JULIEN LESTEL
Julien Lestel trained at the Paris Opera Ballet School and the "Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris" where he was awarded first prize. He then worked with Noureev, who asked him to dance in Cinderella at the San Carlo Theatre in Naples.
He went on to join the Monte Carlo Ballets, the National Paris Opera Ballet, the Zurich Ballet where he was principal dancer, and later the National Marseille Ballet as Marie-Claude Pietragalla's partner.
He has worked with Noureev, Robbins, Kylian, Forsythe, Preljocaj, Roland Petit, Pina Bausch, Lucinda Childs, Carolyn Carlson, Dawson, Malandain… and danced the choreographies of Petipa, Balanchine, Neumeier, Scholz, Lifar, Ashton, Nijinsky…
Both as a choreographer and dancer, he has collaborated with renowned actors and actresses including Pierre Arditi, Marie-Christine Barrault and Macha Meril to accompany their reading of literary texts.
"Passionately dedicated to my art and keen to get involved in a process of choreographic research, I decided to create my own company in 2007"
He has since collaborated with the pianist François-René Duchâble who plays on stage during several of his creations and the composer Karol Beffa who composed the music for Corps et Âmes.
He participated in the 21st Century Gala des Étoiles at the Champs Élysées Theâtre where he danced one of his first creations.
Since 2008, he has been actively committed to bringing dance to diverse audiences and to promoting dance as a means of expression accessible to all; an activity truly without frontiers.
Aiming to pass on his expertise and passion, he shares his choreographies with young ballets in regional Conservatoires.
Since 2016, he has been teaching at the École Nationale Supérieure de Danse de Marseille.
CREATIONS
2024 : Carmen in Enghein-les-Bains
2023 : Rencontres at the Colombes theater.
2022 : Rodin at the Gascogne Mont-de-Marsan theater and on national tour.
2021 : Libre at the Marseille Opera
L'Éternel et l'éphémère, a web series of fourteen episodes - choreographies performed at the Rodin Museum, the Modern Art Museum in Paris and the Quai Branly Museum.
2020: Stabat Mater at the the Massy Opera with the musical ensemble Les Paladins. In the same year, Mosaïques at the Marseille Opera.
2019: Dream at the Massy Opera.
2018 : Misatango with the Pasdeloup orchestra and the Vittoria Choir.
2017: La Jeune Fille et la Mort and Quartet at the Massy Opera with the Quartet from the Orchestra.
2016: Rachmaninov, Solo and Boléro at the Massy Opera with full orchestra and François-René Duchâble as piano soloist.
2015: Transmission at the Massy Opera, then at the Off Festival in Avignon and Le Faune at the Marseille Opera.
2014: Puccini at the Massy Opera and Romeo and Juliet at the Marseille Opera.
2013: À Ciel Ouvert, with Melanesian dancers, for the inauguration of Noumea airport. La Paix des Étoiles at the Off Festival in Avignon and at the Dôme in Marseille, "the European Capital of Culture for 2013".
2012: Fragments and Le Sacre du Printemps commissioned by the Tjibaou Cultural Centre of Noumea. In the same year, Next for the Lyon Youth Ballet.
2011: Corps et Âmes at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris.
2010: Anastylose with the pianist François-René Duchâble at the Marseille Opera. In addition, Pierre Cardin appointed him choreographer of his production, Casanova.
2009: Constance at the Marseille Opera.
2008: Somewhere for the Marseille National Ballet.
2007: Les Âmes Frères at Espace Pierre Cardin in Paris.
2006: Chopin Danse.
