Company two in One featuring & pioneering post-contemporary dance / crossover existing contemporary dance forms with the latest movement trends / parkour, tricking, breakdance, bodyparkour. Since 2000 the focus of the artistic work is the process of discovering new post-contemporary movement patterns and structures like Urban Extreme Sports - parkour, breakdance, tricking. One important result of
this work is the movement language of Bodyparkour©
Links:
https://amaphiko.redbull.com/en/magazine/things-you-can-learn-from-bodyparkour
https://youtu.be/q7Q2SvF9knE
https://vimeo.com/24127804
https://vimeo.com/23927199
https://vimeo.com/17024661
https://vimeo.com/86892252
https://vimeo.com/43802257
https://vimeo.com/26559592
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 - & Home Parkour Stella13 Performing Arts Prize for a Young Audience
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 for the Ballroom Project in NYC, Scott Wells in San Francisco, Vicky Shick/Joanna M. 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. In 2000 he has established the first weekly Contact Jam in Budapest together with Michaela Hargitay.
