Co-Creators

media artist, musician

Ábris Gryllus graduated at the department of Media at the Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design, Budapest, where he is teaching conceptual design and sound design since 2015. He is part of the noise-techno formation FOR. His musical works and collaborations were realesed by Farbwechsel, Exiles and Total Black. His sound installations were exhibited at the 2013 Berlin Gallery Weekend, the 2013 Vienna Design Week, the 2014 Soundscapes Festival, the 2015 Venice Biennale, the 2015 Off Biennale Budapest, the 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 Berlin Montag Modus, the 2017, 2018 NEXT Fest Budapest, the 2018 Transmediale/CTM Berlin and at the Trafó House of Contemporary Arts as well as at Art Quarter Budapest. He joined with Hodworks during the creation of Solos as music editor, in 2017. He also collaborated as composer and musical editor in Sunday, Mirage and Coexist.

British artist Alex Bailey lives in Vienna and has worked in the field of dance and performance since 2015. Together with Krõõt Juurak, he even gained experience in performing for cats and dogs. For his performance Dad Bods, he has appropriated erotic techniques to dissolve the ego and the phallic identity. Another product of his work is the published book How to Lose 10 Pounds. He is in Shared Values by HODWORKS.

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He graduated in ballet from the Hungarian Dance Academy. During his school years he became interested in contemporary dance when he joined the Villany Leo Improvisational Dance Theatre. He worked for several companies afterwards, such as Gangaray Dance Company, Central Europe Dance Theatre, Inversdance PR-Evolution, Éva Duda Company-Movein.

In 2013, he moved to Brussels to work with Kwaad Bloed-Ugo Dehaes, after which he became first an apprentice and then a company member at Hofesh Shechter Company. He spent seven years with the company. In the meantime he also started teaching and had the opportunity to assist Hofesh as an assistant at the Göthenburg Opera.

He is in Amber by HODWORKS.

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Balázs Oláh was born in 1994. He graduated from the folk dance department of the Hungarian Dance Academy in 2014, and was a member of the dance department of the Gárdonyi Géza Theatre in Eger for two years. In 2017, he was accepted to SEAD in Salzburg where he continued his studies for three years and deepened his knowledge of contemporary dance. In 2020, he worked with the Tünet Ensemble and participated in Adrienn Hód’s Amber. In 2021, he worked with Máté Mészáros. He is a member of the collective AHA, founded in 2021. He works with Patrik Kelemen and Julia Vavra. Artistic interests: currently studying stone carving at Pap Lajos Kőfaragó Kőszobrász Műhely Kft.

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She was born in 1988 in Eger. The Hungarian dancer and performer currently lives in Budapest. She has been dancing since the age of 4. After graduating from primary school, she continued her studies at the Art High School of Pécs. She was admitted to the Modern Dance School of the Hungarian University of Dance. In 2007 she won 1st place in the National Classical Ballet and Modern Dance Competition, in the Solo category, and was a Pro Talento winner of the City of Pécs the same year. In 2008, the II. New Generation International Youth Ballet and Contemporary Dance Competition she won the II. Prize. Thanks to her placement, she was awarded a one-year scholarship to the Vendetta Mathea La Manufacture Academy of Contemporary Dance (Aurillac, Fr.) and a Scholarship from the City of Eger. In Belgrade she won the Audience Award at the Choreographic Minijatures Festival with her performance of Rita Góbi’s: Tachyon. In 2009, their joint duet performancewith Zoltán Grecsó, the Kitchen Table, won first place at the New Europe Festival in Prague. In 2013, she participated in the performance of The Symptoms : Voks, which received the Rudolf Lábán Award, and the Viktor Fülöp Dance Art Scholarship in the performing artist category. In 2014, their joint production with Milán Újvári, Radioballet: The Nature of Love, was nominated for the Rudolf Lábán Award. In 2019, with the support of the Imre Zoltán Program, she created her first major solo performance: The Dark Night of the Soul, which was mentioned by the critics as one of the nine best theatrical performances of the season. At the request of the Central European Dance Theater, her choreography Dark Matter, performed by the dancer Liliána Bozsányi as part of the K-faces program, was presented in December 2020.

