2019 / 2020DIRECTOR: RICHARD WHERLOCK

BALLETT THEATER BASEL

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THE BALLETT THEATER

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The Ballett Theater Basel is a dynamic, poly - valent and multicultural ensemble in the internatio nal class, one of the leading contem-porary dance groups in Europe. The members of the Ballett Theater Basel have thoroughly mastered the vocabulary of both classical ballet and contemporary dance, combining the highest standards of dance with virtuoso dynamism and inspired expressiveness. The Basel ensemble has an outstanding command of both narrative and abstract ballet. There are plenty of contemporary Choreographers wor-king with the Ballett in Basel – Jiri Kylian, Nacho Duato, Ohad Naharin, Alexander Ek-man, Johan Inger, Hofesh Shechter – to name only a few of them, and of course the outstan-ding choreo graphic Œvre of the Director of the Ballett Theater Basel, Richard Wherlock.

WE HAVE FRIENDSThe numerous members of the Basler Ballett Gilde share the passion for dance and sup-port the Ballett Theater Basel: people whose heart beats faster whenever they encounter anything that has to do with dance! Have a look: www.baslerballettgilde.org

OUR PRODUCTIONS 2019 / 2020DON’T TELL THE KIDSChoreography by Richard WherlockMusic: The Velvet Underground, Max ZachrissonSeptember 19, 2019→ available for touring

CARMENChoreography by Johan IngerMusic: Rodion Shchedrin, Georges Bizet, Marc ÁlvarezOctober 19, 2019 → available for touring

COWChoreography by Alexander EkmanMusic: Mikael KarlssonPremiere November 15, 2019

SNOW WHITEChoreogrphy by Richard WherlockMusic: Dmitri SchostakowitschDecember 21, 2019→ available for touring

SHARON EYAL / BRYAN ARIAS Choreographies by Sharon Eyal SALT WOMB and Bryan Arias THE LOSS OF YOUR REFLECTIONPremiere Februar 13, 2020→ available for touring

GLORIAChoreography by Richard WherlockMusic: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Antonio VivaldiPremiere May 8, 2020 → available for touring

DANCELAB +Choreography by young talents of the company and winners of international choreography competitionsPremiere June 12, 2020

OUR PRODUCTIONS 2019 / 2020DON’T TELL THE KIDSChoreography by Richard WherlockMusic: The Velvet Underground, Max ZachrissonSeptember 19, 2019→ available for touring

CARMENChoreography by Johan IngerMusic: Rodion Shchedrin, Georges Bizet, Marc ÁlvarezOctober 19, 2019 → available for touring

COWChoreography by Alexander EkmanMusic: Mikael KarlssonPremiere November 15, 2019

SNOW WHITEChoreogrphy by Richard WherlockMusic: Dmitri SchostakowitschDecember 21, 2019→ available for touring

SHARON EYAL / BRYAN ARIAS Choreographies by Sharon Eyal SALT WOMB and Bryan Arias THE LOSS OF YOUR REFLECTIONPremiere Februar 13, 2020→ available for touring

GLORIAChoreography by Richard WherlockMusic: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Antonio VivaldiPremiere May 8, 2020 → available for touring

DANCELAB +Choreography by young talents of the company and winners of international choreography competitionsPremiere June 12, 2020

OUR TOURING DATES 2019 / 2020SUWON BALLET FESTIVAL, KOREA _ AUGUST 2019

SNOW WHITEby Richard Wherlock

TEL AVIV OPERA, ISRAEL _ SEPTEMBER 2019

TEWJE by Richard Wherlock BADEN, SWITZERLAND _ NOVEMBER 2019

DON’T TELL THE KIDSby Richard Wherlock

ZUG, SWITZERLAND _ FEBRUAR 2020 / LUGANO, SWITZERLAND _ MARCH 2020 / SAARBRÜCKEN, GERMANY_ MARCH 2020 / ISTANBUL, TURKEY_ JUNE 2020 / TEL AVIV, ISRAEL _ JULY 2020

CARMEN by Johan Inger

THEATER BASEL ON TOUR IS SUPPORTED BY:

OUR TOURING DATES 2019 / 2020SUWON BALLET FESTIVAL, KOREA _ AUGUST 2019

SNOW WHITEby Richard Wherlock

TEL AVIV OPERA, ISRAEL _ SEPTEMBER 2019

TEWJE by Richard Wherlock BADEN, SWITZERLAND _ NOVEMBER 2019

DON’T TELL THE KIDSby Richard Wherlock

ZUG, SWITZERLAND _ FEBRUAR 2020 / LUGANO, SWITZERLAND _ MARCH 2020 / SAARBRÜCKEN, GERMANY_ MARCH 2020 / ISTANBUL, TURKEY_ JUNE 2020 / TEL AVIV, ISRAEL _ JULY 2020

