Dancer, Choreographer and Ballet Master. Born in Nantes, France, Tony Fabre began studying ballet at the National Conservatoire of Nantes. He continued his dance studies in Brussels and Liège. He joined Germinal Casado’s Karlsruhe Ballet in 1981, where he remained until 1983, when he began dance as a soloist with Maurice Béjart’s Ballet du XXeme Siécle. After six years, he joined the Sadler´s Wells Royal Ballet of London in 1989, working as a principal dancer for one year before moving to Basel in 1990 to join the Basler Ballet, also as principal dancer. In 1991 he joined the Compañía Nacional de Danza in Madrit as Principal Guest Dancer, where he remained until 1997, dancing numerous works by Nacho Duato and other choreographers of international prestige including Jiří Kylián, Mats Ek, Ohad Naharin, William Forsythe and Hans van Manen. During this period he creates two choreographies for the CND Workshop.
In 1997 he began working as a Choreographic Attendee, incorporating Nacho Duato’s numerous ballets into different companies, including the Royal Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet, Berlin Staatsoper, Boston Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, American Ballet Theatre and others. Also he creates different works for IT Dansa and Joven Compañía de Carmen Roche in Spain. He took the reins of a new project in 1999, when he became Co-Artistic Director of Compañía Nacional de Danza 2 (CND2). From then on he has created six choreographies for the Company: Holberg Suite (2000), Rooms (2001), White Man Sleeps (2003), Violon d’ingres (2005), Insected (2008) and Carmen Replay (2010). In 2009 he creates Sea through for the Tulsa Ballet and Ismael for the Béjart Lausanne Ballet. Also, he won the Premio de Coreografía de Danza Villa de Madrid 2009 for Insected.
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