Béla Földi

Artistic Director of Budapest Dance Theatre

As artistic director, choreographer, and as a teacher in daily practice he lives, works and creates up to this day in Hungary and abroad as well. Besides his theater works he likes to hold trainings in different dance courses. He mixes his classes with his own unique taste, mostly with classical ballet, Limón technique and with the jazz stlye of Raza Hammadi. He believes that the style he teaches is a conscious technique with energetic and counter effects which change one other. He claims that the human body is a physical fact between the effective energies.
He was born on 14th July 1958. in Budapest. He began his classic ballet and modern dance in Hungary, later he continued all over Europe. His masters were: Endre Jeszenszky (1975-1985), Raza Hammadi, Paris (1985-1990), he took several famous teacher’s class as; Milton Myers- Horton technique, Carlos Orta- Limón, Matt Mattox- jazz, Joe Alegado- Limón, Joseph Tmim-modern.
Since 1987 he has been teaching his own style (Italy, Austria, Germany, Russia), although since 1991 he is focusing his work in Hungary. In that year he founded his own modern dance group, the Budapest Dance Theatre. During his activities he cooperated with world-famous Hungarian and foreign coreographers, such as: Pál Frenák, Tamás Juronics, Iván Markó, Gyula Berger, Raza Hammadi, Séan Curran, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, Glenn van der Hoff, Neel Verdoorn, Amir Kolben, Krisztina de Chatel. 
Besides the numerous coreographs created for the more than 20 years old dance group, he always places great emphasis on training dance artists as well, which operates since 2010 within a school system developed by himself. Furthermore he is modern dance teacher of the Hungarian Dance Academy.
He regularly perfroms for many years now on the Intenational Dance Course and Festival in Budapest together with many famous and good teachers. This Festival is one of the most famous and prestigious postgraduate course in Hungary. 

Awards
1999 Budapest Dance Theatre wins the Europa’s – Prize (Dance Art Hungarian Professional Journal Award)
2001Béla Földi gains the Grade Silver Cross of Merit of the Hungarian Republic
2002Béla Földi is awarded with Gyula Harangozó prize
2004 National Dance Theatre Dancefestival: Viewer’s chioce award 
2011The Hungarian Dance Artists Association: For Dance Education and Dance Science award

Modern

Brno 19. - 26.7. 2013

He mixes his classes with his own unique taste, mostly with classical ballet, Limón technique and with the jazz stlye of Raza Hammadi. He believes that the style he teaches is a conscious technique with energetic and counter effects which change one other. He claims that the human body is a physical fact between the effective energies.