-SIDance [South-Korea], among others. In 2013 she received the „Parallel Cultures – Hon-orary Award” by Mediawave Festival Curatorial Board, Hungary. She debuted as an opera direc-tor at the Hungarian State Opera in 2009.

Professional visual artists, musicians and art managers are also integral members of the company that has been invited to numerous dance festivals and theatres worldwide.

The company has been involved in collabo-rative works with artists from Japan, Thailand, South-Korea and Mexico, which were coordinat-ed by Touchpoint Art Foundation, Hungary.

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CENTRAL EUROPE DANCE THEATRE (CEDT) BOASTS A GREAT PAST: BEING THE FIRST DANCE THEATRE OF HUNGARY, it has become one of the best-known independent dance ensembles in the country and abroad touring 23 countries during the last 25 years. Central Europe Dance Theatre has come to an impor-tant milestone in the 2013/14 theatre season, as they celebrate the 25th Anniversary Season, while having a new artistic director since 1st of September, Attila Kun.

For many years he was working in the Hungarian State Opera, the Rambert Dance Company, and the Ballett Basel, among oth-ers he worked with Christopher Bruce, Wayne McGregor, Ohad Naharin, Jiří Kylián, Mats Ek, Mauro Bigonzetti, Jorma Elo, and Johan Inger. The company’ s purpose is to establish a wide repertoire and to strengthen the company’s un-dertaking of social responsibility. CEDT creates productions for smaller and larger stages as well with audience between 80–500. CEDT has a practice in organizing educational programs and workshops. Through this activity their aim to bring back the dance traning into the every day life of the Hungarian society.

At the begining of September 2013 CEDT launched a unique D.E.E.P.- Dance for Every-one Education Program. First in the country they also work regularly with the DTIE – Dance Theatre In Education program (ASSITEJ prize winner) an interactive dance and theatre oriented performance with the participation of secondary school students.

The repertoire of CEDT contains many col-laboration works with well-known musicians - among others Félix Lajkó, László Fassang – and institutions as National Dance Theatre, Palace of Arts, Trafó House of Contemporary Arts.

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“Pál Frenák always enthralls his audience, who are transported into a special, fascinat-ing environment, richly saturated with feelings, surrounded by dancers who are wonderful in every sense of the word.” (Le Figaro)

The award-winning choreographer-dancer, Pal Frenak honored among many others with the Villa Kujoyama Prize, founded his French company in 1989 in Paris and established his Hungarian-French ensemble in 1999. Based in Budapest and Paris at the same time, the com-pany is touring regularly all over the world and invited to perform by the most important venues and dance festivals in Europe. Compagnie Pal Frenak is widely known for its unique style of dance that integrates mimicry, sign language, combined with carefully chosen elements of new circus, theater, fashion and contemporary music.The company always combines the powerful choreographic structure with apure but ex-traordinary scenery– inspired by contemporary architecture and design – which has a strong influence on the movement material.

Not only does Pál Frenák have a wide rep-ertoire as a choreographer that includes such award-winning and emblematic pieces like Tricks& Tracks, InTimE or The Hidden Men, he also has a busy schedule as an instructor. The company regularly organizes audience-engage-ment workshops, gives initiation shows to high-school students, collaborates with hospitals and frequently meets its public, always putting great emphasis on the dialog with other art forms and the continuous, adequate cooperation with the audience. Pal Frenak works together with some of the most renowned people in contemporary European music such as György Kurtág, Patrick Schneider, Fred Bigot or Fabrice Planquette.

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„This is very sensual stuff…a striking piece, full of dynamism” Time Out Budapest

The Eva Duda Dance Company developed into an independent collective in 2009, based on the initiative of the choreographer, who earned her reputation as a freelance artist having chore-ographed various theatrical genres including spectacular operas, musicals and progressive contemporary dance pieces.

