Aleksandar Josipović (born 15 January 1981) is a French-Serbian former dancer, author, and marketing consultant.

Biography

Aleksandar Josipović was born on 15 January 1981 in

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, (now

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). His dancing career began at the age of 9. He won nine national championships in ballroom dancing, he was a finalist in the Golden World Cup (England) and a semifinalist in the World Cup (Hungary). He has danced and performed for many royal families, as well as for the presidents of some countries. He holds both French and Serbian citizenship.

Education and work

Josipović studied at the Mathematics Faculty of University of Belgrade from 2000-2002. From 2005-2009 he studied at the Centre national de la Danse,

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

, France. He completed postdoctoral studies in 'dance movement therapy' at the Codarts Academy,

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, The Netherlands from 2006-2007, and completed a diploma in

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and UCSC, United States from 2008-2009. Josipović has worked as a consultant and a marketing manager since 2002. He worked on projects across media, fashion, show business, hosting, production, culture and education across France, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Netherlands, Finland, United States, Spain, Latvia, Russia, Italy, Belgium, and Austria. During the period from 2013-2015, he was the director of Professional Department and Training Process at National Foundation for Dance and has organized international dancing seminars in Serbia.

Career

After spending 11 years in a dancing club in Lazarevac, in 2001, Josipović received an invitation to dance in China in the French

cabaret Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music song, dance, recitation, or drama. The performance venue might be a pub, casino, hotel, restaurant, or nightclub with a stage for performances. The audience, often dining or drinking, ...

show Paris Paradis. During the next year and with the support of a choreographer Clodet Wolker, he soon began to gather information on

Moulin Rouge Moulin Rouge (, ; ) is a cabaret in Paris, on Boulevard de Clichy, at Place Blanche, the intersection of, and terminus of Rue Blanche. In 1889, the Moulin Rouge was co-founded by Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller, who also owned the Olympia (Par ...

audition. He was accepted in cabaret after a three-hour audition. He performed as a soloist there for a decade. He is the only man from Serbia that has ever played on Moulin Rouge stage. Josipović performed as master of ceremonies at the second semi-final of

Eurovision Song Contest 2008 The Eurovision Song Contest 2008 was the 53rd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Belgrade, Serbia, following the country's victory at the with the song "" by Marija Šerifović. Organised by the European Broadcasting Unio ...

. He was one of the judges in the Serbian edition of '

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'. Living in

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since 2015, Josipović has been a marketing director and consultant.

Books

Known as the author of works in European lifestyle magazines, he is also an author of four books of which some are under the auspices of

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, such as the first book in Serbia on topic of dancing pedagogy called, , basics of dancing '' and ''. He gave all the income from publishing his fourth book '' for humanitarian cause for people who were imperiled due to floods that have occurred across Serbia and Bosnia in 2014.RTS , Aleksandar Josipović
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References

External links

Official website
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