Jan Minařík (dancer)

Jan Minařík (internationally mostly as Jan Minarik ; born August 25, 1945 in Prague , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech-German dancer and photographer. Minařík was one of the most important dancers in the Pina Bausch dance theater and also performed under the stage name Jean Mindo .

Life

Jan Minařík trained as a ballet dancer in Prague . In 1969 he emigrated after the occupation of Czechoslovakia and found his first engagement at the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck . He then switched to ballet in the Wuppertal Opera House , which presented a classical ballet aesthetic under Ivan Sertic, and became a solo dancer there. After artistic director Arno Wüstenhöfer handed over the management of the ballets to the choreographer Pina Bausch in 1973 , almost the entire ensemble succeeded its former director. "One of the few who stayed in Wuppertal was Jan Minarik: He became one of the very important actors and employees of the dance theater", recalled Pina Bausch.

Minařík impressed the audience with dance scenes in which he was able to contrast his strength as a lifting and support partner for the dancers with sensitive and tenderly melancholy performances.

Minařík took pictures during rehearsals and tours of the ensemble, and after leaving active stage life he continued to work intensively.

In 1981 he married Beatrice Libonati , his colleague in the dance theater Pina Bausch , with whom he has a daughter and a son. Jan Minařík now lives on his farm in the Czech Republic.

Filmography

• 1985: An incredibly strong dancer. TV documentary, Germany, 28 min., Script and director: Anne Linsel , production: WDR , portrait of the dancer Jan Minarik
• 1986: While listening to a tape recording of Béla Bartók's opera "Bluebeard's Castle". TV recording of a production in the Wuppertaler Schauspielhaus , 108 min., Production: ZDF , first broadcast: August 31, 1986, review:

Web links

• Minarik's profile on MySpace , 2009
• biography
• Photos: Jan Minarik and Beatrice Libonati , February 24, 2006
• “An oasis of calm in the vortex of lines” , Westdeutsche Zeitung , February 27, 2006
• Minarik's travel pictures from his colleagues. Muse leaves, 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Minariks profile at MySpace , 2009
2. ↑ Dominique Fretard: Pina Bausch fête, chez elle, les vingt-cinq ans de sa compagnie , Le Monde , October 11, 1998
3. ↑ Pina Bausch: "Find something that doesn't need a question". ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 314 kB) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Acceptance speech for the Kyoto Prize , November 12, 2007, p. 10. 
4. ↑ "Little Island of Happiness" . In: Die Zeit , No. 8/1994
5. ↑ Beatrice. A photographic declaration of love. Muse leaves, 2007
6. ↑ Frank Becker: Watching. Muse leaves, 2007
7. ↑ Hellmuth Karasek : "In Search of God and the 50s" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , 1981, pp. 154–157, here p. 156 ( online ).