Levente Bajári with Lőrinc Katalin in Echo. Photo: Vera Éder
The Award is presented each year to two dancers to recognise their contribution to Hungarian dance and their work as ambassadors on stages around the world.
Levente Bajári will take the main prize this year. Bajári graduated from the Hungarian School of Dance Arts in 1996, after which he joined the Hungarian National Ballet. He has won several prizes, among them the Harangozó prize (2004) and the EuroPas prize (2006). He has danced the leading roles in SwanLake, Romeo and Juliet, The Tragedy of Man and The Miraculous Mandarin. Bajári showed his talents in a work he choreographed himself, called Point, with the music of Attila Gergely last year.
Kristóf Várnagy in TRA-CE
Kristóf Várnagy will take the junior prize this year. Várnagy graduated from the Hungarian School of Dance Arts too. Afterward, he worked with several troupes, including the Hungarian State Opera troupe and the Ballet Preljocaj. Since 2005, he has been a member of the Pál Frenák Company. He has successfully participated in a number of contests in Hungary and abroad. Most recently, he won a special prize at the National and International Modern Arts Festival in Veszprém. Várnagy has also participated in several internationally famous master classes.
The Hungarian Ballet and Modern Dance Award was established by Philip Morris Magyarorszag in 1993. György Szakály chairs the award's jury.
