Éric Gauthier
Artistic Director - Gauthier Dance
Born in Montreal, Éric Gauthier entered the École supérieure de ballet at the age of nine, continued his studies at Canada's National Ballet School, and joined the National Ballet of Canada at 17. In 1996, he followed his artistic director and mentor Reid Anderson to the Stuttgart Ballet in Germany, where he performed the most beautiful roles in classical and modern dance. Since 2007 Gauthier has been the director of Gauthier Dance, resident company of the Theaterhaus Stuttgart.
It only took Éric Gauthier a few years to make it from charismatic soloist of the Stuttgart Ballet to high-profile international choreographer and artistic director of one of Germany's most successful companies.
Top companies worldwide have taken Gauthier's works into their repertoire, amongst others the Staatsballett Berlin, the St. Petersburg Mariinsky Ballet, the Stuttgart Ballet, Scapino Ballet Rotterdam or Het Nationale Ballet Amsterdam. He is also known for his forays into other genres, for example with choreographies for the stage show of panda rapper Cro, the cinema hit Mackie Messer – Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018), the Keep on Dancing campaign of the fashion company Marc Cain or the Grand Show ARISE at the Friedrichstadtpalast Berlin (both in 2021). Moreover, Gauthier can now also be seen in front of the camera – as the presenter and dance expert of the SWR documentary series Dance Around the World, which takes the television audience to the world's great dance cities. Éric Gauthier has also made a name for himself as a festival maker: The biennial COLOURS International Dance Festival, conceived by Gauthier and produced by Theaterhaus Stuttgart, has become an important Dance event since 2015.
Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart is the German Highlight in the yearbook 2022 of the specialist magazine tanz. Personal kudos for Eric Gauthier include the German Dance Prize »Future« 2011 in the category Choreography as well as two titles in the yearbook of the specialist magazine tanz, as a Great Hope 2016 and in the category Groundbreaking 2022.