BORN
9.10.69 in New York. American
EDUCATION
School of Southern Ballet Theatre, Orlando, Florida
MAIN TEACHERS
Barbara Riggins, Henning Kronstam, Kevin Haigen
ENGAGEMENTS
Southern Ballet Theatre, Orlando, Florida (1985-1987)
Royal Danish Ballet (1987-1995, 1989 as Principal)
Hamburg Ballet since 1995, as Principal. From 2006 to 2009 his was Assistant Ballet Master and he is since 2009 Ballet Master as well. Since 2015 he is also Deputy Artistic Director
CREATIONS
in Hamburg
Sebastian in "VIVALDI or What You Will"
Hamlet in "Hamlet" (1997 version)
Pas de deux "Scheherazade II" (Easter Concert 1998, Munich)
Petrushka in ‘Petrushka’ in "Nijinsky"
Piotr Nikolayevich Sorin in "The Seagull"
Lloyd in "Préludes CV"
Gustav von Aschenbach in "Death in Venice"
A Man in "Christmas Oratorio I-VI"
Ficsur in "Liliom" (for Dario Franconi)
Gustav Mahler in "Purgatorio"
King Florestan in "The Sleeping Beauty" (Mats Ek)
and solos in
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Bernstein Dances
Winter Ways from "Images from Bartók"
Messiah
Winterreise
Voice of the Night
Nocturnes and Nachtwanderung
from "Songs of the Night"
Purgatorio
Moments Movements Mendelssohn (Kevin Haigen)
Beautiful Freak (Marco Goecke)
Renku (Yuka Oishi / Orkan Dann)
REPERTORY
in Copenhagen
Lenski in "Onegin" (John Cranko)
The Joker in "Jeu de Cartes" (John Cranko)
James in "La Sylphide" (August Bournonville)
Gennaro in "Napoli" (August Bournonville)
Albrecht in "Giselle" (Jean Coralli-Jules Perrot / Henning Kronstam)
Romeo and Benvolio in "Romeo and Juliet" (John Neumeier)
Puck and Demetrius in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (John Neumeier)
King Christian VII in "Caroline Mathilde" (Flemming Flindt)
Don Quixote in "Don Quixote"
Apollo in "Apollo" (George Balanchine)
Poet in "La Sonnambula" (George Balanchine)
and solos in
Konservatorium (August Bournonville)
A Folk Tale (August Bournonville)
The Kermesse in Bruges (August Bournonville)
The Fifth Symphony (Gustav Mahler / John Neumeier)
Soldier Songs (John Neumeier)
Theme and Variations (George Balanchine)
Tchaikovsky Pas de deux (George Balanchine)
in Hamburg
Romeo, Mercutio, Valentino and Lord Capulet in "Romeo and Juliet"
Armand, Gaston and Monsieur Duval in "Lady of the Camellias"
Odysseus in "Odyssey"
Petrushka in "Petrushka"
Prince Désiré in "The Sleeping Beauty"
Günther and Drosselmeier in "The Nutcracker"
Puck, Theseus/Oberon, Demetrius and Bottom/Pyramus in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Orsino and Sebastian in "VIVALDI or What you will"
The Prince and Cinderella's Father in "A Cinderella Story"
The King in "Illusions - like Swan Lake"
Serge Diaghilev in "Nijinsky"
Albert in "Giselle"
King Arthur in "The Saga of King Arthur"
Petrushka in "Petrushka"
Doubt aspect in "Peer Gynt"
Touchstone in "As You Like It"
W. A. Mozart in "Windows on MOZART"
The Hermit in "Parzival – Episodes and Echo"
The Poet in "The Little Mermaid"
Harold Mitchell (Mitch) in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
A Man in "Seasons – The Colors of Time"
Widow Simone in "La Fille mal gardée" (Frederick Ashton)
A Dandy in "A la Françaix" (George Balanchine)
The Sage in "Le Sacre du Printemps" (Millicent Hoson, inspired by Vaslav Nijinsky)
Father Sheperd in "The Winter's Tale" (Christopher Wheeldon)
and solos in
Now and Then
Saint Matthew Passion
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Fifth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Night Sketches aus "Images from Bartók"
Bach-Suite 3
Requiem
Theme and Variations (George Balanchine)
She was black (Mats Ek)
Forgotten Land (Jirí Kylián)
Wege (Yukichi Hattori)
Jewels – Emeralds (George Balanchine)
GUESTING
Tokyo, Moscow, Toronto, Copenhagen, Florida, Washington, Paris, Munich and in New York with the American Ballet Theatre.
HE STAGED NEUMEIER'S BALLETS
"Sylvia" for the Het National Ballet in Amsterdam, "Odyssee" for the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen, "The Little Mermaid" for the San Francisco Ballet and for the National Ballet of China, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" for the Houston Ballet
HE STAGED
Bournonville's "Napoli"-Pas de six for the National Youth Ballet and "The Kermesse in Bruges" for the Royal Danish Ballet for the Bournonville Festival 2005. In 2014 he staged and choreographically completed August Bournonville's "Napoli" for the Hamburg Ballet
He worked on Donya Feuer's documentary: "The Work of Utopia"
AWARDS
"Benois de la Danse 2004".
"Danza & Danza Prize 2004" for his interpretation of his roles in "Bernstein Dances" and "Nijinsky"
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