Jean-Christophe
Canizares
Jean-Christophe Canizares
Chairman and CEO
ECA2
With 20 years of experience in the company, Jean-Christophe Canizares
leads a team that includes talents in the fields of creation,
engineering, logistics, project management and
production, perpetuating ECA2’s unique quality: a combination of
creativity, technical and operational know-how and innovation.
After qualifying as an engineer and his debut as a technical manager
working on concerts and festivals, he worked with ECA2 for the first
time in 1992 on the opening of Eurodisney. Some further external
collaborations later, he became a fully fledged member of ECA2’s
in 1994.
Over this time, Jean-Christophe Canizares has participated in and produced all of ECA2’s shows. First
as Technical Director, then as Chief of Operations and finally as CEO, he has gained invaluable
experience, which has made it possible to accomplish incredible and successful shows all around the
world.
These include special events and semi-permanent shows, such as for the Shanghai World
Expo, “Movement is Life” for the Aichi World Expo in Japan and “Acquamatrix” for the Lisbon
World Expo, but also permanent shows, such as “BraviSEAmo!©” for Tokyo Disney Sea, “Le Mystère
de la Note Bleue” at Futuroscope (France), the Big-O Show for Expo Yeosu 2012, “Songs of the
Sea” and “Wings of Time” (Sentosa Island, Singapore) as well as the recent « Fountain of deams »
in Wuyishan (China), « Lake of Illusions » in OCT Shanghai Happy Valley and « Eastern Sunrise » in
Rizhao (China).
During all these years of leadership, ECA2 has continually worked on and contributed
to breakthrough innovations to be the undisputed world leader in night-time spectaculars and multimedia
shows!
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