Frédéric Flamand

[1] He was interested in interdisciplinary work and hosted artists such as Bob Wilson, William S. Burroughs, Steve Lacy, Decouflé, Marie Chouinard, Joy Division, and the Eurythmics.

As director and choreographer, Flamand worked with many architects, including Fabrizio Plessi, Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, Zaha Hadid, Jean Nouvel, Thom Mayne, and more recently, Dominique Perrault and the Campana brothers, working to connect the dancer's body to the surrounding architecture.

[1] Flamand was appointed head of the former Royal Ballet of Wallonia in 1991 and renamed the company Charleroi / Danses.

[2] On February 28, 1998, Maurice Bejart was condemned by the Belgian courts for his choreography of Presbytery, which plagiarized an extract from Flamand's 1989 "The Fall of Icarus".

1972: "Lunapark"[4] and "Tramp"[5] (went on tour and performed at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York City) 1980: "Quarantine" 1984: "Scan Lines" 1987: "If Pyramids Were Square" 1989: "The Fall of Icarus" with Fabrizio Plessi 1992: "Titanic" with Fabrizio Plessi 1994: "Ex Machina" with Fabrizio Plessi 1994: "Hull and Machinery" 1996: "Speed and Memory" 1996: "Moving Target" with Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio[6] 1998: "EJM 1 and 2" 'with Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio 1998: "Gender" 2000: "Metapolis" with Zaha Hadid 2000: "The Future of Work" with Jean Nouvel 2001: "Body / Work / Leisure" with Jean Nouvel 2003: "Silent Collisions" with Thom Mayne 2005: "Eight" in collaboration with Marion Ballester 2005: "The Radiant City" with Dominique Perrault[7] 2006: "Metapolis II" with Zaha Hadid 2007: "Metamorphosis" with Humberto and Fernando Campana[8] 2009: "The Trouble of Narcissus"[9] 2010: "The Truth 25 times a second" with Ai Weiwei