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Posted by: Eric Oberdorff

For nearly ten years now, Eric Oberdorff is the director and choreographer of the Compagnie Humaine which he founded in 2002. Curious about mankind, considering his role as an artist like that of a privileged observer of the world around him, his choreographic works explore the relationship to another, and confront all contradictory energies that drive us.

He has since then created for his company twenty projects which are performed in France and in Europe..

Eric is also frequently invited to create or recreate pieces of his repertoire in France, Germany, Switzerland, the United States for internationally renowned companies including Ballet National de Marseille, Ballet du Grand Theatre de Geneve, Ballett Staatstheater Mainz, Ballett Theater Hagen, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, etc..

Eclectic artist and eager to explore all possible fields of expression, he is involved in projects in various fields of Art: he works with directors and actors on theater productions, directs short films and documentaries, contributes to academic works and researches, etc.

Born in Lyon, Eric began very early his practice of martial arts. He studied dance at the National Conservatoire of Nice and at the Rosella Hightower International Dance School of Cannes, before joining the the Paris Opera School of Ballet. He was then hired by the Salzburg Landestheater Ballet, the Zürich Opera Ballet and the Ballets de Monte Carlo. Touring around the world, he danced among others in choreographies by Kylian, Balanchine, Forsythe, Maillot, Childs, Uotinen, Godani, Armitage, Neumeier, Frey, Bournonville, Petit, Fokine, Massine, Lifar, Tudor, Bienert, etc.

In the same period of time and in parallel with his performing career, he continued his martial arts practice and studied the work of actor and staging. Quite naturally he started to choreograph.

His work regularly receives proves of recognition in France and abroad: In june 2001, he is awarded the 1st Prize at the International Choreographic Competition of Hanover (Germany) with his piece Impression lumières fugitives and is named among the outstanding young choreographers of the year 2001 on Ballett-Tanz Aktuell magazine ; he is nominated in 2007 for the ‘Kurt Jooss Prize’ with the duet Absence ; in 2009 he is awarded by the Grant Committee of the Association Beaumarchais-SACD (French Society of Authors and Composers) for is creation Un autre rêve américain, and his documentary Sur la route de Petrouchka is labelled by the European Commission ; he wins in 2011 for his short film Butterfly Soul (teaser) the First Prize at the ‘Cornwall Film Festival’ (Great Britain) in the category ‘Dance Camera Action’.