2017/ 2018 DIRECTOR: RICHARD WHERLOCK The Ballett Theater is a dynamic, ­polyvalent and multicultural ensemble in THE the internatio­nal class, one of the leading contemporary dance groups in Europe. The members of the Ballett Theater Basel have BALLETT thoroughly mastered the vocabulary of both classical and contemporary dance, combining the highest standards of dance THEATER with virtuoso dynamism and inspired ­ex- pressiveness. The Basel ensemble has an ­outstanding command of both narrative and BASEL abstract ballet. There are plenty of contem- porary Choreographers working with the ­Ballett in Basel – Jiri Kylian, Nacho Duato, Ohad Naharin, Alexander Ekman, Johan ­Inger, Hofesh Shechter – to name only a few of them, and of course the outstanding choreographic­ Œvre of the Director of the 2 Ballett Theater Basel, Richard Wherlock. OUR PRODUCTIONS 2017/ 2018 SHECHTER / ARIAS Choreographies from Hofesch Shechter (The Fools) and Bryan Arias (this is everything) Premiere September 29, 2017 SWANLAKE Choreography by Stijn Celis Premiere November 17, 2017 TEWJE Choreography by Richard Wherlock Februar 15, 2018; March 18, 23, 2018 DEATH IN Choreography by Richard Wherlock Premiere April 13, 2018

DANCELAB 9 Choreographies from the dancers of the Ballett Theater Basel Premiere Mai 24, 2018

TOURING PROGRAM SNOW WHITE by Richard Wherlock

TEWJE by Richard Wherlock DEATH IN VENICE by Richard Wherlock PEER GYNT by Johan Inger SWANLAKE by Stijn Celis SHECHTER / ARIAS / EKMAN THE FOOLS by Hofesh Shechter THIS IS EVERYTHING by Bryan Arias CACTI by Alexander Ekman

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 Theatre in Germany from 1991 to 1996, then spending three seasons as director of the Lucerne Ballet before moving to Komische Oper 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. Richard Wherlock has been Director and Head Choreographer of Ballett Basel since 2001 / 2002 and has created many choreographies for the company. He has enjoyed particular success with his adaptations of great classics such as «A », «James or », «Traviata – a Ballet», «Carmen», «Giselle», or «Eugene Onegin» and other full- length narrative which he has reinterpreted using contem­porary dance techniques. He worked as choreographer with, among others, the following companies: New English , Tanzforum Köln, Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, Finnish Dance Theatre Helsinki, Ballett Staatstheater , 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 , Europa Danse (UNESCO), Ballett der Deutschen Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, , Ballett der Vereinigten Bühnen , Introdans in Arnheim / Holland, Ballett des Badischen Staatstheaters , 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 , for the Ballet of the Opéra National de Bordeaux and for the Seoul Ballet Theatre. 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», 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». Richard Wherlock’s particular interest lies in supporting talented up- and-coming dancers. He serves on the juries of numerous international dance competitions and president of the Migros scholarship jury.

«Our art is … holding on and letting go, ­precision and RICHARD WHERLOCK disorganization. Dizzyingly fast, achingly slow, and Choreographer and Director everything in between. Back up, forth and down. of the Ballett Theater Basel Immeasurable. … I just love it.»

Richard Wherlock ENSEMBLE CAMILLE AUBLÉ Training: Centre de Danse International ­ Rosella Hightower (Cannes), Ecole de Rudra Béjart, Lausanne Previous company: Ballet Biarritz

