Stijn Celis is a

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choreographer Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion or form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design itself. A choreographer is one who cr ...

and set designer. He danced in companies such as the Royal Ballet of Flanders, the Zürich Ballet, Contemporary Dance Zurich, Le Ballet du Grand Théâtre in Geneva and the

Cullberg Ballet Cullberg Ballet ( sv, Cullbergbaletten) is a Swedish contemporary dance company. It was founded by the modern dancer and pioneer choreographer Birgit Cullberg in 1967, who brought it to fame. After Cullberg's retirement in 1985 the company was un ...

. In a survey of critics, the German magazine "ballett international / tanz aktuell" named him "most promising young choreographer" in 2001. From 2004 to 2007, he was director of the Bern Ballet; he worked as a freelance choreographer until 2014 when he took over as ballet director of the Saarländisches Staatstheater. He has created work for

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, the

, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theater II, Iceland Dance Company, the

Dresden Semperoper Ballett The Semperoper () is the opera house of the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden (Saxon State Opera) and the concert hall of the Staatskapelle Dresden (Saxon State Orchestra). It is also home to the Semperoper Ballett. The building is located on the ...

, ballettmainz, the Stadttheater Nürnberg, the Stadttheater St. Gallen, IT Dansa, GöteborgsOperan Danskompani, Bodytraffic, aalto ballet essen, Ballet Junior Geneva,

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, Introdans, among others. He has worked as a set designer for

Didy Veldman Didy Veldman (born 1967, in Groningen)Didy Veldman
at introdans.nl is a Dutch choreograp ...

and has assisted Jan Verzweyveld, Benoit Dujardin in opera and theatre productions. His works include "Geschwinde ihr wirbelnden winde", "Geflügeltes Gelb", "Cinderella", "Undine", "Magnolia", "Fragile Dwellings", "Le Sacre de printemps," "Hidden Garden," "Practice Paradise", "Vertigo Maze", "Devant l'arrière pays", "The Lost Shoe", "Gefährliche Liebschaften", "Sonata", "Sore Core", "Skulls and Bees", "Swan Lake", "Firebird Suite", "Your Passion is Pure Joy to me", "Les Noces" , "Looming Sky", "Anima", "Black Cold Burns" and "Mass in C-minor", "Peer Gynt" for the Saarbrücker Ballet as well as "Romeo und Julia" and "Josephslegende" for the Semperoper Ballett.

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