Georgette Tsinguirides

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Georgette Tsinguirides (born February 27, 1928 in Stuttgart ) is a German-Greek ballet dancer , choreologist , ballet master and was the assistant to John Cranko , who directed the Stuttgart Ballet from 1961 to 1973.

Life

Georgette Tsinguirides lost her mother at an early age and grew up under the care of her grandmother Maria Weickh, the lady in waiting for Queen Charlotte of Württemberg, née. Charlotte at Schaumburg-Lippe . When she was seven, she began training at the Stuttgart State Theater ballet school . She then took lessons with Olga Preobrajenska and Madame Nora at Studio Wacker in Paris and at the Royal Ballet School in London. In 1945 she received her first engagement at the Stuttgart State Theater, with a fee of 2250 Reichsmarks . In 1957 she became a soloist under the direction of Nicolas Beriozoff. Even before John Cranko took over the management of the company in 1961, she was already dancing in 1960 in his ballet Der Pagodenprinz , later a. a. in The Lady and the Fool and in Romeo and Juliet .

In 1966, Tsinguirides became Germany's first full-time dance script expert in Stuttgart . John Cranko commissioned her to record his choreographies in an international dance script. As a choreologist and ballet master, she has meanwhile passed on Cranko's work to several generations of dancers: Not only with the Stuttgart Ballet, but also with more than 30 other ballet companies worldwide.

At the suggestion of Cranko, Tsinguirides graduated in 1966 from studying Benesh Movement Notation in London with a diploma. Then she began to record all the great works that Cranko created in Stuttgart in this dance script. Individual movements are precisely recorded in writing like in a score .

On December 1, 2015, Tsinguirides celebrated her 70th anniversary with the Stuttgart Ballet. Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann presented her with the gold Staufer medal on December 5th .

She retired in July 2017 and was officially bid farewell at Ballett im Park on July 8, 2017.

Honors

  • 1973 “Fellowship of Institute of Choreology” of the Benesh Institute of Choreology
  • 1980 John Cranko Prize for her contribution to Cranko's artistic legacy
  • 1985 Honoring the state of Baden-Württemberg for 40 years at the Stuttgart State Theater
  • 1986 Federal Cross of Merit for exceptional artistic work
  • 1987 Award from the Benesh Institute of Choreology for special merits in the 21 years of practicing the Benesh Movement Notation
  • 1995 Honoring the state of Baden-Württemberg for 50 years at the Stuttgart State Theater
  • 2002 Medal of Merit from the State of Baden-Württemberg
  • 2006 honorary membership of the Stuttgart State Theater on the occasion of her 60th anniversary of service
  • 2010 German Dance Prize
  • 2010 membership in the Royal Academy of Dance London
  • 2015 Gold Staufer Medal for services to the state of Baden-Württemberg

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stuttgart Ballet - Georgette Tsinguirides, choreologist and ballet master ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stuttgarter-ballett.de
  2. ↑ ballet master. With the same employer for 70 years. Spiegel online, April 12, 2015
  3. ↑ Spotlight on the news on July 5th

literature

  • Susanne Wiedmann: Georgette Tsinguirides. A life for John Cranko and the Stuttgart Ballet. Klöpfer & Meyer. Tübingen 2015. ISBN 978-3-86351-407-5
personal data
SURNAME Tsinguirides, georgette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Greek ballet dancer and choreologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart