Elek Tibor Szolt

Born in 1971 in Hungary. He studied at the Hungarian Dance Academy as classical ballet dancer from1983 to 1991.
He started his career as a ballet dancer in the ballet company of the Hungarian State Opera House.  From 1993 to 1996 he was a ballet dancer at the Wiener Volksoper – Austria.

In 1997 he moved to Italy, where he soon became a solo dancer in the Astra Roma Ballet company(1997-2000) and  in Balleto di Roma.
During his years in Italy he was a founding member and teacher of the Centro Culturale Danza Ballet School until 2001.

In 2005, he joined the choir of the Győr National Theatre in Hungary and worked as a ballet master at the Győr School of Dance and Fine Arts, and since 2012 as the school’s head of practical training. In 2008 he founded the Classical Ballet Schools in Komarno – Slovakia where he made many choreographies for kids and coorporeted with the young Actor company, where he made choreografies for the Company. He founded two other ballet schools in two other towns in Slovakia. These schools were operated between 2008 and 2018.

He obtained a Master’s degree in Classical Ballet Pedagogy from the Hungarian Dance Academy in 2013.
He has been Ballet Master at the Ballettakademie der Wiener Staatsoper since 2016
He has represented the Academy as a jury member at several ballet competitions and has taught ballet courses as a guest ballet master for the Miskolc Ballet and Győr Ballet in Hungary, in Malta.
As a guest ballet master he has taught  summer course in Piran- Slovenia, Sibiu-Romania, Belgrade, Pančevo-Serbia, Corfu – Greece,   Balletto di Roma Italy and the Hungarian Dance University. 

In 2024 He was awarded the Hungarian Silver Cross of Merit by the President of the Republic of Hungary in recognition of his successful artistic work for Hungarian Dance.