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HARRIS THEATER
Hamburg Ballet Biographies
Born
9.10.69
in New York. American
Education
School of Southern Ballet Theatre, Orlando, Florida
Main Teachers
Barbara Riggins, Henning Kronstam, Kevin Haigen
Engagements
Southern Ballet Theatre, Orlando, Florida (1985-1987). Royal
Danish Ballet (1987-1995, 1989 as Principal). Since 1995 Hamburg Ballet,
as Principal. From 2006 to 2009 he was Assistant Ballet Master and since
2009
he has been the Ballet Master as well.
Creations
in Hamburg
•
Sebastian in
VIVALDI or What You Will
•
Hamlet in
Hamlet
(1997
version)
•
Pas de deux
Sheherazade II
(
Easter Concert
1998,
Munich)
•
Petrushka in
Nijinsky
•
Piotr Nikolayevich Sorin in
The Seagull
•
Lloyd in
Préludes CV
•
Gustav von Aschenbach in
Death in Venice
•
A Man in
Christmas Oratorio
•
Ficsur in
Liliom
(
for Dario Franconi)
•
Gustav Mahler in
Purgatorio
•
King Florestan in
The Sleeping Beauty
(
Mats Ek)
and solos in
•
hello
•
Bernstein Dances
•
Winter Ways
from "Images from Bartók"
•
Messiah
•
Winterreise
•
Voice of the Night
•
Nocturnes
and
Nachtwanderung
from "Songs of
the Night"
•
Purgatorio
•
Moments Movements Mendelssohn
(
Kevin
Haigen)
•
Beautiful Freak
(
Marco Goecke)
•
Renku
(
Yuka Oishi/Orkan Dann)
Repertory
in Copenhagen
•
Lenski in
Onegin
(
John Cranko)
•
The Joker in
Jeu de Cartes
(
John Cranko)
•
James in
La Sylphide
(
August Bournonville)
•
Gennaro in
Napoli
(
August Bournonville)
•
Albrecht in
Giselle
(
Jean Coralli-Jules Perrot/
Henning Kronstam)
•
Romeo and Benvolio in
Romeo and Julietm
(
John
Neumeier)
•
Puck and Demetrius in
A Midsummer Night's
Dream
(
John Neumeier)
•
King Christian VII in
Caroline Mathilde
(
Flemming
Flindt)
•
Don Quixote in
Don Quixote
•
Apollo in
Apollo
(
George Balanchine)
•
Poet in
La Sonnambula
(
George Balanchine)
and solos in
•
Konservatorium
(
August Bournonville)
•
A Folk Tale
(
August Bournonville)
•
The Kermesse in
Bruges
(
August Bournonville)
•
The Fifth Symphony
(
Gustav Mahler/John
Neumeier)
•
Soldier Songs
(
Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Gustav
Mahler/John Neumeier)
•
Theme and Variations
(
George Balanchine)
•
Tchaikovsky Pas de deux
(
George Balanchine)
in Hamburg
•
Romeo, Mercutio, Valentino and Lord Capulet in
Romeo and Juliet
•
Armand, Gaston and Monsieur Duval in
Lady of
the Camellias
•
Odysseus in
Odyssey
•
Petrushka in
Petrushka
•
Prince Désiré in
The Sleeping Beauty
•
Günther and Drosselmeier in
The Nutcracker
•
Puck, Theseus/Oberon, Demetrius and Bottom/
Pyramus in
A Midsummer Night's Dream
•
Orsino in
VIVALDI or What You Will
•
The Prince and Cinderella's Father in
A
Cinderella Story
•
The King in
Illusions - like "Swan Lake"
•
Sergei Diaghilev in
Nijinsky
•
Albert in
Giselle
•
King Arthur in
The Saga of King Arthur
•
Petrushka in
Petrushka
•
Doubt aspect in
Peer Gynt
•
Touchstone in
As You Like It
•
W. A. Mozart in
Windows on MOZART
•
The Hermit in
Parzival–Episodes and Echo
•
The Poet in
The Little Mermaid
•
Harold Mitchell (Mitch) in
A Streetcar Named
Desire
•
A Man in
Seasons–The Colors of Time
•
Widow Simone in
La Fille mal gardée
(
Frederick
Ashton)
•
A Dandy in
A la Françaix
(
George Balanchine)
•
The Sage in
Le Sacre du Printemps
(
Millicent
Hoson, inspired by Vaslav Nijinsky)
and solos in
•
Now and Then
•
Saint Matthew Passion
•
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
•
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
•
Fifth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
•
Night Sketches
aus "Images from Bartók"
•
Bach-Suite 3
•
Requiem
•
Theme and Variations
(
George Balanchine)
•
She was black
(
Mats Ek)
•
Forgotten Land
(
Jirí Kylián)
•
Wege
(
Yukichi Hattori)
•
Jewels
–
Emeralds (George Balanchine)
Guesting
•
Tokyo, Moscow, Toronto, Copenhagen, Florida,
Washington, Paris, Munich and in New York with
the American Ballet Theatre.
•
He staged John Neumeier's
Sylvia
for the Het
National Ballet in Amsterdam,
Odyssee
for the
Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen and the
The
Little Mermaid
for the San Francisco Ballet.
•
He worked on Donya Feuer's documentary: "The
Work of Utopia."
Awards
•"
Benois de la Danse 2004."
•"
Danza & Danza Prize 2004" for his
interpretation of his roles in "Bernstein Dances"
and "Nijinsky."
•
The husband of the fellow Hamburg dancer
Niurka Moredo, since 1991.
ABOUT LLOYD RIGGINS
