Szasza Rab was born in 1993, Pécs, Hungary. As a child, she loved to dance, debuting in hip-hop, breakdance, and modern dance performances. She completed her professional studies in contemporary dance, ballet, folk dance, and choreography, at the Contemporary Dance School in Budapest, Hungary. She went on to study at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD), where she advanced her choreography and dance skills. Deeply interested in deciphering emotions and human behaviour, she decided to study psychology, receiving her BA in psychology in 2018, at the University of Pécs, and her MA in social psychology at ELTE, Budapest, in 2020.

 

During her academic studies, Szasza Rab was an actress and dancer in various plays at the Janus University Theatre. Moreover, she, along with a collaborator, Flora Veres, organised two International Dance Day Festivals in Pécs, Hungary, where they aimed at connecting locals with contemporary dance.

 

In 2018, she gained the Zoltán Imre performance grant from the National Cultural Fund. Her award solo “I speak about it” is built on the phases of trauma processing that she uncovered in her BA diploma work “Trauma processing through art”. She is currently an L1 Association member. 

 

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Dance externalizes the innermost secrets of the mind, capturing each meaning with a particular body movement, and communicating a message on stage.  Szasza Rab’s work is honest and brave. Uniquely pulsating, playful, improvised, and truthful about the subject, with a proposed resolution for the body and mind.