Dancer, choreographer, film and opera director, Éric Oberdorff sees his artistic presence as that of a privileged observer of his environment, questioning the physicality of bodies and their connections to the world as conveyors of poetics.. Curious about mankind, he explores relationships to others and confront all contradictory energies driving us.<br /><br />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 J. Kylián, G. Balanchine, W. Forsythe, L. Childs, J.C. Maillot, J. Uotinen, C. Armitage, J. Neumeier, M. Fokine, L. Massine, S. Lifar, A. Tudor, etc.<br /><br />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 and digital art. He collaborates with artists such as composers Ondřej Adámek and Kazuko Narita (contemporary music), Delphine Barbut, Anthony Rouchier and Sarah Procissi (contemporary music), stage designers Éric Soyer, Bruno de Lavenère, Fabien Teigné, writer and poet Sjón, digital artist Étienne Guiol, visual artists Aurélie Mathigot, Marcel Bataillard, opera singers Donatienne Michel-Dansac, Landy Andriamboavonjy, conductors Léo Warynski, Kent Nagano, Jérôme Corréas, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, and apneist-film director Julie Gautier.<br /><br />Regularly invited to create choreographies and stagings by prestigious companies, opera houses and festivals in France and abroad, his works have received numerous international awards, such as the SACD-Beaumarchais Grant, the 2018 Fedora Prize which awarded the opera <em>Seven Stones</em>, or the Golden Lion - Best Production Award at the Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Musica 2022 (Italy) which awarded <em>Reaching Out</em>.<br /><br />Éric accompanies his creation work by multiple actions towards the public, with particular attention to the youngest and to people in precarious social situation.<br /><br />Initiating an innovative form of circulation for artists and their creations in Europe, he co-founds in 2010 the European exchange and cooperation network Studiotrade, which he programmes since 2015 the Studiotrade Platform within the Cannes International Dance Festival. Since 2017, he is also choreographer and stage director for Ensemble NESEVEN (Germany), founded and directed by composer Ondřej Adámek. Working to develop dance & film projects, he has been creating and programming the Nice Dance Film since 2018 as part of the Nice European Short Film Festival and is co-artistic director of the Mov’in Cannes international dance film competition.<br /><br />Since 2018 and the public and critic success at the International Lyric Art Festival of Aix-en-Provence of his staging of Ondřej Adámek’s opera <em>Seven Stones</em>, Éric explores a new artistic field, notably with a collaboration with Lucinda Childs for <em>Akhnaten</em> (Philip Glass), stagings at the Opera of Nice such as <em>Phaéton</em> (Lully), <em>Noye’s </em><em>Fludde</em> (Britten), <em>L’Olympiade des Olympiades</em> (Vivaldi & co) and for vocal and instrumental ensembles such as Accentus, Resonanz, the Radio France Symphonic Orchestra, ChorWerk Ruhr, Les Paladins, Matheus or Les Métaboles.<br /><br />Supported artist by CDN Nice Côte d’Azur (2017-2018), associate artist to Scène 55 Theatre, Mougins, France (2021-2023), Éric is currently associate artist to the Fine Art Museum of Nice, France (2023-2028).
Dancer, choreographer, film and opera director, Éric Oberdorff sees his artistic presence as that of a privileged observer of his environment, questioning the physicality of bodies and their connections to the world as conveyors of poetics.. 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 J. Kylián, G. Balanchine, W. Forsythe, L. Childs, J.C [...]