Damien Fontaine
Born in 1975, Damien Fontaine studied piano at the Conservatoire de Nancy alongside his studies as an engineer. His first creation was produced in 2000 and entitled Qumrân: a son et lumière show, premièred in Toul. Selected for the 2005 Fête des LumièresFestival of Lights in Lyon, he designs, together with Daniel Knipper, the show Anscen’danses projected onto the façade of the Saint-Jean Cathedral, as well as the Cascades de Lumières [Ndlt: light waterfalls] for the Colline de Fourvière, and receives his first Trophée des Lumières — four others will follow, in 2009, 2012, 2013 and 2017. In 2014, Damien Fontaine produces a mapping project considered the largest in Europe: iMapp Bucharest 555, projected onto the immense façade (5,500 m2) of the Parliament Building in Bucharest, to mark the city’s 555th birthday. Since its foundation in 2010, La Maison Production has had a special relationship with this creator and has produced the majority of his shows. Damien Fontaine defines himself as a ‘son et lumière sculptor’. He sets great store by the music and rhythm of his shows, but also by their narrative dimension (he designs them as short films).