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Björn Ivan Ekemark is a dancer, performer and costume designer based in Berlin. He studied circus at Escola de Circ Rogelio Rivel in Barcelona, textile art at Nyckelviksskolan Stockholm and Dance & Choreography at HZT Berlin.

He is a part of the infamous Cake Sitting perfomance group ANALKOLLAPS known for their sticky and visceral shows as well as making costumes for Asaf Aharonson’s last production “Delight part 2”. He has during the last year shown the first two parts of the performance series ”the horror of intimacy” together with Caroline Niell Alexander and Layton Lachman. He has also been working as a performer with Dewey Dell, Peter Pleyer and Julian Weber.

https://www.instagram.com/analkollaps

dancer, choreographer

Born in 1986, he began his professional training at the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy, after which he completed a two year program at P.A.R.T.S in Brussels. Soon afterwards he joined the Italian dance company Compagnia Virgilio Sieni, and in 2010 became member of the Hungarian company Hodworks. He began working as a co-creator in the five-member collective Bloom! (City, Tame Game, The End is Near), and later on pursued a similar creative collaboration in the formation Dányi-Molnár-Vadas (Skin Me). As an independent choreographer he had worked in association with Trafó House of Contemporary Arts and SÍN Cultural Centre in Budapest or Départs European network project. He produced two pieces (KITTY2012, Deacameron). As an artist in residence he worked with the students of the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy (Merriment) and created a piece for the EN-KNAP Group (68). He participated in ‘HOM’ at TanzMainz and the Studio Alta. His own coreographic works: KITTY2012, Decameron, The ox. In Sildenafilfairy project in collaboration with Marcio Kerber Canabarro they creating preformances (Tropical escape, EYE Candy, Winter Journey) http://sildenafilfairy.wixsite.com/sildenafilfairy

He is co-creator of four pieces that had been granted the annual Rudolf Lábán Prize for the best contemporary dance performance of the season:: Bloom!:City(2011), Hodworks: Basse Danse (2012), Dányi-Molnár-Vadas: Skin Me (2014), Hodworks: Dawn (2014). The pieces City, KITTY2012, Skin Me, Dawn and The Conditions of Being a Mortal had all been chosen by the Aerowaves European dance network for their annual showcase of the 20 priority contemporary dance performances. In his work he strives for reconciling radical extremes. His main interest is to explore how different ways of expression, when juxtaposed, may transform the most private phenomena of human life into a universal and liberating theatrical experience.

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Csaba Varga was born in 1987 in Várpalota. As a child he played basketball, athletics and track and field. The latter he did competitively, winning several national and world championships until the age of 15. In 2005 he started to get acquainted with different hip hop styles, and from 2007 he became interested in contemporary dance. She first studied at Goli (Budapest Dance School, 2007-2009), then at SEAD’s senior class (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, 2009-2010), and continued her studies in Paris, where she took hiphop, house and popping classes at the Juste Debout School and parkour training at the ADD Academy. Since 2008, she has worked as a freelancer with Réka Szabó, Máté Mészáros, László Fülöp, Eléonore Valére-Lackhy (Fr / Be), Frank Micheletti / Kubilai Khan Investigations (FR), Kaori Ito / Ballet C de la B (JP / BE), Hiroaki Umeda (JP), Guy Naderrel & Maria Campos (LB, ES), Anton Lachky (BE / SK), among others. He is currently touring with HODWORKS: Amber, Flying Bodies & Collective Dope: You are the Flow and repertoire pieces from Compagnie Linga (CH). Since 2013, she has been conducting workshops and training sessions, mainly analysing the relationship and similarities between the movement techniques of sport and dance, and exploring their logical connections.

