Premiere of "Silentium" with the Bolshoi Ballet

Ballet for 10 dancers on the music from Arvo Pärt, "Silentium", the second movement of "Tabula Rasa".

Choreography | Martin Chaix

Set design | Thomas Mika

Costume design | Alexandar Noshpal

Lighting design | Anton Stikhin

Dancers | Svetlana Zakharova, Jacopo Tissi, Alyona Kavalyova, Igor Tsvirko, Eleonora Sevenard, David Motta Suares, Ana Turazashvili, Denis Savin, Marfa Fyodorova, Kirill Sokolovsky

Created the 12th of April 2019 for the Ballett am Rhein Düsseldorf Duisburg

Choreography and Set design | Martin Chaix

Costume design | Aleksandar Noshpal

Light design | Franz-Xaver Schaffer

Music | Intermezzo from K. Penderecki, Piano Sonata no. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 “Pathétique” from L.v. Beethoven, Atmospheres from G. Ligeti

Created the 17th of May 2018 for the Ballet du Rhin

Choreography and costumes | Martin Chaix

Light design | Tom Klefstad

Set design | Matias Tripodi

Ballet for 8 dancers

Created on the 22nd of October 2015 at the Oper Leipzig Spiegelzelt for the Leipzig Ballet

Duration | 15 minutes

Musics | Edith Piaf, Serge Gainsbourg, Boris Vian, Barbara, Léo Ferré

Created for the Ballett am Rhein the 12th of April 2013, b.15 ballet evening.

Set design | Felix Aarts

Costume design | Catherine Voeffray

Music | Concerto for Choir, A. Schnittke

Created the 7th of February 2014 at the Brotfabrik Bühne in Bonn.

Choreographer | Martin Chaix

Set Designer | Felix Aarts

Light Designer | Markus Becker

Camera | Lisa Müller

Linea nigra (Latin for "black line") is a dark vertical line that appears on the abdomen in about three quarters of all pregnancies. Solo for and with Mariana Dias, soloist of the Ballet am Rhein Düsseldorf Duisburg, recent mother of a beautiful boy.

Dancer | Mariana Dias

Choreographic concept, camera and film editing | Martin Chaix

Music | 3 Männerchor, TrV270, No. 2, Traumlicht, composed by Richard Strauss

Thanks to Kulturbüro der Stadt Krefeld and Fabrik Heeder, Germany, for their support

Another short film I shot for the One Minute Dance Film festival.

Dancers | Mariana Dias and Alexandre Simões

Music | “I was just thinking” from Max Richter

One minute film shot for the One Minute Film Festival in Amsterdam. This one was part of the official final selection.

Dancer | Paul Calderone

Music | “Études No. 24, Vivace” from Knudåge Riisager after Carl Czerny

Tribute to the tenacious and hard-working Christian Bloßfeld.

Dancer | Christian Bloßfeld

A short video filmed with an antique digital camera with both my wife Mariana and my dear friend, Ale.

Dancers | Mariana Dias and Alexandre Simões

Music | “Rauhe Pinselspitze pour violoncelle et percussions coréennes” from Klaus Huber