Csaba Molnár is a performer and choreographer based in Budapest. He began his professional training at the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy, after which he completed a two-year program at P.A.R.T.S in Brussels. Soon afterward, he joined the Italian Compagnia Virgilio Sieni, and in 2010, he became a member of the Hungarian company Hodworks.
Besides his active dancing career since 2008, as a choreographer, he has created works individually and in artistic collaborations. He was commissioned to create work for EN- KNAP Group (Ljubljana), TanzMainz (Mainz), Studio Alta (Prague), Unusual Symptoms-Theater Bremen (Bremen), Sub.Lab.Pro (Budapest). He is the co-creator of seven pieces that have been granted the annual Rudolf Lábán Prize for the best contemporary dance performance of the season in Hungary: Bloom!: City(2011), Dányi-Molnár-Vadas: Skin Me(2014), Tropical Escape (2016), Masterwork(2020), Game Changer(2022), Harmonia (2023). Many of his works have been presented internationally: City, Skin Me, Tropical Escape have been presented at Abrons Arts Center in New York City. Tropical Escape was awarded the prize of “The best foreign performance of the season” in Copenhagen in 2018. He was an artist in residence at Movement Research (New York), Headlands Arts Center (San Francisco), The Royal Opera House (London), Studio Alta (Prague) and Unlock Dancing Plaza (Hongkong). In his work, he strives for reconciling radical extremes. His main interest is to explore how different ways of expression, when juxtaposed, may transform the most private phenomena of human life into a universal and liberating theatrical experience. Lately, with his teacher alter ego Nicole Clore he explores and questions power dynamics, dance and body aesthetics, and hierarchy within the dance education system.
