Biography
Born in 1967 in Roanne, France, Franck Chartier has been joint artistic director of Peeping Tom alongside Gabriela Carrizo since the company was founded in 2000. He started dancing when he was 11, and his mother sent him aged 15 to study classical dance at the Rosella Hightower school in Cannes. After graduating, he joined Maurice Béjart’s Ballet du 20ème Siècle, working with him from 1986 to 1989. He then spent three years with Angelin Preljocaj, and danced in Le spectre de la rose at the Opéra de Paris.
In 1994 he moved to Brussels to dance in Kinok (1994) with the Rosas company, then worked on duets with Ine Wichterich and Anne Mousselet, but also in productions for Needcompany (Tres, 1995) and Ballets C de la B: La Tristeza Complice (1997), Iets op Bach (1997) and Wolf (2002). In 2013, Chartier created 33 rue Vandenbranden for the Göteborg Opera Ballet, an adaptation of the Peeping Tom piece 31 rue Vandenbranden. In the same year, he created the choreography for Jérôme Deschamps’ opera Marouf, savetier du Caire at the Opéra Comique de Paris. With Nederlands Dans Theater, he created The lost room, a sequel to Gabriela Carrizo’s The missing door (2013).
Franck Chartier won the prestigious Zwaan award in 2016 for The lost room as the season’s most impressive dance production. In 2017, he presented his second short piece with NDT, The hidden floor, thus concluding the Adrift trilogy, which also includes The missing door and The lost room. For the Ballet de l’Opéra National de Lyon, he and Gabriela Carrizo adapted 31 Rue Vandenbranden, which opened the Biennale de la danse de Lyon in September 2018. Two years later he created Didon & Enee, a collaboration between Peeping Tom, Concert d’Astrée and the Grand Théâtre de Genève; followed in 2022 by Oiwa, a duet created with and for the dancers of the Ballet National de Marseille.