Elke Holle-Riemenschneider

Elke Holle-Riemenschneider (born April 23, 19 ??, during the war in Hamburg ) is a German ballet dancer and dance teacher at the Royal Academy of Dance in London .

biography

education and profession

Holle-Riemenschneider was trained as a dancer in Hamburg. Her training led her from the Lola Rogge School in the 1950s to the Hamburg State Opera , under Gustav Blank, in which she made her first appearance at the age of 17 and also passed her stage maturity test there. Further studies followed with Victor Gsovsky in Paris , John Gilpin in London and Eileen Ward in Cannes . Fixed engagements in Malmö and Düsseldorf followed .

Her professional career as a solo dancer began in Frankfurt am Main under Tatjana Gsovsky . Here she created spring in Carmina Burana for her , Florence in Joan v. Zarissa (music: Werner Egk ) and other roles. During this time, the ballet director of the Paris Opera , Michele Descombé, created the role of Celestina in the ballet Maratona (music by Hans Werner Henze ) for her.

In the 1960s, Holle danced in the ballet of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf as a soloist under Erich Walter . As part of the cultural program of the 1968 Summer Olympics , she appeared with this ensemble in Mexico as the Fairy of Spring in Prokofiev's Cinderella . Holle also appeared in the ensemble of the ballet in Frankfurt am Main and the ballet of the Munich State Opera . This was followed by an engagement as the first soloist in the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich under Imre Keres , until she was signed to the Stuttgart Ballet by John Cranko . From 1960 to 1980 Elke Holle danced the entire classical repertoire and ballets by Tatjana Gsovsky , George Skibine, Imres Keres, Erich Walter, George Balanchine , Kenneth MacMillan and John Cranko.

She received an award in Munich for Juliet in Romeo and Juliet . She was shaped by dancers from the Stuttgart Ballet such as Marcia Haydée , Birgit Keil , Richard Cragun , Egon Madsen , John Neumeier , Jiri Kylian and William Forsythe .

Later guest appearances with the Stuttgart Ballet took her to major theaters around the world such as the Metropolitan Opera in New York City , where she appeared in 1973 under the choreography of John Cranko, and also to stages in London, Sydney , Tokyo and Moscow . Elke Holle also danced several TV ballet recordings by Erich Walter and John Cranko. In the last two years of her engagement in Stuttgart, she attended the John Cranko School under Ann Wooliams and then went to London.

Here she qualified as a registered teacher of the Royal Academy of Dance and opened her own studio in Düsseldorf in 1981. Since then, students at the ballet studio at Nordpark have successfully passed over 600 exams at the RAD in London. Likewise, students who made dancing their profession were accepted at the famous ballet academies in Hamburg, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Paris and London.

Private

Nutritious Mausoleum - Elke and Heinrich Riemenschneider, Nordfriedhof Düsseldorf

Holle-Riemenschneider was married to the German actor, singer, playwright, director and museum director Heinrich Riemenschneider from 1964 until his death in 2013 . In 1983 Elke and Heinrich Riemenschneider took over the nourishing mausoleum on the Düsseldorf North Cemetery as a sponsor.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Elke Holle-Riemenschneider - Ballet Studio at the Nordpark. Accessed February 2, 2019 (German). 
2. ^ Obituary for Heinrich Riemenschneider in: Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf
3. ↑ Preface (= page 1 ). In: bequests / collections about Heinrich "Heino" Riemenschneider in the city archive of the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia (PDF; 268 kB)