Air Guitar is Eric Gauthier’s humorous homage to his favorite instrument. In 1996 Gauthier came to Stuttgart, Germany from Montreal at the age of 18 to join the Stuttgart Ballet. He spoke no German and knew no one in the city.
After his rehearsals in the theater, he spent his time with his guitar,
practicing and writing songs. In 2001, parallel to his dancing career, he
founded a band for which he writes the music and lyrics as well as sings and plays guitar. The band has released two CDs and has become a permanent fixture in the rock and pop scene in Stuttgart. About the world premiere of Air Guitar in 2007 for the Noverre Society’s „Young Choreographers“ program, Tanznetz wrote: „Eric Gauthier is bound to go down in ballet history as the inventor of the cabaret-ballet… [his] ballet satires are a wonderful enrichment of this usually much too serious genre.“

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