Martin Dauchez
Since Martin Dauchez joined the Norwegian National Ballet in 2011, he has danced roles including the Nutcracker Prince in Boyadjiev’s The Nutcracker, Jørgen Tesman in Moum Aune’s Hedda Gabler, Lensky in Cranko’s Onegin, Lescaut in MacMillan’s Manon, Mercutio and Paris in Romeo and Juliet, the Prince in Spuck’s Sleeping Beauty, and Hilarion and the peasant pas de deux in Giselle.
He has also performed prominent roles in works such as Kylián’s One of a Kind, Gods and Dogs and Petite Mort. In 2025, he was nominated for Dance Europe’s Critics’ Choice Award in the category Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer for his interpretation of Emeralds in Balanchine’s Jewels.
Dauchez has furthermore appeared in Balanchine’s Agon, Serenade and Theme and Variations; Duato’s Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness; Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude and In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated; Scarlett’s Carmen and The Firebird; and León & Lightfoot’s Sleight of Hand.
A native of France, Dauchez also works as a costume designer. He designed the costumes for Cina Espejord’s A Tale of Swan Lake, Emma Portner’s islands, and Jensen/Touret’s Afternoon of a Faun, and created both the set and costume designs for Parish’s Raymonda Suite. He trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP).
Performances
Selection of previous acts
- 1. Pas de deux in Balanchine: Jewels
- 3 Solo Menn in Portner/Kylian/Balanchine
- Blomstervals par in The Nutckracker
- Blomstervals par in The Nutcracker
- Blomstervals par in The Nutcracker
- Blomstervals par in The Nutcracker
- Bout of the Imperfect Pearl in Baroque Movement
- Chroma in A Night of Dance x 12
- Des Grieux in Manon
- Drosselmeyer in The Nutcracker
- Faun - Elsker in Faun/Boléro/Canvas
- Giselle: Albrecht in Lyset på Nasjonalballetten
- Gods & Dogs in A Night of Dance x 12
- Gods and Dogs in Ekman / Haagenrud / Kylián
- Hatten in MATS EK: She Was Black + A Sort Of
- Hilarion in Giselle
- Hilarion in Giselle
- Hovedpar in Diamonds: León & Lightfoot/Balanchine
- Jean de Brienne in Klassisk Mesteraften: Swan Lake Act 2, Raymonda Suite, New Work
- Jørgen Tesman in Hedda Gabler
- La Sylphide in Norwegian National Ballet in the open air
- Ludovic in Mesteraften: Tetley/McGregor/Lynch
- Lysander in A Midnight Sun's Dream
- Menn in MATS EK
- Menn in MATS EK …
- Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet
- Nasjonalballetten in Jocasta´s Line
- Nøtteknekkerprinsen in The Nutcracker
- Nøtteknekkerprinsen in The Nutcracker
- Nøtteknekkerprinsen in The Nutcracker
- One of a kind in Kylián: One of A Kind
- Par 1 in Kylián Festival: Day before Tomorrow
- Par 2 in Kylián Festival: Day before Tomorrow
- Par 3 in Kylián Festival: Day before Tomorrow
- Pas de Trois in Mesteraften: Tetley/McGregor/Lynch
- Prins 1 in Sleeping Beauty
- Prins in Sleeping Beauty
- Solistpar menn in Balanchine: Jewels
- Symfoni i C - 4. sats in An Evening with the Masters: White Nights
- Tesman in Hedda Gabler
- Vespertine in Baroque Movement
- Wago in Norwegian National Ballet in the open air