Internationally acclaimed choreographer and dancer Jean Paul Comelin is an artist-in-residence this fall

The University of Richmond’s Department of Theatre and Dance welcomes internationally acclaimed choreographer and dancer Jean Paul Comelin to campus.

Comelin will spend the semester teaching two classes, in classical ballet and world cultures, and will be choreographing a new work for the University Dancers’ 25th anniversary concert, Twenty-5, which will be staged this February at the Modlin Center for the Arts.

Comelin has worked across the United States an around the world, dancing and choreographing for many of the world’s greatest dance companies and ballet companies. He has worked with ballet notables George Balanchine, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Natalia Makarova, and Rudolf Nureyev and has danced as a principal dancer with the Paris Opera Ballet, London Festival Ballet, which is now the English National Ballet, the National Ballet of Washington, and the Pennsylvania Ballet. As a guest artist, choreographer, or artistic director, he has been associated with the Hamburg Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, Opera de Rome, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Ballet du Nord, Teatro Colon, Ballet de Rio de Janeiro, Teatro de Firenze, Teatro Liceo de Barcelona, National Ballet of Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania Ballet, Singapore Dance Theatre, Conservatoire national de Paris, and Vietnam National Opera Ballet in Hanoi.

More details about the University Dancers’ 25th anniversary concert will be released later this fall.

Posted August 28, 2009