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Damien Jalet (born 17 August 1976) is a Belgo-French choreographer, dancer and performer.
Damien Jalet[1] was born in Uccle, Belgium. He worked as choreographer and performer for Companies like Ballet C. de la B., Sasha Waltz[2] et Invités, Chunky Move, Eastman, NYDC, Hessiches Staatballet, l’Opéra de Paris, Scottish Dance Theater, and Iceland Dance Company.
Damien Jalet began to study theater at the National Institute of the performing art of Brussels, before moving to modern dance and completed his training in New York City.[3]
Since 2000 he has been working as a collaborator of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, within Les ballets C. de la B. As a result of this collaboration, Jalet created his own shows, first of all as a dancer, and later also on staging and music.[4]
In May 2013, he created in collaboration with Cherkaoui and performance artist Marina Abramović, a new version of Ravel's Bolero for the Paris Opera Ballet. Costumes were designed by Givenchy's artistic director Riccardo Tisci and the 11 dancer cast included Aurélie Dupont, Marie Agnès Gillot, and Jérémie Bélingard.[5]
Jalet was awarded with the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 2013. In 2014, he signed Yama’s[6] choreography, a play written for the Scottish Dance Theater,[7] with the American stage designer Jim Hodges and the original composition made by the Winter Family group. He also imagined the solo “inked” for the Kathak Aakash Ordera's dancer.[citation needed]
Jalet is laureate of Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto 2015, where he developed Vessel, a six months work collaboration with the visual artist Kohei Nawa,[4] which premiered in September 2016 at the new Rhom Theater Kyoto.[8] The relationship work of Jalet to existing rituals practiced in volcanic islands such as Bali and Japan is at the center of the 70 minutes documentary The Ferryman by Gilles Delmas, narrated by Marina Abramović with the artistic participation of Ryuichi Sakamoto.[9]
His show Skid (2017) for the Opera's Dance Company of Gothenburg in Sweden, presented 17 performers and dancers on a 10 meters scene sloping at 34 degrees over approximately 40 minutes.[9]
In 2018, he choreographed the American-Italian horror film remake Suspiria. He also choreographed the short Paul Thomas Anderson 2019 dance film Anima.
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