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The nominees were picked from almost 150 Hungarian dance premieres in 2006. A jury will pick two winners from the nominees and announce them at a ceremony in May. One of the winners will be awarded a HUF 1.5 million cash prize by the Trafó House of Contemporary Arts and the other a HUF 500,000 purse by the MU Theatre to be put toward their next productions.
The jury includes Lívia Fuchs, Tamás Halász, Zsolt Koren, Csaba Kutszegi, Ádám Mestyán, István Nánay, Márta Péter, András Rényi, László Százados and Szilvia Sisso Szilágyi.
The list of 2007 nominees has been posted at www.kultura.hu/labandij and the spring issue of Parallel, a professional journal published by the MU Theatre, will be dedicated to the awards.
The 12 nominees for the 2007 Rudolf Lábán award are:
- &ECHO - Fortedanse Company, choreography: Csaba Horváth, dancers: Katalin Lőrinc, Andrea Ladányi, Levente Bajári, István Koháry, Miklós Dávid Kerényi
- BANQUET - TranzDanz company, director-choreographer: Gerzson Péter Kovács, performers: Kata Kántor, Marianna Venekei, Anita Gera, Attila Kun, László Szúnyog Kocsis, Zoltán Zsuráfszky Jr.
- NIGHT METAMORPHOSIS - Hungarian National Ballet Foundation Studio Group, choreographer: Andrea P. Merlo, performers: dancers of the National Ballet
- UNDERSTOOD?! - PR-evolution dance company, choreography: Attila Kun, performer: Alexandra Kozmér
- NEST - OFF company, choreographer: Adrienn Hód, performers: Edit Dékány, Júlia Garai, Andrea Horváth, Alexandra Lex, Zsófia Murányi, Zsófia Tamara Vadas, Viktória Varga
- SOUL WITHOUT PULLOVER - choreographer: Anna Réti, performer: Anna Réti
- MAGENTA - MU Theatre, choreographer: Zoltán Batyu Farkas, Csaba Horváth, Gerzson Péter Kovács, performers: Zoltán Batyu Farkas, Csaba Horváth, Gerzson Péter Kovács
- SEANCE - Tünet Company, director: Réka Szabó, performers: Ákos Dózsa, Bea Gold, István Gőz, Kata Kántor, László Kövesdi, Réka Szabó, Dániel Szász, Türkoglu Ilkay
- SZTÉLÉ - Artus - Gábor Goda company, director: Gábor Goda, performers: Kati Dombi, Péter Lipka, István Oldal, Gáspár Téri, Zsolt Sőrés
- THANK YOU - LA Dance company, director-choreographer: Ivo Dimcev, performer: Andrea Ladányi
- MAGIC FLUTE - Yvette Bozsik company, director-choreographer: Yvette Bozsik, performers: József Hámor, Szabolcs Gombai, Hajnalka Lisztóczki, Kinga Szent-Ivány, Samantha Kettle, Dóra Szelőczey, Aliz Krausz, Tamás Vati, Rita Góbi, Attila Gergely, Tímea Fülöp, Dóra Hasznos, Zsófia Nemes, Emese Jantner, Gábor Bora, Zoltán Csere, Zoltán Katonka, Gábor Vida, Szabolcs Vislóczky, Ádám Zambrziczky
- ZYKLON B - MU Terminal C, choreographer: Krisztián Gergye, performers: students of MU Terminal
The first Rudolf Lábán prizes went to productions by Pál Frenák, Gábor Goda, Csaba Horváth, Gerzson Péter Kovács, Attila Kun, Andrea Ladányi and József Nagy.
Rudolf Lábán (1878-1958) was among the most important innovators of modern dance in Europe. He was born in Bratislava, then a part of Austria-Hungary, and spent much of his youth in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Lábán set up the Choreographic Institute in Zürich in 1915 and later founded branches in Italy, France and Central Europe. His greatest contribution to dance was his 1928 publication of Kinetographie Laban, a dance notation system that came to be called Labanotation and is still used as one of the primary movement notation systems in dance.
