Ivan Liška
Ivan Liška (born November 8, 1950 in Prague ) is a German-Czech dancer and former director of the Bavarian State Ballet . He comes from a family of artists: his father was the painter Karel Liška , his grandmother a singer, his grandfather a violinist.
Life stations
Liška received his dance training at the Prague Conservatory . He made his first appearance in 1964 in Prague and danced at the National Theater in Prague . In the summer of 1969 he left Czechoslovakia . This was followed by engagements at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein from 1969 to 1974, at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich from 1974 to 1977 and at the Hamburg State Opera from 1977 to 1998. In Hamburg he was a soloist with John Neumeier for over 20 years . On September 1, 1998, he became director of the Bavarian State Balletcalled. Tours to St. Petersburg , Madrid , Budapest , Italy, Canada, Prague , Turkey and India were undertaken under his direction .
Ivan Liška is the first choreographer who was allowed to perform a piece by Pina Bausch with his company . The premiere of "For the children of yesterday, today and tomorrow" took place on April 3, 2016 in Munich. Ivan Liška is leaving the Bavarian State Opera at the end of the 2015/16 season.
Liška is married to the ballet master Colleen Scott and they have two sons.
Leading roles
Some of his leading roles in almost 30 years on the stage were:
- Triadic ballet by Oskar Schlemmer
- Apollo ( Apollon musagète )
- Orpheus (Rilke)
- Lysander ( Midsummer Night's Dream )
- Matthew Passion
- The Exiles by José Limón
- Peer Gynt.
Awards
- 2007: Medal for special services to Bavaria in a United Europe
- 2009: Bavarian Order of Merit
- 2012: German Dance Prize of the Association for the Promotion of Dance Art in Germany
- 2012: Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
- 2016: Dance Prize of the City of Munich
- 2017: Bavarian State Medal for special services to the environment
literature
- Dagmar Ellen Fischer: Ivan Liška. Dancer. The lightness of the moment. Henschel Verlag 2015. ISBN 3894877545 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ BRalpa, broadcast on 16 October 2000. Ivan Liska, Director Bavarian State Ballet in conversation with Marion Luck Levy. Page accessed on February 14, 2012 (PDF; 33 kB)
- ^ History of the Bavarian State Ballet. Accessed on November 4, 2011. ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2014 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.
- ^ Goethe-Institut Prague: 10 questions to Ivan Liška. Ivan Liška in portrait. June 2010. Accessed on November 4, 2011. ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2013 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.
- ^ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Ballet Festival in Munich: Opening with Pina Bausch premiere | BR classic. In: www.br-klassik.de. Retrieved on May 25, 2016 (German).
- ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Bayerisches Staatsballett: Almost half of the company goes | BR classic. In: www.br-klassik.de. Retrieved on May 25, 2016 (German).
- ^ Max Niehaus: Ballett-Faszination , Munich 1980, ISBN 3-453-01061-2 , p. 262.
- ↑ Katja Engler: Devotion to dance. In: Hamburger Abendblatt, July 15, 2015, p. 13.
- ↑ High distinction for dancer Ivan Liska. In: Hamburger Abendblatt, November 3, 2011, p. 24
- ↑ http://www.mainpost.de/regional/bayern/Maximiliansorden-vergabe;art16683,7160536
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Liška, Ivan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Czech dancer and director of the Bavarian State Ballet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |