Tímea Papp is a Hungarian dancer and choreographer who can be recognized for her work in the Hungarian Film and Television Industry. Apart from graduating from both the Rotterdam Dance Academy and the Hungarian Dance Academy she participated in dance courses all around the world. Thanks to her knowledge and experience in many genres of dance from ballet through broadway and jazz all the way to contemporary dance she contributed to the success of award-winning feature films, theatrical productions like Chicago, television shows such as Britain's Got Talent, America's Got Talent, Eurovision and Fake Off in addition to advertisements and other creative projects worldwide. Since 2004 she has been working on developing a special technique where she combines dancing with videomapping projections to create an interactive choreography supplemented by visual elements. From 2009 using videomapping technique has been a kind of "trademark" in her work. She is currently the artistic director and choreographer of the dance team called Freelusion.
Early life
Tímea Papp was born in Kaposvár, Hungary. She was raised in a family with three children, she has an older and a younger brother. Both her brothers grew up to be entrepreneurs; her younger brother became the co-founder of Freelusion. Her dad was a drummer who gave up being a professional musician for his family. Nevertheless, he never gave up creating rhythm with any object he could find around himself. Tímea's mother was an amateur dancer and a huge dance enthusiast her whole life. Tímea was infected with rhythm, music, and dancing from a very early age thanks to her parents. This impact was so great that she moved to Pécs in her teenage years so she could start her professional dancing training in the High School of Arts.
Field of Scientific Research, Mission
As mentioned earlier, Tímea Papp growing up has been surrounded by inspiration which drew her towards dancing. Learning Latin dances and ballet in her childhood, she was fascinated by street dances in the early 80's. Beside the dancing she spent 4 years studying kung fu. Her body awareness in space became very important to her. Rudolf von Laban movement theoretic's space harmony theory has been a great influence on her work. All her research in movement, space and body awareness and her education and experience as a dancer lead to creating her own project: "Spacerider", which can be interpreted as her own avatar in her high-tech interactive choreographies.
Education and training
1988-1992 High School of Arts, Pecs
1993-1996 Rotterdam Dance Academy Codarts Faculty of Dance Teacher majoring in Jazz and Modern dance
1992-2003 Courses: Budapest, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, London, Pecs, Tokyo, New York
1998-2001 Hungarian Dance Academy, Budapest Faculty of Choreographer
Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy- Jazz-and Modern dance teacher
Hungarian Dance Academy, Budapest - Teacher of Jazz-and Modern dance, training methods, Arts of choreography, Leading teacher of street-urban dance major
Choreographer
Competition for Inspirational Choreographers Budapest: ’Na, most ki kivel van? ’ Pecs Ballet: ’Idegenek ’
Pecs Ballet: ’Párkeresés ’ Utolsó Csepp Festival : ’Hattyúdal ’ Attila Jozsef Theatre: ’Villon és a többiek ’
Pecs Ballet: ’Függő viszonyok ’ Trafo: ’Trio’ University of Drama, Film and Television: ’Chicago’ musical Utolsó Csepp Festival : ’Hitchcock’
Madach Theatre: ’Chicago’ musical
Hungarian Dance Academy Solo creations for international ballet competitions
