Ballett Theater Basel 21/22
Director: Richard Wherlock
The Ballett Theater Basel
The Ballett Theater Basel is a dynamic, polyvalent and multicultural ensemble in the International class, one of the leading contemporary dance groups in Europe. The members of the Company have thoroughly mastered the vocabulary of both classical ballet and contemporary dance, combining the highest standards of dance with virtuoso dynamism and inspired expressiveness. The ensemble has an outstanding command of both narrative and abstract ballet. There are plenty of contemporary Choreographers working with the Company – Jiri Kylian, Nacho Duato, Ohad Naharin, Alexander Ekman, Johan Inger, Ed Wubbe, Stijn Celis, Hofesh Shechter, Sharon Eyal – to name only a few of them, and of course the outstanding choreographic OEvre of the Director of the Ballett Theater Basel, Richard Wherlock. theater-basel.ch vimeo.com/richardwherlockballet We Have Friends The numerous members of the Basler Ballett Gilde share the passion for dance and support the Ballett Theater Basel: people whose heart beats faster whenever they encounter anything that has to do with dance! Have a look: baslerballettgilde.org
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Our Productions 21/22 Cow
Empty Thrones
20. August 2021
(new creation)
Choreography by Alexander Ekman
16. September 2021
Music: Mikael Karlsson
Choreography by Richard Wherlock
90 minutes, 25 dancers
Music: Max Zachrisson
Bliss
80 minutes, 12 dancers → available for touring
24. August 2021 Choreography by Johan Inger
Gloria
Music: Keith Jarrett
6./7./8. October 2021 in Winterthur
30 minutes, 14 dancers → available for touring
5 Duos 24. August 2021 Choreographies by Bryan Arias, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Alexander Ekman, Ed Wubbe, Richard Wherlock
Choreography by Richard Wherlock and eight members of the Company: J. García Pérez, D. Maiques Marin, S. Pechtl, F. F. Pedersen, A. Ramiandrisoa, J. Rodríguez Cobos, R. Scott, A. Tortosa Vidal Music: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Antonio Vivaldi 90 minutes, 30 dancers → available for touring
Music: F. Chopin, H. Purcell, E. Morente, E. Piaf, J. Haydn 30 minutes, 10 dancers → available for touring
Our Productions 21/22
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La Fille mal Gardée
TERRitORy
(new creation)
(new creation)
6. November 2021
26.02.2022
Choreography by Jeroen Verbruggen
Choreography by Muhammed Kaltuk
Music: Louis Ferdinand Hérold, arrangement by John Lanchberry
Music: Tobias Herzog
90 minutes, 30 dancers
Snow White 16. December 2021 Choreography by Richard Wherlock Music: Dmitri Schostakowitsch 105 minutes, 30 dancers
Snow White / Schneewittchen (for young audience with workshop)
30 minutes, 10 dancers → available for touring
Titan (new creation) 26.02.2022 Choreography by Edouard Hue Music: Jonathan Soucasse 30 minutes, 10 dancers → available for touring
22.11.2021
Salt Womb
Choreography by Richard Wherlock
20.03.2022
Music: Dmitri Schostakowitsch
Choreogrpahy by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar
30 minutes, 11 dancers
Music: Ori Lichtik
30 minutes workshop
30 minutes, 11 dancers
→ available for touring
→ available for touring
Our Productions 21/22
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Forest Fires (new creation) Premiere: 20.03.2022 Choreography by Marcos Morau Music: Nick Cage 40 minutes, 15 dancers → available for touring
Heidi (new creation) 6. May 2022 Choreography by Richard Wherlock Music: Tino Marthaler, Alain Pauli 105 minutes, 30 dancers → available for touring
Our Productions 21/22
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Our Touring Dates 21/22 Theater Winterthur
Kurtheater Baden
6./7./8. October 2021
6. April 2022
Gloria by Richard Wherlock, J. García Pérez, D. Maiques Marin, S. Pechtl, F. Pedersen, A. Ramiandrisoa, J. Rodríguez Cobos, R. Scott, A. Tortosa Vidal
Bliss by Johan Inger
La Filature Mulhouse (F)
Théâtre Le Granit Belfort (F)
29. January 2022
19. May 2022
Ballets européens au XXIe siècle
Heidi by Richard Wherlock
Bliss by Johan Inger
Salt Womb by Sharon Eyal
Theater Casino Zug 23. March 2022 Bliss by Johan Inger Salt Womb by Sharon Eyal
Our Touring Dates 21/22
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Richard Wherlock – The Gentle Innovator of Ballet in Basel Richard Wherlock has rewritten the history of BalletCompany in Basel. Over 20 years of unrelenting hard work, the ambitious and highly productive head of ballet has assembled a company of the greatest technical skill, which is up there with the best in the world in both neoclassical dance and contemporary dance techniques and is frequently compared with famous international companies. For years, Wherlock has pursued the concept of a blend of small-scale, contemporary pieces, which are abstract in the broadest sense and play with associative images, and modern, full-length narrative ballets which tell stories, paint characters or interpret literary works in dance. Richard Wherlock could be described as a gentle innovator: building on the legacy of the Classic and modern vocabulary, he choreographs contemporary dance that is brimming with energy and brings it to the stage in traditional story-telling form, as full-length narrative ballets. His choreographies are a mix of effervescent, athletic tension and playful virtuosity. Today, the company comprises around 30 male and female dancers and is hugely popular with audiences in Basel. Particularly successful are his adaptations of the great classics, such as A Swan Lake, Traviata-Ein Ballett, Carmen, Giselle, Eugen Onegin, his enchanting fairy tale ballet Snow White or his outstanding Tewje and other full-length narrative ballets, which Wherlock has reinterpreted in his own, incomparable way.
