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  Martino Müller is a Swiss choreographer who is based in Amsterdam,The Netherlands.
  He was born in 1963 in the city Aarau in Switzerland.
  It was in 1982 that his dance talent was recognized internationally, when he won the Prix Suisse during the Prix de Lausanne.
  After finishing his education, he became engaged in the Karlsruhe Ballet in Germany. A year later, he joined the Stuttgarter Ballet
  directed by Marcia Hydé. His original interest in classical ballet changed when he came in contact with the contemporary work of Jiri Kylián.
  This meeting enticed Müller to leave Germany and moved to the Netherlands, so that he could fill the position offered to him by the
  Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT 1). Müller developed his skills as a choreographer in 1992, when he was asked to work for NDT II, the junior
  group of the dance company. His first choreography 'Who’s Watching Who' proved to be a striking debut and immediately received a prize:
  the 'Aanmoedigingsprijs from the Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunsten'. In that same year Martino Müller was also invited to work for the
  Festival der Kunste in Bad Gleichenberg, Austria.
  This lead to the production entitled 'A Woman Can Take You To Another Universe– Sometimes She Just Leaves You There'.
  This project was so successful that NDT I included it in its repertoire and asked Müller to create a new piece.
  The premier of this new creation, titled 'Heidi', took place in 1994.
  Due in part to Heidi Müller received another award, the 'Jacob Burchardt Prize' given by the Johan Wolfgang von Goethe Foundation in Basel.
  Müller quit his dancing carrier in 1995 in order to devote himself completely to choreography.

  Since then he has choreographed for various prestigious dance companies, including the Lyon Opera Ballet, the Deutsche Oper Berlin,
  the Komische Oper Berlin, the Gulbenkian Ballet in Portugal, the Stuttgart Ballet, the BalletMet in Columbus, Ohio, and the Swedish Göteborg Ballet.
  Müller’s first choreography for a musical 'Notre Dame de Paris', was nominated for the prestigious Canadian Theater prize Masque de la Contribution Speciale
  in February 2000. In Notre Dame de Paris Müller’s powerful dance language became visible, by using academic ballet technique. He managed to synthesize
  modern dance with elements from acrobatics to form a wonderful apotheosis.
  This large-scale musical had its premiere in the Parisian Palais des Congres September 1998, and has already had 6 different productions visiting many city’s
  all over the world : France “Paris” , Canada “Montreal’ , USA “Las Vegas” , England “London“ ,Spain “Barcelona” , Italy “Rome” and
  in May 2002 in Russia “Moscow” . Notre Dame de Paris is a favourite for visitors in these metropolises and has now attracted over 3 million spectators .

  Müller first full length evening work, is a ballet on the classic Shakespeare 'Romeo and Juliet', made for the Göteborg Ballet.
  It is performed with live orchestra music by Sergei Prokofiev.It is also the first close collaboration with the Dutch visual artist Eduard Hermans who designed
  the set and costumes. The ballet premiered successfully on the 13. October 2001 in Göteborg, Sweden.
  The musical entitled 'Cindy' is a production written by the Canadian Luc Plamondon , with music composed by Italian Romano Musumarra and co- directed by
  Lewis Furey and Gilles Maheu. The premiere was on 25.September 2002 and Müller was responsible for the choreography.

  The latest production is a series of 4 ballet’s with the theme 'Beauty.....'. 'Beauty 1.1' is a 10 minute solo for Gioconda Barbuto (NDT 3) with music from dutch
  composer Willem Jeths. 'Beauty 1.2' is a solo work for Margueritte Donlon and was performed together with 'Beauty 3.0' for Donlon’s dance company
  in Saarbrücken (Germany). Beauty 3.0 is a ballet for 8 dancers and is 45 minutes long and had it’s premiere on April 23. 2004. The music is a collage from
  various Japanese composers. The work for the Basel Ballet, Müller has given the name 'Beauty 2.0' and includes 20 dancers . The music is a Quartet from
  Gavin Brayars and was performed live by the Swiss AMAR Quartet. On April 2. 2004 the premiere was performed in the Schauspielhaus in Basel Switzerland.
  2005 saw the creation of  'Beauty 1.3' (a Korzo Production,in Den Haag, Netherlands), 'Beauty 1.4' (for Frankfurt,Germany),'Eau de la Haye' (in Den Haag, Netherlands),
  and 'Intermissions' (in Grenada,Spain). In 2006 Müller created a ballet for the Tel Aviv Israeli Opera entitled 'Real'.

  Presently Martino is in creation on new (Untitled) show to premiere in 2008........more news soon....