Ballet by John Neumeier based on Tennessee Williams | The Glass Menagerie
Laura Rose Wingfield
Alina Cojocaru
Guest Dancer
Born in Bucharest , Alina Cojocaru trained in Kiev for seven years before joining the Royal Ballet School in 1997. Upon completion of her training, six monts later, she returned to Kiev, to join the Company as a principal dancer. A year later, she joined the Royal Ballet Company (November 1999) and, at the end of the season, was promoted to Soloist. On 17 April 2001 Royal Ballet Artistic Director Sir Anthony Dowell promoted Ms. Cojocaru to the rank of principal dancer after her performance of "Giselle".
Ms. Cojocaru joined the English National Ballet (ENB) in September 2013, as a Leading Principal Dancer. While a member of ENB she continues to perform as a regular guest artist with the Hamburg Ballet, American Ballet Theatre and with companies worldwide.
Ms. Cojocaru has Organized Gala's in Romania and in London for the Romanian charity Hospice of Hope over the last few years. In February 2012 Ms. Cojocaru premiered her Alina Cojocaru - Dream Project, in Tokyo, Japan, which she directed and staged, while performing with friends and colleagues from the Tokyo Ballet, Hamburg Ballet, ENB and Royal Ballet.
As a Guest Artist, Ms. Cojocaru appears with the Kirov Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Hamburg Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Hungarian National Ballet, Vienna State Opera Ballet, Zurich Ballet, National Ballet of Portugal, La Scala Ballet, Nacional Ballet Of Cuba, Teatro Colon Buenos Aires, National Ballet of Romania, South African Ballet Theater, Kremlin Ballet, Sarasota Ballet, Zagreb Ballet. Galas with the Hamburg Ballet, La Scala Ballet, National Ballet Of China, Ballet Basel, National Ballet of Latvia, Munich Ballet, Dortmund Ballet, National Ballet of Finland, Morphoses Company, The 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th World Ballet Festival (Tokyo) as well as galas in South Korea, Portugal, Italy, Sweden, USA and Denmark.
Repertory includes: Odette/Odile in "Swan Lake", Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet", "Giselle", Princess Aurora and Princess Florine in "The Sleeping Beauty", Julie in "Liliom", Marguerite Gautier in "Lady of the Camellias", Vera and Natalya in "A Month in the Country", Kitri in "Don Quixote", Olga and Tatiana in "Onegin", "Cinderella", The Sugar Plum Fairy and Clara in "The Nutcracker", Titania in "The Dream", Titania and Hippolyta in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Ballerina in "Etudes", Nikiya in "La Bayadere", Diamonds in "Jewels", Medora in "Le Corsaire", "Symphonic Variations", Mary Vetsera in "Mayerling", "Manon", "La Sylphide"," In the Night", "Las Hermanas", Swanilda in "Coppelia", "Scènes de Ballet", "Gong", "Masquerade", "Polyphonia", "Symphony in C", Chloe in "Daphnis and Chloe", Lise in "La Fille mal gardée", Student in "The Lesson", "Duo Concertant", "The Leaves are Fading", "Other Dances", "Voices of Spring", "Beyond Bach", "Tombeaux", "Ondine", "The Virtiginous Thrill of Exatitude", Fête Polonaise, "Stars and Stripes", "Raymonda" – Act 3, "Flames of Paris", "Flower Festival", "Napoli" – Act 3, "Grand Pas Classique", "Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux", "Mussorgsky Waltz", "Dances at a Gathering", "The Dying Swan", "Rushes", "Two Footnotes", "Chroma", "Bird as a Prophet" and many more.
Creations includes: "Musketeer" and "Valse" (Rubina Alla Davidovna), Swanilda in "Coppelia" (Anatolyi Shekera), "Ad infinitium" (Vanessa Fenton), "There Where She Loved" (Christopher Wheeldon), "This House will Burn" (Ashley Page), "Les Saisons" (David Bintley), "Two Footnotes", "Bird as a Prophet", "Rushes" (Kim Brandstrup), "Engram and Chroma" (Wayne McGregor), "Les Lutins" and "La Sylphide" (Johan Kobborg), Julie in "Liliom" (John Neumeier), "24 Préludes" (Alexei Ratmansky) and others.
