FEDORA - Éric Oberdorff

Éric Oberdorff

Stage Director & Choreographer

Short Bio

Dancer, choreographer, film and opera director, Éric Oberdorff considers his role as an artist the one of a privileged observer of the world. Curious about mankind, he explores relationships to others and confront all contradictory energies driving us. Discovering movement through martial arts practice, he studied dance at the Conservatoire of Nice, at the Rosella Hightower International Dance School of Cannes and at the Paris National Opera School of Ballet. He travelled for sixteen years around the world as dancer performer for Ballett des Landestheater Salzburg, Zürich Opernhaus Ballet and Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo. He danced in choreographies by Kylián, Balanchine, Forsythe, Childs, Maillot, Uotinen, Armitage, Neumeier, Fokine, Massine, Lifar, Tudor, etc. Éric founded the Compagnie Humaine with which he creates since 2003 interdisciplinary projects for stage and for screen, including choreography, music, still and moving image, text, visual art installation. He collaborates with artists such as composers Ondřej Adámek and Kazuko Narita (contemporary music), Anthony Rouchier and Delphine Barbut (electro rock music), writer and poet Sjón, visual artists Aurélie Mathigot and Marcel Bataillard, stage designers Éric Soyer and Bruno de Lavenère, opera singers Donatienne Michel-Dansac and Landy Andriamboavonjy, freediver and film director Julie Gautier, etc. Regularly invited to create choreographies and stagings by prestigious companies in France and abroad, his works have received numerous international awards. Éric accompanies his creation work by multiple actions towards the public, with particular attention to the youngest and to people in precarious social situation. In 2010, he co-founded European cooperation network ‘Studiotrade’ and is since 2015 curator for the Studiotrade Platform within the International Dance Festival of Cannes. Since 2018, he is curator for Nice Dance Film selection within the European Short Film Festival of Nice. Since 2017, he is also choreographer and stage director for Ensemble NESEVEN (Germany), founded and directed by composer Ondřej Adámek. He is co-artistic director of Mov’in Cannes, a dance film competition within the Festival de Danse Cannes Côte d’Azur France. Since 2018 and the public and critic success of his staging of Ondřej Adámek’s opera "Seven Stones", commissioned by the International Lyric Art Festival of Aix-en-Provence, Éric explores a new artistic field, notably with a collaboration with Lucinda Childs for "Akhnaten" (Philip Glass), stagings at the Opera of Nice ("Phaéton" by Lully, Noye’s Fludde by Britten) and for vocal and instrumental ensembles such as ChorWerk Ruhr, Accentus, Les Paladins, Matheus, Resonanz or Les Métaboles. Supported artist by CDN Nice Côte d’Azur during 2017-2018 Season, Éric is associate artist to Scène 55 Theatre, Mougins, France, since January 2021

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