He utilizes the energy found in sign language, used primarily by the deaf and the hard of hearing, and has earned his place in the annals of Hungarian dance history and indeed international recognition by developing a new movement language extremely specific to his work. Pál Frenák ( Figure 1) is one of the most exciting contemporary dance choreographers of our time, a dancer/choreographer who defines the very basis of the development of contemporary dance in Hungary. In this paper, I am going to display some essential inspirations of the fantastically creative art world of Frenák. This was my feeling when I wrote and published my book on Frenák in 2022, entitled L’abécédaire of Pál Frenák-Transverses Between Philosophy and the Organic Movement Language of FrenÁk (Published in Hungarian and in English in one book: Frenák Pál Abécédaire-je-Átjárások a filozófia és FrenÁk organikus mozgásnyelve között, Kortárs Táncért és Jelelő Színházért Alapítvány, Budapest, 2022). When it seems that everything points in the same direction and everything is about the same topic, it is time to create a trace. My work as a philosopher with dance and the conversations with Frenák opened new pathways to self-knowledge. When researching and collecting the inspirational material, I experienced impressions that affected my other works as well. I assisted in the creation of the productions Cage (2019), Spid_er (2020), Fig_Ht (2021) and Secret Off_Man (2022) as a philosophical consultant. We started to work together some years ago. I have known Frenák’s choreographies for almost twenty years, and since 2017, I have been regularly presenting discussions at domestic and international conferences regarding studies of the aesthetic and philosophical aspects of Frenák’s work.
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