Prizes and Awards includes: "Dancer of the Year" – German Dance Critics Award (2012), Benois de la Danse – Best female dancer – "Liliom" (2012), "Ballerina of the Decade" Award (Moscow 2010), VIP Romanian Music and Performing Arts Award (2010), The Nijinsky Award – Best Female Dancer (2004), Benois de la Danse – Best Female Dancer – "Giselle" (2004), Internationaler Movimentos Tanz Preis – Best Female Dancer (2004), Critics' Circle Dance Award – Best female dancer (2002), Nagoya International Ballet Competition – Gold Medal and Prix de Lausanne (1997), in April 2002 The president of Romania Ion Iliescu presented Ms. Cojocaru with the medal of Cavaler of Romania (Ordinul National "Pentru Merit" in gradul de cavaler).
Video, TV and live relays include: Kennedy Center Honors 2012, Swan Lake, Cinderella, Nutcracker, Onegin, Daphnis and Chloe, The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, The South Bank Show, The Dream, Mime Matters, Don Quixote and pas de deux in various galas.
Amanda Wingfield
Anna Laudere
Principal
BORN
19.2.83 in Sigulda. Latvian
EDUCATION
Riga Ballet School
The School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Valentins Blinovs, Marianne Kruuse, Kevin Haigen, Irina Jacobson, Radik Zaripov
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 2001, promoted Soloist in 2008 and Principal in 2011
CREATIONS
The Maiden-who-never-laughs in "Parzival – Episodes and Echo"
Calliope in "Orpheus"
The Friend (Isadora Duncan) in "Duse"
Anna Arkadyevna Karenina in "Anna Karenina"
A Widow in "Dona Nobis Pacem"
and solos in
Nachtwanderung from "Songs of the Night"
Purgatorio
Um Mitternacht
Beethoven Project I
Ghost Light
Beethoven Project II
Epilogue
A Foreign Sound (Thiago Bordin)
At Asyl-Um (Luva-Andrea Tessarini)
Anima (Edvin Revazov)
REPERTORY
Lady Capulet and Rosalind in "Romeo and Juliet"
Cinderella, Cinderella's Mother, A Stepsister and Princess from Another Country in "A Cinderella Story"
Irina Nikolayevna Arkadina, Primaballerina and Nina Mikhailovna Zarechnaya in "The Seagull"
Desdemona in "Othello"
Eleonora Bereda in "Nijinsky"
Odette and Princess Claire in "Illusions - like Swan Lake"
Hermia in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Marguerite Gautier and Manon Lescaut in "Lady of the Camellias"
Louise and La Fille du Pharaon in "The Nutcracker"
Ophelia in "Hamlet"
Mrs. Muskat in "Liliom"
Giselle and Myrtha in "Giselle"
Tatiana Larina in "Tatiana"
Solveig and Aase in "Peer Gynt"
Eurydice in "Orphée et Eurydice"
La Barbarina and Aschenbach's assistant, his mother and Tadzio's mother in "Death in Venice"
Aminta in "Sylvia"
The Queen and The Rose in "The Sleeping Beauty" (new version 2021)
Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Penelope in *Odyssey"
The Siren in "The Prodigal Son" (George Balanchine)
Woman in Mauve and in Green in "Dances at a Gathering" (Jerome Robbins)
The Wife and the Ballerina in "The Concert" (Jerome Robbins)
Tatiana in "Onegin" (John Cranko)
The Queen of the Dryads in "Don Quixote" (Rudolf Nurejev after Marius Petipa)
Queen Hermione in "The Winter's Tale" (Christopher Wheeldon)
Blanche Ingram in "Jane Eyre" (Cathy Marston)
and solos in
Christmas Oratorio I-VI (she danced this role for the premiere)
Verklungene Feste
Saint Matthew Passion
Requiem
Vaslav
Seasons – The Colors of Time
Adagietto
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Le Sacre
Préludes CV
Winterreise
Messias
Turangalîla
Soldier Songs (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
