Frédéric Flamand

Frédéric Flamand
La Vérité 25x par seconde The Truth 25 times a second Ballet National de Marseille installation by Ai Weiwei
Born	1946 Brussels
Nationality	Belgian
Occupation	Choreographer
Known for	Charleroi / Danses

Frédéric Flamand (born 1946 in Brussels), is a Belgian actor, director, choreographer and dance company director.

Frédéric Flamand founded the "Plan K" dance company in 1973. From 1979 it occupied a former sugar refinery located in Molenbeek. Always a lover of multidisciplinary art, in that location he hosted artists such as Bob Wilson, William Burroughs, Steve Lacy, Decouflé, Marie Chouinard, Joy Division and the Eurythmics.

As director and choreographer Frédéric Flamand worked with many architects including Fabrizio Plessi, and later Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, Zaha Hadid, Jean Nouvel, Thom Mayne and more recently Dominique Perrault and the Campana brothers, seeking primarily to connect the body of the moving dancer to the surrounding architecture.

Appointed head of the former Royal Ballet of Wallonia in 1991, Frédéric Flamand renamed the company Charleroi / Danses. It became the first contemporary dance company in Belgium. Flamand made the institution well known not only in Belgium but also internationally. On 28 February 1998, Maurice Bejart was condemned by the Belgian courts for his choreography of Presbytery which plagiarized an extract from Frédéric Flamand's The Fall of Icarus. In it we see a winged dancer cross the stage with video monitors as shoes.

In September 2004, Frédéric Flamand was appointed general manager of the Ballet National de Marseille and the Marseille National School of Dance. Since 2005 he has been assisted by Eric Vu-An. He was also appointed the artistic director of the International Dance Festival of Cannes for the period 2011-2013.