Yvette Bozsik

Born in 1968, Szolnok, Hungary

Yvette Bozsik's artistic career developed from a tension between her training as a classical dancer and her mental/intellectual frame. Right from the beginning, she has felt the traditional and closed system of ballet, with all its stereotypes, a constraint to be surmounted. The break-through came for her at the age of seventeen, as a ballet school student, when she already started to create independent avant-garde productions. Although she obtained her diploma as a professional ballet dancer, and was for years the leading dancer of a classical ballet company, she lived a double life all through. The founding of her first independent company, Természetes Vészek Kollektíva (Collective of Natural Disasters), signified her commitment to alternative art. The Collective realised numerous performances and won success both in Hungary and internationally.

Subsequently, Bozsik left the group and founded a new independent company, Yvette Bozsik Company. Her productions have become more and more professional and open towards the audience. This is evidenced by the fact that she received the most prestigious Hungarian dance awards. Her international success is marked by the International Critics' Award of the Edinburgh Festival she received three times, The Herald's Angel Award for Excellence, as well as The Independent's Theatre Award.

Based on her international success, she has had opportunity to work with internationally renowned performers, such as the singer Diamanda Gallas, or the actor-musician John Lurie whose saxophone solo was especially recorded for Bozsik's solo dance.

Yvette Bozsik is a creative artist, with original ideas to be developed by her co-authors. Her unique talent has been combined with experience gained from a long artistic career, which is a token of a continued quest of her own ways, new challenges and answers to the questions we all of pose.

Since 2000 works as a lecturer at the Hungarian Dance Academy, since 2008 professor and head of the Department of Choreography.