The meanings of the notion of transversality in the art of Pál Frenák

Abstract

I would like to display the artistic world of a famous Hungarian Dance choreographer (Pál Frenák) who has a special and deep spiritual connection to Gilles Deleuze for forty years. He did not use the philosophers’s works as references in his choreographical work but he thinks in Deleuzian notions. Transversality has become an aesthetic (and ethical) criterion in his work, the necessity of which he mentions often. Pál Frenák is one of the most exciting contemporary dance choreographers, a dancer who defines the very basis of the development of contemporary dance in Hungary. He utilizes the energy in the sign language used by the deaf and the hard of hearing, and earned his place in the annals of Hungarian dance history and international recognition by developing a new language of movement.