Christian Spuck

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Christian Spuck (born September 28, 1969 in Marburg ) is a German choreographer and director.

Artistic career

Christian Spuck completed his training as a classical and modern dancer at the John Cranko School in Stuttgart . After graduating in 1993 he was a dancer with the Needcompany (Brussels) under Jan Lauwers and with the Ensemble Rosas under Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker . In 1995 he was hired as a dancer at the Stuttgart Ballet .

Christian Spuck presented his first choreography in 1996 in the “Young Choreographers” series of the Stuttgart Noverre Society. In 1998 he was commissioned to choreograph a world premiere for the Stuttgart Ballet. More ballets followed for this and soon also for other ballet companies, with which Christian Spuck quickly attracted the interest of the public and specialist critics. His ballet dos amores , premiered in 1999, made him known to the American audience on a tour of the USA by the Stuttgart Ballet in 2000.

In 2001 Christian Spuck was appointed resident choreographer of the Stuttgart Ballet. In 2003 he created his first full-length narrative ballet Lulu for the Stuttgart Ballet . A monster tragedy based on Frank Wedekind. This was followed by further full-length works for the Stuttgart Ballet ( Der Sandmann after ETA Hoffmann), the Aalto Ballett Theater Essen ( The Children after Edward Bond; Leonce and Lena after Georg Büchner), the Royal Ballet of Flanders ( The Return of Ulysses ) and the Theaterhaus Stuttgart ( Don Q. with Egon Madsen and Eric Gauthier ).

The following ballet ensembles have works by Christian Spuck in their repertoire, including mostly ballets that were premiered by the respective ensemble: Stuttgart Ballet, Staatsballett Berlin, Aalto Ballett Theater (Essen), Ballet of the State Theater Karlsruhe, Ballet of the State Theater Saarbrücken, Gauthier Dance (Theaterhaus Stuttgart), Royal Ballet of Flanders (Antwerp), Royal Swedish Ballet ( Royal Swedish National Opera , Stockholm), Israel Ballet (Tel Aviv), Aterballetto (Reggio Emilia, Italy), Finnish National Ballet (Helsinki), Ballet Riga (Latvia), American Ballet Theater (New York City), Hubbard Street Dance 2 (Chicago, USA).

In 2005 Christian Spuck staged the opera Berenice (composer: Johannes Maria Staud) at the Theater der Stadt Heidelberg and in 2010 Verdi's Falstaff at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden . In 2009 Christian Spuck (direction and choreography) staged the opera Orphée et Euridice at the State Theater Stuttgart . In 2011 Christian Spuck created a full-length dance production based on Georg Büchner's Woyzeck for the Norwegian Opera Ballet in Oslo .

At the beginning of the 2012/2013 season, Christian Spuck succeeded Heinz Spoerli as director of the Zurich Ballet at the Zurich Opera House (director: Andreas Homoki ). Among others, the following of his choreographies have so far been seen at the opera house: Romeo and Juliet , Leonce and Lena , Woyzeck , Solitude , Sonett , Anna Karenina and Nutcracker and the Mouse King . Spuck works regularly with the British set and costume designer Emma Ryott . In the summer of 2014, his contract, which originally ran until the 2016/2017 season, was Template: future / in 2 yearsextended to 2021/2022 .

Works (selection)

  • 1996 Duo / Towards the Night , Noverre Society
  • 1997 Songs from a Secret Garden , Noverre Society
  • 1998 Passacaglia , Stuttgart Ballet
  • 1998 Amores I , Regional Arts Festival of Europe
  • 1999 Dos Amores , Stuttgart Ballet
  • 1999 Morphing Games , Aterballetto
  • 1999 Le Grand Pas de deux , Stuttgart Ballet
  • 2000 The Seventh Blue , Stuttgart Ballet
  • 2000 Endless Waltz , Aalto Ballett Theater Essen
  • 2000 Adagio for 6 dancers , New York City Ballet
  • 2001 Carlotta's Portrait , Stuttgart Ballet
  • 2001 Songs , Stuttgart Ballet
  • 2001 Chaconne , ballet of the Karlsruhe State Theater
  • 2002 Nocturne , Stuttgart Ballet
  • 2002 Cupid and Death , Stuttgart Ballet / Junge Oper Stuttgart
  • 2003 This- , ballet of the Berlin State Opera
  • 2003 Lulu. A monstrous tragedy , Stuttgart Ballet
  • 2004 The children , Aalto Ballett Theater Essen
  • 2004 Shifting Portraits , ballet of the Saarbrücken State Theater
  • 2004 Cupid's Garden , Stuttgart Ballet
  • 2004 Pieces From a Lost Paradise , Stuttgart Ballet
  • 2005 Penelope , film production for ZDF and arte with Márcia Haydée and Robert Tewsley
  • 2005 ..., la peau blanche, ... , Stuttgart Ballet
  • 2005 The Restless , Hubbard Street Dance 2
  • 2005 Berenice , opera production, theater and Philharmonic Orchestra Heidelberg
  • 2006 The Sandman , Stuttgart Ballet
  • 2006 The Return of Ulysses , Royal Ballet of Flanders
  • 2007 Sleepers Chamber , Stuttgart Ballet
  • 2007 Don Q. , Theaterhaus Stuttgart
  • 2007 Le tableau perdu , Royal Swedish Ballet
  • 2007 Leonce and Lena , Aalto Ballett Theater Essen
  • 2009 Orphée et Euridice , Stuttgart Ballet and State Opera Stuttgart
  • 2010 Poppea // Poppea - A dance piece , Gauthier Dance Theaterhaus Stuttgart
  • 2012 Das Fräulein von S. , Stuttgart Ballet
  • 2012 Romeo and Juliet , Ballet Zurich
  • 2013 Woyzeck , Ballet Zurich
  • 2014 Anna Karenina , Ballet Zurich
  • 2017 Nutcracker and the Mouse King , Ballet Zurich
  • 2020 The little girl with the sulfur sticks , Ballet Zurich

Awards

  • German Dance Prize "Future" 2006
  • Leonce and Lena nominated for the 2008 German Theater Prize "Der Faust"
  • The children nominated for the "Prix Benois de la Danse" 2005
  • German theater award “Der Faust” 2011 for Poppea // Poppea
  • Award Production of the Year 2020 to the Ballet Zurich for the performance of The Little Girl with the Swimps by the magazine Tanz (Spuck involved as director)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A successful team will remain. tanznetz.de, June 18, 2014, accessed November 30, 2015 .
  2. ↑ "THE GIRL WITH THE SULFURWOODS" CONVINCED. August 19, 2020, accessed on August 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Spit, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German choreographer and director
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg