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From 1974-1980, Mr. Comelin was the artistic director of the Milwaukee Ballet. In 1980 Mr. Comelin was invited by Ar- tistic Director Marcia Haydee to be of the prestigious Bal- let, where he created two New works for the company, Saltarello and Overtones and supervised Jiri Kilian's creation of "Forgotten Land" , Lady of the Camellias of , all the repertoire of , Maurice Bejart and the Classics. Jean-Paul Comelin As Artistic Director of Ballet du Nord in French-born and US resident, chore- France, he created several works each ographer, director and master teacher year. An original work on Christopher Masterclass Jean-Paul Comelin has long been as- Columbus, a new version of the Nut- sociated with the world's most promi- cracker, a new version of the Firebird, a with nent ballet companies, and some of collaboration with painter Majhoub Ben the greatest names in the dance world Bella, and the Mozart Requiem, ( Lux of the 20th century. Aeterna ) were the most successful of his Jean-Paul works, at home and on tour. He organ- Jean-Paul Comelin joined the Paris Op- ized tours in the United States, Europe, Comelin era Ballet in 1956 and went on to South America, Asia and the former So- dance with London Festival Ballet, the viet Union. National Ballet of Washington and the Pennsylvania Ballet as a principal Mr. Comelin has worked with such nota- International dancer. He has also appeared as a ble dancers as Margot Fonteyn, Yvette guest artist with the Australian Ballet, chauvire Nina Novak Rudolf Nureyev, Ballet Master performed with the Royal New Zealand Michail Baryshnikov, , Ballet, and was coached by George Lawrence Rhodes, Carla Fracci, Claire and Balanchine in several of his own bal- Sombert Marylin Burr, Svetlana Beri- lets. osiava, Claire Motte John Gipin, Marcia Choreographer Haydee . Mr. Comelin choreograph his first Bal- let, Autumn Songs for the National Today Mr. Comelin continues choreo- ballet of Canada for Ballerinas Veron- graphing, directing, lecturing and teach- Sunday ica Tennant and Karen Kain. He then ing around the world, and as a consult- November 30th proceeded to create over sixty works ant in the development of dance in Viet- for companies on five continent. nam, South Africa, Singapore Korea, Philippines, Taiwan, Japan and offers As Artistic Director/Producer/Teacher master classes and create original chore- 12:30-2:30PM he built company and schools in San ography in Paris, Basel ,Nyon Zurich, Diego, Sacramento, Milwaukee, Tuc- Dallas Chicago, Phoenix, Richmond Uni- son, and Phoenix, where he was the versity and SMU. first Artistic Director Ballet Arizona.

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