CARMEN by Johan Inger

RICHARD WHERLOCKChoreographer and Director of the Ballett Theater Basel

BIOGRAPHY Born in Bristol (GB). After studying at London’s prestigious Ballet Rambert School, he joined their company as a dancer. Wherlock was Ballet Director at Hagen Theatre in Germany from 1991 to 1996, then spending three seasons as director of the Lucerne Ballet before moving to Komische Oper Berlin as artistic director and choreographer of BerlinBallett. He has been director and head choreographer of Ballett Basel since the 2001 / 2002 season, and artistic director of the renowned festival «basel tanzt» from 2004 to 2009. Richard Wherlock has been Director and Head Choreographer of Ballett Basel since 2001 / 2002 and has created many choreographies for the company. He has enjoyed particular success with his adaptations of great classics such as «A Swan Lake», «James or La Sylphide», «Traviata – a Ballet», «Carmen», «Giselle», or «Eugene Onegin» and other full- length narrative ballets which he has reinterpreted using contem porary dance techniques. He worked as choreographer with, among others, the following companies: New English Contemporary Ballet, Tanzforum Köln, Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, Finnish Dance Theatre Helsinki, Ballett Staatstheater Braunschweig, Romanian National Ballet, The Icelandic Ballet, Ballet National de Nancy et de Lorraine, Ballet National de Marseille, Ballet de l’Opéra de Nice, aalto ballett theater essen, Europa Danse (UNESCO), Ballett der Deutschen Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, Singapore Dance Theatre, Ballett der Vereinigten Bühnen Graz, Introdans in Arnheim / Holland, Ballett des Badischen Staatstheaters Karlsruhe, Phoenix Dance Theatre Leeds and Ballet Contemporaneo del Teatro San Martín / Argentina. Wherlock also created a full-length ballet for Les Étoiles de l’Opéra National de Paris, for the Ballet of the Opéra National de Bordeaux and for the Seoul Ballet Theatre. His film and TV work includes the choreography for Claude Lelouch’s cinema production «Hasards ou Coïncidences», presented in 1998 at the Venice Biennale and at the Montréal and Chicago festivals. In 2000,

Wherlock received the Prix Italia for the award-winning dance film «Passengers», produced by the Swiss broadcasting company DRS,

RM Associates and 3SAT. His most recent film success «One bullet left» – also produced by Swiss broadcasting

company DRS – was awarded the Golden Rose of Montreux in 2003. In 1999 he was nominated for

the international dance award «Benois de la Danse». Richard Wherlock’s particular

interest lies in supporting talented up-and-coming dancers. He serves on the

juries of numerous international dance competitions and president

of the Migros scholarship jury.

«Our art is … holding on and letting go, precision and disorganization. Dizzyingly fast, achingly slow, and everything in between. Back up, forth and down. Immeasurable. … I just love it.»Richard Wherlock

RUBEN DARIO BANOL HERRERA Colombia

Training: Incolballet (Colombia), Real Consérvatorio Profesional de Danza de Madrid

Previous companies: Compañía colombiana de ballet, Europadanse, Compañía Nacional de Danza 2, Ballet de la Generalitat Valenciana, Elephant in the Black Box

DIEGO BENITO GUTIERREZ Spain

Training: Real Conser vatorio Profesional de Danza de Madrid

Previous companies: ballett du Grand Theatre de Geneve, Nafas Dance Company, Introdans

GIACOMO ALTOVINO Italy

Training: Hamburg Ballet School (Germany), “Dietro le quinte” (Italy)

Previous companies: NRW Juniorballett Dortmund, Ballett Dortmund

ENSEMBLE

EVA BLUNNO* Italy

Training: Codarts Dance Academy, Rotterdam

Previous companies: Scapino Ballett Rotterdam

LISA HORTEN- SKILBREI Norway

Training: Oslo National Academy of The Arts (KHiO), Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Scholarships at Batsheva Dance Company and Nederlands Dans Theater

PIRAN SCOTT Australia

Training: Theatre Arts Mackay, Queensland Ballet Professional Year (Australia)

Previous company: Queensland Ballet, Leipziger Ballett

RACHELLE SCOTT

USA / France

Training: Juilliard School New York

Previous companies: Cedar Lake

Contemporary Ballet New York,

Ballett Nürnberg

THOMAS MARTINO Italy

Training: La Chance Ballet Academy, Rome

Previous companies: Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, Munich

ALBA CARBONELL CASTILLO Spain

Training: Conservatorio Profesional de Danzade Riba-Roja del Turia Valencia

Previous companies: Centro coreografico de Valencia, Compagñía National de Danza 2

