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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 Ballet master of the prestigious Stuttgart 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 John Neumeier, all the repertoire of John Cranko, 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, Natalia Makarova, 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 Richard Cragun. 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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