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WORKSHOP II. WITH KRISZTIÁN GERGYE
Event date: 25/05/2022, 10:30 AM (3 h) Details:THE PROGRAM IS FREE BUT RSVP IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND
Event place:HERE
Dorothy B. Williams Theatre
(145 6th Ave, New York)
KRISZTIÁN GERGYE (1976)
Director, choreographer, contemporary dancer, performer, painter
Krisztián Gergye started his stage career as a Javanese dancer. He spent a year in Java in 1998 where, as a Darmassiswa scholar, he studied the ancient Indonesian dance. Mixing tradition with a modern attitude he then created his own vocabulary for dance and body. He has been staging his own choreographies since 2001. Independent projects soon lead to permanent collaborations and finally his own company, which represents all comprising contemporary theatre with special theatrical language including the elements of dancing, music, the fine arts, puppet theater, opera, performance, all at the highest artistic level. As a dancer and choreographer, he has been a guest to nearly all famous Hungarian dance groups and performed in all contemporary dance theatres and venues. He has been awarded several prizes both for his creations and as a performer. From 2014 on they work as a project company searching the possibilities of the dialogue between the different artistic genres and creating self-dependent and always remarkable inter-genres performances. He works with permanent as well as special artists all with significant artistic background and open to perform in different genres. Over the past years this project-theatre company has become a well-established troupe, always open to novel forms and artistic solutions. Company has performed in several countries: Austria, BIH, Czech Republic, Germany, France, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, UK, USA…
2001- Art director of his own company: Company Krisztián Gergye
2006-2007 Member of Bárka Theatre, Budapest
2008-2013 Member of National Theatre, Budapest
2013- Freelancer artist
As a Choreographer cooperated with famous artists like:
Iván Fisher, Andrei Serban, Presznyakov Brothers, Róbert Alföldi, Eszter Salamon, Viktória Vizin
He made more than 50 productions including dance pieces, dramas, operas, and puppet performances. He often makes co-production, site specific performances, video-performances and exhibitions as a painter too.
Awards
2021 Art is Business award
2010 Imre Zoltán -Award
2009 Harangozó Gyula-Award
2008 The Year’s Best Choreographer
2004 Viktor Fülöp Scholarship
2003 IX. Szeged Alternative Theatre Festival, Best Choreographer (Tenebrae)
2003 Veszprem Alternative Dance Festival, Pro Futuro Award
2002 VIII. Alternative Theatre Festival, Best Dancer (E. SCH EROTO)
1998 Darmassiswa Scholarship, Indonesia