The company
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2007
Winner of the Workshop Foundation’s program titled Research of the Unknown: Let’s Roar and Connect!
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2008
Premiere of What should we do with our bodies?
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2009
Premiere of Supra Hits
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2010
Premiere of Daily Routine
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2011
5-month residency at Tanzfabrik Berlin, supported by the Tempus Foundation
Premiere of Basse Danse in co-production with Grand Theatre Groningen
Basse Danse receives the Rudolf Lábán Prize for the Best Dance Performance of 2011
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2012
Basse Danse was selected as one of the 20 most outstanding performances of the year by the international Aerowaves network
The Way My Father Imagined It All was created with the support of the international project Jardin d’Europe, in co-production with Centre de Développement Chorégraphique / Biennale de danse du Val-de-Marne (FR), Hebbel am Ufer (D), and Grand Theatre Groningen (NL)
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2013
Premiere of Dawn in co-production with Trafó House of Contemporary Arts
Dawn was selected as one of the 20 most outstanding performances of the year by the international Aerowaves network
One-month residency at Headlands Center for the Arts (USA) in San Francisco
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2014
Dawn receives the Rudolf Lábán Prize for the Best Dance Performance of 2013
Dawn at the Aerowaves Spring Forward Festival
Two-week residency in San Vincenti, supported by the Zagreb Dance Company (HR)
Premiere of the production Conditions of Being a Mortal
The company’s first tour in Asia: Dawn at the SIDance Festival, Seoul, South Korea
The company’s first U.S. tour: Dawn at Abrons Arts Center, New York, USA
With Conditions of Being a Mortal, Hodworks is selected for the third time among the 20 best contemporary dance performances by the international Aerowaves network
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2015
Third appearance at the Aerowaves Spring Forward Festival, in Barcelona
Conditions of Being a Mortal is among the performances nominated for the 2015 Rudolf Lábán Prize
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2016
Premiere of Grace at MU Theatre, Budapest
Adrienn Hód receives the Imre Zoltán Award
Hodworks holds an open studio in Düsseldorf at the Internationale Tanzmesse
An educational project complementing the curriculum is launched at a dance school in Budapest
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2017
Premiere of the production Solos at MU Theatre, Budapest
Grace receives the 2016 Rudolf Lábán Prize for the Best Dance Performance
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2018
Solos receives the 2017 Rudolf Lábán Prize for the Best Dance Performance
Solos is presented at the Internationale Tanzmesse
Premiere of Sunday at Trafó, Budapest
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2019
The production Coexist, created in collaboration with the Theater Bremen dance company Unusual Symptoms, premieres in Bremen in May
Premiere of Mirage at MU Theatre in February
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2020
Premiere of Another Dance Show at Trafó, Budapest
Coexist is invited to TANZPLATFORM DEUTSCHLAND 2020
The performance Mirage is nominated for the Lábán Prize
Adrienn Hód, in collaboration with BODHI PROJECT, creates Chorus Line
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2021
Premiere of Amber at Trafó, Budapest
The company is invited to the Venice Biennale, where they will present the production Sunday and conduct a workshop
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2022
Premiere of the production Harmonia at Theater Bremen and later at Trafó, in collaboration with the Unusual Symptoms company
Premiere of the production Cabaret at Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, in collaboration with Dollár Papa Gyermekei
Harmonia is invited to the Internationale Tanzmesse
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2023
Premiere of the production Idol at Trafó, in collaboration with the ArtMenők company
Harmonia receives the Rudolf Lábán Prize
Premiere of Midnight Oil in collaboration with Unlock Dancing Plaza in Hong Kong
Premiere of Voice of Power at the steirischer herbst festival in Graz, followed by Trafó
Harmonia is invited to Tanzplattform 2024
Soft Spot is invited to the Czech Dance Platform festival
Adrienn Hód choreographed Csaba Molnár in the contemporary dance performance Menthol, based on Zsolt Hamarits’ photograph Universe, 2017
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2024
The Hungarian premiere of Midnight Oil at Trafó
Premiere of Shared Values in cooperation with WUK Performing Arts in Vienna
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2025
Premiere of Body States at ISBN+ Gallery
Premiere of Charlie at Eötvös10
Premiere of Project Nr.2191 in cooperation with Helsinki Dance Company in Helsinki
The HODWORKS company was founded in 2007 by Adrienn Hód. The ensemble works with freelance artists and is active both in the Hungarian and international contemporary dance scene. The core dancers of the troupe have been working together for years in varying constellations. The performances mark unknown, boundary-pushing directions, often dealing with the physicality of the completely stripped human body. The content of their works is characterized by a subtle movement between an abstract appearance and a concrete, often verbalized meaning. Their topics range from universal human experiences to the specific critique of the world of contemporary dance. The performances of HODWORKS have been selected three times by Aerowaves, and the company is a multiple winner of the Rudolf Lábán and Imre Zoltán awards in Hungary.
The performances of HODWORKS strongly expose the performer’s situation and demonstrate it with extreme human conditions, both through physical and verbal means. The aim of the pieces is not to investigate specific taboos, but to create and present a liberated creative space where signs can be freed from their predetermined interpretation. The troupe investigates the cultural topos related to the human body and contemporary dance with constant curiosity, always questioning the boundaries of the stage space. The dancers appear as sovereign characters in the pieces, the creational processes are always enriched with their personal points of view. Their performance tools are not only limited to physicality: verbality and humor are also given significant space. In their constant resarching and performing work, they examine their own identity and existential questions, often in the form of direct or abstract questions addressed directly to the audience.
Adrienn Hód imagines the theater as a safe space where the topics raised and the dialogue about them can be explored in their full depth and made artistically visible. The creational processes led by her are not driven by a single unquestionable choreographic vision. With her company, she examines the various talents that are present, giving space to their knowledge, experiences and emotions that came into the space of the rehearsal room along a specific theme. Her creative process is always based on improvisation, and she often uses knowledge provided by external, invited contributors. Finally, the pieces created during the fine-tuning and precisely constructed structuring can have a broad perspective, with a rich and diverse end result. On stage, the focus is always on the performers’ bodies, her/his physical and performative conditions. Great emphasis is placed on sound design and lighting, which help powerfully to create the right situation that encourages deep immersion.
For HODWORKS, art is an alibi for freedom. Above all, the troupe emphasises the complexity and radicalism of personal expression, laying bare the multilayered constructs of identity. Their works may also be read, in the context of endangered artistic and personal autonomy, as marking a movement of defence and of re-obtaining said autonomy.