Schlagwort: Artistic Director

We Will Miss You Christian

But Berlin is always worth a visit!

Christian Spuck, ballet director of the Ballet Zurich, will take over as the Berlin Staatsballett’s artistic director starting from the 2023/24 season. Now It’s time to say good bye after 11 remarkable years.

We would like to thank Christian for all these unforgettable memories and magic moments that he has created through his extraordinary choreographies. Thinking of all his outstanding ballet performances he opened the ballet and dance world to us to a higher level. Our ballet company was turned into an internationally acclaimed institution under his leadership that toured the world and enchanted audiences everywhere.

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Swan Lake has taken 4 years of patience

Interview with Li Cunxin, Artistic Director of the Queensland Ballet, also known as Mao’s Last Dancer

Everybody knowns the story of Mao’s Last Dancer but not everyone is aware of his current career as the Artistic Director of the Queensland Ballet. I was lucky to get the opportunity to talk to him about the new production of Swan Lake in May 2017. Then I was invited to watch a rehearsal which I really loved. It was heartbreaking!

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Brutal Bolshoi – a film on the acid attack

Film lifts the curtain on infighting at the institution after an acid attack on its artistic director. The Calvert Journal reports – Source: The Guardian

Read full article: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/27/bolshoi-babylon-film-ballet-russia-film-nick-read

The film has been shown on HBO in the US. It was released on 8 January 2016 in Great Britain’s cinemas. Its premiere has not yet been announced for Germany and Switzerland.

https://youtu.be/_TK8uth06SQ