Lode Devos is a freelance choreographer, dance pedagogue, and                                          former Artistic director of compagnies in Germany and Austria.                                            

                                         Born in Belgium, Lode Devos received his dance education at the                                          "Royal Conservatory of  Dance". He completed his dance                                                      education by aquiring a pedagogical degree in classical                                                      (Vaganova) and Modern Dance (Graham and Jooss technic) in                                            Antwerp at the "Rijksleergangen voor Danspedagogiek" where                                            he also starts his stage experience at the " Dansproject-                                                        Compagnie Aimé de Lignière".

 

                                          He joins after a passage at the renown "Mudra International                                               Brussels" the "Ballet de l 'Europe" under the direction of Jorge                                                 Donn and Kevin Haigen.  Having been a guest Soloist at the                                               "Tanz Forum Köln" under the direction of Jochen Ulrich, he joins                                           the "Béjart Ballet Lausanne" where Maurice Béjart notices his     great improvisatory skill that he uses for his Ballet "Elégie pour elle,L...,Aile!".   From that moment on, Lode continues to interpret and create many soloist roles for Maurice Béjart.

 

His dancing carreer brings him back to the internationnally renown "Tanz Forum Köln", where he gets the opportunity to create his first major choreographies.  He then decides to create his own free dance Company "Mixed pickles" with which he is nominated for the "Tanzpreis Nordrhein-westfalen" for his piece "Fraülein Romeo".  After several years in the free Scene and a short break from the dance world, Lode joins again Jochen Ulrich at the "Tiroler Landestheater" in Innsbruck, where he continues to live his passion for dance as dancer, choreographer, assistant and co-director. 

 

In 2006 Lode Devos is called to take the position of director and house choreographer of the "Chemnitz Ballett" where he creates numerous ballet evenings and where the Company gets rewarded the "German Dance Price".

 

In august 2013, he decided to rest his position at the opera in Chemnitz and to look for new challenges and experiences.

Since, he has created pieces and full ballet evening for the Mecklenburg Staatstheater, Landestheater Coburg, Stadtstheater Cottbus, Stadttheater Augsburg and worked as a teacher both in Europe and in the french Caribbean area.

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In 2017 he participated as teacher and Choreographer to the First edition of the International Estonian dance Festival