Duda received HUF 1.5 million from the Trafó and Kovács Gerzson was awarded HUF 500,000 from the MU Theatre.
The Trafó's purse was presented at a ceremony in the Tranzit Art Café by the actor Ferenc Elek and Baltazár Theatre director Dóra Elek.
Duda said her head was full of plans and she couldn't say which one won her the prize. She expressed her happiness at the critics' acknowledgement as well as the cash purse.
Lunatika can be seen next at the MU Theatre on March 3-4.
Kovács Gerzson said he would spend his prize money on his next production to show at the end of November.
Nine pieces were nominated for this year's prize. In addition to the winners, they were Yucca by the Budapest School of Contemporary Dance (director: Iván Angelus); Only the Clouds by the Forte Company (director-choreographer: Csaba Horváth); Seven by Pál Frenák (a production of the Pál Frenák Company); Supra Hits by Hodworks (choreographer: Adrienn Hód); Sound Pictures by the Central Europe Dance Theatre (choreographer: Gábor Katona); Something Happened by the Central Europe Dance Theatre (choreographer: Klári Pataky); Déja vu by the Hungarian State Opera - Hungarian Jazz Artists Company (choreographer Mariann Venekei).
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 dance critic Csaba Králl, the dance critic Márta Péter, the aesthete András Rényi, the art historian László Százados, the journalist Szilvia Sisso Artner 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.
Author: Éva Kelemen / Photo: Dániel Kováts
