Company Two in One was founded in 1996 by Michaela Hargitay (A) and Akos Hargitay (H) as a Austro-Hungarian artists collective. The Company is looking in creative collaboration for intensive dialogue and artistic exchange with other performers, choreographers, visual artists and musicians. The focus on the working process with its resulting structures and movement forms is one of the main objects. After 6 years of permanent residency in Budapest/Hungary, in 2006 September they return to Vienna/Austria to liv and work and began a new life as Mimi Hargitay & Akos Hargitay. Experiencing so many years of the “pure & poor freelance contemporary dance artist life” their work became more sarcastic & critical mirroring the society, the current cultural politics, including the dance -presenters, -writers, -creators, curators and of course themselves. Since 2001 they also became interested in the youth urban culture & street art, researching the crossover with contemporary dance. Their work was presented at various festivals, venues and theaters such as Aerowoaves/The Place Theater London, Dance Theater Workshop Judson Church New York, Mains d’Œuvres Paris, Susan Hess Studio Philadelphia, Unidram Festival Potsdam/Germany, Tanzfabrik Berlin / Germany, Warsaw, Krakow / Poland, Bratislava / Slovakia, Latvia, Finnland a.o. In Austria TQ Wien, Imagetanz dieTheater Wien, Tanzsprache Wien and Neuer Tanz Wien/WUK, Posthof and CCL / Linz, TANZzone1 Innsbruck, Tanz*Hotel Mini Festival/Nestroyhof Wien. Their full-length evening production Free Fall was premiered 2003 in cooperation with Tanz Quartier Wien (TQW) and Szene Bunte Wähne Festival at SkateLab Vienna. 2008. Szene Bunte Wähne Festival at Dschungel Wien They are funding members of L1 danceLab. Since 2002 they are teaching staff at Bruckner Conservatory (now Anton Bruckner Private University Linz), and taught workshops at TQW, SEAD Salzburg, CalArts LA, Workshop Foundation Budapest, L1 danceLab a.o. Together they have established the first weekly contact jams in Budapest in 2000 which are now organized every Thursday at Trafo by www.kontaktbudapest.hu. Currently they are teaching staff at Move On Dance Studio/Vienna, CONdance (Contemporary Dance Education program). Awards: Budapest Fringe Main Award 2006 performance category ArtsLink Independent Partnership Award 1999 to create the production "Dialogues and Dances" in collaboration with DTW/NYC. and choreographers Vicky Shick, JoAnna Mendl Shaw and Alan Good (all NYC.). Michaela Hargitay dancer, choreographer, teacher, Gyrokinesis® instructor born in 1973 in Vienna. important studies: T-Junction Vienna (artistic direction: Esther Linley), diploma in contemporary dance of Iwanson Dance Center in Munich. further studies at Trisha Brown Company Studio, Eric Hawkins School of Dance Movement Research important teachers include Daniel Lepkoff (Contact and Improvisation), Alito Alessi (Contact), David Zambrano (Flying-Low), Vicky Shick (Release), Alan Good (Cunningham and Composition), Eva Karcag (Improvisation)JoAnna Mendl Shaw (Composition and Laban), Mina Yoo (Graham), Jenny Coogan (Limon), Joe Alegado (Limon), Esther Linley (Ballet), Trudie Campell (Ballet), Gudrun Sutherland (Ballet), Nikkola Howes (Ballet/ Musical), Raza Hammadi (Mattox Technique), Frey Faust (Contemp.), Ivan Wolfe (Release, Contact) a.o. She has worked with choreographers Sebastian Prantl (A), Willi Dorner (A), Vicky Shick (USA), Alan Good (USA), JoAnna Mendl Shaw (USA) and choreographers of L1 danceLab (H) a.o. Scholarships/Awards: Scholarship for Foreign Studies of the Austrian Ministry of Cultural Affairs in 1992 and New York Award 1995 of Iwanson D.C. as best student to finish her studies in NYC. She is teaching staff of the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz and has been teaching dance at Tanz Quartier Wien, Orkesztika Alapitvany Budapest, Dance Conservatory Gyor, Workshop Foundation Budapest, L1 DanceLab Budapest. Ákos Hargitay dancer, performer, choreographer, teacher, was born 1964 in Budapest. Since 1990 he danced in a field of contemporary dance with various local Hungarian dance groups such as Gyula Berger Dance Company, Artus / Gabor Goda, choreographer Katalin Lörinc and in collaboration with Reka Szabo and Eszter Gal. In Vienna he worked with Willi Dorner, Tanz*Hotel, Tanz Atelier Wien, Silvia Both, Mark Tompkins among others. In the 90’s he also worked with Micha Purucker (D), with David Zambrano (Ven/NL) in the Ballroom Project in NYC. He has been a member of the Berlin-based Sasha Waltz & Guests (D) from 1994 to 1998 internationally touring with Travelogue I and II. And U.S. choreographers Vicky Shick, JoAnna Mendl Shaw and Alan Good (all N.Y.C.) and with Scott Wells in San Francisco. 2005. His appearance in musicals include: Singing in the Rain, Cats, West Side Story or a film by Menahem Golan: Mack the Knife. Akos Hargitay has been teaching dance at Anton Bruckner Private University Linz, SEAD Salzburg, TQ Wien, Cie.Willi Dorner, Orkesztika Alapitvany Budapest, Dance Conservatory Györ, Ballet Pecs, Workshop Foundation Budapest, L1 DanceLab Budapest, Kontaktbudapest, CalArts LA. 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