Richard Cragun
Richard Cragun (born October 5, 1944 in Sacramento , California , † August 6, 2012 in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil ) was an American dancer .
Career
Cragun studied at the Banff School of Fine Arts in Canada , the Royal Ballet School and with Vera Volkova in Copenhagen.
His artistic development was closely linked to John Cranko , who signed him for the Stuttgart Ballet in 1962 . He achieved world fame in Cranko's choreographies, especially with his dance partner Marcia Haydée , with whom he also lived for 16 years. Even after Cranko's death he remained loyal to the Stuttgart Ballet until the end of his dancing career in 1996. There, and in many guest appearances all over the world, he worked with several choreographers who had a decisive influence on the development of dance. He danced in choreographies by Kenneth MacMillan , John Neumeier , Jiří Kylián , William Forsythe and Maurice Bejart, among others . From 1996 to 1999 he was ballet director at the Deutsche Oper Berlin . He then led the ballet company of the Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro together with his partner Roberto de Oliveira, the former resident choreographer of the Stuttgart Ballet, until 2005 . He then founded a company and a school for children from the favelas there with de Oliveira .
Web links
- Richard Cragun in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Honorary member of the Stuttgart Ballet
- Petra Mostbacher-Dix: Artistic obituary for Cragun in the Stuttgarter Zeitung
- Klaus Hart: Richard Cragun in Brazil
- Julia Lutzeyer: ballet legend Cragun is dead
- Obituary for Richard Cragun in Focus
- Obituary for Richard Cragun in Der Standard
Individual evidence
- ^ Ballet dancer Richard Cragun died ( Memento from August 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Kleine_Zeitung from August 6, 2012.
- ↑ See Petra Mostbacher-Dix's artistic obituary for Cragun in the Stuttgarter Zeitung , August 7, 2012.
- ↑ The Maria Callas of the Dance. 3sat broadcast Kulturzeit , December 6, 2007, archived from the original on July 3, 2012 ; accessed on May 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Cranko brought him to Stuttgart . dpa, Stuttgarter Zeitung, August 6, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cragun, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American dancer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sacramento , California, USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 6, 2012 |
| Place of death | Rio de Janeiro , Brazil |