Angèle Albrecht

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Angèle Albrecht (born December 12, 1942 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † August 1, 2000 in Munich ) was a German dancer .

Live and act

Angèle Albrecht was the daughter of the Munich painter and set designer Elmar Albrecht . After training with Lula von Sachnowsky and at the Royal Ballet School in London, she had engagements at the Nationaltheater Mannheim (1960/61) and at the Hamburg State Opera (1961–1967), where she was discovered as a "great ballerina" under George Balanchine . For many years since 1967 she was a solo dancer in Maurice Béjart's “ballet du XXième siècle” in Brussels, where she was successful in Bhakti , Boléro and Le Sacre du Printemps, among others . Guest tours took her with the ballet of the Hamburg State Opera a. a. to Berlin and Venice (1964), Spain (1965), Munich (1966) and Zurich (1967) and with the “ballet du XXième siècle” a. a. to Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Canada, Cuba, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland and Portugal.

In 1979 she retired from the stage and founded a ballet school in Brussels, which she gave up in the mid-1980s. Afterwards she taught in Munich, a. a. in the dance project and in the Roleff-King ballet school. Since 1969 she was married (later divorced) to the (exile) Polish concert pianist and composer Piotr Lachert , who dedicated the ballet Angelica to her in 1972 . Her connection with the choreographer Lorca Massine, the eldest son of Léonide Massine , comes from her son Tigran Albrecht. Her estate is in the German Dance Archive in Cologne .

Role repertoire (excerpt)

  • Calliope in Apollon Musagète (George Balanchine) - Hamburg 1962.
  • Waltz in Les Sylphides ( Michael Fokine ) - Hamburg 1962.
  • Choleric woman in The Four Temperaments (George Balanchine) - Hamburg 1963.
  • The night in Orpheus and Eurydice (George Balanchine) - Hamburg 1963.
  • Ariadne in Bacchus and Ariadne (George Skibine) - Wuppertal 1964.
  • Both leading roles in Concerto barocco (George Balanchine) - Hamburg 1966.
  • Leading role in Symphony in C (George Balanchine) - Hamburg 1966.
  • Carmen in Carmen ( Roland Petit ) - Hamburg 1967.
  • Anna II in The Seven Deadly Sins (Dragutin Boldin) - Lübeck 1967.
  • The Chosen One in Sacre du Printemps (Maurice Béjart) - Brussels 1967.
  • Classical role in Messe pour le temps présent (Maurice Béjart) - Avignon 1967.
  • Lilac fairy in Ni fleurs ni couronnes (Maurice Béjart) - Grenoble 1968.
  • La Femme in Baudelaire (Maurice Béjart) - Brussels 1968.
  • Queen Mab in Romeo et Juliette (Maurice Béjart) - Brussels 1968.
  • Shakti in Bhakti (Maurice Béjart) - Avignon 1968.
  • Yolande in Les 4 Fils Aymon (Léonide Massine / Paolo Bortoluzzi / Maurice Béjart) - Avignon 1969.
  • Elle in Les Vainqueurs (Maurice Béjart) - Brussels 1969.

reception

  • Wilfried Hofman: Angele Albrecht is a stroke of luck: she is an utterly natural dance talent, a woman of high, exotic and yet classic beauty and at the same time a modest, incorruptible girl.
  • Malve Gradinger: a technically brilliant, strong personality interpreter

literature

  • Max Niehaus : Fascination with ballet. A compendium of the international ballet scene. Nymphenburger Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1978, p. 94.
  • Horst Koegler and Helmut Günther : Reclams Ballettlexikon . Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 1984, p. 12.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilfried Hofman: Young German dancers: Angele Albrecht . In: Das Tanzarchiv , 17th vol. H. 10, March 1970, p. 309f.
  2. ↑ Malve Gradinger: A brilliant interpreter. The ballerina Angèle Albrecht died in Munich . In: Ballett Journal / Das Tanzarchiv , H. 4, October 2000, p. 74.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Lt. Birth certificate entry in the civil status register of the Freiburg im Breisgau registry office from December 15, 1942; so also in Niehaus 1972, p. 135 and 2nd edition 1978, p. 94 .; November 16th is erroneously in Reclam's ballet dictionary.
personal data
SURNAME Albrecht, Angèle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dancer
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 2000
Place of death Munich