Jürgen Pagels

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Jürgen Heinrich Pagels (born April 16, 1925 in Lübeck ; † May 3, 2010 ibid) was a German-American dancer, choreographer and professor at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in Bloomington (Indiana) .

Life

Jürgen Pagels came from the Lübeck merchant family Pagels, under the company Heinr. Pagels in the Broad Street ran a porcelain and household goods store. Heinrich Pagels was his grandfather, the sculptor Hermann Pagels his uncle.

Pagels received his classical ballet lessons from Tatjana Vestena, who came to Lübeck as a displaced person and who had previously been prima ballerina at the Latvian National Ballet in Riga . In Paris he studied with Olga Iossifowna Preobrazhenskaya and in London with Hans Rausch, Nadine Nicolaeva-Legat and Ana Roje.

He danced as a soloist at various German opera houses. In 1955, now a ballet master, he moved to the USA, but kept his apartment in Lübeck. After a short time as a teacher in New York City, he opened his own successful ballet school in Dallas . As a visiting professor he taught at various academies and colleges until he was appointed to the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in Bloomington (Indiana) in 1970 by Anton Dolin and Marina Svetlova . Here he taught until his retirement in 1990, most recently as a full professor. In 1988 he earned a Doctor of Fine Arts from Pacific Western University , Los Angeles . He was particularly interested in character dance .

As a lecturer and expert in various styles of classical ballet, he often worked with Margot Fonteyn . For a while he was artistic director for the Ballet Nacional de Guatemala and the Ballet Clásico of San Salvador. In 1989 he was a juror at the 7th and 8th International Ballet Competitions in Peru .

Pagels family grave, Lübeck castle gate cemetery

In old age he returned to Lübeck. He was buried in the family grave in the Burgtorfriedhof .

Works

  • Character dance. Indiana University Press 1984
  • Character dance: basics and methodology. Wilhelmshaven: Heinrichshofen 1985 ISBN 978-3-7959-0363-3
  • Class variations in classical ballet: 100 different classes for the advanced student, professional dancer, and teacher.

literature

  • Obituary in: IUMusic Spring 2011, p. 38

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On her see Tatjana Vestene (Latvian) and Christian Pletzing: Displaced Persons. Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians in Lübeck in the post-war period. In: Nordostarchiv 19 (2010), pp. 197–219 ( digitized version ), here p. 205
  2. ↑ Biographical stations mainly according to the obituary in: IUMusic Spring 2011, p. 38
personal data
SURNAME Pagels, Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pagels, Jürgen Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American dancer, choreographer and university lecturer (Indiana University, Bloomington)
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 2010
Place of death Lübeck