Angelos Grimanis
Angelos Grimanis , Greek Άγγελος Γριμάνης , also Angelos Grimanes (* 1896 in Patras ; † 1940 in Athens ) was a Greek dancer and choreographer .
Life
Grimanis comes from a Corfiot family who settled in Patras. After graduating from high school, he went to Germany in 1923 and enrolled to study architecture. Despite the opposition of his family, he dropped out of studies and attended Mary Wigman's dance school in Dresden . He then attended the schools of Zimmermann, Growsky (Berlin) and Bronislava Nijinska in Paris.
He made his debut as a dancer in the operetta Der Zarewitsch at the Deutsches Künstlertheater in Berlin in 1927. Grimanis, who called himself at Theater Angelo de Grimani in Germany , was engaged as a group dancer in the dance choir at the Stuttgart Opera in the seasons 1927/28 and 1928/29 and as a group dancer at the Cologne Opera in 1929/30 . For the season 1930/31 he can be proven as a group dancer at the theater in Chemnitz. In 1933 he left Germany and from then on worked at the National Theater in Athens , only for the Olympic Games in Berlin he returned briefly to Germany in 1936 for a performance. In Greece he was also seen as an actor in films. From 1951 to 1959 he worked for the Greek ballet and made a guest appearance with it in Vienna in 1957.
Individual evidence
- ^ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1928, p. 566; 1929, p. 609; 1930, p. 497.
- ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1931, p. 352. (1932ff. Without proof).
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| SURNAME | Grimanis, Angelos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grimanes, Angelos; Γριμάνης, Άγγελος (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek dancer and choreographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Patras |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1940 |
| Place of death | Athens |