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Gábor Goda
Director, choreographer, Merited Artist
Gábor Goda is the founder, director, and artistic director of ARTUS Studio, a role he has held since 1997. He is the creator of the Weight-Flow Contact GODA Method for Human Bridges.
I believe that what is truly worth knowing can be learned either directly from spiritual sources, from masters, or from the body itself exclusively through lived experience. Alongside spiritual approaches, the body is our most authentic teacher. It constantly gives feedback and shows direction. The body is wise. In a relaxed, freely flowing body, Life flows freely and Spirit becomes liberated. From this point on, connection no longer binds us it opens us and sets us free. When we truly find ourselves, the separate ego dissolves into wholeness.
He originally trained as an engineer and once dreamed of becoming a bridge designer. His studies in civil engineering, his complex artistic work within ARTUS, the practice of contact improvisation, regular Tai Ji training, experiences of family life, and an ongoing inner spiritual search all eventually converged as expressions of the same source.
After 25 years of this journey, in 2006, these paths crystallized into the Weight-Flow Contact method, which you can also experience at this years Everness Festival in the form of a workshop.
Selected Awards and Honors
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Kult50 Award, 2020
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Imre Eck Award, 2019
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Rudolf Laban Award (Critics Award for Cseppkánon), 2016
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Zoltán Imre Award, 2015
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Merited Artist of the Republic of Hungary, 2008
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Creator of the Year, Hungarian Dance Artists Association, 2006
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Rudolf Laban Award (Critics Award for Rókatündérek), 2006
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Gyula Harangozó Award (State Award for Artistic Achievement), 1997
Hol Talalkozhatsz velem?
The body as a mirror movement, presence and self-knowledge
Everness Fesztivál 2026
Tuesday, 2026-06-23., 15:30 - 16:45
Awareness
Gábor Goda
Weight Flow Contact Workshop
Everness Fesztivál 2026
Tuesday, 2026-06-23., 09:30 - 11:30
Deep immersion
Gábor Goda
Weight Flow Contact is a method that helps us experience ourselves and our human relationships as harmonious, deep, sensitive, joyful and real, in a word, qualitative. The key is to be able to decide for ourselves how we experience our lives.
The term weight refers primarily to the body, to our present physical self. Weight means the force with which the body is attracted to the Earth. This is gravity. We have weight because we have a body and we live on the Earth. Weight therefore means that we live here on Earth in our bodies, and this is one of the most defining pillars of our present human reality.
Flow is a quality related to movement, the ever-changing process of life and its free and joyful experience. Flow here means to consciously and yet spontaneously direct our actions in accordance with the laws of nature, in harmony with constant change, to be present in our own lives in a spasm-free flow, in every moment. Flow is therefore the quality of active Presence in the Now.
Contact refers to human relationships. We are all constantly connected to each other. This is one of the unavoidable cornerstones of human life, of humanity. We deal with relationships on three levels: my relationship with myself, my relationship with someone else and my relationship with the world.
You will get a taste of this in this two-hour workshop in the Deep Immersion Tent.
