Attila Tókos

Dancer, choreographer. Soloist of the Hungarian National Dance Ensemble, also working as a choreographer. He is a Viktor Fülöp bursar, in 2014 he has got the Season’s Best Male Dancer and Junior Príma Award, in 2017 honoured with the Bronze Cross of Merit of Hungarian Republic and in 2018 with the Gyula Harangozó Award. Born in 1984 in the Transylvanian city of Baraolt, he graduated as dancer (and later as pedagogue) at Hungarian Dance Academy. Mainly interested in self-expression as a dancer, but he feels creation the closest to his personality. 

The aim of his work: to implement the breakout from the frames of traditional folk dance with the abstract games of the formal elements; the variation and collision of motions liberated from their original functions; unequivocally to define new directions, new characteristics in Hungarian art of dance.