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don't be too good just because it. take her take her. to. john no meyer at mark that fat. and internationally renowned choreographer who depicts worlds of emotion and the language of dance thank you it's been done i'm a grateful person and that might be why i'm a happy person quickly and privileged to get to do what i love most people.

for john know i mire the artistic journey has always been more important than a destination. in my living and if my life is a painting dance is the frame. his creative home is the ballet center hamburg. sight is she ever since i've been a choreographer my aim has been to create a sort of microcosm of the world on stage after. a microcosm that includes the underworld johnno meyer is staging orpheus and you read a scene. where cliche you see it is still christians in the narrative is the creative process itself is in and there's nothing better than entering a space and feeling extremely nervous and uncertain. your dancers looking to you with huge expectations on to the sound of music that moves you hear it and

creating something that hadn't existed before us that's not meet our. and. one of his main focuses has always been melding dance with music. mine attends zent de my kind of dances are ones who give it their all even in rehearsal nice but not i believe because i'm a slave driver and they're afraid they'll be fired if they don't. because it gives them joy. and this joy infects me to my camera it's a great source of inspiration for me which is for me and of course in spirit. is a choreographer who's loved and appreciated by character dancers. that

that magic that happens in the studio that it's nothing that i can tell but i guess as a choreographer and dancer you create. really a fine line when you're in the studio working where there is not really bungees between one and another it requires this unity to be able to create something really from deep inside children has. an amazing way off transforming dancers into different drills that sometimes you don't. expect to become the person that or to find that person in you and i think you have an amazing way of finding that in you to project it on stage it's just incredible it's an incredible experience to be with him in the studio and. to see how how. how to he's as he sees

evil and that they're all you do and that piece he creates so it's really special there was the. head. am. the world famous dance company as a many headed entity accompanying john knowing my own on his artistic quest down a long and winding road. side for him up at fs i know and i always have doubts crotty tate nothing has any worth a mess you question it and question yourself and father stared at us being i'm forever as a crossroads conflicted wondering if i'm going in the right direction or not confuse you one up there fake. what any why do you do it here self

i ask myself that too much man. he's never taken the easy route when he was 62 he danced the parts of the lion man in his ballet production a friend's schubert's into highs and our winter journey. the characters that interest him are the doubters the losers and dreamers. one that as long intrigued 10 is bats love agency the russian ballet dancer and choreographer often referred to as the greatest male dancer of the early 20th century no i meyer's ballet explores his descent into madness. john the baptist and jesus and a padded room in a choreographic exploration of george frederick candles messiah broken heroes in classic noir my style. symbiotic for better and for worse john the baptist makes jesus a teacher finding him disciples. noting the expectations of the crowds and doubting

his mission. about i steeped in soul and humanity. i am a leader that can be a eunuch without feet as a bit of myself and every piece of mine every choreography and every production and mission growing up she and i can't choreographed stage something with complete honesty if i don't understand it the trust of i don't understand it deeply from a very specific angle my own possible angle in that 1st year. john no i mire was born in milwaukee on lake michigan in 1939 his father was a ship's captain. his mother loved arts and culture. supported his ambition to dance and ambition born when the family went together to see a musical in the cinema. he started taking tap dancing classes then minimal walky

city library he stumbled across a biography of that's left nijinsky and fell in love with ballet. he studied in london and copenhagen and in 1963 went to germany to join the stuttgart ballet led by choreographer john crank oh. john no i my aunt was a talented dancer and was soon making a name for himself as a choreographer to. in 1969 he was appointed director of the frankfurt ballet because adaptation of romeo and juliet in 1984 was a milestone his juliet was no hottie prima donna but an irrepressible young girl who learns to dance only when she falls in love she breathed new life into the classics. he reinterpreted swan lake as a vision dreamed up by luke the 2nd during his imprisonment.

was. but no my my are doesn't seek to revolutionize ballet so much as to renew it gently and thoughtfully. up they've considered us for art can make a difference here i'm not sure he's but i'm not sure that's its task. i should help people understand themselves better it was he said a freshly an. alabama economic. basket on. the majestic pentagon yang is located in the heart of the congo do that in paris it's the home of the famous ballet do look back to patti and associated ballet school. it is clear that created a lot of it yet what i create is not complete sort as verified ballet company wants

to stage one of my works i don't see it as a picture hanging on a wall that i can take down and send over along with the building of a district is he in on chicken national or that's all i have to go and meet them with stand out and see who these people are wanting to bring new life to my work even disses faire noir leave. in money see him tried it there's money interest even when you decide to work in different places or what then you learn that each place has its own set of rules. in poppy's that is especially true of the paris opera which has a very long ballet tradition and then longer than a 32 notch ship by that. the pentagon year opened its doors in 875 for years it was the biggest theater in the world a meeting place for high society. john nolan meyer loves the venue and frequently

works here as a guest choreographer. would you. please accompany a decent leader is i love this company very much it's big it's like not too big because it will often have 2 big productions going on in it's 2 different venues mine i really do interest my. i'm not to have lots of time to work with my group these are groups who are by survey grosse but each row through its movements is an important color in this music of emotions at 1st and wish to follow east indies a mosaic fund the much union is there. together with ballet masters kevin hagen and. both former dancers with a hammer ballet john nolan meyer is on his way to rehearsals his adaptation of la demo coming out yeah the 19th century novel by alexandre dumas is being staged in

the city in which it was set. we're. waiting to know one of the other side i don't know where you figure out if things are conflicts. with its many stairwells corridors and rooms the historic building is something of a labyrinth you know if an ice area. i mean if the reversal is are taking place in one of 5 studios what's interesting with our job and john makes that very very clear is that is the journey the process of always learning and always searching because everything doesn't have to be successful but everything has to go for it it's not about success it's about it's not about the just a ship it's about the journey and that john has always made very clear. and that's why he could will continue to create. john no i my are originally created lockdown

