AJDa is a joint dance venture of Budapest Contemporary Dance Creative Workshop and Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy. It is a project pick up company organized by a special group of dancers trained in BCDA. These dancers – a group of about 30 people – have got a unique knowledge, a special mix of three territories: skills in contemporary dance, Hungarian folk dance and innovative creative methods taught and learned on equally high level. The constant wish of unifying these values in a production open for wider audiences too, led to the creation of 3 successful pieces in the last 6 years – ready to present now.CSÁNGÓBUGI (’13) can be connected to the choreographic initiative and leadership of Sándor Petrovics however the five dancers of the piece feel “responsible” for every little detail. Music: Zurgó.
HAIDAU (’15) is the oldest of the pieces, the first version was presented in 2009 in Trafó Theatre Budapest, since that time it had minimum 10 different versions including street and theatrical and two video versions, and it is changed from performance to performance and cast to cast. However the dances and the composition of duets, trios are mostly created by the dancers themselves and the outline of the structure comes from Iván Angelus, most of the details of the choreography can be connected to Márton Csuzi. Music: Mihály Dresch
GYÖNYERŐ (’16) was first presented in MU Theatre the spring of 2014. A conscious research of traditional and popular contemporary dances – old and actual “folk” dances – preceded the composition of the piece realized by the dancers of the first cast. Only the final putting together was led by the director Angelus.
