Dorka Farkas

🇭🇺Budapest, Hungary

About

Movement group leader, choreographer and certified creative dance instructor based in Budapest. Holds a creative dance instruction certificate from ISLO, Finland (2007) and has taught Contact Improvisation and composition since 2007. Member of the Tánceánia Ensemble since 2011 and its co-leader since 2014, Hungary's first mixed-ability contemporary dance company, whose disabled and non-disabled members have made movement-theatre work together as equal partners for over fifteen years. Serves on the board of the ArtMan Association for Art and Dance and Movement Therapy. Has taught at the Baltazár Theatre and Art Centre since 2015, giving weekly creative dance classes there since 2018, and co-created the dance theatre pieces Pitypang (2017) and Port (2019) with Réti-Harmath Olívia. Her work centres on inclusive projects and community programmes with vulnerable groups. Also facilitates the yearly Contact Improvisation and contemporary dance camp at Camino Art House, Gran Canaria.