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VASS Csenge is a conceptual fashion and textile designer. She gained her undergraduate degree at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in 2017. During her bachelor studies she received an Erasmus scholarship for studying in Barcelona, where she spent a semester at ESDI – Escuela Superior de Diseno art school.  During her studies she focused primarily on the development and creation of innovative and experimental materials. Her graduation project ‘Morphogenesis’ was a combination of fashion, textile design and science in the context of installative art. This artwork was exhibited during the Budapest Design Week at Artus Studio in 2017, and in Trafó – House of Contemporary Art during the smART! XTRA / Textures interactive exhibition. She received an internship position in Eindhoven, Netherlands, where she had a chance to work in the studio of the internationally well-known conceptual designer, Bart Hess. Hess’s work had a major influence on her artistic attitude, among other experiments she started to be interested in the world of contemporary dance. She started to work as a costume and production designer in the pieces titled ‘Sunday’ and ‘Mirage’ directed by Hód Adrienn choreographer. Besides, she was the costume and production designer in ‘Masterpiece’, a dance piece of Molnár Csaba and Cuhorka Emese. She is interested in the experimental and innovative projects, in which her aim is to make the material the core of artistic inquiry. She was part of the ‘ArtScience’ exhibition in Mank Gallery in 2019, and she also exhibited on the show, ‘Hybrid’ in Pécsi Gallery. Her first independent experimental project was shown in Trafó during the Budapest Design week 2019 organised by smART! XTRA. The ‘URFORM’ performance installation was a collaborative project, in which two other artists active in different fields of art— Barna Nóra, contemporary dancer and Mákó Rozi, musician. Csenge is primarily inspired by the contrast of synthetic and organic materials and the visual appearance and content of natural phenomena. These sources of her inspiration are manifested in different forms of soft plastic materials. Currently, she is working as a costume and production designer at Kelemen Patrik’s contemporary dance piece.

Daphna Horenczyk is a dance artist based in Vienna, Austria. She is a performing dancer, choreographer, teacher and rehearsal director from Israel. Her work was presented in various venues and festivals in Israel and Europe, such as MASH, Intimadance and Suzanne Dellal Center (IL), No Ballet, PAD Mainz and Schwere Reiter (DE), MAAT (PL), the National Theater of the Faroe Islands and more. In addition, she is performing as a dancer for the choreographers Anne Juren (FR/AT), Ceren Oran (TR/DE), Amanda Piña (CN/MX/AT), Anna Konjetzky (DE) and Ariel Cohen (IL) among others.

Dancer, teacher, choreographer, graduated at the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy in 2011. She has been working with Adrienn Hód since 2007, and has been a member of Hodworks since 2009. In her works she addresses experimenting, interested in situations which set the forms and substances free from their fixity: various street actions, interactions and performances, cooperations with theatre (TÁP Színház, Dollár Papa Gyermekei), contemporary dance and improvisation workshops for amateurs and professionals, movement research with László Fülöp, the artistic recontextualization of subcultures with Csaba Molnár. Until now she participated as a creator and performer in 5 performances which won the Lábán Rudolf Prize (Hodworks: Basse danse (2011), Dawn (2013), Timothy and the Things: There’s an elephant in every room… (2014), Hodworks: Grace (2016) and Hodworks: Solos (2017).

The production ‘Sea Lavender’ in collaboration with The Symptoms company won the Special Prize of Hungarian Theatre Critics Awards 2016. The documentary based on the rehearsals of this piece, called The Euphoria of Being won the main prize of the Locarno Film festival and the human rights prize of the Sarajevo Film festival. Three pieces she collaborated in with Hodworks were also selected by Aerowaves as the most outstanding dance performances of Europe: Basse danse, Dawn, Conditions of being a mortal. The performance of Timothy and the Things titled Your mother at my door co-choreographed by Emese was also selected in the 20 most pre-eminent productions by Aerowaves in 2016.