The young company made its first debut with Lunatika, a piece that won the Lábán Rudolf Prize and various festival awards. The first period was about self-definition: the team found its style in contemporary dance and set creating a message on stage as its principle. Function-ing as a creative community, the company also developed its unique dynamism of movements characterized by the use of expressive and powerful elements of physical dance, but most importantly claimed to approach dance not aes-thetically but as a form of theatrical language concerning important human issues. 

Beside creating new works year by year, the team also organizes international workshops and professional events regularly (yearly Dance Marathon) and stays devoted to co-productions and international collaborations with artists and other professional collectives of performing art.

Over the past few years, the team turned into one of Budapest’s key independent dance collectives and created its remarkably distinct image.

PRIZES:2014 After - Best Female Dancer - Jenna Jalo-nen (Festival of Dance, Veszprém)2011 Stop’n’Go (Festival of Dance, Veszprém)2010 Lunatika Rudolf Laban Prize (by TRAFO House and national critic jury)2010 Best Choreographer of the Year Award for Eva Duda (by Hungarian Dancer’s Association)2010 Lunatika (Festival of Dance, Veszprém)2009 Harangozó Gyula Prize for Eva Duda

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He graduated at the Hungarian Dance Acade-my Ballet Faculty in 2003. He began his career as a member of the Ballet Company of Győr, he spent four years at the Budapest Ballet Compa-ny as a principal dancer and choreographer. Af-ter obtaining his Ballet Master diploma he joined the PR – Evolution Dance Company and later he became a member of the BaDora Dance Com-pany. He appeared with this first independent choreography in 2010 It motivated him to start the Feledi Project. Up to today five so-called full-evening shows were created by Janos: In the Course of Time, Physpacom Physical – space communication, Puccini’s Le Villi (The fairies), Suicidal Feelings and Swan, all these produc-tions are continuously on and played in front of full houses in the National Dance Theatre , Theatre Szkéné and at renowned domestic and international festivals.

The core team of the project consists of dancers from the elite of the national and international dance scene, but an opportunity is always given to young talents. The ensemble of the Project is known about their high level of technical knowledge, excellent artistic presence, professionalism, and the unique level of energy that is complemented by the individual charac-ters.

The choreographies specialness’ are shown in the way the basics of classical ballet and modern dance elements are combined, demon-strating each time the mature individual style and expression and the creative world of the Project manager.

The quality of work and the various pro-ductions gained the love and appreciation of national dance professionals, as a result in 2014 the Feledi Project was elected as a full member into the Association of Hungarian Dancers and Choreographers Society.

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„Sprinkled with un-expected glimmers of tenderness, this dance where the whole is greater than the sum of the (body) parts.” Donald Hutera

A company founded by Adrienn Hód, cho-reographer and teacher, graduated at Budapest Contemporary Dance School. Hodworks regroups sensible, proactive and forward-thinking creators having their own creative and concentrated working methods. They focus on the human body itself, liberated from any mediators, limits, sets or props. Hód pieces, always taking a new and progressive direction, are result of a long, creative research based on improvisation, which appears in a strictly structured form on stage. Her chore-ographies own a delicately developed, fine, high-quality language balancing between the exact and the very abstract representation. These pieces stimulate the audience’s spirit and senses and invite us doubting in the known and opening up towards the unknown. They do not compromise; they do not want to please.

After the Aerowaves shortlisted and Laban Rudolf Prize winner choreography Basse danse, Hód’s 2012 piece The way my father imgained it all was co-produced by Jardin d’Europe network, Centre de Développement Chorégraphique / Bi-ennale de danse du Val-de-Marne (FR), Hebbel am Ufer (D) and Grand Theatre Groningen (NL). In 2013 Hodworks premiered Dawn a revolu-tionary and breathtaking choreography that has been awarded the Rudolf Laban Prize, as the most outstanding contemporary dance piece of the last season in Hungary. With this piece Hodworks was programmed, for a second time, at Aerowaves Spring Forward Festival 2014 and had a remarkable reception.

