Youri Vámos

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Youri Vámos

Youri Vámos ( Hungarian György Vámos ; born November 21, 1946 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian dancer and freelance choreographer living in Germany .

Life

Vámos completed his dance training from 1958 to 1967 at the State Academy of Dance Art (Hungarian Magyar Táncművészeti Főiskola) in Budapest. After his first engagement as a soloist at the Hungarian State Opera (leading roles among others in "The Nutcracker", "Swan Lake" and "Spartakus"), where he was influenced in particular by the choreographer Laszló Seregi, he was appointed first soloist at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich in 1972 ( Leading roles in ballets by choreographers such as John Cranko , Maurice Béjart , George Balanchine , Johann Kresnik , Dieter Gackstetter , Glen Tetley , Eric Walter, Hans van Manen , Jiří Kylián , Sir Frederick Aston, Sir Peter Wright and John Neumeier ). In 1978 his first choreography "Paganini" based on the music of S. Rachmaninov was performed at the Bavarian State Opera and received national attention. Vámos was ballet director in Dortmund (1985–1988), Bonn (1988–1992), Basel (1991–1996) and at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf / Duisburg (1996–2008). He has been a freelance choreographer since 2009. Vámos has been married to his choreographic associate, longtime solo dancer Joyce Cuoco, since 2002.

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It is a concern of Vámos to allow full-length narrative ballets to appear in a timely perspective. He mainly devotes himself to new versions of classical works by underlaying them with new actions - this is how “Sleeping Beauty” becomes Anastasia, the last daughter of the Romanov Tsar. Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker" tells Charles Dickens' Christmas story of the purified curmudgeon Scrooge. This ballet has been played more than a thousand times in various companies and is still part of their repertoire. In 1993 it was recorded by Sony Classical under the auspices of Sir Peter Ustinow and UNICEF .

The book “Dance History of the 20th Century in One Volume” ( Jochen Schmidt : published in 2002 in the arte edition of the Henschel Verlag) titled Youri Vámos as probably the best choreographic storyteller of the present day.

Ballets since 1990

(more details and older premieres - see his homepage)

Productions since 2009

  • "Romeo and Juliet" for the ballet in Perth / Australia
  • "Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Nutcracker" for the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe
  • "Coppélia am Montmartre" for the National Theater in Brno
  • "Carmina Burana" for the Theater Festival Split, the National Ballet Moravia and in Tirana
  • "Lucidor" for the Mainfranken Theater in Würzburg and the National Theater in Brno
  • "Midsummer Night's Dream" for the Riga Opera House, the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg, the Hungarian National Theater Győr and in the Slovak capital Bratislava
  • "Sleeping Beauty" for the Prague Opera House and the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe
  • »Othello« for the National Theater in Prague

Awards

  • In 1993 Vámos received the star of the year in the evening newspaper (AZ)
  • In 2001 he was made an honorary professor at the Budapest Academy of Dance
  • In 2007 he was awarded the Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia awarded
  • In 2016 he received the Knight's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Youri Vámos in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  2. ↑ SK Foundation Culture - German Dance Archive Cologne The Nutcracker: A Christmas Story. Accessed on January 16, 2011
  3. ↑ The Nutcracker - A Christmas Story A ballet by Youri Vámos based on Charles Dickens and ETA Hoffmann. Accessed January 16, 2011
  4. ^ Knight's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit. Retrieved September 15, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Vámos, Youri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vámos, György (Hungarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian ballet dancer and choreographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest