AUDITION
JUNIOR EUROPEAN BALLET
The Junior Ballet, created in 2021, is the last year of the dancer-performer course.
In a framework of pre-professional practice, which allows our dancers to go on stage, appropriate the stage, confront the creative process and meet the public.
Composed of two formations, classical and contemporary, supervised by a team of internationally renowned ballet masters, our dancers work in conditions comparable to a company, assimilate pieces from the classical and contemporary repertoire and work alongside choreographers to whom the artistic director order creations.
Masterclasses also punctuate their year, allowing students to enrich their practice of styles, techniques and varied repertoires.
Our collaborators and directors of international companies come every year to follow the artistic evolution of our dancers.
14 speakers per season, allowing our dancers to confront the styles and requirements of the new trends and artistic currents of each company.
Jean Philippe Dury, international choreographer invited by the Basel Ballet, the Leipzig Opera… Has been the artistic director of EBB since its creation with an infinite desire to create, the need to transmit his artistic vision to the world of dance and the responsibility to meet the international demand of programmers and company directors.
His choreographic identity is characterized by the elegance and artistic quality of his interpretation, as well as by a particular sensitivity in the themes he approaches as a creator.
This identity reflects his artistic and professional career. Dury has danced for the most famous international companies such as the Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris, the Ballets de Monte-Carlo, the Compañía Nacional de Danza in Madrid and as a guest of the Grands Ballets de Montréal. Within these companies, he has developed a career that stands out for the versatility of the repertoire performed, from the great classical ballets to contemporary ballets.
We provide our young dancers with our contacts in order to guide them towards professional auditions.
Refining with them a specific interpretation work to meet the requirements of the sector.
JEAN-PHILIPPE DURY
Artistic Director EBB
International Choreographer
Jean-Philippe Dury
Jean Philippe Dury was born in Paris in 1978, where he began his dance studies at the age of six. At eleven, he joined the Ecole de Danse de l'Opéra de Paris, becoming a full member of the ballet 7 years later. He performs in a large number of repertory productions such as Swan Lake, Raymonda, Don Quixote, Sleeping Beauty... Jean-Philippe also took advantage of this period to work with renowned contemporary choreographers: Lionel Hoche, Jean-Claude Gallotta, Laura Scozzi , Maurice Béjart, Pina Bausch, Mats Ek, William Forsythe and Jirí Kylián. In 1998, Jean Philippe won the first St Petersburg Art and Contemporary Prize. In 2001, he won first prize at the Florence International Dance Competition, and a year later was awarded the Grand Prix of the Republic of Italy. During the 2003-04 season, the Paris Opera granted him a sabbatical, during which he joined Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo before returning to Paris to join the Opera as a Coryphée. During these years, Jean Philippe never stopped creating: Fado (1999), Vidalita (2001), Háblame (2003) and Les Jardins du Silence (2006)", choreographies which have all been performed at the Opéra Bastille and the Amphithéâtre de l' Paris Opera during the Danseurs Chorégraphes evenings.
The Paris Opera awarded her the AROP Prize in 2006.
In September 2007, Jean-Philippe left the Paris Opera to accept Nacho Duato's invitation. He then joined the "Compañia Nacional de Danza" in Madrid, as Principal Dancer. In 2009, he joined Les Grands Ballets de Montréal for a season, at the invitation of Gradimir Pankov.
Back in Spain in 2010, he decided to join Compañia Nacional de Danza for the last season of its artistic director Nacho Duato. In 2013, Jean Philippe decided to open the doors of his own company: ELEPHANT IN THE BLACK BOX COMPANY as director and choreographer, and on March 2, 2013, won first prize at the Talent Madrid festival with his latest creation CEL BLACK DAYS.
Jean Philippe Dury is an international choreographer, working for the Leipzig Ballet in Germany, with 2 pieces in the company's repertoire, in Basel, Switzerland, under the direction of Richard Wherlock, and at the Rome Opera.
He was awarded the Unesco Simon Bolivar Prize in 2019 for the best ascending artistic career and was nominated for the Taglioni Dance Awards (Malakhov Prize) for choreographic revelation.
The EBB company performs all over the world, including the United States, South Korea and Europe, and has built up an international reputation in the world of dance.