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The Inversedance – Zoltán Fodor Company was founded by the Performing and Creative Arts Foundation after several years of operating as a project-company. Its members are awarded, professional dancers lead by dancer-choreographer Zoltán Fodor.

Zoltán Fodor made his debut as a choreographer in 2005 by creating a piece for the Budapest Dance Theatre. Later on he made choreographies for numerous long-established companies such as the Hungarian National Ballet, Szeged Contemporary Dance Company or the Ballet Company of Győr.

In recognition of his work he has gotten the Fülöp Viktor Choreographic Scholarship a number of times, and in 2006 the Hungarian Dance Association awarded him with the „Best male dancer of the year” Nivo prize. At the Veszprém Festival in 2007 he received the choreographic special prize for his Mozart – Les petit riens. In 2008 as „Dancer of the year” he was awarded the „Artists for Hungary” prize. In 2010 he received the most important reward in dance, the „Harangozó Gyula Prize” and the „Choreographer of the year” award in 2012.

Using the language of modern-contemporary dance, we aim to create performances that reflect on the matters of past and present, and while calling to play and get involved, they are intriguing and thought-provoking at the same time.

The company’s repertoire contains dance performances for both adult and young audiences. Our goal beyond the national dance scene is to participate at the international level, so that we too can contribute to the recognition this beautiful art form deserves.

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„I fell in love with the L1danceFest in 2011... Those ready to accept the chal-lenge and actually enter the theatres of the L1danceFest got a special fi ve-day tour around (mostly) Central European contemporary dance and performance. Thanks to the travels and hard work... here was a program that was exacting but idiosyncratic, as it should be from a great curator: spe-cifi c to the here and now, to the profes-sional relationships being built and strengthened be-tween the maturing independent cultural workers of a busy region that for dec-ades before could not much move, could only rarely share, and could never be idiosyn-cratic. In a fl ash I got to take in works by international inno-vators - all working hard to expand your horizons, provoke your imagination, and yes, entertain.” Ewan McLaren(CA/CZ), director of Motus – Alfred ve Dvoře Theatre, Prague

L1 Independent Artists Association of Public Utility (L1 Association) was founded in 1998 (offi cially in 2002) as an alliance of independent Hungarian artists. With the artistic leadership of Ladjánszki Márta (dancer, choreographer) the Association has been focusing on the promotion of contemporary dance-music-visual arts by supporting the productions and presenting the works of talented artists and by taking part in international cooperations like:Development of New Art (DNA),Identity.Move!, The Wall,Performing V4 – Biennial, VARP-PA monitoring.They build a bridge between organizations, art-ists and art makers.

L1danceFest considered to be the most important annual event of the Association has gradually developed into a carefully selected European muster of unique contemporary dance and theatre projects. Its general aim is to import new creative thinking and progressive art practices to Hungary. 13th edition takes place 17–21. September 2014 in Budapest – 5 days, 15 performances, 9 countries, with a special focus on Israel.

Goals: support innovative, unconventionally thinking and courageously experimenting artists – those who are ready to leave the known for the sake of the unknown.

Members: Varga Zsolt - chairman,Ladjánszki Márta - artistic vice president,Barda Beáta, Berger Gyula, Fekete Géza Péter, Fülöp László, Héger Gyula, Herold Eszter, Koroknai Zsolt, Kovács Noémi Anna, Lakat Andrea, Lengyel Katalin, Nagy Csilla, Paróczay Csaba, Syrbe Andrea, Szamosi Judit, Szilágyi Enikő, Szilágyi Ilka Fanni, Talló Gergely.

Resident artists in 2014: Biczók Anna, Horváth Ádám Márton, Kéri Judit, Simányi Zsuzsanna, Simkó Beatrix.

