Jacques Cesbron
Professor of Music (Ballet)
Contact Information:
cesbronj
[at]
indiana [dot] edu
(cesbronj@indiana.edu)
Musical Arts Center, MC330
Department
Biography
Jacques Cesbron was a dancer with the Paris Opera Ballet, a soloist with the Harkness Ballet, and principal dancer with Pennsylvania Ballet Company and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet.
Mr. Cesbron is a former teacher with at the Joffrey Ballet, Dance Theater of Harlem, Connecticut College, and Theatre du Silence. He has served as guest teacher with the American Ballet Theatre Company and its Intensive Summer Program.
He has done extensive choreography, including new productions of The Nutcracker, The Rite of Spring, Les Noces, Daphnis et Chloe, and Madame Bovary for the Indiana University Ballet Theater.
Mr. Cesbron was awarded an Indiana Arts Commission Fellowship for Choreography for Carmina Burana. Five of his works were created in collaboration with faculty composers in the School of Music.