The Fifth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Nocturnes
Les Sylphides (Michail Fokine)
Jewels – Emeralds/Rubies (George Balanchine)
Reflet (Stefano Palmigiano)
Liebeslieder Walzer (George Balanchine)
Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet (George Balanchine)
The Times Are Racing (Justin Peck)
GUESTING
Munich (Marguerite Gautier in "Lady of the Camellias", Bavarian State Opera), Stuttgart, Lausanne, London, Milan (Marguerite Gautier in "Lady of the Camellias", Teatro alla Scala), Tallinn, Riga, Moscow, Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, Tokyo (World Ballet Festival 2015 and 2018), Beijing
AWARDS
Dr. Wilhelm Oberdörffer-Prize 2008
Premio Positano Léonide Massine 2018
Latvian Excellence Award in Culture 2019
The Russian-Italian Prize Benois-Massine 2019
Order of the Three Stars – Highest civilian order awarded for meritorious service to Latvia
More about Anna Laudere
Tom Wingfield
Alessandro Frola
Principal
BORN
3.9.2000 in Parma, Italy. Italian
EDUCATION
Profession Dance Parma
Fomento Artístico Cordobés, Córdoba, Veracruz/Mexico
The School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Lucia Giuffrida, Francesco Frola, Adria Velásquez, Kevin Haigen, Janusz Mazon, Gigi Hyatt
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 2019, Soloist in 2022, Principal since 2023
CREATIONS
The Shadow in "Dona Nobis Pacem"
and solos in
Peter and Igor
Epilogue
REPERTORY
Lysander in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Endymion in "Sylvia"
Prince Désiré, Catalabutte and Cupid's Blessing in "The Sleeping Beauty" (new version 2021)
Wolf Beifeld in "Liliom"
Frederick the Great in "Death in Venice"
Pas de deux in "A Cinderella Story"
The Man in the Shadow, Prince Siegfried and Prince Alexander in "Illusions – like Swan Lake"
Love in "Bernstein Dances"
Mercutio in "Romeo and Juliet"
Allan Gray in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Arlequin in ‘Carnaval' and The Spirit of the rose in 'Le Spectre de la rose' in "Nijinsky"
Drosselmeier in "The Nutcracker"
Armand in "Lady of the Camellias"
A Suitor / The War in "Odyssey"
Mr Brocklehurst in "Jane Eyre" (Cathy Marston)
and solos in
Saint Matthew Passion
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Préludes CV
The thing with feathers (Demis Volpi)
AWARD
Dr. Wilhelm Oberdörffer-Prize 2023
More about Alessandro Frola
Jim O'Connor
Christopher Evans
Principal
BORN
2.11.94 in Loveland, CO. American
EDUCATION
BalletMet Dance Academy
Canada's National Ballet School
The School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Susan Dromisky, Alexander Gorbatsevich, Kevin Haigen
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 2012, Soloist 2015, Principal since 2018
CREATIONS
Jim O'Connor in "The Glass Menagerie"
A Mystic in "Dona Nobis Pacem"
and solos in
Turangalîla
Beethoven Project I
Ghost Light
Beethoven Project II
Epilogue
Aether (Luca Andrea Tessarini)
Metamorphosis (Marc Jubete)
Beautiful Soul (Marcelino Libao)
REPERTORY
The King, Count Alexander and Quadrille in "Illusions - like Swan Lake"
Benvolio and Antonio in "Romeo and Juliet"
Fabian in "VIVALDI or What you will"
Albrecht in "Giselle"
Günther in "The Nutcracker"
Vladimir Lensky in "Tatjana"
The Prince and A Bird in "A Cinderella Story"
Theseus/Oberon and Lysander in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Arlequin in ‘Carnaval' and The Spirit of the rose in 'Le Spectre de la rose' in "Nijinsky"
Konstantin (Kostya) Gavrilovich Triplev in "The Seagull"
Armand Duval and Des Grieux in "Lady of the Camellias"
Man I in "Bernstein Dances"
Gustav von Aeschenbach in "Death in Venice"
Koll/Fortinbras in "Hamlet 21"
Love/Thyrsis/Orion in "Sylvia"
Catalabutte in "The Sleeping Beauty" (Neufassung 2021)
Harold Mitchell (Mitch) in "Endstation Sehnsucht"
Odysseus in *Odyssey"
Alexei Karenin and Levin in "Anna Karenina"
Mann in Green in "Dances at a Gathering" (Jerome Robbins)
Basil in "Don Quixote" (Rudolf Nurejev after Marius Petipa)
Prince Florizel in "The Winter's Tale" (Christopher Wheeldon)
St John Rivers in "Jane Eyre" (Cathy Marston)
and solos in
Préludes CV
Petrushka-Variations
Christmas Oratorio I-VI
The Song of the Earth
Soldier Songs (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
The Fifth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Nocturnes
At Midnight
Saint Matthew Passion
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet (George Balanchine)
The Times Are Racing (Justin Peck)
HE CHOREOGRAPHED
"Soul Sketch"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2016
"A Cosmic Second"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2017
AWARDS
Prix de Lausanne 2010
Dr. Wilhelm Oberdörffer-Prize 2015
More about Christopher Evans
Tennessee
Edvin Revazov
Principal
BORN
30.12.83 in Sevastopol. Ukrainian
EDUCATION
Moscow School
The School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Boris Rachmanin, Radik Zaripov
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet since 2003, Soloist in 2007, Principal since 2010
CREATIONS
Tadzio in "Death in Venice"
Parzival in "Parzival – Episodes and Echo"
Apollo in "Orpheus"
Gate Keeper in "Liliom"
Eugene Onegin in "Tatiana"
Count Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky in "Anna Karenina"
Tennessee in "The Glass Menagerie"
An Officer in "Dona Nobis Pacem"
and solos in
Christmas Oratorio
Purgatorio
Um Mitternacht
Beethoven Project I
Ghost Light
Beethoven Project II
Herr Sprüngli (Yohan Stegli)
Renku (Yuka Oishi / Orkan Dann)
REPERTORY
Günter and Arabian Dance in "The Nutcracker"
Romeo and Brother Lorenzo in "Romeo and Juliet"
Wolfgang Amadeus in "Windows on MOZART"
Semyon Semyonovich Medvedenko in "The Seagull"
Cassio in "Othello"
The Angel in "The Legend of Joseph"
Endymion in "Sylvia"
Kiefaber and Allan's Friend in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Armand Duval in "Lady of the Camellias"
The Man in the Shadow and Count Alexander in "Illusions - like Swan Lake"
A Man in "Seasons – The Colors of Time"
Theseus/Oberon and Lysander in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Serge Diaghilev and Thomas Nijinsky in "Nijinsky"
Hamlet in "Hamlet"
Albert in "Giselle"
The Prince in "A Cinderella Story"
Peer Gynt in "Peer Gynt"
Orphée in "Orphée et Eurydice"
Gustav von Aschenbach and Frederick the Great in "Death in Venice"
King Florestan XXIV in "The Sleeping Beauty" (new version 2021)
Liliom in "Liliom"
Harold Mitchell (Mitch) in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
The Prodigal Son in "The Prodigal Son" (George Balanchine)
Madge, a Witch in "La Sylphide" (Pierre Lacotte after Filippo Taglioni)
Man in Purple in "Dances at a Gathering" (Jerome Robbins)
Onegin in "Onegin" (John Cranko)
King Leontes in "The Winter's Tale" (Christopher Wheeldon)
and solos in
Requiem
Nocturnes from "Songs of the Night"
Soldier Songs (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
Verklungene Feste
Fourth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Afternoon of a Faun
Le Sacre
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Préludes CV
Saint Matthew Passion
