Diavolo Architecture in Motion

Specialties

Dance Performance & Arts Education

History

Established in 1992.

DIAVOLO | Architecture in Motion (simply known as DIAVOLO) is an American dance company founded by Jacques Heim in 1992. The company’s repertoire presents dance that is redefined «through dynamic movement, enlightening communities through trust, teamwork, and individual expression» as articulated in the company’s mission statement. Beginning with Bonjour/​Sleepwalking, which was choreographed in 1992, Heim has created and continues to create pieces that epitomize the Diavolo aesthetic emphasized in the mission statement.

Diavolo’s first full-​evening length work, Catapult, was created in 1999, which was also the year of the first full North American tour for the company.

Diavolo recently collaborated with the Los Angeles Philharmonic to create a trilogy of dance works performed at the Hollywood Bowl. In 2007, Foreign Bodies premiered, followed by Fearful Symmetries in 2010. In 2013, Fluid Infinities, completed the trilogy on the Hollywood Bowl stage.

Meet the Business Owner

Jacques H.

Business Owner

Jacques Heim is a French-​born dance choreographer who founded Diavolo Dance Theater in 1992 after graduating from California Institute of the Arts. He was born and raised in Paris, France. As a young man, Heim moved to New York, and shortly thereafter received his BFA in Theater, Dance, and Film at Middlebury College in Vermont. He then moved to England and received his Certificate for Analysis and Criticism of Dance from University of Surrey. After his stay in England he came back to America, only this time to California, where he would receive his MFA in Choreography from the California Institute of the Arts.