BodyParkour
Body as Obstacles, Obstacles as Body!?

What is Bodyparkour?
It is a created word of body and Parkour, by Akos Hargitay reflecting on the parallel approach of dance (contemporary) and parkour (art of movement).
BodyParkour is a new urban art and dance related form of movements. Based on the “Global Dancing“ method developed by Akos, linking different, but existing dance-movement information and researching the connection between them. Special focus is given on spiral movements, different kind of running, sliding, rolling and jumping. Influenced and inspired by the current trend sports Tricking, Parkour & Freerunning and from the old school Flying-Low dance technique developed by David Zambrano.
Bodyparkour is integrating information from Open-choreography, Contact Improvisation and Partnering, Breakdance, HipHop and Capoeira, using any obstacles, architecture for dancing-moving in-door and in special cases out-door as well.

The Workshop
During the workshop we will make specific movements to prepare ourselves for the deeply physical movements, creating dance combinations and include small body-stunt moves and easy acrobatic dance movements. The movement quality has a touch of reference to our great comic action hero Jacky Chan.

We will use our body as obstacle.
And we will use a specific cube assembled out of scaffolding for our movements and more.

All kind of advanced dancers, circus, sport, Parkour, Tricking and Capoeira lovers are welcome, who are looking for a movement form which can integrate all this information to reach an eye catching and exciting, but never the less challenging, trendy dance style!

Please prepare your self with good comfortable sport shoes, knee pads or elbow pads for your protection!

Bodyparkour - History and facts:

*dance, contemporary dance is using-working with obstacles since very long time
*parallel to the development of parkour Ákos was working/experimenting with very similar movements (he named this body-stunt-skating),
*he started as break dancer in early 80's since then he was always interested in all kinds of urban art forms, like Parkour is.
*Now, he is experimenting to connect all this information that he collect over the past 25 years and call it BodyParkour.
*1998: Video

The Bodyparkour Project 2009/2010 www.bodyparkour.wordpress.com
The Company's new web address: www.companytwoinone.org
The Company creation of "Bodyparkour & Freerunning" was nominated in Austria for a Stella Award in 2010.



Ákos Hargitay
Ákos Hargitay (AT/HU) was born in Budapest and is living in Vienna since 2006. Since 1988 he danced in the field of contemporary dance with various local Hungarian, Austrian and international dance groups and choreographers such as Eszter Gál, Willi Dorner, Sebastian Prantl, Tanz*Hotel, Sasha Waltz & Guests, David Zambrano (Ven/NL) for the Ballroom Project in NYC, Scott Wells in San Francisco, Vicky Shick/Joanna M. Shaw/Alan Good from NYC.

Currently he is an artistic director at the Move On Dance Studio/Vienna for a dance education program called CONdance www.condance.wordpress.com. He is teaching Contact Improvisation and contemporary dance & composition at CONdance. He has been teaching dance at Anton Bruckner Private University Linz, SEAD Salzburg, Tanzquartier Vienna, Conservatory of Vienna, Company Willi Dorner, MMS Budapest, Dance Conservatory Györ and the City Ballet Company Pécs, Workshop Foundation Budapest, L1 DanceLab Budapest, Call Arts L.A. a.o. In 2000 he has established the first weekly Contact Jam in Budapest together with Michaela Hargitay.

The Company Two in One was founded in 1996 by Michaela Hargitay (AT) and Ákos Hargitay (AT/HU). Their work has been presented at various festivals and theatres such as Susan Hess Studio (Philadelphia), Aerowaves (The Place, London), Dance Theater Workshop (NYC), Judson Church (NYC), Mains d' Cuvres (Paris), Opening Doors Wales (UK), Tanzquartier Vienna, Imagetanz Vienna, dieTheater Wien, Tanzsprache and Neuer Tanz (Vienna/WUK), Unidram Festival Potsdam, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Wagon Halle (Marburg-Germany), Contemporary Dance Festivals in Luxembourg, Poland, Latvia, the Ukraine a.o. Their full-length evening production "free fall" was premiered in 2003 in cooperation with Tanzquartier Vienna and Szene Bunte Wähne Festival. Prizes and residencies include: 1999 ArtsLink Award (USA) and Suitcase Fund, Residency at the DTW in New York, 2001 Artist in Residence at the Mains d'Oeuvre in Paris, 2005 Artist in Residence at the CCL Linz, 2006 Budapest, 2009 Artist in Residence at SEAD, 2006 Budapest Fringe Award for the Best Performance and in 2010 Freerunning & Bodyparkour nominated for Stella10 - Performing Arts Prize for a Young Audience. NEW WEB: www.companytwoinone.org