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After his exceptional international career as a dancer, Olivier Dubois (Colmar, 1972) has been giving space to his creative endeavours since 2006. His first work, Pour tout l’or du monde, won him the Prix Jardin d’Europe in Vienna, which is a European Prize for Emerging Choreography. His oeuvre features Faune(s), made for the 2008 Avignon Festival, Spectre, made for the 2010 Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, and L’homme de l’Atlantique, a duet for the Biennale de la Danse in Lyon. In 2009, he started the Étude critique pour un trompe-l’œil trilogy with Révolution, followed by the Rouge and Tragédie solos in 2011 and 2012 respectively. When Marseille was chosen as 2013 European Capital of Culture, he staged the Élégie for the Ballet National de Marseille; he staged Come out for the Ballet de Lorraine in 2019. In 2013, he won the Italian critics’ Danza&Danza Prize, and in 2014 he was appointed Director of the Ballet du Nord-Centre Chorégraphique National de Roubaix by the French Ministry of Culture. He was also awarded the Prix Fedora Van Cleef & Arpels and, in 2019, was nominated Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. Dubois is no stranger at Bolzano Danza, having been invited as a guest to numerous editions. Indeed, he created choreographies for the festival such as Les Mémoires d’un seigneur (2015), Swan Blast (2019), and For Gods Only/Sacre #3 (2024).