The Műhely Foundation has always thought in terms of long-term collaboration. Our Artist Partnership Program, launched in 2018, was created to place this type of work within a more formal framework. The aim of the program is to accompany and support the work of a selected artist in a long-term, personalized way.
This includes: regular professional consultations, sharing professional networks, providing infrastructure for rehearsal processes, financial administration, joint grant applications and administration, management tasks, as well as collaboration and joint planning. The ultimate goal is to establish a full artistic and professional partnership, rather than focusing solely on the creation of a single production.
Since 2021, our plans also include involving the artists as a kind of professional strategic and consultative council in matters concerning the Foundation. For example, Anna Biczók participated in selecting the team for the spring 2021 project Researching the Unknown, and the artists were also involved in developing our 2021 1% tax donation campaign.
Currently, seven artists participate in the program.
Anna Biczók
Anna Biczók is a Budapest-based dancer and creator, performer and choreographer. She graduated from the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy with a degree in dance. Anna joined our Artist Partnership Program through the Life Long Burning Creative Crossroads platform.
The driving force behind her work is the body as a personal and collective archive that carries a multitude of information, reflecting human origins—whether family heritage or the sociocultural environment in which one grows up and operates.
Her creative motivation lies in working with the personal content of her collaborators: the information they carry through their bodies, minds, and spirits; the experiences stored within the body; and the imprints of the surrounding environment. These personal materials become the raw material of her work and are shared with the audience.
Further information about Anna’s work is available on her website.
Gyula Cserepes
Gyula Cserepes is a choreographer, performer, and dance teacher. He studied folk dance at the Fóti Folk Art Secondary and Vocational School and contemporary dance at the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy.
He first worked with the Central Europe Dance Theatre in Budapest and later became a member of the En-Knap Group in Ljubljana. Since 2012 he has worked as a freelance creator and performer.
His performances range from site-specific works to interactive dance performances. Rhythm—understood as a universal language—is the starting point of his work. Drawing on both his folk and contemporary dance background, he creates innovative pieces that explore the essence of dance and its fundamental role in human life.
Further information about Gyula’s work is available on his website.
Rita Góbi
Rita Góbi is a Laban Rudolf Prize-winning dancer, choreographer, and dance teacher. She was born in Novi Sad and graduated from the Hungarian Dance University.
She began her career with the Pécs Ballet and later became deeply involved in the independent dance scene (including the Yvette Bozsik Company, Tünet Ensemble, Andaxínház, and the Éva Duda Company). In 2006 she founded the Góbi Rita Company.
Her works are characterized by humor, bold experimentation, and the precise crafting of choreography. Geometry, minimalism, and a pursuit of reduction are present in her style. In her performances, the close harmony between movement, music, and visual elements creates a futuristic atmosphere. She continuously develops her dance language, which is reflected in each of her choreographies. Her performances tour internationally.
Further information on her website .
Jenna Jalonen
Jenna Jalonen—also known as Triplejay—is a Finnish choreographer, dancer, and artistic producer based in Budapest. She graduated from the Hungarian Dance University.
She is a Laban Rudolf Prize winner and a recipient of the Viktor Fülöp Scholarship. She is the co-founder and choreographer of Collective Dope and also co-founded the educational program Sub.Lab.Pro The Ensemble.
She is the creator and teacher of the Triplewave movement methodology, a fusion of classical, urban, and contemporary dance forms.
Further information about Jenna’s work is available on her website.
Réka Oberfrank
Réka Oberfrank is a freelance dancer, creator, and teacher who graduated from the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy. She has also gained experience abroad at the Danish National School of Performing Arts and within the Spanish CobosMika Seeds formation.
Compared to her earlier, more dance-theatre-oriented approach, her new and currently developing works focus on full abstraction. Within this, she is particularly interested in the skin as a surface and the body as material, exploring these ideas from different perspectives and in collaboration with visual arts.
Réka is the newest member of our Artist Partnership Program. We approached her in February 2020 with the idea of a possible long-term collaboration.
Beatrix Simkó
Beatrix Simkó Trisha is a dancer, choreographer, and media artist. She studied media at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design and performance at the University of Hamburg.
Accordingly, her performances frequently incorporate not only dance but also the tools of related art forms. In her work she examines how our immediate environment affects the individual, making these influences visible through the expressive, non-verbal language of the body.
She has been an active participant in the contemporary dance scene for more than ten years. Since 2015 she has worked in numerous international co-productions both abroad and in Hungary.
Trisha was the first participant in our officially established Artist Partnership Program (2018).
Further information about Trisha’s work is available on her website.
Further information about Trisha’s work is available on her website.
