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Javier De Frutos Videos

Elsa Canasta | Director/Choreographer
"Wilkommen" Cabaret | Opening of The Olivier Awards 2013 | Choreographer
Elysian Fields | The Rambert Dance Company | Director/Choreographer
Fiction | Director/Choroegrapher
Pet Shop Boys | Act One The Grind
Nopalitos | Director Choreographer

Javier De Frutos Biography

Javier De Frutos, acclaimed Latinx director, choreographer and designer (born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1963) was named one of the most influential people in the UK by the Evening Standard in 2016. In addition, he is one of only three artists in the history of the Olivier Awards to have received nominations in all dance categories. His awards include the 2007 Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreography for CABARET, the 2011 Evening Standard Award for THE MOST INCREDIBLE THING (in collaboration with Pet Shop Boys), two 2005 Critics Circle Awards for MILAGROS (Royal New Zealand Ballet) and ELSA CANASTA (Rambert and Scottish Ballet), the 2004 Time Out Award for SOUR MILK (Candoco Dance Company), the 1997 South Bank Show award for GRASS, and the Prix de Auteur in the 1996 Concours de Seine-Saint Denis in Paris.

Further credits include the National Theatre’s production of LONDON ROAD, winner of the Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, and for which he received an Olivier Award nomination for the stage version, and the 2017 Chita Rivera Award for best choreography in a feature film for the screen adaptation. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, the Tim Rice musical which he premiered on the West End, was nominated for the 2014 WhatsOnStage Award for Best Choreography, and his work on THE ANATOMY OF A PASSING CLOUD (Royal New Zealand Ballet) was nominated for the 2016 Olivier Award and the 2017 National Dance Award.

His work in music video has been recognized with a nomination for best choreography from the 2012 UK Music Video Awards for his collaboration with Jake Nava in Delilah’s INSIDE MY LOVE.

In 2000, the South Bank Show dedicated a full feature to his work which was nominated at the Royal Society Television Awards for Best Arts Documentary. De Frutos also became the first recipient of The Arts Council of England Fellowship, through which he studied extensively the works of Tennessee Williams.

In 2011, the BBC aired his project, THE MOST INCREDIBLE THING, and its US premiere took place in Charlotte, North Carolina in March 2018. In that same year, De Frutos was invited by the McColl Center to be their Artist in Residence. He was the first director/choreographer in their history to be given such an honor.

In 2017, De Frutos directed the highly acclaimed production of Phillip Glass’ opera LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES, a collaboration between The Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet.

Most recently, two of his short films THE BURNING BUILDING and WHOEVER YOU ARE have been internationally recognised in several film festivals, gathering an impressive list of accolades including Best Indie, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.

De Frutos is currently in development on a stage adaptation of Daniel Karslake’s seminal documentaries FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO & FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO.

 

Javier De Frutos Resume

Javier De Frutos Live Stage

ELSA CANASTA (Revival) - 2023
Director/Choreographer
Wroclaw Opera Ballet, Wroclaw, Poland
Celebrity Cruises "Arte"
Director
Spotlight Productions DBA Greystone Creative Group
"8:38" - Viviana Durante Dance Company
Choreographer/Director
Wilton Music Hall, London
Artist in Residence - McColl Center for Art + Innovation
Charlotte, North Carolina
"The Most Incredible Thing" (US premiere) w/ Pet Shop Boys
Choreographer/Director
Charlotte, North Carolina
"Elsa Canasta" (US Premiere) feat. Tony Award Winner Levi Kreis
Choreographer/Director
Charlotte, North Carolina
"The Title is in The Text"- BalletBoyz and collab. with Pop Legend Scott Walker
Choreographer/Director
Sadler’s Wells, London
"Fiction" - BalletBoyz
Choreographer/Director
Sadler’s Wells, London
"Thresh/Hold" - Pilobolus
Choreographer/Director
American Dance Festival, North Carolina
"The Hawk" collab. w/ Turner Prize winner Simon Starling
Choreographer
The Common Guild in Glasgow and The Japan Society in New York
"Elsa Canasta" - Revival, Scottish Ballet
Choreographer/Director
Glasgow, Scotland
"First and Wait" - Commissioned by The Royal Opera House feat. Edward Watson and Wendy Whelan
Linbury Theatre, London
"3 With D" - featuring Royal Ballet Principal Edward Watson and singer/pop star Dan Gillespie Sells
Choreographer/Director
Coliseum, London
"Anatomy of a Passing Cloud" - Royal New Zealand Ballet
Director/ Choreographer/ Costume Design
Wellington, NZ
"The One Played Twice" - Ballet Black
Choreographer/ Director/ Costume Design
Linbury Theatre, London
"2 for C" - Candoco Dance Company
Choreographer/ Director/ Costume Design
London
"Studies for C" - Candoco Dance Company
Choreographer/ Director/ Costume design
London
"Elysian Fields" - Rambert Dance Company
Choreographer/Director
Sadler’s Wells London
The Most Incredible Thing w/ Pet Shop Boys
Choreographer/Director
Sadler’s Wells London
"Eternal Damnation to Sancho and Sanchez"
Choreographer/Director
Sadler’s Wells, London
"Blue Roses" - Phoenix Dance Theatre
Choreographer/Director
Sadler’s Wells, London
"Cattle Call" The Musical
Choreographer/Director
Phoenix Dance Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
"Paseillo"
Choreographer/Director
Phoenix Dance Theatre, Sadler’s Wells London - Critics Circle Circle National Dance Awards 2008 (Nomination)
"Los Picadores" - Phoenix Dance Theatre
Choreographer/Director
Sadler’s Wells Theatre
"Nopalitos" - Phoenix Dance Theatre
Choreographer/Director
Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London
"El Uno y Medio"
Choreographer/Director
Royal Opera House, London
"By The Heavenly Grass" - Gothenburg Ballet
Director/Choreographer/ Set and Costume design
Gothenburg, Sweden
"Banderillero" - Royal New Zealand Ballet
Director/Choreographer/ Costume Design
Wellington, NZ
"J Edna and Mother Tolson" - Gothenburg Ballet
Choreographer/Director
Gothenburg, Sweden
"The Celebrated Soubrette" - Revival for Royal New Zealand Ballet
Choreographer/Director
Wellington, NZ
"Los Piadosos" - Nuremberg Ballet
Director/ Choreographer/ Set and Costume Design
Nuremberg, Germany
"Milagros" - Royal New Zealand Ballet
Director/Choreographer/ Costume Design
"Wade In the Water" - Companhia Instavel
Director/ Choreographer/ Set and Costume Design
Porto, Portugal
"Sour Milk" - Candoco
Choreographer/Director
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
"But The Virgin was more Available"
Choreographer/Director
Suzanne Dellal Centre, Tel Aviv, Israel
"Solitary Virgin"
Choreographer/Director
Festival d' Avignon, France
"Elsa Canasta" - Rambert Dance Company
Choreographer/Director
The Lowry, Manchester
"I Hastened through my Death Scene to Catch your Last Act" - Candoco
Choreographer/Director
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
"The Misty Frontier" - The Royal Ballet
Director/Choreographer/ Costume Design
Linbury Theatre, London
"The Celebrated Soubrette" - Rambert Dance Company
Choreographer/Director
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
"Affliction of Loneliness"
Choreographer/Director
Ljubiana, Slovenia
"The Long Road to Mazatlán" collab. with visual Artist Isaac Julian
Choreographer /Script/ Producer/ Actor
"Vagabondia"
Choreographer
Dir. Isaac Julian
"Mazatlan"
Choreographer/Director
Vienna, Austria
"The Hypochondriac Bird"
Choreographer/Director
Lisbon, Portugal
"The Fortune Biscuit"
Choreographer/Director
The Rotterdam Dance Group, Netherlands
"Grass"
Choreographer/Director
The Place Theatre, London
"All Visitors Bring Happiness Some By Coming Some By Going" - Ricochet Dance Company
Choreographer/Director
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
"The Golden Impossibility"
Choreographer/Director
Lisbon, Portugal
"Out of J" - Ricochet Dance Company
Choreographer/Director
The Place Theatre, London
"E Muoio Disperato" - Ricochet Dance Company
Choreographer/Director
Queen Elizabeth Hall , London
"Carnal Glory"
Choreographer/Director
Centre George Pompidou, Paris
"Transatlantic"
Choreographer/Director
"Sweetie J"
Choreographer/Director
Purcell Room, London
"Meeting J"
Choreographer/Director
Purcell Room, London
"The Palace Does not Forgive"
Choreographer/Director
ICA London
"Dialogue between Hemispheres" UK
Choreographer/Director
Jota Dolce
Choreographer/Director
Parc Guell, Barcelona
"Meeting B"
Choreographer/Director
DIA Center for the Arts, NYC
"The Montana Affair"
Choreographer/Director
DIA Center for the Arts, NYC
"Consecration"
Choreographer/Director
DIA Center for the Arts, NYC
"D" NYC
Choreographer/Director

Javier De Frutos Theatre

Cabaret - Revival of Olivier Award winning production
UK Tour
Life of Galileo
Movement Director
Young Vic
Les Enfants Terribles
Director/Choreographer
Philip Glass Opera /Ballet produced by The Royal Ballet and The Royal Opera House Barbican, London
Everyman
Choreographer/ Musical Staging
National Theatre
London Road
Choreographer/Movement Director
National Theatre, London
Table
Movement Director
National Theatre
From Here to Eternity
Choreographer/Movement Director
Shaftesbury Theatre, West End, London
Cabaret
Choreographer/Musical Staging
Savoy Theatre London
Ragtime
Choreographer/Musical Staging
Regent's Park (Open Air Theatre), London
Death and the Kings Horseman
Choreographer/Musical Staging
National Theatre, London
Cabaret
Choreographer/ Musical Staging
Lyric Theatre West End, London
Carousel
Choreographer/Musical Staging
Chichester Festival Theatre

Javier De Frutos Television

Kamasutra
Choreographer
Sky Arts and Balletboyz
Game of Thrones - Pilot
HBO, Dir. Tom McCarthy
Vegas Dreams
Choreographer/Researcher
Sky Arts
South Bank Show
Royal Society Of Television Awards 2000 Best Documentary

Javier De Frutos Music Videos

Inside My Love with Delilah
UK Music Video Awards Best Choreography 2012 (Nomination)
We Are Golden with Mika

Javier De Frutos Film

Whoever You Are (Short Film)
Director/Choreographer
Adapted Screenplay
The Burning Building (Short Film)
Director/Choreographer
Commissioned by Carlos Acosta for Birmingham Royal Ballet
Dance Camera West
Grand Jury Member
Los Angeles, CA
Festival Video Andanza Internacional
Grand Jury Member/Curator
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Dance in Focus Film Festival: Reflections
Grand Jury Member
The Music Center, Los Angeles, CA
London Road
Choreographer/ Movement Director
BBC/National Theatre Production

Javier De Frutos Commercials/ Digital

Welcome Home T-Mobile
Choreographer/Movement Director

Javier De Frutos Corporate

Urban Revivo - Spring 18 Fashion Campaign
Choreographer/ Movement Director
Morocco
Urban Revivo - Spring 18 Fashion Campaign
Choreographer/ Movement Director
Peru

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