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Dimitri Chamblas, born in 1974, is a french dancer and contemporary dance choreographer as well as artistic director and film producer.

His work has been shown at the Tate Modern, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Geffen Contemporary - MOCA, the Opéra National de Paris, and the Church of Saint Mark in New York.

Biography
Dimitri Chamblas was trained from the age of ten at the Paris Opera School and then at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon. He has performed for Dominique Bagouet, Régine Chopinot, Emmanuelle Huynh and Mathilde Monnier (notably in Arrêtez, arrêtons, arrête in 1997). But it is mainly with Boris Charmatz that he became internationally known through their artistic collaboration. They have been partners since 1990, notably with the success of Les Disparates (1994) and especially the duet À bras-le-corps (1993), which has been performed on every continent in theaters and festivals of international renown. This piece has been part of the Paris Opera ballet repertoire since 2017 and was danced in the middle of a rectangle made up of a simple row of spectators with whom they interacted from time to time.

In 1992, Charmatz and Chamblas created the association Edna. Together, they developed open projects, mainly oriented towards performances in connection with various media (video, visual arts, literature).

In 1996, he created with Mathilde Monnier (then director of the Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier, France) the Research and choreographic writing residencies, an opportunity for artists to create a personal creative space outside the traditional production process.

Dimitri Chamblas also creates audiovisual objects and signs projects mixing dance and video, such as Horace-Bénédict . In 1999, Chamblas founded Same Productions, which designs and produces art films, music videos and advertising campaigns. In 2004, he expanded his activity with offices in Paris, Brussels and Los Angeles.

In 2011, with Benjamin Millepied, he participates in the foundation of the LA Dance Project by integrating the leadership college of this structure.

In March 2014 Dimitri Chamblas founds and takes over the artistic direction of the 3e Scène/Opéra national de Paris. Within this framework, he invites - in collaboration with Benjamin Millepied - international artists to create original works (films, photos, drawings...) for this new stage of the Opéra national de Paris.

In 2017, he is appointed Dean of the Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and created HHUMANN, a work of 75 dancers presented on the streets of Downtown Los Angeles and at the Hauser&Wirth Gallery. That same year, he launched Studio Dimitri Chamblas in Paris and Los Angeles, a structure that hosts all of his projects and collaborations, including a duet with prima ballerina Marie-Agnès Gillot, his participation in Boris Charmatz's creation 10000 Gestes , a creation with architect François Perrin for the Performa Biennial in New York, and a duet with artist and musician Kim Gordon. Since 2021, Studio Dimitri Chamblas has been supported by the French Ministry of Culture.

As part of the LA Phil program, Chamblas directed Crowd out a 1,000-singer opera by David Lang in June 2019. This monumental opera took place at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and was presented once again in April 2023 at the Berlioz Opera in Montpellier.

In 2019, Chamblas begins a new project within a Los Angeles county jail in Lancaster / California. This was the first time in the United States that contemporary dance entered a men's maximum security prison. Ten inmates incarcerated from 30 years to life were grouped and went on to create a dance performance together. Several articles and reports testify to this and a film (Dancing in A Yard) was made using this initiative as a subject.

That same year, he joined Kim Gordon, founder of the rock band Sonic Youth, to create a duet that was presented at the American Swedish Institute as part of Liquid Music Festival in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Chamblas also made his acting debut, playing the lead in Alex Prager's film Play the Wind alongside actress Riley Keough (American Honey, The Girlfriend Experience).

Over the course of his career, Chamblas has collaborated with such designers as Virginie Viard, Jean-Paul Gaultier and Karl Lagerfeld, composer Heiner Goebbels, singer and conductor Barbara Hannigan, director Rebecca Zlotowski, artists Christian Boltanski, Andy Goldsworthy, Kim Gordon, Alex Prager, Dan Colen, Xavier Veilhan, and choreographers William Forsythe and Lil Buck.

Principales performances

 * 1994 : Les Disparates
 * 1993 : À bras-le-corps
 * 2017 : The Environment Bubble
 * 2018 The floor
 * 2018 Slow Show
 * 2018 Kim and Dim
 * 2019 Self - Portrait
 * 2019 Crowd Out
 * 2019 Unlimited Bodies
 * 2022 Water and Power
 * 2023 takemehome

Decorations

 * Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (2019)