#the stuttgart ballet

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Friedemann Vogel | Stuttgart Ballet | Photo by Roman Novitzky

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Friedemann Vogel - Stuttgart Ballet - photo by Roman Novitzky

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Friedemann Vogel and the Stuttgart Ballet performing Kenneth MacMillan's Requiem.

Ph. Roman Novitzky. Stuttgart, 2023.

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Alexandra Yoana Alexandrova as Anya in Stuttgart, Germany.

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Balanchine was famously reluctant to take curtain calls, and dancers—usually the ballerina—had to drag him out onstage. That was true in Stuttgart in June of 1955, after a performance of Western Symphony.

Photo: Willi Antonowitz via picture alliance/Getty Images

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Dieter Blum:  Ballet Dancer  (Douglas Lee, Stuttgart Ballet)

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Ballet on the Battlefield aka Alexa & Janusz are adorable and own my heart, AJ accidentally creating a time-travelling character who clearly did not do his research (and for some reason chose Stuttgart rather than Berlin for the ballet?) keeps cracking me up and Luke realising that it's not as easy as it looks to climb through a tiny chair window at the end will live rent free in my head from now on.

What a play.

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Friedemann Vogel in Die Seele am Faden，Stuttgart Ballet Photo © Thomas Dashuber, Anna Pawlak

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Leon Metelsky | Stuttgart Ballet | Photo by Jimmy Parratt

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 Martí Fernández Paixà - Stuttgart Ballet - photo by Carlos Quezada

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Christopher Boatwright died of AIDS on this day in 1997. He was 42.

At a time in which ABT and NYCB employed just one African-American dancer each, Boatwright found enormous success as a principal dancer with the Stuttgart Ballet, where he danced from 1974 to 1983. He is remembered as a fine interpreter of the work of John Cranko and George Balanchine, and as one of the first black ballet dancers to enjoy an international career. He died on March 2nd 1997 in San Francisco, where he had enjoyed great critical success as principal dancer of the San Francisco Ballet.

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Masha Karell and Alexandra Yoana Alexandrova as the Dowager Empress and Anya.

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German dancer Friedemann Vogel, Principal with the Stuttgart Ballet

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Matteo Miccini - Soloist with Stuttgart Ballet

Giovanni Vecchi photography

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Poster Cranko with Sam Riley.❤️

The gifted, charismatic artist John Cranko moves to the Swabian province from London, where he is attacked for his homosexuality, and after many crises becomes the great sensation as the new pop star of the arts: the Stuttgart Ballet Miracle.

Before i didn't know this story, neither the man but John Cranko was a real choreographer and his story is fascinating and he changed story of the ballet like "The pas de deux."

"Cranko invented a new world of dance."

The New York Times.

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Oh what ballets have you gone too and would you recommend them? The ones I do want to go to havent been put up locally yet so im thinking of widening my horizons until im in a better position to travel.

OKAY Omg I'm so happy to spout off about this!!!!!!!

My absolute favorites are ballets by the choreographer Balanchine, who founded the New York City Ballet. To start I would recommend Serenade (Tchaikovsky music to die for), Concerto Barocco (Bach), Symphony in C (Bizet), Jewels and Chaconne as entries. He has GREAT leotard ballets set to modern classical music but you have to like dissonant or atonal music (like Hindemith) and have patience for no costumes no sets no story and only movement which is not friendly if you don't already know his style. He also made a wonderful Nutcracker and a Midsummer Nights Dream if you want a story ballet. The New York City Ballet owns that repertory but! The Paris Opera Ballet has for years been doing a FABULOUS job of it too as have Stuttgart Ballet.

I have been to 4 types of ballets (my own categorization) put up by the following companies - New York City Ballet and other Balanchine type ballet companies, the American Ballet Theater, the Marijnsky, the Bolshoi, the Royal Ballet, the English National Ballet, the Royal Danish Ballet, the Paris Opera Ballet, the Korean National Ballet, Universal Ballet, San Francisco Ballet and the Bulgarian Varna Ballet too.

The four types of ballets are

1. Story ballets. 2. No story ballets 3. Modern ballets (sometimes story sometimes costume sometimes neither) 4. Total reworkings/Broadway adjacents

The Story ballets are Nutcracker, Giselle, Swan Lake, La Bayadere, Romeo and Juliet - that most companies will cycle through and put on. Oh Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty too - I like the English National and the Royal Ballet versions of these a lot.

The English, French, Danes and Russians all have very distinct styles from each other in terms of how they like to do movement and narrative using very similar steps and the same music so I would start anywhere and just dig in. I wish I could say stuff about the Italians like the Scala but I have only seen individual dancers like the IMMENSELY AMAZING Roberto Bolle and Alessandra Ferri doing guest spots with the ABT so I can't say.

The no story ballets are mostly Balanchine to me bc I see them as separate from the work of Jerome Robbins who sometimes had little plots and sometimes didn't.

These I would call Modern Ballets. Jerome Robbins is another WONDERFUL choreographer who is known for West Side Story which is sad bc I don't like those dances and his modern ballets are so much better! Like Afternoon of a Faun (two dancers meet in an empty rehearsal room and have a whole compact romance), Dances at a Gathering, Goldberg Variations. Fancy Free puts three Ballet boys in sailor outfits doing the cutest moves ever. He also made The Cage where female insects kill their males after mating. I recommend all of these but for Goldberg - the pianist can have a hard time lol.

Roland Petit made a Carmen for Paris Opera Ballet which is super sexy, which I also recommend.

Once you've seen a couple Swan Lakes - I would go with Bolshoi and Paris Opera just for comparison - and you like more Broadway type dancing you might want to watch Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake with boy swans. Completely reworked but so good.

I want to know more about Danish Ballet because of Bournonville- there's this wonderful friendly energy, a relaxed elegance to Danish Ballet that is very unique to that country but I haven't had that much chance.

Shading over into straight up modern dance, Twyla Tharpe made In the Upper Room which I saw danced by the American Ballet Theater which I found so cathartic I went into a crying jag of hysteria in the elevator down to the parking lot of Lincoln Center. Jerome Robbins also made a Ballet set to music by the same composer, Phillip Glass, Glass Pieces, which is so fun and feels very loving to New York City.

Uhh I think I have to stop even though I can say more. Anyway Ballet is great and I think everyone should go. Even bad Ballet performed badly is always worth it to me