Egon Madsen

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Egon Madsen (born August 24, 1942 in rings ) is a Danish ballet dancer and ballet master . Alongside Richard Cragun , Marcia Haydée and Birgit Keil , he was one of the soloists of the Stuttgart Ballet who contributed to the Stuttgart ballet miracle under John Cranko at the end of the 1960s .

Since 2007 he has been associated with the then newly founded dance ensemble at Theaterhaus Stuttgart . He lives in Italy with his wife, the former dancer Lucia Isenring.

Career

Madsen received his ballet training as part of engagements with various Danish ballet companies. He was rejected by the Royal Danish Ballet School .

In 1961, through the mediation of one of his teachers and the dancer Erik Bruhn von Cranko, he was engaged in his Stuttgart ballet, where he was appointed solo dancer in 1962.

Many of the roles in John Cranko's choreographies were created for Madsen, including:

  • Romeo and Juliet (1962): Paris
  • Jeu de cartes (1965): The Joker
  • Onegin (1965): Lenski
  • The Nutcracker (1966)
  • The Taming of the Shrew (1969)
  • Carmen (1971): Don José
  • Initials RBME (1972): the E stands for Egon Madsen

Other choreographers have written roles for Madsen, including Kenneth MacMillan and Sir Peter Wright .

After leaving the Stuttgart Ballet in 1981, Madsen first became director of the Frankfurt Ballet , then ballet director of the Royal Swedish Ballet and the Teatro Comunale in Florence. In 1990 he returned to the Stuttgart Ballet as ballet master and deputy ballet director. In 1996 he became the ballet master of the Leipzig Ballet .

In 1999 Madsen accepted an invitation from the choreographer Jiří Kylián and became a dancer of the Nederlands Dans Theater III ( NDT III ). From 2000 to 2007 he was artistic director there.

In September 2007 Egon Madsen danced alongside Eric Gauthier in Christian Spuck's “Don Q.” . In the following years he promoted the start of the dance ensemble Gauthier Dance at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart as a “company coach” . For the dance evening Egon Madsen's Greyhounds in 2015 he brought former dancers onto the stage of the theater. In 2020 he will work at the Theaterhaus in a dance production by Mauro Bigonzetti based on motifs from Shakespeare's King Lear .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claudia Reicherter: Egon Madsen about dancing: “A dream job that starts early and ends early”. November 9, 2017, accessed October 31, 2019 .
  2. ^ A b German Dance Prize to Egon Madsen. In: tanznetz.de. November 24, 2010, accessed October 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Egon Madsen. Company coach. In: The dance ensemble of the Theaterhaus Stuttgart. Theaterhaus Stuttgart, accessed on October 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Vesna Mlakar: Guide back to the future. Egon Madsen: Greyhounds. In: The German Stage . November 2, 2015, accessed October 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Madsen, Egon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish ballet dancer and ballet master
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Rings