The IKF (Young Choreographers Forum) is a new talent development and research programme, whose primary aim is to improve the opportunities for young choreographers and to empower young choreographers. Recent experience shows that artists applying for their first piece receive less support than before, if any at all.

Central European Dance Theatre has embarked on a new strategy to continue working with the youngest artists. The IKF's open competition offers young choreographers the opportunity to create. The winners will have the opportunity to work with KET dancers for a week, followed by a public performance and demonstration in a theatre setting at the end of the week.

Gabriella Pálfi won the Autumn 2013 showcase.

In her play, Gabriella Pálfi explores human relationships and the moral questions of life, which are not about the usual male-female relationship, but rather about the fact that all people are schizophrenic, we all long for freedom from the daily treadmill or we all run away from change. Some people are easily given the path to change and take it, but there are also those who take the easy way out, unable to escape the cloak of expectations and principles that are placed upon them.

Supported by the Imre Zoltán Programme of the National Cultural Fund.