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After graduating from Dance and Fine Arts School of Győr she continued her studies at Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD). From 2019 she was a member of the Bodhi Project. She has participated in projects related to Salzburger Festspiele and Wiener Staatsoper. So far she has worked and collaborated with various artists as Stephanie Thiesch/ Asasello Quatett, Hillel Kogan, Robert Wilson, Michikazu Matsune, Helder Seabra, Paul Blackman, Christine Gouzelis and Adrienn Hód. She is currently working with AHA collective.

dancer, choreographer

Imre Vass is a freelance maker, choreographer and performer, he completed his studies at the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy. He participated in the Research into the Unknown program (Workshop Foundation), he is a danceWEB scholarship recipient (2010), a participant in the SPAZIO residency series (2012-2013) and the Philadelphia Bilateral Artist Exchange Program (2016). He is supported by the Life Long Burning – Creative Crossroads program (2023-2024). He is a three-time STAFÉTA winner creator: taking place (2016), Game Changer (2021) and RELAX (2023). Between 2018-2020, he is a member of the International Contemporary Dance Collective.

His works are influenced by experimentation, self-reflection, the qualities of perception and perception, the non-harmful exploration of the comfort zone and the attitude of wanting to transcend disciplinary boundaries. In his works he departs from personal motivations and problems, in his opinion, the individual and collective levels mutually permeate and inform each other. He seeks an open and attentive connection with the audience, within a transdisciplinary framework.

His performance entitled taking place (2016) was nominated for a Rudolf Laban award, his apartment theater performance IITTHOONN (2019), created together with Dávid Somló, won the Péter Halász prize, his performance Game Changer (2021) he dreated in collaboration with Tamara Zsófia Vadas and Csaba Molnár won the Rudolf Laban and Péter Halász prize.

In Hungary, he worked with choreographers and companies such as Kelemen Patrik, Viktor Szeri, HODWORKS, Tünet Együttes, STEREO Akt, Artus and the JEL theater. Abroad with the companies Ultima Vez (BE), Rapid Eye (DK), Ingri Fiksdal (NO) and United Sorry (AT\NL). He performs regularly at the Trafo and MU theaters, and has been invited several times to the dunaPart – Contemporary Performing Arts Platform and NEXTFESZT. He performed at the PLACCC, Sziget, Bánkitó and Colorado festivals, the Performing Arts Forum festival in Berlin and the Collegium Hungaricum, London, Amsterdam, Olmütz and Sofia.

His joint dance studio with Csaba Molnár and Tamara Zsófia Vadas is located in the art quarter Budapest, where he sometimes performs as well.

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JENNA JALONEN aka triplejay was born in Finland, educated in Hungary and currently working internationally from Budapest. After her studies in classical ballet at the Finnish National Opera Ballet School and Hungarian Dance Academy in Budapest, she changed to the field of contemporary dance and performing arts. She has been dancing for and creating together with several international companies and choreographers since 2010 such as Eva Duda Dance Co., Central Europe Dance Theater, Kubilai Khan Investigations, Kwaad bloed/Ugo Dehaes, fABULEUS, Thierry de Mey, Theater Bremen, Máté Mészáros, Untamed Productions, Notch Company/Oriane Varak and HODWORKS. Jenna is teaching and sharing triplewave, a movement practice inviting the dancers to enter a continuous trip using the mechanics of a wave in the body through different dance styles and dynamics in the body. She is also interested in more brutal, uncontrolled and unconscious physicalities which she has been using in the creations by Collective Dope, a contemporary dance and performing arts collective. Besides choreographic works, Collective Dope is organizing events and programs for contemporary dance and urban dance scenes to meet, evolve and build new communities together. Two years in a row, her choreographic works have been selected for the Aerowaves Twenty19 and Twenty20 Spring Forward with the productions Long time no see! and BEAT ‘I just wish to feel you’.

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Jessica Simet graduated in Stockholm after which she completed her studies in the School of Dance and Fine Arts in Győr, Hungary. She was a company member at Cie Pal Frenak after which she began freelancing and has worked with choreographers such as Elio Gervasi, Roberto Zappala, Quan Bui Ngoc (Ballet C de la B), Yaniv Avraham and Guy Shomroni (Batsheva) and Eszter Salamon. She has been a collaborating member in the creation of MA•ZE dance company in Budapest and has spent two years working with Eva Duda Dance Company. She joined HODWORKS in 2017 and participated in co-creating pieces such as Sunday, Mirage and Coexist for which she received a nomination for Dancer of the Year 2019 by Der Theater Verlag Germany. 

