Ballett Zürich , formerly known as Zürich Ballet , is the largest professional ballet company in Switzerland. Its principal venue is the Zürich Opera House and it regularly tours across the country. The company includes an ensemble cast of 36 dancers and 14 junior members. Cathy Marston has been the ballet director at the company since the 2023–24 season.
9-454: The ensemble danced in the 2012–13 season before a total of 48,061 visitors, averaging a space occupancy of 93.5%. Ballet Zürich emerged from Zürich's now defunct "Ballet of City Theatre". From 1978 to 1985 Balanchine-specialist Patricia Neary held the post of ballet director. Starting in 1985, Uwe Scholz , aged 26 the youngest director of a dance company in Europe, took over the management of
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27-650: The 2012–13 season until the 2022–2023 season, Christian Spuck, former choreographer of the Stuttgart Ballet , led the Ballet Zürich. Under his leadership, the company maintained the established traditions of the ensemble and set new artistic accents. Internationally renowned choreographers such as William Forsythe, Paul Lightfoot, Sol León, Douglas Lee , Martin Schläpfer, Jiří Kylián, Wayne McGregor , Marco Goecke , and Mats Ek have already worked with
36-522: The Ballet Zürich. In the 2023–24 season, Cathy Marston became the director of Ballett Zürich. The Junior Ballet was founded in 2001 to promote young dancers. Fourteen members strong, it bridges the gap between young performers' formal training and their entries into professional careers. As part of an engagement that lasts no more than two years, they work together with the members of the Ballett Zürich, dance with them in selected performances of
45-1604: The Black by Stendhal , and much else. In 1993 he was appointed professor at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig . He was also a founding member of the Freie Akademie der Künste zu Leipzig [ de ] (Free Academy of Arts in Leipzig). He died on 21 November 2004 in Berlin . Freie Akademie der K%C3%BCnste zu Leipzig Look for Freie Akademie der Künste zu Leipzig on one of Misplaced Pages's sister projects : [REDACTED] Wiktionary (dictionary) [REDACTED] Wikibooks (textbooks) [REDACTED] Wikiquote (quotations) [REDACTED] Wikisource (library) [REDACTED] Wikiversity (learning resources) [REDACTED] Commons (media) [REDACTED] Wikivoyage (travel guide) [REDACTED] Wikinews (news source) [REDACTED] Wikidata (linked database) [REDACTED] Wikispecies (species directory) Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Freie Akademie der Künste zu Leipzig in Misplaced Pages to check for alternative titles or spellings. You need to log in or create an account and be autoconfirmed to create new articles. Alternatively, you can use
54-675: The Stuttgart Ballet. At 26 he became the director of the Zürich Ballet, and directed there for the next 6 years, before returning to Germany to become director of the Leipzig Ballet , where he was also chief choreographer. He remained in Leipzig from 1991 until his death. Among his most famous creations are Mozart's Great Mass , Pax Questuosa by Udo Zimmermann , Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique , The Red and
63-661: The Zurich Ballet until 1991. Subsequently, Bernd Roger Bienert led the Zurich Ballet until 1996. Heinz Spoerli , ballet director from 1996 to 2012, established the company as among the leading European ballet formations. A neoclassical dance style was cultivated with ballets like The Goldberg Variations , A Midsummer Night's Dream and Peer Gynt and great classical ballets such as Giselle or The Nutcracker . The company also presented works of other choreographers such as George Balanchine , Mats Ek, William Forsythe , Jiri Kylian , Hans von Manen or Twyla Tharp. From
72-465: The repertoire, as well as every season in a specially arranged ballet evening with world premieres by Douglas Lee or Christian Spuck. The performances are accompanied by a comprehensive supporting program with introductory matinees before the ballet premieres, piece introductions before the performances, ballet discussions and a variety of special children's, youth and school projects. Uwe Scholz Uwe Scholz (31 December 1958 – 21 November 2004)
81-836: Was a German ballet dancer , director , and choreographer . Scholz was born in Jugenheim (now Seeheim-Jugenheim ) in Hesse , Germany on 31 December 1958, and moved as a child to the Landestheater Darmstadt for ballet and music training. In 1973, he was admitted to John Cranko 's Ballet School in Stuttgart , one month before Cranko's death, and studied under Marcia Haydée . Scholz also studied, on scholarship, at Balanchine 's School of American Ballet in New York. He graduated from Stuttgart in 1977, and joined
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