Jean-Marc is a set and costume designer, researcher and artistic consultant. He creates for the performing arts and exhibitions. His approach celebrates each art form's unique identity, history and collaboration, with the aim of communicating with an inclusive, contemporary audience. Whether narrative or abstract, storytelling is at the heart of his practice. He collaborates internationally with renowned directors, choreographers, curators and brands, at major opera houses, theaters and museums in the U.S. (Metropolitan Opera House; Lincoln Center; operas in Santa Fe, Chicago Lyric, Los Angeles, St Louis; Brooklyn Museum: Valentino Retrospective), the UK (Royal Opera House; Scottish Opera & Ballet; Sadler's Wells), Europe (Vienna Opera, Théâtre du Châtelet, Venice Biennale), Japan (New National; Bunkamura) and Australia (Australian Ballet).Recent commissions include sets and costumes for Oscar (Wheeldon), Callirhoe (Ratmansky / Gallienne), Tchaikovsky Overtures (Ratmansky), Ballet Impérial (Balanchine), La Boutique (Bond), Soirée Ravel (Breiner / Siegal). Future commissions include Paquita (Legris), Petrushka / Pulcinella (Siegal), Madame Butterfly (Santa Fe, revival). His work has been awarded several Laurence Olivier, South Bank Show and Critics' Circle National Dance Awards, a 2013 World Stage Design finalist and nominated for the 2016 Benois de la Danse.In 2018, he is a research resident at New York University, developing a multidisciplinary project entitled Kingdom of Shadows - Dance beyond its choreographic identity. In 2019, he programmed an evening of dance acclaimed by the New York Times for New York's Joyce Theater Festival. In the UK, he is a member of the jury and committee for the Linbury Prize For Stage Design, and a board member of the Dancers' Career Development Trust, having previously been on the steering committee of Dance Umbrella, London's contemporary dance festival.Jean-Marc studied art history at the Sorbonne and trained at the Motley Theatre Design Course in London. His career began as a dancer with the Stuttgart Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet, interpreting and creating roles in the classical and contemporary repertoires. He studied at the Paris Opera Ballet School and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris.

Jean-Marc PuissantSet design