Choreographer and artistic advisor Sol León (Cordoba, Spain) and NDT’s current artistic director Paul Lightfoot (Kingsley, Great Britain) have worked together since 1989, producing numerous choreographies for NDT. In 2002, they were appointed house choreographers for the company exclusively.  Up till now, they have created more than 45 pieces for the company. Their work has earned them numerous dance awards and their creations are  performed all around the world. In 2007 Sol León and Paul Lightfoot started a charity project for street children in Bangladesh.

Sol León graduated from the National Ballet Academy of Madrid in 1987 and started dancing with NDT 2, under artistic leadership of Arlette van Boven. In 1989 she joined NDT 1 and danced masterpieces of Jiří Kylián, Hans van Manen, Mats Ek and Ohad Naharin. She continued to dance up until 2003, when she decided to devote herself fully to choreography. León became artistic advisor of NDT in October 2012.

Paul Lightfoot was educated at The Royal Ballet School in London. He joined NDT 2 and after only two years, he moved to NDT 1, where he danced until 2008. During his dancing career, Lightfoot started choreographing as well and he created many pieces for NDT in cooperation with Sol León. Lightfoot became the artistic director of NDT in September 2011.

León and Lightfoot Repertoire
The Bard of Avon (NDT2, 1989)
Spilt Milk (NDT Workshop, 1990)
Step Lightly (NDT2, 1991)
Satchinananda (NDT Workshop, 1992)
Seconds (NDT1, 1992)
Sigue (NDT Workshop, 1993)
Solitaire (NDT2, 1994)
Susto (NDT3, 1994)
SH-Boom (NDT Workshop, 1994)
So Sorry (NDT3, 1994)
Softly, as I Leave You (NDT1, 1994)
Syllabus (NDT Workshop, 1995)
Skew-Whiff (NDT2, 1996)
Start to Finish (NDT1, 1996)
Shangri-La (NDT1, 1997)
Stilleven (NDT1, 1997)
Sad Case (NDT2, 1998)
Singing Apes (NDT1, 1998)
Small Moves (NDT3, 1999)
Speak For Yourself (NDT1, 1999)
Squeaky Wheel (NDT3, 2000)
Said and Done (NDT2, 2001)
Safe as Houses (NDT1, 2001)
Subject to Change (NDT2, 2003)
Shutters Shut (NDT2, 2003)
Signing Off (NDT1, 2003)
Source of Inspiration (NDT1, 2004)
drawn onward (NDT1, 2004)
SH-BOOM! (adapted version, NDT1, 2004)
Postscript (NDT2, 2005)
Silent Screen (NDT1, 2005)
Shoot the Moon (NDT1, 2006)
Sleight of Hand (NDT2, 2007)
Sooner or Later (NDT1, 2007)
Same Difference (NDT1, 2007)
Passe-Partout (NDT2, 2009)
Sehnsucht (NDT1, 2009)
Limbo (NDT1, 2009)
Studio 2 (NDT2, 2009)
Swan Song (NDT1, 2010)
Schmetterling (NDT1, 2010)
Skipping over damaged area (NDT1, 2011)
Short time together (Nationaal Ballet, on the occasion of the Jubilee, 2012)
Shine a Light (NDT1, 2012)

Awards and honours
Incentive Prize for Choreography of the Amsterdan Art Prize for Seconds
Nomination Laurence Olivier Award for Best Dance Production of the Year for SH-Boom (1994)
Lucas Hoving Prize 1994 (for Paul Lightfoot)
Incentive Prize Choreography 1997 of Stichting Dansersfonds ’79  (for Paul Lightfoot)
VSCD Golden Theatre Dance Prize 2002 (for Paul Lightfoot)
Merit Award 2003 of Stichting Dansersfonds’79 (for Sol León)
VSCD Dance Award ‘Zwaan’ for best dance production 2003-2004 for Shutters Shut and Subject to Change
Benois de la Danse 2005 for Signing Off
Herald Archangel, Edinburgh International Festival 2006
VSCD Dance Award ‘Zwaan’ for best dance production 2005-2006 for Shoot the Moon