studied acting at the National Institute of the Performing Arts in Brussels and modern dance in Brussels and New York. He began his career as a dancer with Wim Vandekeybus in 1998 and continued his intensive collaboration with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui from 2000. From 2013, his own choreographiesfollowed, such as the highly acclaimed work Vessel with sculptor Kohei Nawa, which premiered at the RHOM Theatre Kyoto in 2016 and was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award 2020 after a year-long tour. In 2016, Jalet was nominated for the German theatre award DER FAUST for THR(O)UGH at the Hessisches Staatsballett. In 2017, he created the film The Ferryman with director Gilles Delmas, Marina Abramović and Ryuichi Sakamoto, which screened at the Palazzo Fortuny during the Venice Biennale. He realised his first opera project Pelleas and Melisande together with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Marina Abramović at the Antwerp Opera in 2018. Also in 2018, he created the choreography for the film Suspiria, directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Tilda Swinton, among others, with original music by Thom Yorke (Radiohead). In 2019, he choreographed the completely danced film Anima at the Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Thom Yorke, who also scored the film music. For this, he won the ‘Best Choreography’ award at the UK Music Video Awards, after the film had previously been nominated for a Grammy. In the same year, Jalet became Madonna’s creative consultant for her first theatre tour Madame X, in which he choreographed the show’s opening number and the film/live duet between Madonna and her daughter Lourdes for the song Frozen, among other things. Most recently, his new creation Mist for the Nederlands Dans Theater premiered in 2022 as a multidisciplinary dance film. Damien Jalet was appointed ‘Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters’ by the French government in 2013.