BL's creators were awarded HUF 500,000 from the MU Theatre and Bozsik received HUF 1.5 million from the Trafó.
The Trafó's purse was presented at a ceremony in the Tranzit Art Café by the writer Zsófia Bán, who said the most important knowledge accessible to us is knowledge of our bodies. Szabolcs Gombai, Bozsik's assistance and the main dancer in Nuptials, accepted the prize for her.
Mátyás Varga, cultural and tourism director of the Pannonhalma Monastery, presented the MU Theatre's purse to Ladányi, who thanked the recently deceased Tibor Leszták, the prize's founder.
Eight pieces from more than 160 contemporary dance productions were nominated for this year's prize. In addition to the winners, they were InTimE, by the Pál Frenák Company (director-choreographer: Pál Frenák); Let's Connect and Howl II, by the Hóddance (director: Adrienn Hód); Labyrinth, by the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble (choreographer: Gerzson Péter Kovács and Gábor Mihályi); I'd Like to Go, by the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy (choreographer: Mala Vladislava); There's Nobody There, or Do Dreams Sleep in the Daytime?, by the Tünet Ensemble (director-choreographer: Réka Szabó); and Products of Eternal Life, by TranzDanz (choreographer: Gerzson Péter Kovács);
The jury for the prize included the dance historian and dance critic Lívia Fuchs, the critic and museologist Tamás Halász, the journalist and editor Zsolt Koren, the editor and dance critic Csaba Kutszegi, the aesthete Ádám Mestyán, the dance critic Márta Péter, the aesthete András Rényi, the art historian László Százados, the journalist Szilvia Sisso Szilágyi and the critic Ágnes Veronika Tóth.
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. 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.
