Clémentine Deluy

Clémentine Deluy (born in Marseille and based in Wuppertal) began her training in classical dance at the Ecole Nationale de Marseille. After studying at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique et Danse de Lyon, she enrolled at the Folkwang Universität der Künste Essen in 1998. Clementine joined Sasha Waltz & Guests in 2002 and performed in works such as noBody, Körper, insideout, Impromptus, and Dido and Aeneas. In 2006, she became a member of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, where she danced in 17 works from the repertoire and participated in two new productions: Bamboo Blues and Como el musguito en la Piedra ay si, si, si. At Pina Bausch’s request, she learned and performed her role in Café Müller. Since 2014, Clémentine has resumed collaborations with Sasha Waltz & Guests (Kreatur, Exodus, Rauschen, Elbphilharmonie Opening, Beethoven 7), and has joined new choreographic works with Pascal Merighi, Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola, and Fabien Prioville. April 2026, in Berlin, she is one of the interprete of the piece Escape Valse, regie Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola, with the Stegreif Orchestra. On November 13, 2026, Clémentine's new work, Pas de deux, a duet co-written and co-choreographed with Nicola Mascia, will premiere in Wuppertal. She appeared in the film Pina directed by Wim Wenders and the documentary Dancing Pina by Florian Heinzen-Ziob. In 2019, Clémentine was one of the artistic directors of the revival of Iphigenie auf Tauris, a work by Pina Bausch, for the Semperoper in Dresden, a project led by the Pina Bausch Foundation. That same year, she joined the project Commons ground[s]. Das Frühlingsopfer. In 2021, she became one of its artistic directors. In 2027, Clementine will be the artistic director on the restaging of Orpheus und Eurydike (Choreography: Pina Bausch) for Bayerisches Staatsballett . In October 2023, Clémentine was nominated for the Deutscher TheaterPreis Der Faust. She regularly shares the dance legacy of the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen through the international workshops she leads.

(Information as of November 2026)