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The MU Theatre prize went to Pataky for her choreography I am Doing Very Well, Please Don't Call and the Trafó prize was presented by a jury of professionals to Pál Frenák for his performance Instinct. The jury selected the winners by secret ballot.
The MU Theatre prize comes with a HUF 500,000 purse and the Trafó prize with a HUF 1.5 million cash award to be used by the winners to prepare their next performance.
The two winning works were among ten from last year nominated by the jury for the prize.
The eight other nominees for the top prize included a production by Debrecen's Csokonai Theatre entitled Spring Awakening (director Csaba Horváth); the Budapest Dance School's performance Glass Shade (choreography: Júlia Hadi); two productions by the Hungarian National Ballet Foundation Studio Group, entitled In Your Exes My Face Remains (choreography: András Lukács) and Ex-It 2 (choreography: Attila Kun); Krisztián Gergye's choreography for seven female solos for MU Theatre-KET-GKImpersonators entitled B.O.D.Y.; Péter Gerzson Kovács's solo performance Hic et nunc (which premiered at the MU Theatre's second Magenta Evening during the twenty-year-old TanzDanz festival); Melinda Virág's choreography Altera Pars; and Zoltán Fodor's choreography Space-Form-Language, which was one of four new premieres from last year's MU Terminal.
Trafó and MU Theatre established the Lábán prize in the autumn of 2005. The prize is named after Rudolf Lábán, who was among the most important innovators of modern dance in Europe. Lábán (1878-1958) 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.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
