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  1. Angela
    The German Dance Price 2013, awarded by the Deutsche Berufsverband für Tanzpädagogik (German professional association for dance education), will be given to Ulrich Roehm, who co-founded the association in 1975 and also the Dance Prize itself in 1983. The prize had won a prestigious reputation over the years, as former winners included Gret Palucca, Pina Bausch, Hans van Manen, Maurice Béjart, John Neumeier, William Forsythe, Hans-Werner Henze, Marcia Haydée, Konstanze Vernon, Birgit Keil or Heinz Spoerli. The decision this year frankly is a joke, as 79-year old Roehm was the central character at adjudging the prizes and now, finally having quit the direction of the association, in return gets the prize himself – for having awarded it since 30 years. The German Dance Prize “Future” for young dancers and choreographers will be awarded to the Bundesjugendballett (Federal Youth Ballet) at Hamburg, founded in 2011 by John Neumeier und funded not by the town of Hamburg but by the German state, which is very unusual in Germany where all culture is normally subsidised by the towns and the Länder like Bavaria, Saxonia etc. As successful and innovative this small company has been for the last year, one might also discuss this prize, as the Bundesjugendballett was not the first junior company in Germany, that was the BSB II, the Junior Company of the Bavarian State Ballet at Munich. Also the Bundesjugendballett was not the first company here to dance in retirement homes, hospitals or prisons, that was Gauthier Dance at Stuttgart. A "Recognition prize", awarded only since two years, will be given to Tobias Ehinger, company manager of Ballet Dortmund, led by Artistic Director Xin Peng Wang. This prize is definitely well-earned and richly deserved, for the Dortmund company has a very small budget, and Ehinger makes miracles with it. The award ceremony will take place on March 2, 2013 at Aalto Theatre, Essen. The main prize includes no money, the "Future" prize included 3000 Euro in the last years.
  2. Angela
    Former principal dancer Gigi Hyatt will succeed Marianne Kruuse at the head of the Hamburg Ballet School from next season on. The German-American ballerina danced with Neumeier’s company from 1982 to 1997 and created important roles for him. She then moved to Georgia Ballet, a small American company, where she was ballet master and also Artistic Director since 2004. Kruuse, also a former ballerina, had followed Neumeier from Stuttgart to Frankfurt and Hamburg, she has directed the Hamburg Ballet School since 1993 and will be retiring.
  3. Angela
    At Linz in Austria, German choreographer Jochen Ulrich has died yesterday on Nov 10th. He was born in 1944, after dancing at Cologne Opera (which then still had a ballet) he co-founded the Cologne Dance Forum in 1971 and directed it since 1979. He also established the "International Week of Modern Dance" at Cologne. In 2000, he became ballet director at Innsbruck, Austria, and from 2006 he directed the ballet company at Linz, where he was working on a new piece when he died after a serious illness. At Erfurt Theatre, the German "Faust" Prizes were awarded yesterday, something like the Olivier Awards or the French Molières, but founded only some years ago and not as traditionally established as these renowned theatre prizes (and not as highly regarded, not even remotely). In the dance categories, the prize for best choreography was given to Martin Schläpfer für "Ein Deutsches Requiem" with music by Johannes Brahms ("A German Requiem"), created in 2011 at Düsseldorf for the Ballet on the Rhine. The prize for best interpretation in dance was awarded to British dancer William Moore, ex-Stuttgart and now Zurich Ballet, for his portray of Olivier Brusson in Christian Spuck's "Das Fräulein von S." ("Mademoiselle de Scudéri", after E.T.A. Hoffmann's novella), created in 2011 at Stuttgart – surely the smallest role they could find, Moore was much better in his other roles like Armand in Neumeier's "Lady of the Camellias", Orlando in Marco Goecke's story ballet after Virginia Woolf or as Mercutio in Cranko's "Romeo".
  4. Angela
    Thanks, Sim!
