Csaba Molnár

Csaba Molnár is a Budapest-based dance performer and choreographer. He completed his studies at the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy and at P.A.R.T.S. After graduating, he joined the Florence-based Compagnia Virgilio Sieni as a performer. Upon returning to Budapest, he began collaborating with HODWORKS, while increasingly focusing on developing his own artistic creations, both independently and in collaboration with numerous Hungarian artists.

Many of his works have received the Lábán Rudolf Prize and have been presented within the Aerowaves network. Alongside his own artistic practice, he has created commissioned works for EN-Knap Group, Tanzmainz, Sub-Lab Pro, and the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy. As a choreographic assistant and creative partner to Adrienn Hód, he has worked with Unusual Symptoms and Helsinki Dance Company.

From time to time, he is involved as both choreographer and performer in theatre productions by Kornél Mundruczó(Proton Theatre), Csaba Polgár, and Dollár Pál és Gyermekei.

Art, for me, is a tool for reconciling radical extremes and for exploring how different modes of expression, when juxtaposed, can transform deeply private phenomena into a universal and liberating experience. Recently, this inquiry has taken shape in an ongoing series of works centered around my alter ego, Nicole Clore, which marks a more concentrated engagement with presence, instinct, and self-alignment in my practice.
In these works, I consciously split myself in two, entering into a collaborative process with Nicole Clore. This division is not a fictional device, but a deliberate artistic practice through which authorship, agency, and decision-making are redistributed. By working with Nicole rather than performing as her, I create a space in which action can feel more genuine, presence more precise, and expression more deeply aligned.
At the heart of this collaboration lies a central question: how can I return to a way of creating in which action feels authentic, presence remains grounded, and expression becomes truly self-aligned? Instinct and intuition play a crucial role in this process—subtle, often hidden inner movements that guide the direction of the work. Equally important is the conscious recognition of these impulses, allowing them to surface and actively inform the creation rather than being suppressed.
Through a multidisciplinary practice spanning choreography, dance, performance art, teaching, costume design, bouffon, singing, and drag, the Nicole Clore works open portals to queered versions of reality. Motifs from high and pop culture, clichés, and archetypal images flow freely into one another, governed by a dreamlike logic that loosens the coercive force of norms and conventions, creating space for humor, play, and creative freedom.
Over time, this body of work has evolved into a Theatre of the Self—an inner laboratory in which creation, self-reflection, instinct, and intuition remain in continuous dialogue, and where each new gesture becomes an act of continuously reinterpreting myself and the world I inhabit.