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Dancer and teacher, studied classical ballet, folk dance and contemporary dance. Founding member of Adrienn Hód’s previous company (1995-2007) and also of Hodworks (2007-). During her professional career she worked with over a dozen companies both in Hungary and abroad, and teaches ballet technique and creative dance for mentally disabled people since 2007. She participated in almost all of Adrienn Hód’s productions. Besides her stage-work she is an eager improvisation teacher for children and for seniors.

dancer, choreographer

Contemporary dancer and choreographer based in Budapest. She graduated as a choreographer at Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy in 2011.  In 2008 her piece Bell Jar was nominated for Laban Rudolf prize in Budapest. As a dancer she performed the works of Eleonore Valere Latchky, Bea Gold, Márta Ladjánszki, Andaxtheatre, and The Symptoms. Between 2009-2011 she is regular performer of Hodworks. Since 2011 she has been focusing on her creative work at Body Lotion co-dance, which she founded with Virág Arany in 2009. From 2013 she has been teaching movement and composition for actors at Keleti István Arts School, Budapest.

Károly Tóth (1988) is an electric wheelchair dancer and performer who created the Másképtánc Facebook page in the summer of 2015.

“Even though I speak in ANOTHER way, even though I move in ANOTHER way, I try to make an impact on people with these tools.”

Károly was born in Szeged, but at the beginning of his high school years he went to a special school for people with disabilities in Budapest. Since then he has been living independently in Budapest. He studied history at the Eötvös Loránd University and then a master’s degree in theatre at the KRE.

In 2007 he started dancing with the Dance Ensemble of the ArtMan Association. He participated in several performances in ArtMan, such as Gyulavári Ági: Doubt, Farkas Dorka Mayday. After that he had many independent performances, participated in several dance performances and other performance-oriented projects, worked in Kaposvár and Veszprém Theatre.
In addition to performing, he is a member of the board of trustees of Rehab Critical Mass Foundation. He started working with HODWORKS in the autumn of 2022, in the production Idol. He subsequently joined the production Harmonia.

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Károly Tóth (1988) is an electric wheelchair dancer and performer.

“Even though I speak in ANOTHER way, even though I move in ANOTHER way, I try to make an impact on people with these tools.”

Károly was born in Szeged, but at the beginning of his high school years he went to a special school for people with disabilities in Budapest. Since then he has been living independently in Budapest. He studied history at the Eötvös Loránd University and then a master’s degree in theatre at the KRE.
In 2007 he started dancing with the Dance Ensemble of the ArtMan Association. He participated in several performances in ArtMan, such as Gyulavári Ági: Doubt, Farkas Dorka Mayday. After that he had many independent performances, participated in several dance performances and other performance-oriented projects, worked in Kaposvár and Veszprém Theatre.
In addition to performing, he is a member of the board of trustees of Rehab Critical Mass Foundation. He started working with HODWORKS in the autumn of 2022, in the production Idol. He subsequently joined the production Harmonia.

 lighting technician

Kata Dézsi graduated at the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy in 2011 as a pedagogue, then as a lighting technician in 2012 at HSC school. She works as a lighting technician and lighting designer since 2017 for contemporary pieces. From 2008 she learned and worked in Millenáris Park. Since 2013 she is stage manager of the Theater and Dance tent of the Sziget Festival. She started working with Hodworks in 2013 with Dawn.

Dancer, creator

She started her studies at the Budapest Kortárstánc Szakközépiskola and completed her studies at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD). She has collaborated and worked with various artists such as Jan Lauwers, David Zambrano, Katja Büchtemann, Cecilia Bengolea, Mala Kline, Eszter Gàl, Zoltán Nagy, Adrienn Hód, Imre Vass, Csaba Molnár. She has given workshops in several institutions, including the Camping International Choreographic Platform in Paris and SEAD. Since 2022 she has been a permanent guest teacher at the Budapest College of Circus Arts and Contemporary Dance. Currently working with the AHA Collective.

