Mauricio Wainrot

Mauricio Wainrot, is currently Artistic Director of Ballet Contemporaneo del Teatro San Martin of Buenos Aires. He has been a Permanent Guest Choreographer of The Royal Ballet of Flanders, Belgium, since 1991 and created for this Dance Company 11 successful ballets :
Carmina Burana, Le Sacre du Printemps, Messiah, Firebird, Looking through Glass, Beyond Memory, Wayfarer Songs, Tango Plus, The 8 Seasons, Distant Ligh and Journey.
Wainrot is a former Artistic Director of Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal, of Canada, and Grupo de Danza Contemporanea of Teatro San Martin of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
He studied at the Teatro Colon High School Of Arts in Buenos Aires and danced as principal guest dancer with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, the Teatro Municipal Ballet of Rio de Janeiro, the Ballet de Camara of Caracas, the Ballet Contemporaneo of Buenos Aires and the Grupo de Danza Contemporanea of Teatro San Martin (Buenos Aires).
Wainrot left Argentina in 1986, invited by Ulf Gaad, Artistic Director of the Goteborg Opera of Sweden, to stage Anne Frank, Symphony of Psalms and Three Argentine Dances. Due to the success of this program, he was invited to set his works and to create new ones for companies in Europe and in America.
More than forty companies, premiered Wainrots works in the last 16 years. Among which are the English National Ballet, Royal Ballet of Flanders, Royal de Wallonie, Staatstheater Hannover (Opera) and the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, ( Opera) in Germany, Julio Bocca and Ballet Argentino, The Cincinnati Ballet, Richmond Ballet, The Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, the Ballet Florida, the Juilliard Dance Ensemble, the Bat Dor Dance Company of Israel, Les Ballet Jazz de Montreal, The National Ballet of Mexico, Ballet Nacional Chileno, Ballet de Santiago and Ballet of Teatro Colon
Wainrot has been nominated for the International Dance Award Benois de la Danse 2003 for Distant Light, in Moscow at the Boslhoi Theater. (One of the most important Dance Award of the world).
In 1993 and 1998 the Choo-San Goh Choreographic Award Foundation, awarded two of his works : “Perpetual Motion ” that was created for the Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and  Now and Then for the Richmond Ballet. In 1991, 1994, 1998 and 1999 the Chilean Critics Association awarded him with the APES Prize, for Best Production of the year for Anne Frank, 4 Janis For Joplin, Libertango, and Messiah, respectively. In 1999 he won the Konex Platinium Prize in Argentina as Best Choreographer of the Decade, in Argentina Premio Teatros del Mundo 1999 for Messiah, in the 2000 for his work A Streetcar Named Desire has been awarded twice, with the Trinidad Guevara Prize and Ace Prize, – Argentinean Critics Association- as Best dance Production of the Year 2000. In 2001 Award Teatro XXI for Now and Then.
He was a jury member of the Concurso Coreografico de la Villa de Madrid in 1992 and in the Dance world Montecarlo Competition in the year 2000.
From 1987 to 1990, he was the resident choreographer of Les Ballet Jazz de Montreal and from 1989 to 1991, permanent guest choreographer for the Hildesheim Stadttheater in Germany.
Wainrot has been a guest teacher at MUDRA International ( Bejarts Company School) in Brussels, at the Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunste Frankfurt, and in Buenos Aires at the Teatro Colon High School Of Arts and the Taller de Danza of Teatro San Martin.
He has been durin 2007 a Jury at the Benois de la Danse Award in moscow, and at the New York International Ballet Competition.
He has staged Carmina Buarna and Messiah for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet.
On October 17, the RWB will the world premiere of Carmen the Passion