ELIAS BOERSMA* Netherlands

Training: Royal Ballet Conservatory,

The Hague

Previous companies: Scapino Ballett Rotterdam

LYDIA CARUSO Italy

Training: Rosella Hightower, Cannes

Previous companies: Compania de Danza La Mov, Ballet du Grand Théatre de Genève, Rudra Béjart LausanneAYAKO NAKANO

Japan

Training: Tokyo, Royal Ballet School, London

Previous companies: Zürcher Ballett, Tanz-Forum Köln, Euregio Dance, Staatstheater Saarbrücken, Berlin Ballett / Komische Oper

MIRKO CAMPIGOTTO Italy

Training: Achillea in Rivarolo C.se., Kaos Balletto di Firenze, Codarts Rotterdam

Previous companies: Kaos Balletto di Firenze, Introdans, Saalandisches Staastheater Saarbrücken

FRANCISCO PATRICIO* Portugal

Training: Ballettschule Theater Basel, Dance Academy Marseille

Previous companies: Ballet National Marseille Junior Company

DEBORA MAIQUES MARIN Spain

Training: Elise Lummis-School

Previous companies: Compañía Nacional de Danza España 2, Ballet Carmen Roche, Centro Coreografico de Valencia

JORGE GARCÍA PÉREZ Spain

Training: Escuela de danza Maria de Avila, Zaragoza, Spain

Previous companies: Biarritz Ballet II, SYBAA Ballet, Zürcher Ballett

ANNABELLE PEINTRE France

Training: Conservatoire de Danse d’Avignon

Previous companies: Compania Nacional de Danza II, Ballet Basel, Opéra de Lyon

STEFANIE PECHTL Austria

Training: Ballettschule der Wiener Staatsoper, Dance Academy Monte Carlo

Previous companies: Wiener Staatsballett, Györi Ballett Hungary, Landestheater Linz, Staatstheater Nürnberg

PAIGE BOROWSKI USA

Training: The Juilliard School

FRANK FANNAR PEDERSEN Iceland

Training: Iceland Ballett School Reykjavik, Ballett schule der Finnischen Nationaloper (Helsinki)

Previous companies:Iceland Dance Company, IT Dansa Barcelona, Ballett des Staatstheaters Wiesbaden

ANTHONY RAMIANDRISOA France

Training: Conservatoire de Lyon

Previous company: Junior Ballet Lyon

MAX OSSENBERG-ENGELS Germany

Training: Ballett-Akademie Hochschule für Musik und Theater München

Previous companies: Nürnberg Ballett

TANA ROSÁS SUNÉ Spain

Training: Instituto del Teatro Barcelona, Koninklijk Conservatorium (Den Haag)

Previous company: IT Dansa Barcelona

JAVIER RODRIGUEZ COBOS Spain

Training: Real Conservatorio Nacional de Danza de Madrid

Previous companies: Europa Danse, Ballet des jeunes d’Europe, Compañía National de Danza 2, Ballet de l’Opéra National du Rhin, Introdans

CELIA SANDOYA* Spain

Training: John Cranko Ballettschule, Stuttgart

Previous companies: IT Dansa, Barcelona

DÉVI-AZELIA SELLY France

Training: Rosella Hightower (Cannes), Rudra Béjart (Lausanne)

Previous companies:Béjart Ballet, Ballett Basel, Nederlands Dans Theater 2

GAIA MENTOGLIO Italy

Training: Art Garage Napoli, Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden

MARINA SANCHEZ GARRIGÓS

Spain

Training: Institut del Teatre (Barcelona), Central School of Ballet (London)

Previous companies: New English Contemporary Ballet, Nürnberg Ballett

MAX ZACHRISSON Sweden

Training: Royal Swedish Ballet School

Previous company: Ballett Dortmund, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landestheater, Nürnberg Ballett

* Supported by Rosemarie Stuzzi-Thomi-Stiftung

CLAUDINE SCHOCH Switzerland

Training: Ballettakademie München Heinz-Bosl-Stiftung

Previous companies: Bayerisches Staatsballett Munich, Semperoper Dresden, Ballett am Rhein Düsseldorf

ANDREA TORTOSA

VIDAL Spain

Training: Estudio de danza Maria de Avilar; Nederlands

Danse Theater II

Previous company: Ballett Basel; Aterballetto

MANUEL RENARD

France

Ballet Master

CRISTIANA SCIABORDI Italy

Ballet Mistress

TOMMASO PENNACCHIO Italy

Physiotherapist

GUESTCHOREO-GRAPHERS OF THE BALLETT THEATER BASEL Johan Inger

Itzik GaliliJirí KyliánBlanca LiHans van ManenOhad NaharinThomas Noone Angelin PreljocajJiří Pokorný Hofesh ShechterStephan ThossEd Wubbe