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Biography
Born in Bristol (GB). After studying at London’s prestigious Ballet Rambert School, he joined their company as a dancer. Wherlock was Ballet Director at Hagen Theatre in Germany from 1991 to 1996, then spending three seasons as director of the Lucerne Ballet before moving to Komische Oper Berlin as artistic director and choreographer of BerlinBallett. He has been director and head choreographer of Ballett Basel since the 2001/2002 season, and artistic director of the renowned festival ‹basel tanzt› from 2004 to 2009. He worked as choreographer with, among others, the following companies: New English Contemporary Ballet, Tanzforum Köln, Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, Finnish Dance Theatre Helsinki, Ballett Staatstheater Braunschweig, Romanian National Ballet, The Icelandic Ballet, Ballet National de Nancy et de Lorraine, Ballet National de Marseille, Ballet de l’Opéra de Nice, aalto ballett theater essen, Europa Danse (UNESCO), Ballett der Deutschen Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, Singapore Dance Theatre, Ballett der Vereinigten Bühnen Graz, Introdans in Arnheim / Holland, Ballett des Badischen Staatstheaters Karlsruhe, Phoenix Dance Theatre Leeds and Ballet Contemporaneo del Teatro San Martín / Argentina. Wherlock also created a full-length ballet for Les Étoiles de l’Opéra National de Paris. At the International Music Festival in Lucerne he developed choreographies for operas by Monteverdi and Debussy. His film and TV work includes the choreography for Claude Lelouch’s cinema production «Hasards ou Coïncidences», presented in 1998 at the Venice Biennale and at the Montréal and Chicago festivals. In 2000, Wherlock received the Prix Italia for the award-winning dance film ‹Passengers›, Richard Wherlock
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produced by the Swiss broadcasting company DRS, RM Associates and 3SAT. His most recent film success ‹One bullet left› – also produced by Swiss broadcasting company DRS – was awarded the Golden Rose of Montreux in 2003. In 1999 he was nominated for the international dance award ‹Benois de la Danse›. In 2003 he created the choreography for the musical ‹West Side Story›, which was performed on the Seebühne in Bregenz. He was co-founder of SiWiC, a Swiss international advanced training course in choreography from 1997 to 2011, and Richard Wherlock‘s choreographies are regularly danced by participants in the prestigious Prix de Lausanne. In 2021 he was President of the Jury of the Prix de Lausanne. He is also vice-president of the theater Granit in Belfort. Wherlock’s particular interest lies in supporting talented up-and-coming dancers and choreographers. He serves on the juries of numerous international dance and choreographic competitions. The city of Basel has dedicated a plaque to Wherlock on the Spalenberg ‹walk of fame›, where he appears alongside other Basel personalities such as Roger Federer, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. «Our art is … holding on and letting go, precision and disorganization. Dizzyingly fast, achingly slow, and everything in between. Back, up, forth and down. Immeasurable. … I just love it.» Richard Wherlock
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Repertoire of Richard Wherlock
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2006
Le sacre du printemps / Sidewinding
Verdi Code 2008
2003
Rebus
A Swan Lake 2009
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Prelude à l’après-midi d’un faune 2004
Der Tod und das Mädchen
Casanova … was bleibt 2010
Carmen 2011
2004
Le spectre de la Rose / La Valse
Nussknacker
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2006
Stoned
James oder la Sylphide
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2006
Eugen Onegin
Danses Galantes
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2013
2021
Snow White
Empty Thrones
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2022
Juditha Triumphans
Heidi
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Tewje 2016
Robin Hood 2018
Tod in Venedig 2018
Don’t Tell the Kids 2019
The Comedy of Error(Z) 2020
Gloria
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Guestchoreographers of the Ballett Theater Basel
Bryan Arias
Jorma Elo
Rami Beer
Alexander Ekman
Mauro Bigonzetti
Sharon Eyal
Christopher Bruce
William Forsythe
Claude Brumachon
Johan Inger
Joelle Bouvier
Itzik Galili
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Edouard Hue
Stijn Celis
Cathy Marston
Patrick Delcroix
Muhammed Kaltuk
Nacho Duato
Jirí Kylián
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Blanca Li Hans van Manen Marcos Morau Ohad Naharin Thomas Noone Angelin Preljocaj Jiří Pokorný Hofesh Shechter
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Ensemble
Giacomo Altovino
Eva Blunno
Italy
Italy
Training: Hamburg Ballet School (Germany), Dietro le quinte (Italy)
Training: Codarts Dance Academy, Rotterdam
Previous companies: NRW Juniorballett Dortmund, Ballett Dortmund
Previous companies: Scapino Ballett Rotterdam
Rubén Bañol Herrera
Elias Boersma
Colombia
Netherlands
raining: Incolballet (Colombia), T Real Consérvatorio Profesional de Danza de Madrid
Training: Royal Ballet Conservatory, The Hague
Previous companies: Compañía colombiana de ballet, Europadanse, Compañía Nacional de Danza 2, Ballet de la Generalitat Valenciana, Elephant in the Black Box
Previous companies: Scapino Ballet Rotterdam
Mirko Campigotto Italy
Diego Benito Gutierrez Spain Training: Real Conservatorio Profesional de Danza de Madrid Previous companies: Ballett du Grand Theatre de Geneve, Nafas Dance Company, Introdans
Ensemble
Training: Achillea in Rivarolo C.se., Kaos Balletto di Firenze, Codarts Rotterdam Previous companies: Kaos Balletto di Firenze, Introdans, Saaländisches Staastheater Saarbrücken
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Lydia Caruso
Mikaela Kelly
Italy
USA / Estonia
Training: Rosella Hightower, Cannes
Training: The Juilliard School, New York
Previous companies: Compania de Danza La Mov, Ballet du Grand Théatre de Genève, Rudra Béjart Lausanne
Dayne Florence Australia Training: Mcdonald College of Performing Art, Ballettschule Theater Basel Previous companies: Ballet du Rhin Mulhouse, Juniorballett Dortmund, Ballett Nürnberg
Previous company: Nederlands Dans Theater 2
Aleix Labara Cerver Spain Training: Real Conservatorio Profesional de Danza Mariemma, Madrid Previous company: IT Dansa, Barcelona
Debora Maiques Marin
Lisa Horten-Skilbrei
Spain
Norway
Training: Elise Lummis-School
Training: Oslo National Academy of The Arts (KHiO), Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Scholarships at Batsheva Dance Company and Nederlands Dans Theater
Previous companies: Compañía Nacional de Danza España 2, Ballet Carmen Roche, Centro Coreografico de Valencia
Kelly Keesing Australia / Ireland Training: Palucca Hochschule für Tanz, Dresden Previous company: Ballet National de Marseille, Konzert Theater Bern
Ensemble
Thomas Martino Italy Training: La Chance Ballet Academy, Rome Previous companies: Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, Munich
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Gaia Mentoglio
Stefanie Pechtl
Italy
Austria
Training: Art Garage Napoli, Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden
Training: Ballettschule der Wiener Staatsoper, Dance Academy Monte Carlo
Kazuki Mitsuhashi
Previous companies: Wiener Staatsballett, Györi Ballett Hungary, Landestheater Linz, Staatstheater Nürnberg
Japan Scholarship holder Training: Ballettschule Theater Basel
Matias Moura Portugal Training: Codarts, Rotterdam Previous company: Apprentice at Scapino Ballet, Rotterdam
Francisco Patricio
Frank Fannar Pedersen Iceland Training: Iceland Ballett School Reykjavik, Ballettschule der Finnischen Nationaloper (Helsinki) Previous companies: Iceland Dance Company, IT Dansa Barcelona, Ballett des Staats theaters Wiesbaden
Anthony Ramiandrisoa France
Portugal
Training: Conservatoire de Lyon
Training: Ballettschule Theater Basel, Dance Academy Marseille
Previous company: Junior Ballet Lyon
Previous companies: Ballet National Marseille Junior Company
Javier Rodriguez Cobos Spain Training: Real Conservatorio Nacional de Danza de Madrid Previous companies: Europa Danse, Ballet des jeunes d’Europe, Compañía National de Danza 2, Ballet de l’Opéra National du Rhin, Introdans
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Tana Rosás Suñé
Giuliana Sollami
Spain
Italy
Training: Instituto del Teatro Barcelona, Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag
Training: Codarts, Rotterdam
Previous company: IT Dansa Barcelona
Marina Sanchez Garrigós Spain Training: Institut del Teatre (Barcelona), Central School of Ballet (London) Previous companies: New English Contemporary Ballet, Nürnberg Ballett
Previous company: Apprentice at Tanz Luzerner Theater
Andrea Tortosa Vidal Spain Training: Estudio de danza Maria de Avilar; Nederlands Danse Theater II Previous company: Ballett Basel, Aterballetto
Max Zachrisson Sweden
Celia Sandoya Spain Training: John Cranko Ballettschule, Stuttgart
Training: Royal Swedish Ballet School Previous company: Ballett Dortmund, SchleswigHolsteinisches Landestheater, Nürnberg Ballett
Previous companies: IT Dansa, Barcelona
Rachelle Scott USA / France Training: Juilliard School New York Previous companies: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet New York, Ballett Nürnberg
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Giacomo Altovino
Rubén Bañol Herrera
Diego Benito Gutierrez
Eva Blunno
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Elias Boersma
Mirko Campigotto
Lydia Caruso
Dayne Florence
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Lisa Horten-Skilbrei
Kelly Keesing
Mikaela Kelly
Aleix Labara Cerver
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Debora Maiques Marin
Thomas Martino
Gaia Mentoglio
Kazuki Mitsuhashi
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Matias Moura
Francisco Patricio
Stefanie Pechtl
Frank Fannar Pedersen
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Anthony Ramiandrisoa
Javier Rodriguez Cobos
Tana Rosás Suñé
Marina Sanchez Garrigós 35
Celia Sandoya
Andrea Tortosa Vidal
Giuliana Sollami
Rachelle Scott
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Max Zachrisson
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Team
Cristiana Sciabordi
Florent Mollet
Italy
France
Ballet Mistress, rehearsal director
Administration, Project and Production Management
Manuel Renard France Ballet Master, rehearsal director
Tommaso Pennacchio Italy Physiotherapist
Francesca Genovese Switzerland / Italy Educational outreach
Bettina Fischer Switzerland / Germany Dramaturg
Anne-Catherine Thomas France Deputy Ballet Director, Head of Administration, project and production management.
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Cristiana Sciabordi
Tommaso Pennacchio
Manuel Renard
Anne-Catherine Thomas 39
Florent Mollet
Francesca Genovese
Bettina Fischer
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Ballett Theater Basel On Tour ISRAEL Opera Tel Aviv
ITALY Teatro Comunale, Modena
KOREA National Theatre of Korea Gwacheon Citizens’ Hall Suwon Ballett Festival
SPAIN Teatro Arriaga, Bilbao Teatro Albeniz, Madrid Baluarte Palacio de Congresos, Pamplona Teatro Principal Antzokia, Vitoria Teatro Breton de Los Herreros, Logroño
CHINA Tian Qiao Theater Beijing Grand Theater Tianjin Kaiming Theater Suzhou Majestic Theater Shanghai GERMANY Graf Zeppelin Haus Friedrichshafen Stadthalle Gütersloh Theater im Pfalzbau Ludwigshafen Stadthalle Recklinghausen FRANCE Gare du Midi, Biarritz Maison de la danse, Lyon La Coupole, Saint-Louis Théâtre Le Granit, Belfort
HUNGARY Erkel Theater, Budapest Thalia Theater, Budapest Spring Festival SWITZERLAND Bâtiment des forces motrices, Genf Lugano Arte et Cultura LAC Theater Winterthur Kurtheater Baden Theater Casino Zug Stadttheater Bern Kronenmattsaal Binningen
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Contact
Anne-Catherine Thomas Ballett Theater Basel Theater Basel, Postfach, 4010 Basel a.thomas@theater-basel.ch www.theater-basel.ch Tour manager: Stephane Hivert stephanehivert@me.com Ballett Theater Basel and Richard Wherlock on VIMEO: vimeo.com/richardwherlockballet Inside the Ballet Theater Basel: interviewenlair.com/category/inside-ballet-theater-basel
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Impressum Herausgeber Theater Basel Postfach CH-4010 Basel Spielzeit 21/22 Intendant: Benedikt von Peter Textnachweise: Texte von Bettina Fischer Photos: Von Lucia Hunziker auf den Seiten 2, 9, 10, 11, 22, 23, 39, 40, 42, 43 Von Ingo Hoehn auf auf den Seiten 18, 19 Von Christian Knörr auf den Seiten 12, 28 – 38 Graphik: Claudiabasel Druck: Gremper AG Gedruckt in der Schweiz. Diese Drucksache ist nachhaltig und klimaneutral produziert nach den Richtlinien von FSC und Climate-Partner.
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