Adrienn Hód is an internationally acclaimed choreographer, specialising in contemporary dance and experimental movement. Her permanent company is HODWORKS, of which she has been artistic and production director since 2007. In addition to her work with the company, she also choreographs for other Hungarian and international collaborations. She is also an applied choreographer for theatre productions, films and commercials. In addition to her creative work, she regularly teaches on both Hungarian and international platforms, where she works with improvisational tools, often related to HODWORKS performances.

Her work is focused on the human physique in motion, stripped of taboos and prejudices, removed from its cultural context. In the rehearsal space, she creates sensitive situations that give the dancers a safe space and trust to experience free physicality. She sees the dancers, musicians and other close collaborators all as creative partners, able to share their own stories, interests and personal responses to the subject matter with confidence.

The finished pieces are at the intersection of contemporary dance, theatre and performance. Although improvisation is given a lot of space in the creative process, the choreographies on stage are presented in a strictly structured form. The performances bypass clichés and address taboos that limit us on a social level in suprising ways. The boundaries of the stage space are also disrupted, the auditorium is consciously used in all performances, and the audience is invited to close, intense attention. On stage, the focus is always on the performers’ bodies, with minimal costume, often completely naked. Great emphasis is placed on sound design and lighting, which help powerfully to create the right situation that encourages deep immersion.

For Hód the stage is a playground, where signs are freed from their predetermined meanings. Her pieces always reach new dance forms and dramaturgical principles, again and again, boldly exploring beyond the possibilities of contemporary dance. Hód emphasises the complexity and radicalism of personal expression, laying bare the multilayered constructs of identity.

https://hodworks.hu/en

Márton Gláser is a creator and performer working in the fields of contemporary dance, movement-based performance, and experimental creative processes. He is engaged with choreographic perceptual and thinking systems in which individual and collective experience enter into dialogue. His artistic practice is inspired by the associative, intuitive, mystical, and the unknown.

He completed his studies in the four-year program of the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD), then worked as a member of the Bodhi Project Dance Company. He has collaborated with several international artists, including Hillel Kogan, Bob Wilson, Jan Lauwers, Stephanie Tiersch, and Michikazu Matsuné. Since 2020, alongside HODWORKS and the AHA Collective, he has also worked with numerous Hungarian artists and collectives, including Lili Raubinek, Máté Mészáros, Csaba Molnár, Viktor Szeri, the Hollow Collective, and Imre Vass.
In 2023, he and the AHA Collective received the Rudolf Lábán Award for their performance Dense Piece.

Imola Kacsó
At present, movement and performance surround me most as forms of expression. Performing arts offer an opportunity to examine and shape my relationship to my body and my personal experiences. For me, the creative space is not schematic but a dimension beyond reality that creates its own unique world.

I completed my studies in the four-year program of the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, whose free atmosphere provided an important professional and human foundation.
Recently, I have been collaborating with the AHA Collective, Hodworks, and Márton Gláser, as well as several other Hungarian artists. These professional encounters are formative, as they create space for recognizing and developing our shared concerns.

Csaba Molnár
Born in 1986, he began his professional training at the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy, after which he completed a two year program at P.A.R.T.S in Brussels. Soon afterwards he joined the Italian dance company Compagnia Virgilio Sieni, and in 2010 became member of the Hungarian company Hodworks. He began working as a co-creator in the five-member collective Bloom! (City, Tame Game, The End is Near), and later on pursued a similar creative collaboration in the formation Dányi-Molnár-Vadas (Skin Me). As an independent choreographer he had worked in association with Trafó House of Contemporary Arts and SÍN Cultural Centre in Budapest or Départs European network project. He produced two pieces (KITTY2012, Deacameron). As an artist in residence he worked with the students of the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy (Merriment) and created a piece for the EN-KNAP Group (68). He participated in ‘HOM’ at TanzMainz and the Studio Alta. His own coreographic works: KITTY2012, Decameron, The ox. In Sildenafilfairy project in collaboration with Marcio Kerber Canabarro they creating preformances (Tropical escape, EYE Candy, Winter Journey). 

He is co-creator of four pieces that had been granted the annual Rudolf Lábán Prize for the best contemporary dance performance of the season:: Bloom!:City(2011), Hodworks: Basse Danse (2012), Dányi-Molnár-Vadas: Skin Me (2014), Hodworks: Dawn (2014). The pieces City, KITTY2012, Skin Me, Dawn and The Conditions of Being a Mortal had all been chosen by the Aerowaves European dance network for their annual showcase of the 20 priority contemporary dance performances. In his work he strives for reconciling radical extremes. His main interest is to explore how different ways of expression, when juxtaposed, may transform the most private phenomena of human life into a universal and liberating theatrical experience.

Imre Vass
Imre Vass (Vasi) is a Budapest based performing artist and author who wanders between the fields of dance, choreography and performance. His works are inspired and determined by self-reflection, insights and pitfalls related to the objects and qualities of perception.

“I host environments for a non-harmful exploration of the comfort zone, to overcome the uncomfortable while tuning, training and sharpening the muscles of attention. I play with expectations and I flirt with ambiguity on the playground of performing arts.”

In 2025 he premiered Reading The Room, a solo performance, he choreographed together with Tamara Zsófia Vadas EX – exorcise exercise for the SUB.LAB.PRO ensemble, he developed an adult dance class format ADULT SWIM, and gave workshops in the Budapest Circus Arts and Contemporary Dance College.

In Hungary, he worked with choreographers and companies such as Patrik Kelemen, Dávid Somló, Viktor Szeri, Marcio Kerber Canabarro, HODWORKS, Hollow, Willany Leó, The Symptoms and STEREO Akt. Abroad, with the companies Ultima Vez (BE), Rapid Eye (DK), Ingri Fiksdal (NO) and United Sorry (AT\NL) and the iCoDaCo collective (2018-2020).

He graduated at the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy (BA dancer). He was a danceWEB scholarship recipient (2010), participated in SPAZIO (2012-2013), the Philadelphia Bilateral Artist Exchange Program (2016) and he was a member of iCoDaCo (2018-2020). He is part of the artist-partnership programme by Workshop Foundation (HU) and he was a Creative Crossroads artist (2023-2024) supported by Life Long Burning.

He is a three-time STAFÉTA winner: STANDING GROUND (2017), Game Changer (2021) and RELAX (2023), a two-time Péter Halász award and a Rudolf Laban award winner.

He has maintained a close professional and personal relationship with Csaba Molnár and Tamara Zsófia Vadas since the beginning of his career (2014 One for me, one for you, 2016 Taking Place, 2018 DEEPER, 2021 game Changer I, 2022 Game Changer II, 2025 MMXXV). In 2022, the Ax Award was founded for those who still keep the spirit as a leading flame in the independent performing arts/dance profession. Their joint studio is located in the art quarter Budapest.

www.imrevass.com
www.instagram.com/_imrevass

concept, direction: Imre Vass
choreography, performance: Márton Gláser, Adrienn Hód, Imola Kacsó, Csaba Molnár, Imre Vass
lights: Kata Dézsi
costume: Márton Gláser, Adrienn Hód, Imola Kacsó, Csaba Molnár, Imre Vass
stage design: Vass Imre
Production assistant: Eszter Lovrity \ Next Stage

special thanks: Zsófia Lelkes, András Molnár, Luca Petrányi, Zoltán Vass

supporters: Katlan Group, Workshop Foundation, Life Long Burning, NDA Slovenia, EU Culture, art quarter Budapest, under500 festival, Artus, EMMI, Ministry of Innovation and Technology of Hungary,

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.