Mathis Nour is a French dance artist, performance curator, and cultural leader working at the intersection of choreography, visual arts, and cultural policy. He is currently a dancer with the Ballet of the Opéra national du Rhin and the founder and General & Artistic Director of ACEAC – Association for Creation and Emergence in Choreographic Arts, a public-interest organization based in Rouen dedicated to supporting emerging choreographers.

After founding ACEAC in 2023 and serving as its President during its creation and structuring phase, he was appointed General and Artistic Director in 2025, assuming full executive responsibility for the organization. In this role, he leads ACEAC’s strategic, artistic, and operational development, overseeing governance, partnerships, team management, and long-term sustainability.

He has conceived, launched, and fundraised a comprehensive support program for emerging choreographers, combining incubation, curatorial mentoring, professional training, and long-term artistic accompaniment. Under his leadership, ACEAC has gained strong public support at both local and national levels, while also building a robust private funding base. He has personally led fundraising efforts resulting in over €140,000 in private donations, alongside public grants, enabling the organization’s rapid growth and multi-regional deployment.

His training as a performer spans the Conservatoire of Rouen, the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon, and the Korea National University of Arts in Seoul, where he developed an artistic language rooted in intercultural exchange and interdisciplinary practice.

As a performer, he has danced works by David Dawson, Ohad Naharin, Lucinda Childs, LA HORDE, William Forsythe, Béatrice Massin, Mario Schröder, Martin Chaix, Bruno Bouché, and Cécilia Bengolea, and collaborated on performative installations in major contemporary art institutions, including MUDAM Luxembourg and Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen.

Mathis is also the curator of the Journées Émergence Chorégraphiques, a festival held in Rouen dedicated to new choreographic voices and critical dialogue between dance, art, and society. In 2024–2025, he is choreographer-in-residence at the Unterlinden Museum in Colmar.

In 2025, he will choreograph a new production of The Barber of Seville at the Korean National Opera, directed by Eunbi Cho.

Alongside his artistic practice, he holds degrees in performing arts theory (Université Lyon 2), cultural project management (Université de Haute-Alsace), and political science (Sciences Po Grenoble), and is currently studying orchestral conducting at the Conservatoire de Mulhouse. From 2021 to 2023, he served as national representative for the performing arts within CNESERAC (French Ministry of Culture), contributing to national policy on arts education and cultural governance.

He is regularly invited to speak at conferences and professional roundtables on contemporary dance, cultural leadership, and cultural policy, including at the International Festival of Dance in Cannes, the Centre national de la Danse, the French Ministry of Culture, and institutions across Europe and Asia.

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