Dimitri Chamblas is a choreographer, director, and cultural leader whose work expands dance beyond the stage into social, architectural, and interdisciplinary contexts. Since his early collaboration with Boris Charmatz on À bras-le-corps (1993), he has developed an international practice shaped by dialogue, experimentation, and a strong sense of encounter.

His collaborators span dance, music, visual art, film, fashion, and literature, including William Forsythe, Benjamin Millepied, Kim Gordon, Nile Rodgers, Claire Tabouret, Barbara Hannigan, Jonas Kaufmann, and Bret Easton Ellis. Across these projects, he approaches choreography as a shared language that moves fluidly between disciplines and audiences.

He founded and led 3e Scène at the Opéra national de Paris, commissioning original digital works by international artists. He later served as Dean of Dance at California Institute of the Arts, where he supported new approaches to interdisciplinary education and artistic research. His work has been presented by leading institutions including Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Performa, NYU Skirball, and Musée du Louvre.

Through his studio and as co-artistic director of BODY LIVE LIVE MUSIC with curator Kate Nordstrum, Chamblas develops projects that bring together professional and non-professional performers in large-scale, site-responsive works. Across all contexts, he uses dance as a way to connect people, activate spaces, and rethink the relationship between artists, audiences, and institutions. The New York Times has praised his “gift for making the ordinary seem quietly profound.”