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The most significant centre of the Hungarian dance scene opened its stages when, on 1st December 2001, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage founded the National Dance Theatre, which is the supporter and preserver of the Hungarian dance tradition and contemporary dance art - as the legal successor of 20 years of successful work of the Dance Forum.The institute provides an opportunity for dance ensembles classified as national, prominent or independent to perform in the capital city, and also to make their début on the national or international dance scene in order to make Hungarian dance culture available to receptive audiences . 

Their repertoire ranges from folk dance through classical ballet to contemporary dance. Their theatre-education activities for children and young people – along with the introductory programmes – have been complemented with a type of performance which is unique.

With the successful amalgamation of the art of dance and theatre education, they introduced their dance/theatre education programme which won one of the professional awards at the biennale of theatres for children and young people (ASSITEJ) in January 2014.

The Budapest Dance Festival is also connected to the National Dance Theatre. Its aim is to establish the Hungarian capital on the international dance scene by inviting renowned foreign ensembles. In the past years we have organised Budapest performances by ensembles such as Shen Wei Dance Arts (USA), the Netherlands Dance Theatre (NL), The Forsythe Company (D), Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (USA), Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras (E), the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (USA), Dortmund Ballet (D), Grupo Corpo (BR) and the Company fabrik Potsdam (D), Cullberg Ballet (S) or Kylián Productions (NL).

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SÍN Culture Centre is a Budapest-based production house with 3 large, beautiful dance studios, a space for theatre rehearsals, office and community space operating in the field of contemporary performing arts.

We offer space, production assistance and financial support to the emerging artists in contemporary dance and performing arts, we help them in their artistic career development with advice and opportunities, we assist in finding the best possible context and partners for their projects. We provide professional background and environment to the artists: we organise workshops led by local or international artists, initiate discussions and cooperations between the stakeholders. We play an active role in the thinking of the field’s present and future in Hungary and beyond the borders.

SÍN Culture Centre has a range of local and international cooperations and partnerships. We are regular hosts of the artists in residency project of the Visegrád Fund, co-organisers in the 5-year-long Culture Europe partnership project Open Latitudes 3, members of IETM and co-organisers of One Land Many Faces, a project organised by La Transplanisphere, Paris.

We continuously seek partnerships within the country and abroad for artists exchange, coproductions and professional programmes.

The pieces produced by SÍN extensively tour at a wide range of festivals and theatres throughout Europe.

We currently work with the following artists: Viktória DÁNYI, László FÜLÖP, Máté MÉSZÁROS, Csaba MOLNÁR, Zsuzsa RÓZSAVÖLGYI, Gáspár TÉRI, Tamara Zsófia VADAS

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“Extraordinary” — Luke Jennings,The Guardian

The Symptoms is a performance collective organized around the dancer and choreogra-pher Réka Szabó since 2002. The members of The Symptoms are not simply performing artists but fully involved contributors, whose personalities and creativity define every effort of the company. The Symptoms have created 22 productions, 2 short films, and collected 16 awards.

The company recognizes no generic bounda-ries, handling text, movement, music, and visual effects as ingredients of equal rank. Fond of special technical solutions, they treat of every-day problems that preoccupy all of us, address-ing these themes in a deeply personal language. In recent years in Hungary, social apathy has presented an increasingly pressing problem, forcing The Symptoms to change the audience’s attitudes of passive reception. They employ spe-cial tricks to dislodge spectators from their cozy roles and move them to thought, even action. All of this is wrapped in a vision that is grotesque, self-ironic and poetic at the same time.

The repertoire includes genres as diverse as a dance performance informed by interac-tive video technology, a piece of political dance theater, and “life-disco”, as well as street perfor-mance and an interactive fairytale of a play for kids.

Over the years, The Symptoms have been invited to various festivals and venues in Europe, including The Place in London, the Savoy-te-atteri in Helsinki, the National Theatre of Prague, the Schauspiel in Köln, the Tanzlabor in Bielefeld. In 2014 their show Apropos was invit-ed to premiere at the Alexander Kasser Theater of Montclaire University, New Jersey.

