JM Puissant Biog - jean
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JM Puissant Biog - jean
jean-marc puissant theatre | opera | dance set and costume design Jean-Marc Puissant is an award winning set and costume designer working internationally for theatre, musicals, opera, ballet and contemporary dance. Designing productions of all scales, styles and genres, Jean-Marc’s design practice is rooted in the identity of unique creative collaborations, supporting the nature and craft required by each art form across the performing arts. Several productions Jean-Marc designed won Laurence Olivier Awards, South Bank Show Awards, National Dance Critics Awards and TMA Awards. Nominated as Best Scenographer at the 2016 International Benois de la Danse and a finalist of World Stage Design 2013, he was invited to give talks about his design work at London’s V&A and New York’s Guggenheim museums. Jean-Marc trained at the celebrated Motley Theatre Design Course in London (with the kind support of the Dancers’ Career Development) and studied Art History at La Sorbonne, Paris. He is a guest tutor for theatre design at Central School of Speech and Drama, London. Photo © Antonio Olmos opera The Royal Opera: Aida (and Valencia Opera, Oslo Opera) | Santa Fe Opera: Madame Butterfly (and Los Angeles Opera) ; Les Pêcheurs de Perles | Opera Theatre St Louis: Richard the Lionheart (Riccardo Primo) | Scottish Opera: A Night at the Chinese Opera | Royal Academy Opera: L’incoronazione di Poppea theatre Théâtre du Châtelet: The King And I (and Lyric Opera Chicago) | Menier Chocolate Factory: Pippin | Theatre Royal Stratford East: Dangerous Lady | The Curve: All My Sons | Finborough Theatre: His Greatness | Edinburgh Festival: The Irish Curse dance The Royal Ballet: Tryst ; DGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse ; Electric Counterpoint ; Jewels ; Aeternum ; Other Stories | New York City Ballet: Klavier ; Les Carillons ; DGV | American Ballet Theatre: VIII (and Hamburg Ballet) | Birmingham Royal Ballet: The Seasons ; Take Five (and National Ballet of Japan); Kin. | San Francisco Ballet: Quaternary | Boston Ballet: Resonance | Pennsylvania Ballet: Wheeldon’s Swan Lake (and Joffrey Ballet, Badishes Staatstheater, Opera di Roma); DGV | Dutch National Ballet: Concerto Concordia ; Axiom of Choice ; Now And Thereafter ; Tryst | Rambert Dance Company: Elsa Canasta (and Scottish Ballet); Gran Partita: Terra Incognita | Phoenix Dance Theatre: Nopalitos ; Paseillo | Candoco: Beheld | Ballet Black: A Dream Within A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Mannheim Nationaltheater Ballett: Chansons ; Film Noir ; O’Day’s Romeo & Juliet | Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève: Lux | Opéra du Rhin Ballet: Gielgud’s Giselle | Royal Ballet of Flanders: Dream Weaver | Ballett im Revier: Breiner’s Swan Lake | Alexander Whitley: All That Is Solid Melts Into Air; The Grit In The Oyster; Pattern Recognition | Arthur Pita: Facada | N. Osipova & I. Vasiliev: Facada (new version) directors Lee Blakeley | Toby Frow | Lisa Goldman | Sir David McVicar | Walter Meierjohann | Andrew Neil | William Relton | Mitch Sebastian | Ché Walker choreographers Karole Armitage | David Bintley | Bridget Breiner | Adrian Burnett | Danièle Desnoyers | Dominique Dumais | Javier de Frutos | Maina Gielgud | Marcia Haydée | Shobana Jeyasingh | Cathy Marston | Jose Martinez | Cameron McMillan | Ernst Meisner | Kevin O’Day | Ken Ossola | Annie-B Parson | Arthur Pita | Arlene Phillips | Christopher Wheeldon | Alexander Whitley • • • Jean-Marc’s career began as a dancer, studying at the School of Paris Opera Ballet and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. A professional dancer with Birmingham Royal Ballet and Stuttgart Ballet, he danced and created roles in classical, neo-classical and contemporary repertoires. He is on the Board of Directors of Dance Umbrella, London’s international contemporary dance festival. jeanmarcpuissant.com | [email protected] | +44 7801 909 733