Adrienn Hód (1975), choreographer, teacher, is known for her radical approach to bodies, space, experimental music and the interrelation of these - including the audience. During her formal education she acquired a wide array of movement styles and theatrical approaches that allow her to focus her attention on her dancers and the deconstruction/reconstruction of their proper movements. Her creations seek to delve into what is 'really' going on in her dancers and to convey that to the audience, often filled with playfulness and self-reflecting humour.

The core idea of the Daily Routine series is to address various choreographic themes and to prepare movement studies in a concentrated rehearsal period. As a result of research, we now have six core studies and some four hours of choreographical material to be merged into one. The final form of the Daily Routine series will be a full-evening performance scheduled to be created in Berlin between January and May 2011 and first shown on 20 May.

Research work on the Daily Routine series started in March, 2010. Each rehearsal period lasted for three to seven weeks, during which time selected improvised elements were fixed and structured, thus creating focal points for a presentation. Six presentations of 40 to 50 minutes have been  held to date, and each presentation has dealt with a different choreographic theme.

By focusing on these themes we have aimed at enabling the dancers' body to disengage from fixed forms and find ways to move freely and discover itself anew. When elaborating a theme, we have  concentrated on the expression of the body, supported and accompanied by live music. The extent of improvisation on stage is variable: we use fixed structures but pre-defined rules may also be completely absent.

What intrigues us in this work is how the audience is induced into recalling elementary sensations and memories of movement and touch. Ideally, spectators will experience the performance on a purely physical level, since we all – regardless of age, sex, race or social status – share these body sensations.

dancers: Emese Cuhorka, Júlia Garai, Júlia Hadi, Csaba Molnár
musician: Zoltán Mizsei
choreographer: Adrienn Hód