Marcia Haydée

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Portrait of Marcia Haydée by Eva Zippel , 1989.

Marcia Haydée , actually Márcia Haydée Salaverry Pereira da Silva , (born April 18, 1937 in Niterói , Brazil ) is a Brazilian dancer, choreographer and ballet director. She is considered one of the great ballerinas of the 20th century and is also recognized for her acting skills. Famous dance partners were Rudolf Nurejew , Mikhail Baryshnikov and Richard Cragun .

Life

Marcia Haydée grew up in Rio de Janeiro as the daughter of a doctor. Her international career began with her debut in Rio de Janeiro in 1953. After several years of engagement with the Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas , Marcia Haydée came to Stuttgart in 1961. She accepted an engagement from General Manager Walter Erich Schäfer to work at the Stuttgart Ballet , where she became prima ballerina under the direction of John Cranko .

Her breakthrough to world fame came in 1962 in Romeo and Juliet , together with Richard Cragun. The Stuttgart company became one of the world's leading ballet troupes. After the death of John Cranko in 1974 the US-American Glen Tetley took over the management of the troupe, in 1976 Haydée was appointed ballet director. She also worked with other contemporary dancers and choreographers, such as John Neumeier , who dedicated his ballet Lady of the Camellias to her, and Maurice Béjart . In Stuttgart she specifically promoted the next generation such as William Forsythe , today one of the most important choreographers in the world. She also showed her own choreographies: Sleeping Beauty in 1987 and Giselle in 1989 . From 1994 to 1996 she directed both the Stuttgart and Santiago de Chile ballet companies . Marcia Haydée said goodbye to the Stuttgart Ballet in 1996. Since 2002 she has directed the Ballet of Santiago de Chile again at the Teatro Municipal, she goes on tour with the ensemble around the world and now shows dance theater . In March 2009, Haydée was awarded the Great Cross of Merit with a Star .

Marcia Haydée lived with Richard Cragun for 16 years. She has been married to her yoga teacher Günther Schöberl since 1995 .

Filmography

  • Marcia Haydée - The best is yet to come! Documentation, 2007, 45 min., A film by Jean Christophe Blavier (long-time dance partner Haydeés), production: ZDFtheaterkanal , moving-angel GmbH, first broadcast: 3sat, December 15, 2007
  • M. for Marcia. Marcia Haydée - the dance legend of the 20th century. Documentation, 2006, 52 min., A film by Jean Christophe Blavier ( DVD ), production: moving-angel GmbH,
  • The lady of the camellias. Feature film, dance film, Federal Republic of Germany, 1986/87, 129 min., Director: John Neumeier , production: NDR , Polyphon
  • Golgotha. Feature film, Germany, Bulgaria, 1992/94, 125 min., Director: Mikhail Pandoursky, production: Pandora Film GmbH
  • Poem - I put my foot in the air and she carried . Feature film, literary adaptation, Germany, 2000/02, 92 min., Director: Ralf Schmerberg , production: Trigger Happy Productions

Publications

literature

  • Cornelia Stilling-Andreoli: Marcia Haydée - Divine. Photographs by Gundel Kilian, Henschel-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89487-504-6 .
  • Felipe J. Alcoceba and Brigitte Schneider: Dance & dancers Stuttgart Ballet . Edition Braus, Heidelberg 1997 [Exhibition of the Württembergische Landesbibliothek in cooperation with the Stuttgart Ballet on the occasion of the Stuttgart Ballet Festival: Hommage à John Cranko and the project "TanzRegion" of the KulturRegion Stuttgart 1997 from September 24th to December 23rd 1997], ISBN 3-89466-205-0
  • Maurice Béjart and Rainer Woihsyk (eds.): Marcia Haydée. Belser, Stuttgart, Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-7630-9041-X .
  • Hannes Kilian : Stuttgart Ballet. On new paths. Art publishing house Weingarten, Weingarten 1981, ISBN 3-921617-45-6 .
  • Hannes Kilian, Heinz-Ludwig Schneiders, Horst Koegler, John Percival: Marcia Haydee. Portrait of a great dancer. Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1975, ISBN 3-7995-2002-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Announcement of the awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on April 1, 2009. Office of the Federal President , archived from the original on May 3, 2009 ; Retrieved April 18, 2017 .
  2. ↑ The Maria Callas of the Dance. 3sat broadcast Kulturzeit , December 6, 2007, archived from the original on March 19, 2012 ; Retrieved April 18, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Film data ( Memento from May 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on Filmportal.de and table of contents on IMDb , accessed on April 18, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Haydée, Marcia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pereira da Silva, Márcia Haydée Salaverry (real name); Haydée-Schöberl, Marcia (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian dancer
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Niterói , Brazil