Jean-Marc Puissant
Jean-Marc is a stage and costume designer, researcher and consultant, creating for live arts and exhibitions.
Working across genres and art forms, his practice is rooted in exploring and honouring the identity of distinct art forms, collaborations, and craft. Story-telling, narrative or abstract, is central to Jean-Marc’s practice.
He works internationally, collaborating with leading directors, choreographers, curators and brands on commissions for opera houses, theatres and museums in the UK, USA, Europe, Australia and Japan.
Productions include regular commissions for the Royal Opera House, Metropolitan Opera House and New York’s Lincoln Center, Paris Opera, Vienna State Opera, Théâtre du Châtelet, Sadler’s Wells, Santa Fe, Chicago Lyric and Los Angeles Opera, Sydney Opera House, Tokyo’s Bunkamura and New National Theatre.
His productions have won several Laurence Olivier Awards, South Bank Show Awards and Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards. A finalist of World Stage Design 2013, Jean-Marc was nominated as Best Scenographer at the 2016 Benois de la Danse.
Jean-Marc curated a critically acclaimed program for New York’s 2019 Joyce Theater Festival and was awarded a 2018 Resident Fellowship at New York University, researching a multi-disciplinary project, Kingdom of Shades – Dance Beyond Choreographic Identity.
He trained at the Motley Theatre Design Course, London and studied Art History at La Sorbonne, Paris.
He is a trustee of the Dancers’ Career Development and was a trustee of Dance Umbrella Festival.