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The classical music repertoire of the com-pany consists of theatrical dances based on the works of composers such as Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Bartók, Orff , Eötvös, and the compa-ny’s varied repertoire also contains choreogra-phies composed to musical montages. Besides the leading choreographer Tamás Jurionics, several renowned European choreographers created modern art dances for the company. In 1993 they picked up the name Szeged Con-temporary Dance Company appointing Tamás Juronics as artistic director and András Pataki as executive director.

Since 2000 the Szeged Contemporary Dance Company has been working as an autonomous company in a form of a prominently public bene-fi t foundation.

Tamás Juronics had an outstanding role in forming their especially unique artistic identity.

He considers the continuous training of the dancers and the enrichment of the repertoire to be his most important task. The ability of reception and individualization of the contem-porary and modern technics, the high quality of the artistic expression based on the technical safety makes the repertoire incredibly various, yet unique. Respecting the ‘laws of stage’ is a defi ning attribute in their shows, so is the using of theatrical means - in the literal sense of the word - that are enhancing the eff ect and intensi-ty of vision.

The Szeged Contemporary Dance Company is a constant guest of local and oversea dance stages. The company itself and its dancers have also been rewarded with international and na-tional, vocational as well audience prices. During their tours the ensemble played in 22 diff erent countries 134 times in the last 26 years.

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This independent company was founded in 1987 by Gerzson Péter Kovács (1958), who, drawing on the legacy of the Hungarian folk dance movement and gradually departing from its stylistic structures, had finally formulated his own special, contemporary philosophy and style of dance.His works are characterized by the predomi-nance of lyricism, as well as particularly pow-erful effects resulting from a concentrated and intense stage presence. The use of narrative elements are strictly limited and to the almost subliminal implications of social criticism are recognizable in most of the pieces.

Without the basic principles of freedom, autonomy, rationality and empathy the aesthet-ics of TranzDanz’s art and its existence as an autonomous group of artists couldn’t been rec-ognized. The basis of our intellectual capital, our uniqueness and our authenticity is our freedom to think and work.

So far, TranzDanz has performed in Paris, London, Berlin, Tel Aviv, Toulouse, Lieches-ter, Erlangen, Potsdam, Bucharest, Frankfurt, Copenhagen, New York, Amsterdam, Singapore, Warsaw, Lublin, Hamburg, Montreal, Lille and Biarritz.

TranzDanz is personal, Hungarian, European and Glocal.

Artistic director: Gerzson Péter Kovácschoreographer, visual designer, holder of

several professional and festival prizes (ADMI – Bagnolet, Rudolf Laban Prize, The Best Creator of the Year.)

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Workshop Foundation (WSF) was founded in 1992 with the aim to support independent artists, to encourage their artistic career and the development of the whole field of contemporary dance in Hungary. For many years artistic and geographical crossovers and support for multidisciplinary work became priorities. WSF is focusing on developing long term co operations, encourages international co productions.

The Foundation runs 4 studios of various sizes (80sqm, 100sqm, 120sqm, 200sqm) equipped with dance floor and sound equipment in Budapest. In our studios we offer a wide range of dance classes, workshops and movement related courses for amateurs as well as pro-fessionals. Beside these activities dancers and collectives can use our studios as a rehearsal space.

WSF has been working as an International Residency Centre for artists coming from all over the world. Within the residencies WSF can offer organizational and promotional help, accommodation for 2 artists (in our guest room), giving opportunities to meet local artists, providing space for work-in-progress showings, teaching or workshop activities and minimal technical equipment.

WSF is partner of several international networks and collaborations: Life Long Burning (ex Jardin d’Europe, www.lifelongburning.eu), Aerowaves (www.aerowaves.org), Dance USA/Philadelphia (www.danceusaphiladelphia.org).

Our studios are located at Trafo House of Contemporary Arts and Juranyi Art Incubator House.

WorkshopFoundationInternational Residency Center of Contemporary Dance

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