Hodworks

Premiere: 16-05-2013

Location: Trafó House of Contemporary Arts

Performers: Emese Cuhorka/Imola Kacsó, Júlia Garai / Júlia Hadi / Jessica Simet / Nóra Horváth, Csaba Molnár / Máté Horváth / Márton Gláser, Marcio Kerber Canabarro / Tamás Bakó / Zoltán Vakulya / Patrik Keresztes / Barbara Eyassu-Vincze

Choreographer:Adrienn Hód
Music: Zoltán Mizsei
Musical consultant: Zsolt Ahad Sőrés
Consultants: Ármin Szabó-Székely, Zsolt Sőrés, Marco Torrice
Light design: Kata Dézsi

Co-producer: Trafó – House of Contemporary Arts Budapest
Supported by: EMMI – Ministry of Human Resources, National Cultural Fund, EU Cultural Famework Programme, Off Foundation, New Performing Arts Foundation, SÍN Culture Center, Workshop Foundation, Départs

Photos: Imre Kővágó Nagy

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Dawn – Kultúrpart.hu

"The continuity of interactions, the unstoppable changes, transform this daring performance — which seeks the rare moments of human-physical experiences — into an extraordinary display of awareness, strength, refinement, and attention, all demanded from the dancers."

Dawn – Magyar Narancs

"It’s a serious wandering through the labyrinths of art history and body culture, reflecting on our own little life stories and moral games, accompanied by the live-mixed inner murmurs of Zoltán Mizsei, a contemporary composer."

Dawn – Hodworks Premiere at Trafó – Színház.hu

"During rehearsals, I am always drawn to those movements that I can’t quite figure out what I’m actually seeing." – Adrienn Hód

Hodworks: Dawn

"I don’t know what this was. Constructed and random, intimate and distant, personal and universal, something we should talk about a lot and something I’m not sure can even be spoken of."

Hodworks: Dawn – Funzine.hu

"The body reveals its anatomically-mechanical nature, once so suppressed and tabooed, its 'animal quality.'"

Nudity is the Set – Dawn at Trafó

The short film is available via the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzY1zfJYH1A

An Exercise in Stripping to Essentials – Siobhan Burke, 2014

“Dawn,” by the Hungarian choreographer Adrienn Hod, is a very naked dance. At the beginning of this work, seen Sunday at the Abrons Arts Center Playhouse, four dancers — from Ms. Hod’s company, Hodworks — enter the stage in warm-up clothes and matter-of-factly undress. Over the next 45 minutes, they execute a series of daring physical tasks in this most unencumbered state.

I Feel the Theme Through My Body – Confessions of Dancers – Enikő Nagy

"In Dawn, we depend on each other; we feel when the other, like a limb abandoned by strength, reaches this point, and vice versa. At these points, we must turn together to keep moving forward."

The body as evidence – Attila Serbik

"While in the Dawn we witness the creation of movement, the body, like a landscape, unfolds before us in intimate proximity. The naked body is 'dressed' by the outline of muscles, the folds of skin, the imprint of touches, and the flush of the skin."

Dawn is the company’s first show where the naked body is inevitably the center of attention. Contrary to the previous performances of the company the dancers here using the stage in a classical sense face difficult tasks in closed units. As the performance progresses their bodies begin to change during heavy use and viewers can watch it as a living landscape from an unusual and uncomfortable distance. The unusual use of their bodies requires in-depth awareness strength sophistication and attention. Dawn thus provides a rare opportunity to immerse ourselves in a radical experience without prejudice. The tight muscles on the naked bodies the wrinkled and red skin all raise complex issues. We see the creation of movement.

Dawn was chosen as one of the 20 most outstanding contemporary dance performances of 2014 by the Aerowaves international network and in 2014 it won the Rudolf Lábán Award for the best contemporary Hungarian dance performance of the season.