French, Dominique studies dance at the Conservatoire National de Région de Nice, then at Mudra International in Brussels before joining the Ballet Rambert School in London. Then she dances with the Patrick Tridon's Ballet Antibes Côte d'Azur, then joins right after its creation the Bruno Jacquin Company in Cannes as a dancer, and also as choreographic assistant, working on creations with Ballet du Capitole de Toulouse (France) and National Ballet of Split (Croatia). She also works with EuregioDans Company (Netherlands).
In Parallel, she is in charge of the Bruno Jacquin Company's administration.
Very attracted by pedagogy, she experiments with different fields of children physical expression during workshops with National Education. It is with professional dancers from Bruno Jacquin Company and Systeme Castafiore as well as with students of the Ecole Superieure de Danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower and the Marika Besobrasova's Princess Grace Academy of Dance in Monaco that Dominique develops her taste for teaching. On Aix-en-Provence CFMI's request, she is dance instructor for musician contributors in schools and she is contributor with amateur French Dance Federation.
She is regularly jury member for Baccalaureat dance option exams.
Graduated as contemporary dance teacher, she joins the teaching staff of the ESDC Rosella Hightower where she teaches young children classes and is in charge of teaching children pedagogy to the students for state professor of dance state diploma.
From September 2007 to July 2009, Dominique is arts studies coordinator at the ESDC Rosella Hightower with Monique Loudières then with Paola Cantalupo.
In September 2009, she joins the Companie Humaine as administration manager.
Cie Humaine's main projects
Self service (2002); Territoire zéro (2003) ; Impression lumières fugitives (2003) ; Les murs (2004) ; Où sont passées...? (2004) ; Sometimes (2005) ; 4.48 Psychose (2006) ; Enola's Children (2006) ; Sarajevo's Diary (2006) ; Absence (2008) ; Libre (2008) ; Un autre rêve américain (2009) ; Corps étranger (2009) ; Petrushka's Journey (documentary 2009) ; Breathing (2009)
guest choreographer
Ballet Junior CNSMD Lyon bord de fuite (2003) ; TanzCompagnie Giessen / Allemagne Prometheusspuren (2004) ; Cannes Jeune Ballet Où sont passées...? (2004) ; Ballett Staatstheater Mainz / Allemagne A Momentary Lapse of Being (2005) & Little Voices In My Head (2007) Cie La Saeta Barbe bleue (2007) ; Teatro all'Improvviso / Italie La casa dei divieti (2008) ; Ballett Theater Hagen / Allemagne Libre (2009) & Absence (2009) ; Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève Etre (2010) ; Cie B.A.L. Les Funambules (2010) ; Ballet national de Marseille Les vertiges de l'immobilité (2010)
Born in Poitiers, he starts his dance studies at the National Conservatoire of Poitiers, and then joins the Paris Opera School (1978/81) and the International Dance Center Rosella Hightower in Cannes (1984/85). He joins the Jeune Ballet de France - dir: Rosella Hightower (85/86) and dances successively the Ballet de l’Opéra d’Avignon - dir: Michel Bruel (86/87), the Ballet Royal de Wallonie - dir: Jorge Lefebre (1987), the Ballet des Temps Modernes - dir: George Michael Bohbot (été 88), the Ballets de Monte-Carlo - dir: Jean-Yves Esquerre (88/92), the Scapino Ballet Rotterdam - dir: Ed Wubbe(92/94), the Compagnie Buissonnière - dir: Philippe Lizon (94/95) and the Ballet du Capitole de Toulouse - dir: Nanette Glushak (1996/2003). He has danced in choreographies by Balanchine, Bournonville, Lifar, Tudor, Cranko, Neumeier, Peter Martins, Lefebre, Richard Tanner, Sappington, Robert North, Lacotte, Dean, Eiffman, Massine, Lizon, Roland Petit, Musin, Maillot, Kylian, Duato, Van Mannen, Maria Vortman, Itzik Gallili, Bruno Jacquin, Mathilde Monnier and Jean-François Duroure, Myriam Naisy, Ed Wubbe, Eric Oberdorff.
In Septembre 2002, Laurent dances the solo Self Service created for him by Eric Oberdorff for the Compagnie Humaine for the opening of the Scènes Ouvertes at the Festival le Temps d’aimer in Biarritz (France).
He joins then the Compagnie Humaine in Septembre 2003. He is in charge of the company's development and management. He is also Eric's assistant for his creations as guest choreographer in France and abroad.
He goes back on stage for the creation of the dance/theater piece Corps étranger, based on the eponymous novel by author Didier Van Cauwelaert, a work comissioned by the Nice Côte d'Azur National Drama Center.
French, after studying dance at the Nice National Conservatoire (1st Prize in 1984) and at the International Dance School of Cannes Rosella Hightower, he joins then the Paris Opera School of Ballet. He dances successively with the Salzburg Landestheater Ballet, with the Monte-Carlo Ballets, with the Zürich Opera Ballet and then again with the Monte-Carlo Ballets. Touring around the world during those 16 years as a dancer, he dances mainly in pieces choreographed by J.Kylian, J.C.Maillot, G.Balanchine, W.Forsythe, L.Childs, J.Uotinen, J.Godani, K.Armitage, J.Neumeier, B.d’At, M.Barcellos, E.Frey, A.Bournonville, R.Petit, M.Fokine, L.Massine, P.Lacotte, S.Lifar, Tudor, B.Bienert, U.Scholtz, etc…
At the same time as dancing, he studies acting and theater directing, and goes on to practise martial arts which he had started before dancing.
In parallel to his dancing career, he creates his first pieces for young choreographers workshops. He is selected in 1997 for the 1st edition of the SiWiC, international workshop for young choreographers in Switzerland. His pieces are performed in different festivals: Berner Tanz Tage 1997, International Dance Festival of Cannes 1997, International Dance Festival of Biarritz “le Temps d’aimer” 2002.
In june 2001, his piece Impression lumières fugitives is awarded the 1st Prize at the International Choreographic Competition of Hanover (Germany) and he is named amongst the outstanding young choreographers of the year 2001 on the Ballett-Tanz Aktuell magazine.
At the autumn 2002, Eric founds the Compagnie Humaine.
In September 2003, he leaves the Monte-Carlo Ballets to dedicate himself to the development of the Compagnie Humaine and to his free-lance career as guest choreographer.
In May 2007, Eric is nominated for the Kurt Joos Prize.
He also takes part in other projects: choreographies for theater plays, teaching «Stage production» at the Nice Sophia-Antipolis University, documentaries, video & short movie works, master-class & workshop teaching and He is regularly asked to be amongst boards of examiners (CNSMD Lyon, CNR TPM, ESDC Rosella Hightower, French National Education, CNR Nice, etc...).
In January 2009, he is awarded by the Grant Committee of the Association Beaumarchais-SACD (French Society of Authors and Composers) for his creation Un autre rêve américain.
Eric is invited to create works by renowned international dance companies such as Ballet National de Marseille, Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève, Ballett Staatstheater Mainz, Ballett Theater Hagen, Tanzcompagnie Giessen, etc...
"... Eric Oberdorff works on a stage of the pain that is often left over, before which many performances often stop. The one which comes after the pain, from the reconstruction, whether intimate or collective. The time of the scar, this magic stage when it closes and becomes trace, and sometimes ornament..."
Eve Beauvallet in Mouvement
