The seven awards will be handed out at the MU Theatre on May 7, but, starting on May 3, audiences will be able to see all of the winning performances at three venues: the MU Theatre (Budapest, District XI, Kőrösy József u. 17), the Trafó House of Contemporary Arts (Budapest, District IX, Liliom u. 41) and the Artus Theatre and Art Laboratory (Budapest, District XI, Sztregova u. 7).
The 11-member jury for the award picked the winners from all of the performances on Hungary?s contemporary dance scene last year. The winners are Boys, by the Pál Frenák Company, Big-city Icons, by Csaba Horváth, 44 Feet, by the Theatre and Film Academy?s L. A. dance department, Fox Fairies, by Artus ? Gábor Goda, Transit, by TranzDanz, The Last Landscape, by József Nagy, and Visible Shape, by the PR-evolution Company.
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.