  5. Angela
    "The Russian Season of John Neumeier": As part of the 3rd International Festival “Diaghilev P.S.”, taking place in St. Petersburg Nov 5th to Nov 9th in honour of John Neumeier, Hamburg Ballet was guesting with two performances at the Mikhailovsky Theatre: On November 6th and November 7th the company performed John Neumeier’s ballet “Lady of the Camellias”, casting: Diana Vishneva / Alexandre Riabko and Hélène Bouchet / Thiago Bordin. On Nov. 9th there will be a Gala “Neumeier Without Borders” in his honour of his 40th anniversary as ballet director and chief choreographer at Hamburg. Next to principals from Hamburg Ballet and Hamburg’s National Youth Ballet, several guests from other ballet companies will present excerpts from Neumeier’s most celebrated ballets. Guests include Alina Cojocaru, Roberto Bolle, Jurgita Dronina and Remi Wörtmeyer from Het National Ballet Amsterdam, Susanne Grinder and Ulrik Birkkjaer from the Royal Danish Ballet, Julie Kent from American Ballet Theatre, Anastasia Pershenkova and Georgi Smilevski from Stanislavsky Ballet Moskow, Isabelle Ciaravola and Mathieu Ganio from POB. Also in St. Petersburg during the Festival: the exhibition “Vaslav Nijinsky and John Neumeier” from Nov 5th to Dec12 at the State Museum of Theatre and Music, with more than a hundred pieces from Mr. Neumeiers private collection as well as from the Foundation John Neumeier. The exhibition shows works by Nijinsky’s contemporaries such as Jean Cocteau, Gustav Klimt, Amadeo Modigliani, portraying Nijinsky in a number of roles. A highlight will be Nijinsky’s own drawings, which belong to the early abstractionist movement and illuminate different aspects of Nijinsky’s art. Stuttgart Ballet is on a tour to Shanghai and Beijing, also showing Neumeier’s „The Lady of the Camellias“. As on previous tours, they have a tour diary with many pictures. Due to illness, German choreographer Marco Goecke has cancelled his new pieces for Ballett am Rhein at Düsseldorf (Nov 10th) and Stuttgart („Dancer in the Dark“ Nov 28th, co-production with the Stuttgart playhouse). The latter will be finished by Louis Stiens, a young German dancer and choreographer at Stuttgart Ballet.
  6. Angela
    German composer Hans Werner Henze has died today. Here is the obit by Schott Musik, his publisher (in English): http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8049.html?oldLocale=de_DE Henze not only wrote "Ondine" for Frederick Ashton, but also "Orpheus" for William Forsythe (Stuttgart 1979), and "Pas d'action" for Victor Gsovsky (Munich 1954).
  7. Angela
    The programme for the Mariinsky Gala at Baden-Baden Festspielhaus in December is now online. No casting yet.
  8. Angela
    They bring Nacho Duato's Sleeping Beauty. Casting will be announced on this site, but I guess not until March...
  9. Angela
    Dear Paul, didn't see "Chaplin", sorry, but here's a link to the website for the production, it says that Schröder uses "Music by Charlie Chaplin, Benjamin Britten, Samuel Barber, John Adams, Richard Wagner, Charles Ives, Kurt Schwertsik". He had made a Chaplin ballet already when he was ballet director at Kiel, where - as I take from the old reviews of 2006 - he used music by Arvo Pärt and Petr Vasks, jazz by Samuel Barber, Chaplin Songs and Wagner’s Lohengrin Overture, which is used in "The Great Dictator", apparently for the same scene. So Schröder's first version must have been a little different. If you need a more specific listing of the music, maybe you could write to the press office at Leipzig Opera House?
  10. Angela
    Polina Semionova will perform with Bavarian State Ballet in December in John Neumeier‘s Nutcracker. She’ll dance the role of Louise, Marie’s sister, who is a ballerina. Dates: 7./9./13. December
  11. Angela
    In an interview with Wiener Zeitung today, Manuel Legris says that rumours he might return to Paris Opera are not true.
  12. Angela
    The town of Dresden will continue to subsidize The Forsythe Company until 2016. Due to an allegedly too low audience attendance at the festival house of Dresden-Hellerau, the town council had threatened to cut the funding for the company which is subsidized by the states of Hessia and Saxony and by the towns of Dresden and Frankfurt.
  13. Angela
    And a question: has anyone who suggests Forsythe for the Paris Opera actually seen what he is doing these days???
  14. Angela
    In many German Opera Houses, the ballet companies have a better audience attendance than the opera (in percent), f.e. in Hamburg, Stuttgart, Dortmund, Karlsruhe and even in Berlin. Opera is also more expensive - famous singers earn much more than famous ballet dancers, also chorus singers earns more than dancers in the corps de ballet (at least in Germany), so this would explain how the ballet subsidizes the opera: better revenues, less expenses. Nevertheless, operas and plays get much more coverage in the newspapers
  15. Angela
    Stuttgart Ballet announces a Gala for the 50th anniversary of John Cranko’s "Romeo and Juliet" on Dec. 2 with many former stars of the company, among them four dancers of the original cast in 1962: Marcia Haydée (former Juliet) as Juliet’s nurse, Ray Barra (former Romeo) as Duke of Verona, Egon Madsen (former Paris) as Lorenzo and Georgette Tsinguirides, former Gypsy and with 84 years still a Gypsy. Other famous names from the past include Birgit Keil as Lady Capulet, Melinda Witham as Lady Montague, Vladimir Klos as Lord Capulet, Robert Conn as Lord Montague, Yseult Lendvai and Sonia Santiago as Gypsies and Julia Krämer as Rosalind. The main parts will be danced by Alicia Amatriain and Friedemann Vogel, with Marijn Rademaker, Filip Barankiewicz, Alexander Jones and Jason Reilly in further roles. In the morning of the same day there will be a ballet talk with Marcia Haydée, Birgit Keil, Georgette Tsinguirides, Ray Barra, Vladimir Klos, Jürgen Rose and Reid Anderson about Cranko’s "Romeo and Juliet" which premiered in 1958 at Venice and in a revised version at Stuttgart on December 2nd, 1962.
