Blanca Li

Blanca Li is a choreographer, film director, dancer and actress.

Whether it is for her company, events, an opera production, a feature film or a museum installation, she creates and realises a multitude of projects: “I like to give life to everything I have in mind”. Constantly renewing  herself, she draws her inspiration from a wide range of expressions, from flamenco to classical ballet and urban dance. With Blanca Li,  everything begins and ends with the energy of movement and dance.

She joined the national gymnastics team at the age of 12 and moved to New  York at the age of 17 to study for 5 years with Martha Graham while  drawing inspiration from hip hop or world music. She founds her  contemporary dance company in Paris in 1992, touring the world since  with 20 stage shows.

Blanca Li has choreographed and directed ballets, operas or  musicals, including Les Indes Galantes at the Paris Opera, Shéhérazade  for the Paris Opera ballet, Treemonisha at the Châtelet, El Quijote del  Plata for the national ballet Sodre de Uruguay and recently, Pulcinella  for the Spanish National Ballet.

She has directed three feature films and numerous shorts, commercials and music videos.

For  cinema, music and fashion, she has been chosen as a choreographer by  names such as Pedro Almodovar, Jean-Jacques Annaud or Michel Gondry, by  Daft Punk, Paul McCartney, Beyoncé, Blur or Coldplay, and by Jean-Paul  Gaultier, Azzedine Alaïa, CHANEL or Stella McCartney.

Among many  awards, she received Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in France and  Medalla de Oro al Mérito de las Bellas Artes in Spain.

One of her  last company creation – in 2021 – Le Bal de Paris de Blanca Li, an  immersive and live show in virtual reality, was awarded the Lion for  Best VR experience at the 78th Venice International Film Festival and  has toured non stop since. Since then, she has created a hip hop  “Nutcracker” for Suresnes Cités Danse in 2022 and directed a version of  Dido and Aeneas with Les Arts Florissants (William Christie).

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More information : https://www.blancali.com/