Gilles Jobin

Gilles Jobin has been internationally known since his first choreography for three dancers “A+B=X” created in 1997 at Arsenic in Lausanne, and presented two years later at Montpellier Danse Festival. He then moved to London and premiered “Macrocosm” at the Place Theater. In 1999, he produced “Braindance” which opened the 2000-2001 season of Théâtre de la Ville in Paris.
His radical artistic directions and his international recognition made him the precursor of a new generation of European choreographers. Another quintet followed, “The Moebius Strip”, first performed at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris in 2001.

In 2002, he produced “Under Construction” at the Schaubühne in Berlin. In 2003, Gilles Jobin surprised again by accepting a commission from the Ballet du Grand Théâtre in Geneva and created “TWO-THOUSAND-AND-THREE” for twenty-one dancers. The same year, he created “Delicado” for the Gulbenkian Ballet. In march 2005, he created “Steak House”. In 2006, he became associated artist of Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy in France where he premiered his four following productions “Double Deux” (2006), “Text To Speech” (2008), “Black Swan” (2009) and “Le Chaînon Manquant – The Missing Link” (2010). In 2011 he created, always at Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy,” Spider Galaxies” – a piece in which he redefines movement with the support of an impressive iconographic data base. He also re-staged “A+B=X” with new performers. In 2013, he created PROTOKIDS at the La Bâtie Festival in Geneva for nine young dancers from the Virevolte Manon Hotte Company. He also produced QUANTUM, a piece for six dancers. The piece received the support of the Hermès Foundation for the collaboration between Gilles Jobin and the visual artist Julius von Bismarck whose installation Versuch Unter Kreisen was used as a lighting and staging device. Writing of the storyboard for the choreographic 3D film Womb (production Gilles Jobin, set Sylvie Fleury, music Franz Treichler, costumes Jean-Paul Lespagnard).

Besides his own productions, Gilles Jobin has made of his company, and his headquarters of Studios 44 in Geneva, a pioneering place for the recognition of contemporary dance in Switzerland, international professional exchanges, daily training for dancers, educational activities and capacity building, workshops, artistic residencies, as well as projects with countries from the Southern hemisphere.

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