Heinz Spoerli
Heinz Spoerli (born July 8, 1940 in Basel ) is a Swiss choreographer .
Life
Heinz Spoerli began to train professionally ballet at the age of 17 . At 19 he received his first engagement in a ballet by Wazlaw Orlikowsky in Basel. From 1963 to 1973 there followed engagements as a soloist in Cologne under Todd Bolender , at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet , the Grands Ballets Canadiens in Montreal , at the Theater Basel and at the Grand Théâtre de Genève . The first choreographic works began in 1967. Spoerli's breakthrough as a choreographer came in 1972 with Le chemin at the Geneva Theater.
From 1973 Heinz Spoerli worked first as chief choreographer, then as ballet director at the Basel theater. He created numerous new dance works and earned an excellent international reputation as a choreographer of full-length narrative ballets and stylish reinterpretations of classical ballets, including La Fille mal gardée , Giselle , Coppélia , Romeo and Juliet , The Nutcracker , Swan Lake and La Belle Vie . There were also contemporary ballets and pointed short forms such as cheeses , miniatures , dead ends and loops .
As a choreographer, Spoerli has worked at the Paris Opera , the Vienna State Opera , the Scala in Milan , in Berlin, Hong Kong, Lisbon, Stockholm, Stuttgart and Graz. From 1991 to 1996 Spoerli held the position of ballet director at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf. During this time, new productions of Swan Lake , Sleeping Beauty and Joseph's legend as well as Spoerli's dance version of Bach's Goldberg Variations were created . From 1996 to 2012 he was the ballet director and choreographer of the Zurich Ballet at the Zurich Opera House .
Awards
- 1982: Hans Reinhart-Ring
- 1991: Art Prize of the City of Basel
- 1995: Jacob Burckhardt Prize of the Goethe Foundation in Basel
- 2000: Prize for Choreography from the European Cultural Foundation
- 2002: Officier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres
- 2003: Gold Medal of Honor from the Government Council of the Canton of Zurich
- 2007: Art Prize of the City of Zurich
- 2009: German Dance Prize
- 2009: German Critics' Prize in the «Dance» category
- 2012: Zurich Festival Prize
literature
- Horst Koegler (Ed.): Heinz Spoerli. Ballet citizen of the world. NZZ Libro, Zurich, 2011, ISBN 978-3-03823-720-4 .
- Richard Merz : Heinz Spoerli . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 170.
- [Philipp Flury / Peter Kaufmann]: "Heinz Spoerli. Ballet fascination" Fretz Verlag, Zurich, 1983, ISBN 3-85692-003-X
- [Philipp Flury / Peter Kaufmann]: "Heinz Spoerli. Ballet Fascination" Verlag NZZ, Zurich, 1996, ISBN 3-85823-620-9
Web links
- Website by Heinz Spoerli
- Oliver Demont: König Heinz In: Das Magazin No. 15/2011, April 16, 2011, portrait
- Maya Künzler: Heinz Spoerli, world-class dance maker. In: Tages-Anzeiger from June 16, 2012
- Publications by and about Heinz Spoerli in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Official website of Heinz Spoerli. Accessed on January 8, 2010 : "At the end of the 2011/12 season, Heinz Spoerli will step down as ballet director and chief choreographer at the Zurich Opera House."
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spoerli, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss choreographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel , Switzerland |