Yvette Bozsik Company
Yvette Bozsik
Yvette Bozsik
Born in 1968, Szolnok, Hungary
2003-2007 Hungarian Dance Academy, Choreographer Degree
from 2000 teaches at the Hungarian Dance Academy
from 1993 The Yvette Bozsik Company, Artistic Director
from 1993 Director-Choreographer of Katona József Theatre
1988-1992 Ballet Dancer of Budapest Operetta Theatre
1978-1988 Hungarian Dance Academy, Ballet Dancer Degree
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.
Subsequently, Bozsik left the group and founded a new independent company, Compagnie Yvette Bozsik. 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.
Awards of Yvette Bozsik and The Company
2008
Main Prize - Souldance - XI. Veszprém National Dance Festival
Glass Mountain Prize - Petruska and Pulcinella - Kaposvár Children's Theatre Biennale
2006
Kossuth Award - Highest Cultural Hungarian State Award
Pro Meritis - Award of Veszprém, Veszprém Festival
2005
Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic, Official Cross
Best director - Capitano Award - Nyíregyháza/Vidor Festival
2004
Best Choreographer in Hungary
2003
French Legion of Honour - Ministry of French Culture and Communication
2002
Imre Zoltán Award, Hungary
Best Performance, Veszprém Festival - L'Apres-Midi D'Un Faun
Best Actress - in the film, Blind Guys/ Filmfestival, Bulgaria
Fringe First Award, Edinburgh Festival - Double Trouble
Special Award of Vastaps Foundation, Dadaists
2001
Merited Artist of the Hungarian Republic
Pro Cultura Urbis - Budapest Prize
2000
Cosmopolitan Award - The Best Dancer of the Year
1998
Hevesi Sándor Award, Hungary
1997
Total Theatre Award for the Best Use of Design, Edinburgh Festival - Hommage á Mary Wigman
1996
International Critics' Award, Edinburgh Festival - Kafka Pieces
Special Award of Torun Theatre Festival, The Yellow Wallpaper
1995
International Critics' Award, Edinburgh Festival - The Yellow Wallpaper
The Herald's Angel Award for Excellence
1994
Harangozó Gyula Award, Hungary
1993
International Critics' Award, Edinburgh Festival - Soirée
Scotland on Sunday's Award for Best Dance Performance
The Independent's Award for Theatre
Members of The Yvette Bozsik Company
Yvette Bozsik
Alíz Krausz
Tímea Fülöp
Samantha Kettle
Dóra Hasznos
Szabolcs Gombai
Tamás Vati
Szabolcs Vislóczki
Festival appearances of The Yvette Bozsik Company
Edinburgh Festival (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2002)
Hampstead Theatre, London (1993)
Budapest - Vienna Festival (1994)
Budapest - Copenhagen Festival (1994)
Mayfest, Glasgow (1995)
Lausanne Festival (1995)
Moscow International Dance Festival (1995)
Bolzano Festival (1995)
International Theatre Festival, Torun (1996)
Tanzfest, Berlin (1996)
Festival Solos et Duos, Seine-Saint-Denis (1996)
Gothenburg Theatre and Dance Festival (1996)
Theatre of Nations Festival, Seoul (1997)
Dance Theatre Workshop, New York (1998)
Mittelfest, Cividale (1998)
Jena (1998, 1999)
Munich (1999)
Berlin (1999)
Kirkcudbright Arts Festival, Scotland (1998)
Sitges (1999)
Prague (1999)
Moutier, Neuchatel, Geneva (2000)
Lausanne Festival (2000)
New York (2000)
Bologna (2001)
Divan du Monde, Paris (2001)
Apritiscena Festival, Crema (2001)
Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing (2001)
Studio-S, Bratislava (2002)
Figura Festival, Transylvania (2002, 2003, 2004)
EU Integration, Brussels (2004)
Teatro Carignano, Torino (2004)
Paris, Creil (2005)
Johvi, Tartu, Tallin (2006)
dance.movement.theater Festival, Gheorgheni (2006)
Glitterbird Project - Hungarian Institute, Paris (2006)
Cologne (2007)
Ion Dacian Teatr Opereta - Bucharest (2007)
Choreographies
1992 The Maids - Szeged Ballet
1992 Kafka Pieces - Szeged Ballet
1993 The Villies - Szeged Ballet
1993 Soirée - Katona József Theatre, Kamra
1994 Hungarian rock - Central Europe Dance Theatre
1994 The Countess - Katona József Theatre, Kamra
1995 Bartók Evening (The Miraculous Mandarin, Two Portraits) - Katona József Theatre
1995 The Yellow Wallpaper - Petőfi Csarnok
1996 The Wedding - Central Europe Dance Theatre
1996 Emi - solo piece, Műcsarnok, Museum of the Modern Art
1996 Xtabay - Petőfi Csarnok
1997 Trois Hommages (In memoriam Isadora Duncan; Honour to Martha; Hommage á Mary Wigman) - Katona József Theatre
1997 L'Apres-Midi D'Un Faune - Katona József Theatre
1999 Stravinsky Evening (Le Sacre du Printemps; It's Autumn Now...) -Katona József Theatre
2000 Double Trouble - Trafó
2000 Ito and Sayuri - with Pál Frenák, Trafó
2002 The Prophet of Light - Millenáris Teatrum
2003 Bacchanalia - Katona József Theatre, Kamra
2003 Group Therapy - Trafó
2004 Dance Therapy - Trafó
2004 Ball, or the Rejoicing Dance - National Dance Theatre
2005 Fiery Angel - Trafó
2005 Ladder Tales - National Dance Theatre
2005 Four Seasons - Kolibri Theatre
2006 Miss Julie - Trafó
2006 The Magic Flute - National Dance Theatre, The Palace of Arts
2007 Magic Circus - National Dance Theatre, The Palace of Arts
2008 Les Noces - with the National Ballet, Hungarian National Opera
Directions
1998 Cabaret - Kamra Theatre
2000 John, the Valiant Knight - Katona József Theatre
2001 Dadaists - Kamra
2002 Romeo and Juliet - Trafó (co-director: Vilmos Vajdai)
2002 Vagina Monologues - Thália Theatre
2002 Animal Fram - Katona József Theatre
2004 Commedia dell'Arte - Kamra Theatre
2006 Turandot Public Bath - Kamra Theatre
2006 Cabaret - Constanta National Theatre, Romania
2007 Ball, or the Rejoicing Dance - Ion Dacian Teatr Opereta in Bucharest, Romania
2007 Playground - Katona József Theatre
2007 Petruska and Pulcinella - Kolibri Theatre
2008 Souldance - Budapest Spring Festival, Millenaris Teatrum
Appearance and Choreographies in Films
1994 Caligula, directed by: Sándor Cs. Nagy (leading role)
2000 Blind Guys, directed by: Péter Tímár (leading role and choreographer)
2000 The Miraculous Mandarin, directed by: Márta Mészáros (leading role and choreographer)
2000-2005 Extasy, directed by: Yvette Bozsik and Erik Novák
2003 Yvette Bozsik (portrait film), directed by: Attila Janisch
2007-2008 The Nutcracker - The Untold Story, directed by: Andrei Konchalovsky, choreographed by: Stuart Hopps (assistant-chooreographer)
Collaborations
1988 Duet with Hervé Diasnas in Budapest and Paris
1990 Collaboration with Da Motus (Switzerland) for the Belluard Festival, Fribourg
1992 Choreography of the opera, André Chenier at Szeged National Theatre
1992 Meeting - duet with Robin Blackledge (UK) in Liverpool and Budapest
1993 Choreography of My Fair Lady at Szeged National Theatre
1993 Choreography residency in Angers - CNDC - Pepinier Residency
1994 Choreography of Béla Bartók's Wooden Prince with Péter Halász, Iván Fischer and the Festival Orchestra, in Budapest and Munich
1994 Master class at Kingston University, UK
1995 Choreography and leading role of Medea in Copenhagen (Theatre Dance Lab production) with Diamanda Gallas
1995 Co-directing with Sacha Hails, English actress, The Yellow Wallpaper, in Budapest and Edinburgh
1996 Dance- and Theatre Festival, Gothenburg, master class
1998 Kirkcudbright Arts Festival, Scotland, workshop
1998 Collaboration with Fabienne Berger (Switzerland) for the Autumn Festival at Trafó, in Budapest
2000 Nosferatu org with Péter Halász at Trafó, in Budapest
2000 Dance and painting exhibition with Erik Novák, Extasy at Műcsarnok, Budapest
2002 Master class and workshop in Edinburgh Dancebase
2002 Choreography of Mozart's Idomeneo at the Opera Garnier, directed by Iván Fischer, in Paris
2004 Collaboration with DEREVO, Purple in Budapest
2005 Choreography of Bizet's Carmen at Szeged National Theatre
2005 Choreography of the musical, Nine at Békéscsaba Jókai Theatre
2005 Four Seasons - theatre for babies - Glitterbird (EU project), Budapest, Oslo, Paris
2006 Workshop in Tallin, Estonia
2006 Collaboration with DEREVO, Levity & Gravity at Merlin Theatre, Budapest
