Sol León (Córdoba, Spain) finished her dance training at the National Ballet Academy of  Madrid and came to The Hague in 1987 to dance with Nederlands Dans Theater II, under Arlette van Boven. In 1989 she joined Nederlands Dans Theater I. She danced many works by masters of choreography like Jiří Kylián, Hans van Manen, Mats Ek and Ohad Naharin until she stopped dancing in 2003.

Paul Lightfoot (Kingsley, England) trained at the Royal Ballet School in Londen. In 1985 he joined Nederlands Dans Theater II and two years later the dancer moved on to Nederlands Dans Theater I, where he was vital to the image of this company. During his dance career he also took up choreography, his talent for which stood out in 1988, during the annual workshop of Nederlands Dans Theater. After this workshop he created The Bard of Avon for Nederlands Dans Theater II (1989), the first of many pieces for Nederlands Dans Theater I as well as Nederlands Dans Theater II, and also for Nederlands Dans Theater III at the time. His choreographies were made in close collaboration with Sol León, an alliance which continues to this date.

From 1989 Sol León and Paul Lightfoot have worked together producing choreographies for Nederlands Dans Theater. In August 2002 the couple were appointed resident choreographers of Nederlands Dans Theater. Together they have made 40 choreographies for this dance company. In 2007 Sol León and Paul Lightfoot started a charity project for street children in Bangladesh.

Repertoire

The Bard of Avon (Nederlands Dans Theater 2, 1989)
Spilt Milk (Nederlands Dans Theater Workshop, 1990)
Step Lightly (Nederlands Dans Theater 2, 1991)
Satchinananda (Nederlands Dans Theater Workshop, 1992)
Seconds (Nederlands Dans Theater 1, 1992)
Sigue (Nederlands Dans Theater Workshop, 1993)
Solitaire (Nederlands Dans Theater 2, 1994)
Susto (Nederlands Dans Theater 3, 1994)
SH-Boom (Nederlands Dans Theater Workshop, 1994)
So Sorry (Nederlands Dans Theater 3, 1994)
Softly, as I Leave You (Nederlands Dans Theater 1, 1994)
Syllabus (Nederlands Dans Theater Workshop, 1995)
Skew-whiff (Nederlands Dans Theater 2, 1996)
Start to Finish (Nederlands Dans Theater 1, 1996)
Shangri-La (Nederlands Dans Theater 1, 1997)
Stilleven (Nederlands Dans Theater 1, 1997)
Sad Case (Nederlands Dans Theater 2, 1998)
Singing Apes (Nederlands Dans Theater 1, 1998)
Small Moves (Nederlands Dans Theater 3, 1999)
Speak For Yourself (Nederlands Dans Theater 1, 1999)
Squeaky Wheel (Nederlands Dans Theater 3, 2000)
Said and Done (Nederlands Dans Theater 2, 2001)
Safe as Houses (Nederlands Dans Theater 1, 2001)
Subject to Change (Nederlands Dans Theater 2, 2003)
Shutters Shut (Nederlands Dans Theater 2, 2003)
Signing Off (Nederlands Dans Theater 1, 2003)
Source of Inspiration (Nederlands Dans Theater 1, 2004)
drawn onward (Nederlands Dans Theater 1, 2004)
SH-Boom (adapted version, Nederlands Dans Theater 1, 2004)
Postscript (Nederlands Dans Theater 2, 2005)
Silent Screen (Nederlands Dans Theater 1, 2005)
Shoot the Moon (Nederlands Dans Theater 1, 2006)
Sleight of Hand (Nederlands Dans Theater 2, 2007)
Sooner or Later (Nederlands Dans Theater 1, 2007)
Same Difference (Nederlands Dans Theater 1, 2007)
Passe-Partout (Nederlands Dans Theater 2, 2009)
Sehnsucht (Nederlands Dans Theater 1, 2009)
Limbo (Nederlands Dans Theater 1, 2009)
Studio 2 (Nederlands Dans Theater 2, 2009)
Swan Song (Nederlands Dans Theater 1, 2010)
Schmetterling (Nederlands Dans Theater 1, 2010)
Skipping over damaged area (Nederlands Dans Theater 1, 2011)
Short time together (Nationaal Ballet, on occasion of their jubilee, 2012)
Shine a Light (NDT 1, 2012)

Prijzen en onderscheidingen

Aanmoedigingsprijs voor Choreografie van het Amsterdamprijs voor de Kunst voor Seconds
Nominatie Laurence Olivier Award voor Beste Dans Productie van het Jaar voor SH-Boom (1994)
Lucas Hoving Prijs 1994 (voor Paul Lightfoot)
Aanmoedigingsprijs Choreografie 1997 van de Stichting Dansersfonds ’79  (voor Paul Lightfoot)
VSCD Gouden Theaterdansprijs 2002 (voor Paul Lightfoot)
Prijs van Verdienste 2003 van Stichting Dansersfonds’79 (voor Sol León)
VSCD Dansprijs Zwaan beste dansproductie 2003-2004 voor Shutter Shut en Subject to Change
Benois de la Danse 2005 voor Signing Off
Herald Archangel, Edinburgh International Festival 2006
VSCD Dansprijs Zwaan beste dansproductie 2005-2006 voor Shoot the Moon