Martin Chaix

Biography

Was born in 1980 in Albi (France), where he began his classical ballet training in 1986. In 1993, he was accepted at the École de Danse de l'Opéra National de Paris where he studied until 1999 and directly joined the Paris Opera Ballet (dir. Brigitte Lefèvre).

In 2006, he was offered a soloist position at the Leipzig Ballet (dir. Paul Chalmer) experiencing a new repertoire and taking part in creations. Finally, in 2009 he became a member of the Ballett am Rhein Düsseldorf Duisburg (dir. Martin Schläpfer) where he danced as a soloist until 2015.


 As a dancer, Martin Chaix worked with different choreographers and on many productions from various styles, in particular ballets from Roland Petit, Carolyn Carlson, Rudolf Noureev, John Neumeier, George Balanchine, John Cranko, Uwe Scholz, Jiří Kylián, Hans van Manen, Mats Ek, Pina Bausch. He also collaborated in creation with Edouard Lock, Marco Goecke and Martin Schläpfer among others.
Since 2015, he is working as a freelance choreographer.

Martin Chaix made his choreographic debut in 2006 at the Paris Opera Ballet and later with the different ballet companies he was working for in “Young Choreographers” evenings, notably the renowned “Noverre Young Choreographers Evening”, organised by the Stuttgart based Noverre Society , as well as independent projects, such as Eine Winterreise for the Brotfabrik Bühne in Bonn.
Martin Chaix made his choreographic debut in 2006 at the Paris Opera Ballet and later with the different ballet companies he was working for in “Young Choreographers” evenings, notably the renowned “Noverre Young Choreographers Evening”, organised by the Stuttgart based Noverre Society , as well as independent projects, such as Eine Winterreise for the Brotfabrik Bühne in Bonn.

He is actively choreographing in different countries like Japan, Australia, Switzerland and Brazil and received numerous commissions from companies such as the Leipzig Ballet (2007 and 2015), the Ballett am Rhein Düsseldorf Duisburg (2013 and 2019), the Saarland National Theater Ballet in Saarbrücken (2015), the Mecklenburg National Theater Ballet (2016), the Croatian National Ballet in Split (2017) and in Rijeka (2019), and the Ballet du Rhin (2018) among others.

Along with his different choreographic projects Martin Chaix is also interest in films and photographies. One of his work has been selected for the One Minute Film Festival in Amsterdam in 2013.