Dimitri Chamblas

Passionate about dance, Dimitri Chamblas joined the Paris Opera Ballet School at the age of 10 before enrolling at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon. During his career, he has collaborated with artists such as Jean-Paul Gaultier, Andy Goldsworthy, and Jean Le Gac. He founded the Edna association in 1992 with dancer and choreographer Boris Charmatz. The organization supported their early choreographic work. The duo joined the Paris Opera Ballet repertoire in the spring of 2017.

In 1996, he and Mathilde Monnier founded the “Résidences de recherche et d'écriture chorégraphiques” (Residencies for Choreographic Research and Writing), a framework offering artists the opportunity to create outside the traditional production circuits. Six years later, Dimitri Chamblas began producing commercials, web content, and artists' films.

Appointed artistic director of the 3° Scène - Opéra national de Paris in 2014, he created the Los Angeles Dance Project, a platform for dance dedicated to creation. Dimitri Chamblas commissions numerous works from artists such as Alex Prager, Glen Keane, and Mathieu Amalric.

In 2016, he launched Studio Dimitri Chamblas. In 2017, he was appointed director of the Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and a year later created Slow Show, a performance for 50 performers. As part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Program, Chamblas directed Crowd Out, an opera by David Lang for 1,000 singers. In 2019, he was awarded the Order of Arts and Letters by the Ministry of Culture.