Antonin Comestaz is a French choreographer based in The Hague (NL). The characteristic of his work is its playful tone and a personal, inventive, and detailed dance vocabulary with elements borrowed from folk, mime, breakdance, commercial dance, ballet, contemporary dance, and cartoons. Within a piece, drastic shifts of styles and genres may occur, knitted together by a refined sensibility for the absurd (which he considers synonymous with humor and defines as something that doesn't make sense but is instinctively understood). Yet Antonin’s spirit can be cruel or dark at times, and the funny twists of reality subtly draw the spectator into a world where the familiar is no longer what it seems. Behind the comic relief and apparent lightness, there is always an awareness of life's emotional contradictions and fluid complexity.

Antonin regularly creates works under the wings of the Korzo production house in The Hague and for various companies and distinguished dance academies. Alongside choreography, Antonin composes music for his works and commissions for other choreographers.

Antonin graduated from the Paris Opera Ballet School in 1999. He went on to dance with the Paris Opera Ballet (1999-2000), the Hamburg Ballet (2000-2008), Tanz Theater München (2008-2010), Ballet Mainz (2010-2012), and Scapino Ballet Rotterdam (2012-2013). During his tenure at these companies, he has created several short pieces, including: "Flesh and Blood," selected at the 22nd International Choreographic Competition Hannover (2008), "Playground" (2009), and "She," which received the 1st prize for the dancer, the 3rd prize for the choreography, and the audience award at the 14th Stuttgart International Solo Dance Theater Festival (2010).

In 2013, Antonin leaped into freelancing as a choreographer. That year, he created the cross-genre piece "Out of the Grey," commissioned by Korzo, which was one year later selected as one of the Priority Companies by the Aerowaves network. In 2015, he created and self-produced the duet "Then, Before, Now, Once More," which has been performed more than … times throughout the Netherlands, and was invited to numerous international choreographic competitions and festivals.

For his first full-evening piece, "Surface Image," he received the prestigious BNG Bank Dance Award 2018, with which he created and toured the duet “Ü.” That same year, he made the solo “Brandon” for dance icon Parvaneh Scharafali, coproduced by Korzo and Netherlands Dance Theater. In 2019, he was invited to create a piece for the ten dancers of the Round House Company in Shenzen. At the end of that year, Korzo and NDT commissioned him to make his third full-evening production, “For All We Know,” which premiered as one of the opening performances of the Holland Dance Festival 2020.

In September 2020, Antonin premiered “Gömböc,” a solo for Ema Yuasa, then “Zèbre” for Sara Angelucci in November 2021, showing two other fine examples of his ability to portray memorable female characters on stage.

In January 2021, he created “2m²,” a dance film showcased and awarded at various Dance Film Festivals.

In 2022, he created “Lamb Limbo” for Scapino Ballet Rotterdam’s program “The Square 2.”

On December 1st, 2023, Antonin celebrated his tenth anniversary as a maker and his farewell to Korzo with a double bill program of his two most recent works: “Ah oui? Pas.” (created for the company Of Curious Nature (Bremen)) and “Stay with Me(!).”, a duet created for the dancers Aya Misaki and Hiro Murata, which has been selected for the 6th edition of RIDCC and the Nederlandse Dansdagen 2024.