Introduced to dance by his mother, a teacher of African and contemporary dance, Benjamin Millepied entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Lyon where he studied with Michel Rahn.

After having followed a course at the School of American Ballet, he joined the New York City Corps de Ballet in 1995. Promoted to soloist in 1998 and principal dancer in 2002, Benjamin Millepied has performed the principal roles in ballets by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Peter Martins and appeared in new works by Angelin Preljocaj, Mauro Bigonzetti, Alexei Ratmanski, and Christopher Wheeldon. In 2010, he was choreographer and advisor for the Oscar-winning film Black Swan directed by Darren Aronofsky. In 2011, he left New York City Ballet and made five short dance films to cello pieces by Philip Glass and founded his own company in Los Angeles, L.A. Dance Project, a creative collective seeking to present dance in all its forms. Between 2014 and 2016 Benjamin Millepied is Director of Paris Opera Ballet.

Amélie Coster is an independent curator, performance programmer and producer.

She has worked at the Festival d'Avignon (1997-2000), at the Edna association - created by dancers and choreographers Boris Charmatz and Dimitri Chamblas - (2000-2003), at the Parc de La Villette (2003-2008) and at Vivarium Studio with Philippe Quesne (2009-2011). She then initiates and programmes projects at the crossroads of the visual and performing arts by developing her own structure, Casoar (2012).

She thus collaborates with numerous artists, institutions and private partners. She is co-curator with Dimitri Chamblas of the exhibition 3e scène - Opéra national de Paris / Fonds Hélène et Edouard Leclerc pour la Culture in 2016. She prepared with the curator Emilie Girard the exhibition On danse? presented at the MuCEM from January to May 2019. She has also designed an artistic programme aimed at very young children (0-3 years) for the Crèches de France group. She is currently collaborating on a documentary series on international choreographers, and on some of the actions carried out by PERU, a research laboratory on contemporary forms of hospitality.