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| Rudolf LABÁN |
A jury will pick two winners from the nominees and present their prizes on February 12. 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 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.
The awards will be presented at the Tranzit Art Café -- a converted Communist-era bus depot in Bukarest u., near Kosztolányi Desző tér, in Budapest's District XI - at 11:00am on February 12. The MC at the event will be Balázs Lévai, and the prizes will be presented by the writer, aesthete and literary historian Zsófia Bán and father Mátyás Varga, cultural and tourism director of the Pannonhalma Monastery.
NOMINEES
BL - performers: Andrea Ladányi and Gergő Borlai
INTIME - Pál Frenák Company, director-choreographer: Pál Frenák, performers: Zoltán Fekete, Emese Jantner, Viktória Kolozsi, Kostur Lisa, Reguera Nelson, Balázs Czéh
LET'S CONNECT AND HOWL 2 - Hóddance, director: Adrienn Hód, performers: Júlia Garai, Zoltán Mizsei, Imre Vass
LABYRINTH - Hungarian State Folk Ensemble, choreographer: Gerzson Péter Kovács and Gábor Mihályi, performers: Hungarian State Folk Ensemble dance ensemble and orchestra
I'D LIKE TO GO... - Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy, choreographer: Mala Vladislava, performers: Emil Bordás, Lilla Emődi, László Fülöp, Zsófia Hevér, Judit Maros, Alíz Péter, Csaba Varga
NUPTIALS - Hungarian State Opera Ballet Ensemble, choreographer: Yvette Bozsik, dancers: Ildikó Boros / Adrienn Pap, Attila Kun / Miklós Dávid Kerényi, Orsolya Gáspár, Gergely Csanád Kováts, Ildikó Bacskai, Miklós Nagyszentpéteri, Maira Sahra, András Szegő
THERE'S NOBODY THERE, OR DO DREAMS SLEEP IN THE DAYTIME - Tünet Ensemble, director-choreographer: Réka Szabó, performers: Ákos Dózsa, Rita Góbi, Andrea Nagy, Dániel Szász, Zsófia Tamara Vadas, Imre Vass
PRODUCTS OF ETERNAL LIFE - TranzDanz, choreographer: Gerzson Péter Kovács, performers: Kata Kántor, Marianna Venekei, Anita Gera, Zoltán Zsuráfszki Jr., Márton Debreczeni
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.
In 2007, the prizes were presented for a solo production by Anna Réti and a piece by Csaba Horváth and the Fortedanse ensemble.
Last year's winners were Klári Pataky and Pál Frenák.
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.
