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From the À bras-le-corps duet created with Boris Charmatz in 1993 to his collaboration with Kim Gordon in 2018, Dimitri Chamblas' career reflects a taste for encounters that he never ceases to develop. He has worked with a diverse array of artists, including Bret Easton Ellis, William Forsythe, Glen Keane, Benjamin Millepied, Mathilde Monnier, Alex Prager, Nile Rodgers, Claire Tabouret, and Virginie Viard.
In 2015, he founded and directed the 3e Scène at the Opéra national de Paris before becoming Dean of Dance at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles in 2017. Andrew maps out his own creative landscape, bringing dance to unexpected places, including high-security prisons, as documented in Manuela Dalle's Dancing in A-Yard.
His work has been presented at the Tate Modern (London), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), the Opéra national de Paris, Performa New York, NYU Skirball (New York,) and the Musée du Louvre (Paris).
Today, through his Studio, he develops projects such as takemehome, a piece for nine performers in collaboration with Kim Gordon; the staging of Crowd Out, an opera for 1,000 voices by David Lang; and Slow Show, a performance for fifty participants that slows down time and gives rise to an eponymous video portrait installation. In 2024, he created the performance fountain at the Contemporaine de Nîmes.
As a dancer, teacher, choreographer, and artistic director, Chamblas uses dance as a vehicle to explore diverse geographical and social contexts worldwide.
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