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Márcio Kerber Canabarro is a Berlin based dancer/performer/maker with B.A. in social Communication (UNIJUI – RS – BR) and a Performing Major (SEAD -Salzburg-AT). His work with Csaba Molnár “Tropical Escape” has been laureate in Hungary and Denmark. Canabarro is also part of the Hungarian based DEEPER F.Collective, which focus on how we build, influence and transform our large community through the chain of our immediate affections and our ability to care. In 2018 Canabarro started a collaboration with Aleksandra Borys called “Zero Waste Choreography”  a platform to rethink modes of creating, producing and presenting choreographic work in relation to their environmental impact .They develop together the intervention/photographic project “TRACKING: Visual Cues for Hope” and the Choreographic Installation “re-imagining life on Earth : COSMIC DEBRIS”. Canabarro also has worked with well known artists as Sara Shelton Mann, Keith Hennessy, Adrienn Hód (Hodworks), Peter Pleyer, Mark Tompkins, Benoit Lachambre and Meg Stuart.

dancer, choreographer

Marco Torrice is a performing artist, teacher and choreographer, based in Brussels. His work focuses on the facilitation of dance exchange between dancers from different dance styles and cultural back-ground, and on the redefinition of the concept of ‘contemporary dance’ by opening a dialogue with different dance performance practices then the one usually present in western academic environments.

Born and raised in Rome (IT), he studied philosophy at La Sapienza University of Rome. At the same time he started to take dance classes and workshops in Italy and all around Europe, mainly related to somatic works and ‘post modern’ movement approach. In 2006 he moved to Brussels to study at P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios, directed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker) where he graduated in 2010. He worked for different choreographers such as Thomas Hauert, Jerome Bell, for the Hungarian dance company Hodworks, and for the Belgian dance companies Mossoux- Bontè, and Rosas. 

In 2011 he created Me, Myself and I, a solo based on a collaboration with Marta Virag, researcher in the field of Neuroscience, and Kitty 2012, which was selected for Aerowaves 2013. In 2012, together with the Hungarian choreographers Adrien Hod and Csaba Molnar, he created The way my father imagined it all, within Jardin d’Europe project, and Centipedes, commissioned by SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance) for the Bodhi Project dance company. In 2014 he collaborates with Csaba Molnar for the creation of Decameron. In 2015/2016 he performed a series of solos based on a movement research which focused on the exploration of patterns, qualities, dynamics and content of movements, different than the one we are already familiar with due to our education and motor system. These solos were performed within the context of Liminal, a music electronic festival based in Rome. In 2017 he opened his dance research to all sort of performing artists, dancers and actors with different back-ground. Out of this research period, between Brazil, Budapest, Rome and Bruxelles, Marco’s  artistic focus shifted from a sophisticated movement exploration, to the actual ‘social aspect’ of dance, to how a dance practice can gather different kinds of people and serve different functions such as performance, pedagogy and fun. Out of this research period he set up the basic elements of Melting Pot, a dance practice based on improvisation which works as a meeting place for dance challenge and exchange, where dancers from different styles and cultural back-ground can enter in dialogue and liberate different sort of feelings and emotions, such as joy, anger, sensuality, social frustration.

