gyula cserepes (b. 1986, Senta, former Yugoslavia) is a choreographer, performer, and pedagogue based in Marseille since 2024. Born into a Hungarian-speaking family, he began dancing at the age of eight. He trained in traditional Hungarian dance at the Fóti Népművészeti Szakközép- és Szakiskola before studying contemporary dance at the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy (BA, 2019; MEd in Dance Pedagogy, 2022).
He was a member of Central-Europe Dance Theatre before joining En-Knap Group in Ljubljana (2008–2012). Over the following years he performed internationally with the Swiss-based Cie József Trefeli (Creature, UP, JINX 103) and Cie Philippe Saire (Vacuum, NEONS, Actéon), and worked with Jérôme Bel (Gala, 2017; Jérôme Bel, 2023) and HODWORKS (The way my father imagined it all, 2014), touring from Brazil to Iran, Australia to South Korea. He has also appeared on screen, in László Nemes Jeles's Son of Saul (2014) and Sunset (2017), and Mona Fastvold's The Testament of Ann Lee (2025).
He has authored his own work continuously since 2012, beginning with New Age Gypsies (PTL Ljubljana, 2013) and including Fonó-Dó (Atelier 21220, 2022; supported by NKA, the Imre Zoltán Program, and SÍN) and sevenTHseven (2022), a seven-hour solo concluding a rhythm-research cycle begun in 2014. His recent work includes ULTRA WHITE (2025), a duet with Lola Kervroëdan premiered at MU Színház Budapest, and Seagulls Fly Early (2025), a site-specific walking piece created with Bojana Robinson, premiered in Ljubljana and touring Slovenia in 2026. His work builds movement vocabulary from rhythm, repetition, duration, and labor, treating choreography as one compositional element among light, sound, space, and time.
Since 2021 he has also led Táncra Fel! / Join the Dance, a participatory dance project for 30 to 200+ participants, presented recurrently at Sziget Festival.
He has taught since 2007, developing Lizard Beats, a method combining Hungarian folk rhythm with contemporary coordination training, formalized in his 2022 MA thesis. He has held an ongoing teaching post at the University of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest since 2018, and has taught at International Dance Week Budapest and in workshops in Brussels, Bern, Lausanne, Bristol, Moscow, Johannesburg, Riga, Oaxaca, and Colmars-les-Alpes.
His work has been presented and supported at venues and residencies including MU Színház and SÍN Arts Centre (Budapest), Hrvatski Kulturni Dom na Sušaku (Rijeka), CoFestival (Ljubljana), Záhrada CNK (Banská Bystrica), and ImPulsTanz/DanceWEB (Vienna).
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