Bryan Arias Rami BeerMauro BigonzettiChristopher BruceClaude BrumachonJoelle BouvierStijn CelisPatrick DelcroixNacho DuatoJorma EloAlexander EkmanSharon Eyal William Forsythe

REPERTOIRE OF RICHARD WHERLOCK

Le sacre du printemps / Sidewinding 2002

Rebus 2003Prelude à l’après-midi d’un faune 2003

Der Tod und das Mädchen 2004Nussknacker 2004

James oder la Sylphide 2006Danses Galantes 2006

Verdi Code 2007A Swan Lake 2008

Casanova.. was bleibt 2009Carmen 2010

Le spectre de la Rose / La Valse 2011Stoned 2012

Eugen Onegin 2013Snow White 2013

Juditha Triumphans 2014Tewje 2015

Robin Hood 2016Tod in Venedig 2018

Don’t Tell The Kids 2018The Comedy Of Error(Z) 2019

Gloria 2020

RICHARD WHERLOCK – THE GENTLE INNOVATOR OF BALLET IN BASEL

Richard Wherlock has rewritten the history of Ballet-Company in Basel. Over 15 years of unrelen-ting hard work, the ambitious and highly productive head of ballet has assembled a company of the greatest technical skill, which is up there with the best in the world in both neoclassical dance and contemporary dance techniques and is frequently compared with famous inter-national companies. For years, Wherlock has pursued the con-cept of a blend of small-scale, contem porary pieces, which are abstract in the broadest sense and play with associative images, and modern, full-length narrative ballets which tell stories, paint characters or interpret literary works in dance. Richard Wherlock could be described as a gentle innovator: building on the legacy of the classic and modern vocabulary, he choreographs contemporary dance that is brimming with energy and brings it to the stage

in traditional story-telling form, as full-length narrative ballets. His choreographies are a mix of effervescent, athletic tension and playful virtuosity and his pas de deux in particular reveals a highly creative imagination. Today, the company comprises 30 male and female dancers and is hugely popular with audiences in Basel. Particularly successful are his adaptations of the great classics, such as A Swan Lake, Traviata-Ein Ballett, Carmen, Giselle, Eugen Onegin, his enchanting fairy tale ballet Snow White or his outstanding Tewje and other full-length nar-rative ballets, which Wherlock has reinterpreted in his own, incomparable way.

BALLETT THEATER BASEL ON TOUR

ISRAEL Opera Tel Aviv

KOREA National Theatre of KoreaGwacheon Citizens’ HallSuwon Ballett Festival

CHINATian Qiao Theater BeijingGrand Theater TianjinKaiming Theater SuzhouMajestic Theater Shanghai

GERMANY Graf Zeppelin Haus FriedrichshafenStadthalle GüterslohTheater im Pfalzbau LudwigshafenStadthalle Recklinghausen

SWITZERLAND Kurtheater BadenTheater Casino ZugStadttheater BernKronenmattsaal BinningenBâtiment des forces motrices, GenfLugano Arte et Cultura LAC

FRANCEGare du Midi, BiarritzMaison de la danse, LyonLa Coupole, Saint-Louis

ITALYTeatro Comunale, Modena

SPAINTeatro Arriaga, BilbaoTeatro Albeniz, MadridBaluarte Palacio de Congresos, PamplonaTeatro Principal Antzokia, VitoriaTeatro Breton de Los Herreros, Logroño

HUNGARYErkel Theater, BudapestThalia Theater, Budapest Spring Festival

CONTACTAnne-Catherine ThomasAdministration Ballett Theater BaselTheater Basel, Postfach, 4010 Basela.thomas@theater-basel.chwww.theater-basel.ch

Tour manager: Stephan Hivert, stephanehivert@me.com

Ballett Theater Basel and Richard Wherlock on VIMEO:https://vimeo.com/richardwherlockballet

Inside the Ballet Theater Basel:www.interviewenlair.com/category/inside-ballet-theater-basel

Partner des Ballett Theater Basel

Imprint: Published by: Theater Basel, Postfach, CH-4010 Basel. Director: Andreas Beck, Administrative Director: Danièle Gross, Ballet Director: Richard Wherlock, Editorial Staff: Bettina Fischer, Photography: Ismael Lorenzo, Werner Tschan, graphic design: muxpp.de, Status: June 2018

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