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Between 2005 and 2007 he attended to “Studio for Contemporary Dance Company” in Zagreb, Croatia and taking classical ballet, jazz dance and hip-hop classes in the dance centers “Tala” and “Liberdance” in Zagreb, Croatia. In 2008 he is worked as a stagier in “Zagreb Dance Company” which is one of the oldest contemporary dance companies in Croatia. Between 2008 and 2010 he started modern dance education at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten. Between 2010 and 2011 dancing  in Noord Nederlandse Dans company ( director Stephen Shropshire) in Groningen.  Between 2011 and 2012 he participated as a professional dancer in several dance projects, “Exit” (choreographer Arno Schuitemaker), “These little nothings” (choreographer Valasia Simeon), “Abdallah and the Gazelle of Basra” (choreographers Thom Stuart and Rinus Sprong), “The Fifteen Project” (choreographer Arno Schuitemaker), Project Sally (choreographers Ronald Wintjens and Stefan Ernst) Between 2012 and 2014 de worked in a Statetheater Oldenburg ( Staatstheater Oldenburg) in the contemporary repertoire dance company, working with different choreographers: Ann Van den Broek ( “ Das Blaue”) , Sharon Eyal ( “ Plafona”), Club Guy and Roni ( “ Romeo and Juliet”, “Airways”, “Finale Grande”) Alessandra Corti and Felix Berner ( “ Niemandstag”, Sungyop Hong ( “was sie bewegt”). Between 2014 and 2016 Working in a Statetheater Mainz ( Staatstheater Mainz) as a part of a contemporary repertoire dance company “Tanz Mainz”, working with different choreographers: Jo Stromgren ( “ Fairy Queen”), Sharon Eyal ( “Plafona Now”), Daniellle Desnoyer ( “ The Blue Hour”), Jose Navas ( Denouement), Club Guy and Roni ( “4”), Alessandra Corti ( “Unendliche Nacht”). Between 2017 and 2019 working with known Croatian choreographer and director Matija Ferlin ( “Staging a play : Tartuffe”) with Zagreb Dance Company in Zagreb, Croatia. Also as a freelancer on various dance projects in Croatia and abroad: Zrinka Lukčec-Kiko ( “Unavailable”, The restlessness of the birds”), Marjana Krajač (“Choreographic fantasy no 3 and no 4”), Jasna Čizmek-Tarbuk (“Holographic space”), Marin Lemić and Ida Jolić (“Transformers”). Recently started working on a project with Cocoon Dance Company ( “Body Shots”).

sound designer, musician

A Hungarian composer, electronic musician, sound designer and performer, based in Budapest. Works with various theatre- and dance groups, composer for visual media. Studying electronic music gave him an experimental approach in musical composition. As a two-time beatbox champion of Hungary, he’s specially interested in vocal music, as a performer he combines electronic music and his voice in an improvised electroacoustic live set. Projects: 017 – O Milosc – Centrum Kultury, Lublin PL – Sound design, musical editor, 2017 – Escape Room Berlin – Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin DE – Sound design, 2017 – Promenade: Baltimore – Outdoor performance, Baltimore US – Sound design, musical editor, 2017 – Emlékek klinikája (Last chance clinic) – Trafó, Budapest HU – Music, 2016 – Taboo Collection – Trafo, Budapest HU – Music, 2016 – Købers Paradis (Buyers Paradise) – Passage Festival, Helsingør DK – Sound design, 2016 – Grace (HODWORKS) – MU Színház, Budapest HU – Music, 2015 – Critic award 2015 – Trafó, Budapest HU – Music concept, sound design, 2015 – Orgona Mátrix – Müpa, Budapest HU – Live electronics, 2015 – We Hear You (Stereo Akt) – Trafó, Budapest HU – Music, sound design.

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After graduating from the Dance and Fine Art School of Győr he continued his education at SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance). He took part in Bodhi Project in 2019/2020. He worked with choreographers and creators like Michikazu Matsune, Helder Seabra, Paul Blackman, Christine Gouzelis, Hillel Kogan, Francesco Scavetta, Stephanie Thiersch, Robert Wilson and Adrienn Hód. He collaborated with different festivals and companies as Salzburger Festspiele, SommerSzene Salzburg, Wiener Staatsoper, Asasello Quartett, KALE Companhia de Danca. He is currently working with AHA collective.

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Máté Váth, is an artist / dancer / performer from Budapest with a background in theatre. In 2013 he graduated from the Győr School of Dance and Fine Arts, where he studied classical ballet and modern dance techniques.

In 2013, he received a one-year grant from the SÍN Cultural Centre, a grant to support and mentor young freelance dancers, which unfolded in a collaboration with two well-known Hungarian choreographers – Kata Juhász and Noémi Kulcsár.