The Fifth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Vaslav
Les Sylphides (Michail Fokine)
Reflet (Stefano Palmigiano)
Liebeslieder Walzer (George Balanchine)
Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet (George Balanchine)
GUESTING
Munich (Armand Duval in "Lady of the Camellias", Bavarian State Opera), Stuttgart, Lausanne, London, Milan (Armand Duval in "Lady of the Camellias", Teatro alla Scala), Tallinn, Riga, Moscow (Armand Duval in "Lady of the Camellias", Bolshoi Theatre), Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, Tokyo (World Ballet Festival 2015 and 2018), Beijing
HE CHOREOGRAPHED
"Coco Rosie"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2011
"Zozula"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2012
"Anima"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2015
"Vesna"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2016
"Closed Rooms"
Premiere: Young Choreographers, Hamburg, 2017
"Rain memories"
Premiere: National Youth Ballet, 2017
"Shakespeare – Sonnets"
Premiere: Hamburg Ballet, 2019
HE FOUNDED
a new ballet company in 2023: The Hamburg Chamber Ballet – Edvin Revazov, as choreographic director, gives a new artistic home to refugee Ukrainian dancers.
HE STAGED NEUMEIER'S BALLET
"Anna Karenina" for the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow
AWARDS
Dr. Wilhelm Oberdörffer-Prize 2007
German Theater Prize DER FAUST 2007
Danza&Danza Prize – Best Upcoming Dancer 2008
Premio Positano Léonide Massine 2018
John Neumeier Prize for Choreography 2023
More about Edvin Revazov
Ozzie (as a guest)
Stacey Denham a.G.
Teacher
Stacey Denham was born in New York. She danced with the Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre Repertory Company, the Clive Thompson Dance Company, with Judith Jamison, at the Washington D.C. City Ballet Company and at the Theater des Westens in Berlin. As a long-standing guest teacher she teaches the Theatre Classes in modern dance, based on the Horton-Technique. She is also in charge of the dance composition classes and co-ordinates the "Creativity Workshop" in the Ernst Deutsch Theater.
The Unicorn
David Rodriguez
Soloist
BORN
13.5.96 in Medellín, Colombia. Colombian
EDUCATION
Ballet Folclórico de Antioquia
Escuela de Ballet Metropolitano – Medellín
Miami City Ballet School
MAIN TEACHERS
Raquel Aguero, Geta Constantinescu, Oliver Pardina, Maria Torija
ENGAGEMENT
Hamburg Ballet 2016-2023
CREATIONS
The Unicorn in "The Glass Menagerie"
and solos in
Beethoven Project I
Ghost Light
REPERTORY
The Man in the Shadow in "Illusions – like Swan Lake"
Philostrat/Puck in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Pas de deux 'La Fille du Pharaon' in "The Nutcracker"
Tadzio in "Death in Venice"
A Indian Prince and a Thorn in "The Sleeping Beauty" (new version 2021)
Love in "Bernstein Dances"
A Gypsy in "Don Quixote" (Rudolf Nurejev after Marius Petipa)
and solos in
Saint Matthew Passion
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Malvolio
Lennard Giesenberg
Corps de Ballet
BORN
20.5.2000 in Henstedt-Ulzburg, Germany. German
EDUCATION
School of the Hamburg Ballet
MAIN TEACHERS
Kevin Haigen, Janusz Mazon, Stacey Denham
ENGAGEMENTS
Hamburg Ballet (Apprentice) 2019-2020
National Youth Ballet 2020-2022
Hamburg Ballet since 2022
CREATIONS
The Photographer in "Dona Nobis Pacem"
and solo in
The Invisibles (with the National Youth Ballet)
REPERTORY
Brother Lorenzo in "Romeo and Juliet"
Allan's Friend in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
and solo in
Adagio (Pina Bausch)
