HÁMOR JÓSZEF
The project based Gangaray Dance Company was founded in 2004 by the Artist Director József Hámor .
The ensemble has won awards for best choreography at many festivals with it's unique form of using the body and it's dimensions. The works are characterized by "rhythmic elegance", "energy bending painting" and "composing dimensions".
These features are the main focus of he company.
The artist director’s choreographies requires high level of technique, dynamic, punctuality and suggestive performing skills.
The unique movement language of the artistic director requires a high technical skill, dynamism, precision, suggestive performance and an outstanding sense of music and rhythm.
In the repertoires József devoted on the precision of different quality in contemporary dance, focusing on the diversity of the body and the relationship between music and space without telling a specific story. This narrative-free form of expression puts the expressive power of the movement at the center, which gives the opportunity to the audience to travel into new worlds.
The mission of the company is to represent its dance centered performances on a world-class basis and also to educate by emphasizing the importance of contemporary dance art.
She started as a folk dancer, attended the the department of folk dance and stage dance of the
Hungarian Dance Academy. She spent almost 9 years abroad and as of today she one of the defining
figures of Hungarian contemporary dance art. From 2002 she studied and worked at P.A.R.T.S.
(Performing Arts Research and Training Studio), attended by world-famous Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
of the Rosas Company and David Hernandez, and was a founding member of Hofesh Shechter Dance
Company. She started working on Cirque du Soleil's performance 'Zaia' in 2007 as a character dancer.
After completing her studies abroad, she was invited to festivals as a performer and choreographer:
London Resolution Festival, EDIT International Dance Film Fesztivál, Trafó Színház - Inspiráció Fesztivál, OZORA, Sziget Fesztivál, Solo Dance and Duo International Festival Prague, 20-20 Interarts' solo festival of Montreal. She worked with Balázs Kovalik, Andrzej Bubien and Falk Richter. She teaches Aikido partnering, repertoires, performing arts and release techniques. In 2011 she was awarded the Viktor Fülöp Dance Scholarship and in 2020 she received the "best female dancer" award. In recent years, she has been a regular guest at foreign projects and schools, where she also works as a creative teacher and lecturer. (P.A.R.T.S., PARTS Summer School, CCN- Balett de Lorranie , Artesis Plantijn Hogeschool Antwerpen, ect.) She is the founder of the Foundation for Contemporary Dance Art and the managing director of COTEDA Nonprofit Kft. She is a founding member of the Gangaray Artistic Program professional creative workshop, the Bethlen Dance Workshop intensive summer development program, and the G.I.T.T. improvisational dance theatre as well.
