Choreographic works
2008 Diable au Corps Dance theater piece for 5 performers, 75 minutes Korzo production/ Dance Advance
2007Vai! Gala performance Verona
2007 Fierce Youth Scapino Ballet Rotterdam
2006 Kamerdans Cadance Festival duet in 40 living rooms
2006 Seed Life Arts Festival for four dancers
in Philadephia
2006 Codex for eight dancers Codarts students
2005 Corps à Corps full lenght Korzo Productie, Tanz haus Düsseldorf
production
2005 Caien&Abel Commissionned
by the Verborgen Plannet Festival Amsterdam
2004 Compass for Fools Co-production Korzo and
Maison culture Bourges,quartet, performances in Holland,
France Bourges, Germany Frankfurt
2004 Lumières du désert, Cairo,
Alexandria, Lausanne, quartet made for and commissioned
by the Ballet du Grand theatre de Genève,
2004 Innervoice, Korzo theater, The Hague, quartet
commissioned by Korzo producties for the Four Step Forwards
series
2003 Maybe that’s a lie, The Hague, studio
work for 8 singer, 2 actors, 3 dancers
2003 Slash, Tours, France, duet for a gala
2002 Corps à corps, Korzo theater, The
Hague, duet commissioned by the Cadance festival
Dance companies
1998-2002 Netherlands Dans Theater 1 with Jiri Kylian
1996-1998 Batsheva Dance Company with Ohad Naharin
1989-1996 Ballet du Grand theatre de Genève with
Gradimir Pankov
1987-1989 Scapino Ballet with Armando Navarro/ Nils Christe
Dance projects
2005 Glass evening C-Scope Regentesse theater
2004 Riple re-vue, chor. Stephanie Tiersch, German and
Palestinian tour
2003 Hypnos locolocolocomotion, chor. Kenzo Kusuda, Dutch
performances
2003 Please let me see your face, chor. Gerard Mosterd,
Dutch and Indonesian tour
2003 Warp Marble, chor. Nanine Linning, Dutch tour
1991 Max, chor. Jean Bruno Meier, Geneva
1990 Friends, chor. Hans Vancol, Geneva
1986 Pierre et le loups, Am stram gram, Geneva
1985 Tango, chor. Oscar Araiz ,Ballet du Grand theatre
de Genève, European tour
1983 Baiser de la fee, chor. Oscar Araiz, Ballet du Grand
theatre de Genève
Press revue
Compass for Fools is a poetic and physical journey inspired
by the painting "Ship of fools" from Hieronimus
Bosch.Press reaction NRC I.L.
Sensually/violent eruption of movement/"secret" gestures/ecstatically/ tormented/ savage jump catching duet"
“
More intimate then “Corps à Corps” can
a duet actually not be” Mirjam van der Linden Volkskrant
“Expressive,brilliant is the “Ship of fools” of
Jérôme A. Meyer” (de Volkskrant)
“
He is convincing us as a young choreographer with his
own signature” (NRC Handelsblad)
“
Explosion of movements” (Haagsche Courant)
“
In Innervoice the dance , the sound design, and the light
are all coming perfectly together” Rose van Put
Haagsche Courant
AD/Haagsche Courant, Roos van Put
‘Beautiful moments, when the two appear to merge, seem to be one…’
Parool, Francine van der Wiel
‘Owing also to an intense and pure execution, Corps à Corps holds one’s attention for the full sixty minutes….’Leidsch Dagblad, Maarten Baanders
‘DANCING HAND IN CORPS À CORPS FASCINATES’
‘Their relationship and the path traveled to each other is the subject that is developed excitingly and with great subtlety in Corps à Corps’.
‘The final image is wonderful, Chaffaud shows with no more than a moving hand that the fascination between these too never dies’.
Award
2005 Finalist Hannover choreographic competition
1998 Second prize of the international competition of choreography
“
Curtain up” in Tel-Aviv
1989 Gold medal in the competition of “Autour the Bejart”
1987-1989 Grant Migros for young talented dancer
Pedagogy
2007 Teaching improvisation class at Summer Academy DDDD in The Haag
2006 Teaching workshop of 4 weeks in Philadephia
2005 Teaching workshop in Durban Jomba festival and Cape town university South Africa
2004 Teaching classes in Dansateliers and Dansetage Korzo studio
2003 Teaching workshop in different towns in Indonesia
2002 Teaching workshop and classes in Verona in the Vic academy
Choreographic workshops
2004 Swiss International Workshop in Choreography, Zürich, mentored
by Mauricio Wainrot
2003 Artist Member Projects, The Hague, with dancers/choreographers
from Ballett Frankfurt and The Netherlands
Dance and Choreographer field
Education
2004-2006 Choreographic Master at the University of Music and Dance Codarts
Rotterdam
1985-1987 Dance diplom at the University of Music and Performing Arts
in Munich
1981-1985 Conservatoire de Genève classical,
modern, jazz, steps dance
Painting
1982-1985 Painting and Fin Art study with Tony Piron
1977-1985 Conservatoire de Geneve Violin in with M. Pantelick and A Stakian
Electro-accoustic
sound design
2004 sound design for Compass for fools
2004 sound design for Innervoice
2003 sound design for Slash
2002 sound design for Corps à Corps
2002 sound design for The ship of the fools
2001 sound design for Saiko
2000 sound design for Restless stillness
1999 sound design for Warm breath
1998 sound design for 2 walk with
1997 sound design for Je pèle du nombril
Video
2004 video for Compass for fools
2002 video for Corps à Corps
2002 video for The ship of the fools
His works have been performed in Italy, Verona, France, Bourges, Germany,
Frankfurt Düsseldorf, Switzerland, Zürich and Sierre
South Africa, Durban, Cape town, Philadelphia in the U.S.and in the Netherlands.
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