PIRAN SCOTT Australia Training: Theatre Arts Mackay, RUBEN DARIO BANOL HERRERA Professional Year (Australia) Colombia Previous company: Queensland Ballet, Leipziger Ballett Training: Incolballet (Colombia), Real Consérvatorio ­ ARMANDO Profesional de Danza de Madrid BRASWELL Previous companies: Compañía colombiana de ballet, USA Europadanse, Compañía Nacional de Danza 2, Ballet de Training: La Guardia la Generalitat­ Valenciana, Elephant in the Black Box Highschool of Performing Arts, School of American Ballet, The Ailey School, The Juilliard School Previous companies: The Metropolitan Opera Ballet, DIEGO Ballett Theater München, BENITO Gauthier Dance Stuttgart GUTIERREZ Spain Training: Real Conser­ vatorio Profesional de Danza de Madrid­ Previous companies: ballett du Grand ­Theatre * de Geneve, Nafas Dance LISA HORTEN-SKILBREI Norway Company, Introdans Training: Oslo National Academy of The Arts (KHiO), Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Scholarships at Batsheva Dance Company and LUNA BUSTINDUY MIRKO CAMPIGOTTO MERTENS France Training: Achillea in Rivarolo C.se., Kaos Balletto di Firenze, Codarts Rotterdam Training: Ecole National Supérieure de Danse Marseille, Rudra Béjart Lausanne, Previous companies: Kaos Balletto School. di Firenze, Introdans, Saalandisches Staastheater Saarbrücken Previous companies: Company Igokat, Nederlands Dans Theater 2

SERGIO BUSTINDUY Spain Training: Instituto del Teatro Barcelona, Balletschool Nacional de Cuba Previous companies: Ballet Nacional de Cuba, Zürcher Ballett, Tanz-Forum Köln, Euregio Tanz-Forum, Staatstheater Saarbrücken, BerlinBallett/Komische Oper, Hannover Ballett

ALBA LYDIA CARUSO CARBONELL Italy Training: Rosella Hightower, CASTILLO Cannes Spain Previous companies: Compania Training: Conservatorio de Danza La Mov, Ballet du Profesional de Danzade Grand Théatre de Genève, Riba-Roja del Turia ISMAEL Rudra Béjart Lausanne Valencia * Previous companies: DEL VALLE Spain Centro coreografico de Valencia, Compagñía Training: Real Conservatorio National de Danza 2 Profesional de Danza de Madrid, Staatliche Ballettschule Berlin Previous company: Larreal Madrid FLORENT MOLLET France Training: Ecole de l’Opéra national de Paris, Ecole Atelier Rudra Béjart (Lausanne) Previous companies: Opéra de Nice, Ballet d’Europe, Ballet Biarritz

JORGE GARCÍA PÉREZ Spain Training: Escuela de danza Maria de Avila, Zaragoza, Spain AYAKO NAKANO Japan Previous companies: Biarritz Ballet II, JULIAN JUAREZ Training: Tokyo, Royal Ballet School London, Prize SYBAA Ballet, Zürcher Ballett CASTAN Scholarship 1992 Spain Previous companies: Zürcher Ballett, Tanz-Forum Training: Coppelia Dance School, Köln, Euregio Tanz-Forum, Staatstheater Instituto superior de danza Alicia Saarbrücken, BerlinBallett/Komische Oper Alonso Previous companies: Ballet de Zaragoza, Ballet de Teatres de la Generalitat, Les Grand Ballets du Montreal, Scottish Dance Theater ANNABELLE PEINTRE France Training: Conservatoire de Danse d’Avignon Previous companies: Compania Nacional de Danza II, Ballet Basel, Opéra de Lyon DEBORA MAIQUES MARIN Spain Training: Elise Lummis-School Previous companies: Compañía Nacional de Danza España 2, Ballet Carmen Roche, Centro Coreografico de Valencia MAX OSSENBERG- ENGELS* Germany Training: Ballett-Akademie Hochschule für Musik und Theater München Previous companies: Nürnberg Ballett

RAQUEL REY RAMOS Spain Training: Real Conservatorio JAVIER Profesional de Danza Madrid, RODRIGUEZ Carmina Ocaña-Schule COBOS Previous companies: Compañía Spain Nacional de Danza España 2, Training: Real Conservatorio Naci­ Balletto di Teatro di Torino, onal de Danza de Madrid Centro Coreografico de Valencia Previous companies: Europa Dan­ se, Ballet des jeunes d’Europe,­ FRANK FANNAR Compañía National de Danza 2, Ballet de l’Opéra National du Rhin, PEDERSEN Introdans Iceland Training: Iceland Ballett­ School ­ Reykjavik, Ballett­ schule­ der Finnischen­ Nationaloper­ (Helsinki) Previous companies: ANTHONY Iceland Dance Company, IT Dansa Barcelona, Ballett des TANA ROSÁS SUNÉ RAMIANDRISOA Staatstheaters Wiesbaden Spain France Training: Instituto del Teatro Training: Conservatoire Barcelona, Koninklijk de Lyon Conservatorium (Den Haag) Previous company: Previous company: Junior Ballet Lyon IT Dansa Barcelona ANDREA TORTOSA VIDAL MARINA SANCHEZ Spain GARRIGÓS Training: Estudio de danza Spain Maria de Avilar; Nederlands Training: Institut del Teatre (Barcelona), Danse Theater II Central School of Ballet (London) Previous company: Ballett Previous companies: New English Basel; Aterballetto Contemporary Ballet, Nürnberg Ballett

DÉVI-AZELIA SIDNEY SELLY ELIZABETH France TURTSCHI MAX Training: Rosella Hightower Switzerland (Cannes), Rudra Béjart ZACHRISSON Training: Sweden (Lausanne) Ballettschule Theater Basel Training: Previous companies: Previous company: School Béjart Ballet, Ballett Basel, GAIA * Ballett Basel Nederlands Dans Theater 2 MENTOGLIO Previous company: Italy Ballett Dortmund, Schleswig- Holsteinisches Landestheater, Training: Art Garage Napoli, Nürnberg Ballett Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden

* Supported by Rosemarie Stuzzi-Thomi-Stiftung CRISTIANA SCIABORDI Italy Ballet Mistress

THIBAUT CHERRADI France

GUESTCHOREO- GRAPHERS OF THE Rami Beer BALLETT THEATERMauro Bigonzetti BASEL Christopher Bruce Claude Brumachon Joelle Bouvier Stijn Celis Patrick Delcroix Nacho Duato Jorma Elo Alexander Ekman William Forsythe Johan Inger Jirí Kylián Blanca Li Hans van Manen Ohad Naharin Angelin Preljocaj Hofesh Shechter Stephan Thoss Ed Wubbe REPERTOIRE OF

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Casanova.. wasCarmen bleibt 2010 2009 / La Valse 2011 Stoned 2012 Le spectre de la Rose Eugen Onegin 2013 Snow White 2013 Tewje 2015 Juditha Triumphans 2014 Robin Hood 2016 Tod in Venedig 2018 Richard Wherlock has rewritten the history of Ballet-Company in Basel. Over 15 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. Today, the 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 and his in particular reveals a highly creative imagination. RICHARD WHERLOCK – company comprises 30 male and female dancers and is hugely popular with audiences in Basel. Particularly successful are his adaptations of the THE GENTLE INNOVATOR 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 OF BALLET IN BASEL Wherlock has reinterpreted in his own, incomparable way. BALLETT THEATER BASEL ON TOUR SWITZERLAND Kurtheater Baden Theater Casino Zug Stadttheater Bern «akzepTanz» Kronenmattsaal Binningen Bâtiment des forces motrices, Genf ISRAEL Opera Tel Aviv KOREA National Theatre of Korea Gwacheon Citizens’ Hall 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 «Le Temps d’Aimer la Danse», Biarritz La Coupole, Saint-Louis ITALY Teatro Comunale, Modena SPANIEN / SPAIN Teatro Albeniz, Festival Internacional «Madrid en Danza», Teatro Arriaga, Bilbao «Baluarte» Palacio de Congresos, Pamplona Teatro Principal Antzokia, Vitoria Teatro Breton de Los Herreros, Logroño HUNGARY Thalia Theater, « Spring Festival» CONTACT Anne-Catherine Thomas Administration Ballett Theater Basel Theater Basel, Postfach, 4010 Basel [email protected] www.theater-basel.ch Tour manager: Stephan Hivert, [email protected]

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Imprint: Published by: Theater Basel, Postfach, CH-4010 Basel. Director: Andreas Beck, Administrative Director: Danièle Gross, Ballet Director: Richard Wherlock, Editorial Staff: Bettina Fischer, Photography: Portrait Cristiana Sciabordi: Armando Braswell, all other photographs: Ismael Lorenzo, graphic design: muxpp.de, Status: May 2017