Aleksandar Josipović

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

Aleksandar Josipović
Josipović in 2014
Personal details
Born	(1981-01-15) 15 January 1981 (age 44) Lazarevac, Yugoslavia

Biography

Aleksandar Josipović was born on 15 January 1981 in Lazarevac, Yugoslavia, (now Serbia). 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.^[1][2] He holds both French and Serbian citizenship.^{[citation needed]}

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, France. He completed postdoctoral studies in 'dance movement therapy' at the Codarts Academy, Rotterdam, The Netherlands from 2006-2007, and completed a diploma in Neuro-linguistic programming and UCSC, United States^[3] 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.^[4]

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.^[5][6][7]

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 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 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.^[8][9]

Josipović performed as master of ceremonies at the second semi-final of Eurovision Song Contest 2008.^[10][11]

He was one of the judges in the Serbian edition of 'Dancing with the Stars'.^[12][13][14]

Living in Dubai since 2015, Josipović has been a marketing director and consultant.^[15][16]

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 UNESCO, such as the first book in Serbia on topic of dancing pedagogy called, 'Let's dance - new methods in dancing pedagogy,^[17] basics of dancing 'Are you up for a dance?'^[18] and 'Life's a game, so play smart'.^[19] He gave all the income from publishing his fourth book 'Secret body language'^[20] for humanitarian cause for people who were imperiled due to floods that have occurred across Serbia and Bosnia in 2014.^[21][22]