Jörg Mannes
Jörg Mannes (* 1969 in Vienna ) is an Austrian ballet dancer and choreographer .
life and career
Mannes received his ballet training at the Vienna State Opera , in Monte Carlo, London and New York City. From 1985 he was a ballet member at the Vienna State Opera. In 1988 he received a six-month scholarship at the Paris Opera and from 1991 he was a solo dancer at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf with Heinz Spoerli . He danced in choreographies by John Neumeier , John Cranko , William Forsythe and Rudolf Nurejew , among others .
1994 debuted man with March to 23 Piano Concerto of Mozart as a choreographer. He has worked as a guest choreographer in Montreal and Indianapolis, at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow and at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. From 2001 to 2004 he was employed as chief choreographer at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven and from 2004 to 2006 at the Landestheater Linz . Since 2006 he has been the ballet director at the Hanover Opera . He is to be replaced by Marco Goecke in the 2019/2020 season .
Choreographies (selection)
- 1994: March , Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf (music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
- 1996: 4 Kisses , Ballet Company Indianapolis (music: Johann Sebastian Bach )
- 1997: Sieben , Aalto-Theater Essen (music: Ludwig van Beethoven )
- 1998: Certide logicon , Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf (music: Sergei Prokofjew )
- 1999: Lethe , Odeon Vienna (music: Gabriel Fauré )
- 2000: Carmina Burana , Kasematten Graz (music: Carl Orff )
- 2002: Mephisto - Faust - Margarethe , Stadttheater Bremerhaven (music: Franz Schubert )
- 2003: Amadeus , Stadttheater Bremerhaven (music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
- 2004: Encounters - Claudel Rodin Chopin , Stadttheater Bremerhaven (music: Frédéric Chopin , Maurice Ravel )
- 2006: Romeo and Juliet , Landestheater Linz (music: Sergei Prokofjew)
- 2007: Der Sturm , Bavarian State Opera Munich (Music: Anton Bruckner , Jean Sibelius , Peter Tschaikowski )
- 2008: Goldberg , State Opera Hanover (music: Johann Sebastian Bach)
- 2009: Nutcracker and Mouse King , Hanover State Opera (Music: Peter Tschaikowski)
- 2010: Dangerous Liaisons , State Opera Hanover (Music: Mark Polscher , Antonio Vivaldi , Georg Friedrich Händel )
- 2010: A Midsummer Night's Dream , Hanover State Opera (Music: Benjamin Britten , Frank Bridge , Georg Friedrich Händel)
- 2011: Alice in Wonderland , Hanover State Opera (Music: Erik Satie , Antonín Dvořák )
- 2013: Sleeping Beauty , Hanover State Opera (Music: Peter Tschaikowski)
- 2015: What you want , Hanover State Opera (Music: Dmitri Schostakowitsch , Sergei Prokofjew)
- 2018: Marilyn , Hanover State Opera (Music: Frank Sinatra , Marilyn Monroe, John Adams , Nine Inch Nails and others)
- 2019: Nevermore. An evening for Edgar Allan Poe , Hanover State Opera (music: Stefan Johannes Hanke , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), together with Mauro Bigonzetti
Awards (selection)
- 1999: Concours International de Choreographie Classique Paris 1st place for ensemble (music: Sergei Prokofjew)
- 2001: Helsinki Ballet Competition , 1st Prize for Pramin (Music: Nikolai Tscherepnin , Johann Sebastian Bach)
- 2010: German Theater Prize Der Faust for Dangerous Liaisons (music: Mark Polscher, Antonio Vivaldi, Georg Friedrich Händel), nomination in the categories Best Choreography and Best Acting Performance in Dance (for Denis Piza as Valmont)
Web links
- Biography on the website of the Hanover Opera
- Own homepage
- Overview of the choreographies
- Homepage at smugmug.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on joergmannes.smugmug.com, accessed on April 5, 2019
- ↑ Stefan Arndt: Marco Goecke will be ballet director at the Staatstheater Hannover from 2019 , haz.de , February 24, 2018, accessed on April 5, 2019
- ↑ Vesna Mlakar: Between Myth and Loss of Identity , May 4, 2018, accessed April 5, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mannes, Jörg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian ballet dancer and choreographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |