Lloyd Riggins

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Lloyd Riggins (born October 9, 1969 in New York City ) is an American dancer . Since 1995 he has been principal soloist with the Hamburg Ballet . From 2006 he also worked there as a ballet master . Since 2015 he has been the deputy ballet director of the Hamburg ballet company .

To person

Lloyd Riggins was born in New York City in 1969 to Barbara Riggins, founder of the Southern Ballet Theater (now Orlando Ballet), ballet teacher and choreographer, and Norman Riggins, opera and theater singer. His brother Christopher Fleming was a dancer with the New York City Ballet and is now the director and chief choreographer of the Ballet Fleming in Philadelphia, USA. His sister Edyie Fleming works as a musical performer on Broadway. Lloyd Riggins lives with his wife Niurka Moredo, ballet master with the Hamburg Ballet, and their two children in Hamburg.

Career

Riggins began his education in 1985 at the School of the Southern Ballet Theater in Orlando, Florida . In 1987 he received an engagement at the Royal Danish Ballet . There he was appointed principal soloist, making him the youngest principal soloist in the history of the Copenhagen ballet company.

In 1995 Riggins switched to the Hamburg Ballet as first soloist. He was also an assistant ballet master from 2006 to 2009 and a ballet master since 2009. Since 2015 Riggins has been working as deputy ballet director at the side of John Neumeier , whose contract as ballet director runs until 2023. His most important teachers include Barbara Riggins, Henning Kronstam and Kevin Haigen .

repertoire

In Copenhagen

  • Lenski in Onegin ( John Cranko )
  • The Joker in Jeu de Cartes (John Cranko)
  • James in La Sylphide ( August Bournonville )
  • Gennaro in Napoli (August Bournonville)
  • Albrecht in Giselle ( Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot / Henning Kronstam)
  • Basil in Don Quixote
  • Prince in Sleeping Beauty ( Helgi Tomasson )
  • Prince in The Nutcracker ( Flemming Flindt )
  • Romeo and Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet (John Neumeier)
  • Puck and Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • (John Neumeier)
  • King Christian VII in Caroline Mathilde (Flemming Flindt)
  • Apollo in Apollo ( George Balanchine )
  • The Poet in La Sonnambula (George Balanchine)

and solos in

  • Fun fair in Bruges (August Bournonville)
  • Conservatory (August Bournonville)
  • A folk tale (August Bournonville)
  • Fifth Symphony by Gustav Mahler (John Neumeier)
  • Theme and Variations (George Balanchine)
  • Tchaikowsky Pas de deux (George Balanchine)

In Hamburg

  • Romeo, Mercutio, Valentino and Count Capulet in Romeo and Juliet
  • Armand, Gaston and Monsieur Duval in The Lady of the Camellias
  • Odysseus in Odyssey
  • Prince Désiré in Sleeping Beauty
  • Günther and Drosselmeier in The Nutcracker
  • Aminta in Sylvia
  • Petrushka in Petrushka
  • The king in illusions - like Swan Lake
  • Orsino and Sebastian in VIVALDI or What you want
  • Puck, Theseus / Oberon, Demetrius and Zettel / Pyramus in A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • The Prince and Cinderella's father in A Cinderella Story
  • Serge Diaghilev in Nijinsky
  • Duke Albert in Giselle
  • King Arthur in Arthurian legend
  • Doubt aspect in Peer Gynt
  • Touchstone in As You Like It
  • WA Mozart in "Window to Mozart"
  • The Hermit in Parzival - Episodes and Echo
  • The poet in The Little Mermaid
  • Harold Mitchell (Mitch) in last stop of longing
  • A Man in Seasons - The Colors of Time
  • Widow Simone in La Fille mal gardée (Frederick Ashton)
  • A dandy in A la Françaix (George Balanchine)
  • A wise man in Le Sacre du Printemps (Millicent Hoson, inspired by Vaslaw Nijinsky)

and solos in

  • Now and Then
  • St. Matthew Passion
  • The boy's magic horn
  • Fifth Symphony by Gustav Mahler
  • Night sketches from "Bartók Pictures"
  • Third Symphony by Gustav Mahler
  • Bach Suite 3
  • requiem
  • Theme and Variations (George Balanchine)
  • She was black (Mats Ek)
  • Remanso (Nacho Duato)
  • Forgotten Land (Jirí Kylián)
  • Paths (Yukichi Hattori)
  • Jewels - emeralds (George Balanchine)

In 1999 Riggins played a leading role in Donya Feuers film "The working of Utopia". He can be seen as Prince Leopold on the DVD “Illusions - like Swan Lake”, released in 2002. For John Neumeier's production “Death in Venice” he received the Prix Benois de la Danse (“Ballet Oscar”) for the portrayal of Gustav von Aschenbach. In the same year he also received the “Danza & Danza Prize” for his roles in “Bernstein Dances” and “Nijinsky”.

Guest appearances

Guest appearances have taken Riggins to Tokyo, Moscow, Toronto, Copenhagen, Florida, Washington, Paris, Munich and New York at the American Ballet Theater . He studied as a guest ballet master: Sylvia von John Neumeier at the “Het Nationale Ballet” in Amsterdam, Odyssey at the “Royal Danish Ballet” in Copenhagen, The Little Mermaid at the San Francisco Ballet and the “National Ballet of China”. Riggins also studied Bournonville's Napoli - Pas de six for the National Youth Ballet and Kirmes in Bruges at the “Royal Danish Ballet” for the Bournonville Festival 2005.

Creations

  • Sebastian in "Vivaldi or What you want"
  • Hamlet in Hamlet (1997, revised)
  • Pas de deux Scheherazade II
  • (Easter concert 1998, Munich)
  • Petrushka in Nijinsky
  • Pyotr Nikolaevich Sorin in The Seagull
  • Lloyd in Preludes CV
  • Gustav von Aschenbach in Death in Venice
  • A man in the Christmas Oratorio
  • Ficsur in Liliom (for Dario Franconi)
  • Gustav Mahler in Purgatorio
  • King Florestan in Sleeping Beauty (Mats Ek)

and solos in

  • Hello
  • Bernstein Dances
  • Winter paths from "Bartók pictures"
  • Messiah
  • Voice of the night
  • Winter trip
  • Nocturnes and night hike from "Songs of the Night"
  • Purgatorio
  • Moments Movements Mendelssohn (Kevin Haigen)
  • Beautiful Freak (Marco Goecke)
  • Renku (Yuka Oishi / Hurricane Dann)

Awards

  • "Benois de la Danse" 2004
  • “Danza & Danza Prize” 2004 for his dance interpretation of his roles in “Bernstein Dances” and “Nijinsky”.

literature

  • Ballet Yearbook 2012/2013 . 39th Hamburg Ballet Days 2013. 40 years of John Neumeier in Hamburg. P. 18.
  • John Neumeier: On the move. Collection Rolf Heyne, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-89910-403-5 , (autobiography).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburg Ballet - John Neumeier

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Riggins, Lloyd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American dancer
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , USA