He was born in Casablanca, Morocco on 6/8/1934. He studied dance with Nicolas Zverev and Nina Léontieff. In 1955, he made his first appearance on stage with Paul Goubé’s group and the Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas. From 1957 to 1970, he worked as a dancer and set designer with Maurice Béjart’s Ballet of the 20th Century (Ballet du XXe siècle). As a leading interpreter, he danced in more than fifty ballets: Le Sacre du Printemps, Prométhée, Don Juan, Roméo et Juliette, Mathilde ou l’Amour fou, Bhakti, etc. As a set designer he contributed in successful productions of the Ballet of the 20th Century: Les Contes d’Hoffmann, La Veuve Joyeuse, Les Oiseaux, La Damnation de Faust, La Tentation de Saint Antoine. As a costume designer, he did the costumes in significant theatrical productions in France (1966-1972). As an actor, he worked with Ariane Mnouchkine (1968) and performed at the Avignon Festival, in New York and in Brussels. When he stopped dancing, he continued to direct, choreograph and design sceneries for operas, operettas and musicals (Barcelona, Darmstadt, Athens, Lisbon, Hague, Milan). From 1977 to 1998, he was the director and choreographer of the Danza Vita theater company in Karlsruhe. For the GNO, he did the choreography and costumes in four ballets: Thirteen Spanish Folk Songs [Dekatria laïka ispanika tragoudia, 1975-1976], L’Arlesiana (1975-76), El amor brujo (1976-77), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1992-93). He published books on dance, his sceneries and his collaboration with Maurice Béjart. He was awarded the Cross of Virtue by the German State for his promotion of German culture. // Last update of the biography: November 2018 - The list of the productions below will be added soon.