Dominique Drillot

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Biography

Dominique Drillot is a set and lighting designer as well as a versatile visual artist. He created his first set for Jean-Christophe Maillot, with whom he collaborates regularly. He has developed this scenography–choreography relationship with other artists, including Lucinda Childs, Ramon Oller, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, and Josette Baïz. Over his career, he has created or revived more than two hundred works for the world’s most prestigious companies as both set and lighting designer.

From 2003 to 2023, he was a professor at the Pavillon Bosio, École Supérieure d’Arts Plastiques of the City of Monaco, where he taught scenography. He directed a creative workshop within the institution dedicated to performing arts, which regularly collaborates with the Ballets de Monte-Carlo. The school’s project, Art & Scénographie, allowed him to explore various research topics and reflections on space, digital arts, and lighting.

The Nouveau Musée National de Monaco invited him for the exhibitions Étonnez-moi, focused on the Ballets Russes, and Looking Up, which displayed dozens of scale models from 20th-century Opéra de Monte-Carlo productions that he had lit. He has also exhibited his own scenography projects, primarily composed of lit scale models, at the most recent Prague Quadrennial and in Arnhem, Netherlands, featuring the archives of his collaborations with Lucinda Childs.

In November 2010, Prince Albert II of Monaco named him Knight of the Order of Cultural Merit of the Principality. Among his recent work are collaborations with American choreographer Lucinda Childs, as well as set and lighting designs for Julien Guérin, Jean-Christophe Maillot, and Yang Yuntao.

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