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1968 BORN IN HUNGARY 1978 GAINED ENTRY TO THE ACADEMY OF BALLET IN BUDAPEST 1988 GRADUATED AT THE ACADEMY 1993 SHE FOUNDED HER OWN COMPANY CALLED "COMPAGNIE YVETTE BOZSIK" . SHE WAS CHOSEN TO BE THE CHOREOGRAPHER OF THE 'KATONA JÓZSEF THEATRE' IN BUDAPEST. SHE PERFORMS HER OWN REPERTORY WITH 'COMPAGNIE YVETTE BOZSIK' AT THIS THEATRE. "In all of my dances I work extensively with visual artists. It is very important for me not only to make dances, but to give an idea of the theatre. I don't believe in words , I believe in movements , in gestures, in eyes. You can see it in Oriental dance, which I love. It's very concentrated , very meditative and very expressive at the same time . For me, the eye of the dancer is even more important than the body." [Quelle: http://magyartancfesztival.hu/en/bozsik.php] Yvette Bozsik, the founder of The Company, belongs to the exceptional figures of the Hungarian contemporary dance scene. Since 1986, each of her performances has been regarded a special event by dance professionals, and for a considerable time, the larger audience has also been familiar with her name and works. By now she has become an inescapable phenomenon of the Hungarian art scene. 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. 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. [Quelle: http://tanctalalkozo.hu/main.php?lang=ENG&disp=szinhaz&ID=56&ev=2008]