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Director |
Ceyhun Ozsoy, Director
Mr. Ozsoy has danced major roles in such ballets as Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, La Fille Mal Gardee, Les Patineurs, Les Rendezvous, Les Sylphides, Pineapple Pole, Orpheous, Judith, La Valse, Tommy, Paquita, Romeo & Juliet, Konservatoriet, Don Quixote, Coppelia, Pas de Quatre (for four men), Glazunov Suite, and many more operas and musicals. Mr. Ozsoy came to the United States in 1982 and taught master classes and choreographed ballets around the country. He served as Ballet Master for eight years with Delta Festival Ballet in New Orleans. He is currently teaching at Texas Christian University and Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts as part time faculty. He is also on the full time faculty at Joffrey Ballet School's summer program in New York City. In the spring of 2001, Mr. Ozsoy was named Distinguished Teacher of the Year by the Presidential Scholars Program. He and his family moved to Duncanville and founded Ozsoy School of Ballet in 1990. His son Firat Kazbek Ozsoy, was a member of the Houston Ballet Company.
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At
the age of ten, he was accepted as a boarding student at the Government
Conservatory in Ankara, Turkey. He studied nine years under the
co-direction of Molly Lake and Travis Kemp. Upon graduation, he joined the
Ankara National Ballet Company. While dancing as a soloist, he earned his
college degree as a professional ballet
teacher from Hacettepe University. By invitation of Dame
Ninette de Valois, he studied with the Royal
Ballet Company in London, then danced with
the Bayarische Staats Oper Company in Munich, Germany. Subsequently, he
continued his professional career with Ankara National Ballet Company
as a principal dancer and later as Ballet Master. 