  16. Angela
    And here is the link for the Bayadere pictures from Munich with Muntagirov!
  17. Angela
    After a ravishing debut in Don Quijote, 21 year old Brazilian dancer Daniel Camargo was promoted to soloist at Stuttgart Ballet on Sunday. He danced with Elisa Badenes, ex-RBS, a great young couple.
  18. Angela
    Ian, I'm sorry for the misunderstanding, but Estefania Miranda will keep half of the dancers that Cathy Marston had hired and hire of course some new dancers. I think the size of the company will remain the same, around twelve. It's just moving towards a more contemporary style, I suppose.
  19. Angela
    New Director of Dance at Bern Theatre and successor to Cathy Marston from 2013/14 on will be Estefania Miranda from Chile. The choreographer and dancer has been working with the new Bern Intendant Stephan Märki before, he brings her along from Weimar Theatre, where she directed a small dance festival. She will keep at least half of the dancers, as is reported in a Bern newspaper, and wants to do more contemporary work.
  20. Angela
    Prominent guests at Berlin State Ballet: Svetlana Zakharova will dance Nikiya on 1. November with Dmitry Semionov (Polina’s brother), and Odette/Odile in February 2013 with Mikhail Kaniskin. Ekaterina Krysanova will dance in Malakhov's "La Péri" on Nov. 17 and 25, her partner is Dinu Tamazlacaru. Diana Vishneva will be guesting as Brunhilde in April 2013 in Maurice Béjart's "Ring around the ring", dates: 14. and 19. April (link in German only). At Stuttgart, Elisa Badenes will dance the premier of the Don Q. revival in September (opening of the season) with Daniel Camargo, great chance for these young dancers.
  21. Angela
    Here's an English link to Goecke's appointment with NDT
  22. Angela
    Marco Goecke, Stuttgart’s remaining Resident Choreographer after Christian Spuck has left for Zurich, will also become Associate Choreographer with NDT from 2013/2014 on. His contract with Scapino Ballet in Rotterdam has therefore terminated, he was their House Choreographer since 2005, his successor there will be Taiwanese choreographer Fang-Yu Shen.
  23. Angela
    News from Stuttgart Ballet: The company dedicates the whole season to Richard Cragun, a digital book of condolence can be found on their website. Principal dancer Friedemann Vogel received the "Positano Premia la Danza – Leonide Massine" as best international dancer on Saturday in Positano, Italy. The other awards went to Ulyana Lopatkina (best international dancer), Rihoko Sato (Japan) and Julien Favreau (Bejart Ballet Lausanne) as best contemporary dancers, Yolanda Correa (Norwegian National Ballet) and Sergio Bernal (Spanish National Ballet) as best emerging international dancers, Alessio Rezza (Teatro dell'Opera di Roma) as best emerging Italian dancer. Alicia Alonso was honoured with a lifetime award. Members of the jury were Alfio Agostini (ballet2000), Leonetta Bentivoglio (La Repubblica), Valeria Crippa (Corriere della Sera), Clement Crisp (Financial Times), Anna Kisselgoff (New York Times), Jean-Pierre Pastori (La Tribune de Genève), Roger Salas (El Pais) and René Sirvin (Le Figaro).
  24. Angela
    Bavarian State Ballet has announced the following guests for the "Bayadère" performances in autumn: 21. and 22. September: Vadim Muntagirov as Solor, with Ekaterina Petina as Nikiya 28. September and 4. October: Yun Wang (winner of the Helsinki International Ballet Competition 2012) as Nikiya, with Lukas Slavicky as Solor 5. and 13. October: Svetlana Zakharova as Nikiya, with Marlon Dino as Solor
  25. Angela
    Madoka Sugai, winner of the Prix de Lausanne 2012, will join the Hamburg Bundesjugendballett as a guest for one season. The 18 year old Japanese ballerina comes to John Neumeier’s youth company with a scholarship.
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