Stéphen Delattre
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Stéphen Delattre Fontanestrasse 28 Artistic Director, Founder 55127 Mainz (Germany) and House Choreographer Delattre Dance Company Mobile: +49 (0)174 51 75 229 Email: [email protected] Webpage: www.delattredance.com FB: www.facebook.com/delattre.dancecompany Date of birth: 24th May 1982 Nationality: French The Delattre Dance Company (2012 - 2020) Mr. Delattre founded the Delattre Dance Company in 2012 with an ensemble of six dancers with their first project evening eXchange at the Mainzer Kamerspiele Theater. At this time, as well as directing and choreographing, Mr. Delattre was also performing as an artist of the ensemble. From these humble beginnings, and together with Martin Opelt the company’s executive director, the company has grown to an ensemble of twelve dancers together with the Delattre Dance Juniors, a further eight dance artists. The DDC remains one of the very few highly succesful privately run and led dance institutions in Germany and perhaps the only of its artistic level and scope to exist without a supporting prodution home or garaunteed operating budget and only the most minimal of government subsidies. The company is busy planning its upcoming 10th anniversary season and can now look back on the impressive accomplishments of these first nine years together: • The Company has presented 20 full eveneing dance productions and one celebration Gala for its ever growing and passionate dance audience in Mainz. • From these evenings Mr. Delattre has created 37 one act pieces for the companies repertoire and invited 24 choreographic guests to share the evening with him the likes of; Marco Goecke, Jörge Mannes, Bridget Breiner, Kenneth Tindall, Maurice Causey and Regina van Berkel. • Mr. Delattre has created four full-length narrative ballets that have established him as one of the new generation of dance story-tellers and been the calling card of the companies European touring. Alice in Wonderland, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Notre Dame de Paris, and Momo will be joined by a new story ballet in the planning for next Fall. • The company has slowly increased its audience base an astonishing 400+% in its short time, and averages an impressive 93.7% attendance at its home theater the Mainzer Kammerspiele. • The DDC is a favorite of the German Gala circuit appearing as a featured guest in Galas such as; Gauthier and Friends Dance Gala, and the Galas of the theater ensembles of Munich, Hagen, Koblenz, Waiblingen, Giessen, among others. • The DDC was named the official house ensemble of the Landestheater Detmold for the 2019-2020 Season. Our newest full-evening production Shakespeare in Motion was a result of this collabation. Mr. Delattre new works WILL.I.AM and Othello were completed by Jörg Mannes’ A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream for this triple-bill together with the Orchesta of the Landestheater Detmold. • The leadership team of Mr. Delattre and Mr. Opelt manage this prolific artistic output without the infrastructure of a theater to support them. All duties that would normally fall on departments for dramaturgy, fund-raising, marketing, press, develop, and eductation are accomplished from their hands alone. A daunting challenge, but one that they manage to none-the-less deliver in the expected style and flair that the Delattre Dance Company is known for. As a Freelance Choreographer (2002 - 2020) Mr. Delattre has enjoyed creating works for many notable ensembles throughout the world and in his base country, Germany. Among them are National Ballet Split (Croatia), National Modern Dance Company Ankara (Turkey), Dance Company State Theater Kielce (Poland), International Dance Festival Busan (Korea), Staatsoper Ballett Hanover, Ballett des Staatstheater Mainz, Ballett des Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrucken, Ballet Augsburg, Tanzkompanie Staatstheater Braunshweig, Gallus Theater Frankfurt, Ballett Hagen, Ballett Koblenz (All in Germany). Stéphen has also recently forayed into the genre of Musicals with his choregraphy for Das Sherlock Musical for which he was lauded by the critics. Mr. Delattre has been commissoined to make Gala repertoire for star dancers around the world including principles from the Paris Opera Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, English National Ballet, Semperoper Ballett and Staatstheater Karlsruhe. Next to professional companies he has also taught, choached, led workshops and choreographed with prestigeous dance academies such as the Elmhurst Young Ballet in Birmingham (England), National Dance Academy Beijing (China), Conservatoire National Supérieur de Danse Lyon, the Ecole Supérieure de Danse Cannes and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Danse Marseille (All France). To see more of Stéphen