In 2017, Máté graduated as a Performing Major at SEAD – Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (AT). Between 2016 and 2018, Máté worked with SEAD’s Company: BODHI PROECT, where he developed and performed works by various international choreographers such as Paul Blackman, Christine Gouzelis, Cecilia Benguela, Jarkko Mandelin, Jelka Milic, Lali Ayguade and Mala Kline. Later, in 2018, he joined Jan Lauwers’ work at the Salzburg Festpiele. In September 2019, he participated in a week-long research with Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods in Berlin, followed by a performance and creation with HODWORKS in Budapest in the performance “MIRAGE”. Also in 2019, he premiered his solo work “When I became Máté Váth” at the Abundance Festival in Sweden. In February 2020, Beatrix Simkó presented Trisha’s performance “Nearly Far” in Debrecen. Then, in February 2021, in the framework of another collaboration, the performance “Kredenc stayed in the cellar” at Trafó – House of Contemporary Arts. In the spring, he took part in Zita Thury’s “RESET”, followed by a collaboration with the Hungarian State Opera. In the production “Carmen” by Georges Bizet, he was invited guest artist in the role of the bullfighter. As a member of the Leó Willany company, in the autumn he performed “Chameleon no.1.”, directed by Zsófia Vadas Tamara, and in the spring of 2022 he performed “Chameleon no.2.” directed by Eszter Gál. After that, in May, two dance performances were presented at the National Dance Theatre – TranzDanz – by Péter Gerzson Kovács: “Re-naissance” and Réka Oberfrank: Trippin’. He is currently working on his own choreography “The Machine of Man”.

Priiya Prethora is a movement and video artist trained in traditional Indian folk and martial art practices, based in Europe since 2022. They search for adventure and intimacy in everyday rhythms of all human and non human forms. They work with sound, physical movement and immersive textures to talk, shout, whisper and dream about race and queer identity. They are in Shared Values by HODWORKS.

composer, musician

Composer, singer, sound artist, graduated at the Liszt Academy of Music Budapest in 1995. He received his DLA degree in religious music in 2004. Mizsei teaches literature of religious music, hymnology, mensural paleography, solfege and chamber music, and has been teaching improvisation for music therapists, music theory and literature at the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy. He recently is a leader resercher of music at the Institute of Advanced Studies Kőszeg. He is a composer and plays keyboard instruments in several ensembles: Zuboly, Magyar Bori Sextet, Trio Amor Sanctus, Rutkai Bori Specko Jesno. He regularly participates as composer and musician in the performances of Hodworks since 2007. Szomjas vagyok (2007), Betonlótusz (2008), Kapocsolódjunk és bömböltessük (2008), Jobb a békesség (2008), Mit kezdjünk a testünkkel? (2009), A nimfák élete (2010), Mindennapi rutin (2010), CHOICE (2011), Basse danse (2011), The way my father imaged at all (2012), Dawn (2013).

dancer

Zoltán Vakulya has started his dance studies on the Budapest Contemporary Dance University, later he graduated in the Salzburg based SEAD. Afteer having complete his Danceweb scholarship, he began working as a dancer and choreographer. He is currently based in Brussels where he has worked with several choreographers and visual artist, such as [ David Zambrano, Vera Tussing, Radouan Mrziga, Bejamin Vandewalle, Kendell Geers, (…) ] while he has been choreographing and co-choreographing [ ‘PAUSE’, ‘One Two Three One Two’, ‘TogetherAlone’, ‘It’s time’ ]. he currently working with Hód Adrienn on her new piece and he is preparing for different new creations for 2019/2020.

composer, musician

An improvised, intuitive, electroacoustic and noise musician, sound artist, editor, performance and conceptual artist, Zsolt Sőrés has composed and played experimental music for over 20 years. Besides traditional instruments, such as violin and the five-string viola, his work tools include home-made instruments, circuit bent toys, low- fi analogue synths, effects, sound objects, and others.