Delattre’s choreographic work we invite you to check out the Delattre Dance Company’s website, Facebook page (both listed above), or to visit his Vimeo choreographic library at https://vimeo.com/delattredance. Upon request trailers, photos, and information can be sent regarding most evenings and many of the individual works. Body of Choreographic Works 2002 to present 2020 Shakespeare in Motion - Triple-bill theme evening for Landestheater Detmold with Orchestra, featuring two new commissions a compact telling of Othello and a biographical work WILL.I.AM 2020 Alice in Wonderland - Creation for Mainzer Kammerspiele Theater, full-evening story ballet based on the novel by Lewis Carroll 2019 DepenDance - DDC Production of the Mainzer Kammerspiele Theater featuring restagings of Delattre’s choreographies 2019 Spring - Creation for National Ballet Split (Croatia), for the ballet evening The Four Seasons 2019 Hugging trapped Emotions - Commission for Elmhurst Young Ballet Birmingham (England) 2019 Embracing Emptiness - Commision for the Gauthier Dance Company Dance Gala Waiblingen (Gemany) 2019 Das Sherlock Musical - Production choreographer for Urania Theater Köln (Germany) 2018 The Picture of Dorian Gray - Creation for Mainzer Kammerspiele Theater, full-evening story ballet based on the novel by Oscar Wilde 2018 Ask Yourself - Commision for Elmhurst Young Ballet Birmingham (England) 2018 Little Fires - Crommision for National Dance Academy Beijing (China) 2017 Social Instinct - DDC Production of the Mainzer Kammerspiele Theater featuring new creation mAnimal 2017 Frameless - DDC Production of the Mainzer Kammerspiele Theater featuring works Borderlines (Bolero), Drawers of forgotten Memories and a new version of his work Human Machines 2017 Black Snow - Creation for Stadttheater Hagen (Germany) as part of the evening Satisfaction 2017 Next Breath - Creation for Elmhurst Young Ballet Birmingham (England) 2017 Her Body is a Cage - Creation for Conservatoire National Supérieur de Danse Lyon (France) 2016 Notre-Dame de Paris - Creation for Mainzer Kammerspiele Theater, full-evening story ballet based on the novel by Victor Hugo 2016 NOWhere - DDC Production of the Mainzer Kammerspiele Theater featuring the new creations One Second of Eternity and Drowning in the Here and Now 2015 A Scent of Freedom - DDC Production of the Mainzer Kammerspiel Theater featuring a reworking of his duet S(t)ick through Sightlessness and the new creations noBody’s Freedom, Talking Moves 2015 woMEN - DDC Production of the Mainzer Kammerspiele Theater featuring works Der Kampf der Geschlechter and Loverdose 2015 The unsafe Refuge - Creation for National Center for Performing Arts of Beijing (China) 2015 Freedom of Expression - Creation for National Center for Performing Arts of Beijing (China) 2015 Point de (non) Retour - Creation for Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Danse Marseille (France) 2014 MOveMENTS of EMOTIONS - DDC Production of the Mainzer KammerspieleTheater three year retrospective 2014 Sanatin Ifadesi - Full evening created for the National Modern Dance Company Ankara (Turkey) 2014 MOMO - Creation for Mainzer Kammerspiel Theater, full-evening story ballet based on the novel by Michael Ende 2014 Die Dunkelheit des Lichtes - DDC Production of the Mainzer Kammerspiele Theater featuring the creation The Light from the other Side, together with the reworking of invisible traces and A Suspended Moment of Vulnerability 2014 LED präsentation für Energieeffizientz - Creation for Gallus Theater Frankfurt (Germany) 2014 S(t)ick through Sightlessness - Creation for Alicia Amatrain and David Moore (Stuttgart Ballet) for the DDC & Friends Gala, Mainzer Kammerspiele Theater 2014 Unraveling - Creation for Alexandra Lo Sardo and Alban Lendorf (Royal Danish Ballet) for the 7th Annual Ballet Augsburg Ballet Gala, Stadtheater Augsburg (Germany) 2013 Zärtlicher Verrat - DDC Production of the Mainzer Kammerspiele Theater featuring creations Between me and myself and Geheimnis der Stille 2013 eXchange - DDC Production of the Mainzer Kammerspiele Theater featuring the new creations Konfrontation der Ersetzbarkeit, Chapeau(x)! and The ART of exPRESSion 2013 Caressing Betrayal - Creation for National Center for Performing Arts of Beijing (China) 2013 Meeting Point - Creation for Stadttheater Koblenz Tanz Gala 2013 A Suspended Moment of Vulnerability - Creation for Ballet Augsburg (Stadttheater Augsburg) for the evening Heroes 2012 Rain, in her dark eyes - Commissioned solo for Marie-Agnès Gillot (Paris Opera Ballet) for the 20th Anniversary of the Benois de la Danse, Moscow (Russia) 2012 invisible traces - Creation for International Dance Festival Busan (Korea) 2012 NEWs INSPIRATIONs - Creation for Staatstheater Kielce (Poland) 2011 MentalMorphosis - Commissioned solo for Alexander Zaitsev (Stuttgart Ballet) 2011 Poetry takes Form