. set to music by fred actual power for the stood guard ballet in 1978 it was internationally acclaimed the production in paris is now the 6th version he has staged in the city for a month at 1st and show up and when you consider some aspect or opera and have an early a dancer in mind. and are looking to reproduce what she or he did and it doesn't work. then man it only works when you love and respect this incredibly precious resource you're working with a many people fog not colors not words not computers or typewriters countrified machine bleep and. each rehearsal and each role takes on a life of its own. it's a deep to men see i'm always falling in love a new with the dancers i work with is trying to create something fresh trying to

awaken something new both in the dancers and in myself but that is in and is erica ok but we're. a little bit very good for what a very good. you know. the author is a legendary institution to perform on its stage is a unique privilege and when a world famous choreographer is staging a production of his own work it's a special thrill for the $154.00 dancers with the paris opera ballet. or you aren't going to afford rehearsals for productions are tightly scheduled here the condom of opera houses makes no exceptions. the venue's sumptuous velvet upholstery and lavish gold detail is downs like making the pentagon

a premier tourist attraction. it still looks much the same as it did in the late 19th century when it was the beating heart of fashionable paris. 1st of energy on a theater problem is that there are 6 different costs and there's also a major production of the opera busty and the easier stroke in investing. it's an unfamiliar situation for johnno meyer the hamburg ballet is a much smaller company and the dancers are entirely at his disposal. he staged the story of the ill fated lovers many times but always managed to reinterpret it and find a new way of telling their tragic tale. there's

interest and it is this month in movida a small ways in what's interesting is that you can always discover something new because humans are such a tunnel in the cameras into a it's always an adventure steps and was like this is the graduate or the ascent emitted a row might be the same but it's always performed by someone different to turn toward the dicta is to tired to beat this fun 20 i'm always driven by faith in new ways of being an i know an i know and that mukesh kite suzanne for men us better for humankind. on a different angle on emotionality more tonight 88 on and does this test for us that's what makes a story endlessly fascinating for me as

a choreographer spot from mission i scored a graph. the terminally ill magazine it will ultimately. leave her lover and forfeit her happiness. after the rehearsal johnno meyer gives all of the dancers in depth individual feedback. that change our spatial little television set up to push him to senator but. the 1st time.

he never tires of explaining his ideas and demonstrating what he's looking for she looks. triptych he throws himself into his work with body and soul you work. at the same place with. a professor it's good to have all this in the kitchen for fraud and so you know he gives you so much image of so correct it tells you why you have to do it like that why it's more. credible for the audience why what is the sense of doing it is just like i want you to do it it's always there is a little wider. stretch but yet. even after a career spanning 50 years he's only satisfied when he can get to grips with every last detail of his productions with. johnno in meyer has been director of the hamburg ballet since 1973 and put the city on the map of international dance he

also made it his home and it was here that he found his longtime partner. is here now to professionally he's a genius but he's always remained unbelievably grounded down to earth as the americans say and he has a great sense of humor but if you didn't we wouldn't be together i mean schools and home was once red villages on the side. i. discovered this company i met think there comes a moment woman vice when you just know that you've made someone at their. best better than anyone you've ever imagined that's money the same one who could short of would exist home and

kinda sorta. want done is this all this money that you want together with this person is this man take it with a little joke about everything money. c.f. a human understand to see you find your deeply interested in the other person and. i suspect or at it and you learn what it's like to be more concerned for them than you are feel self or human under a physician. it's 10 o'clock on a sunday morning in an hour at the ballet workshop will begin on the stage of the hamburg state opera no meyer will expand on how the roles developed and offer unique insights into the creative process. disc a few months eat at us so get the feeling of seeing who these people are in private

this is me the 3 dimensionality of the characters is always very important and for the audience to see the performers without their costumes is something special and an issue and at least this was. the 1st ballet workshop took place in 1973 and was an instant hit with the audience tickets are always snapped up immediately. not interested enough to notice i. couldn't back up my fank you and good morning ladies and gentlemen that's right about it that i'm delighted to welcome you to our 224th ballet what shops that site begin audits seitan courses are down thank you for ballet workshops per year and the event is always sold out. today and out loud and edin even show the audience what they've

been trying out in rehearsals for a lot damn come yet. they concentrate on pure dance. then john neumeier talks the audience through the company's work. a successful documentary series was made about the ballet workshops. i go to sadness by lettice and it isn't in one respect ballet is a consumer product compared to a restaurant i have sit down and i order a steak and steak and asked if the steaks good i'll come back then if it's not good

it won't make it any better if the restaurant owner takes me into the kitchen and shows me how cramped it is and how hard it is to work that share it's that i've got problems getting good stuff and that he's depressed at the moment and can't cook and what did he say it's so cough it doesn't bring it i might feel sorry for him on a personal level but i still won't enjoy my steak and i still won't come back this is what it is the same with ballet if you watch a performance and you don't like it and then when be interested in finding out anything more about it nothing i can say oh we can show you will change that deficit psych the godly come off your john norma in 1978 no myra won a german t.v. award for the for part john on my respond at action at which he developed and hosted off to just focus on const neumeier sees ballet as an art form by people for

people he was 1st inspired by classic american musicals and their influence often shines through his work. bernstein dances pays homage to the music and spirits of leonard bernstein. now that. am. and see the sense of these abilities once you've seen the dancers on stage then you leather dancing isn't just a job for them job dancing for all dancers is a vocation i can clinch for other tenser. is the most intensive part of their lives and that's wonderful. but that's a story. that can come a time when it's no longer possible that's me what's most important is not the moment when dancers a dancing or tense or dance encourage the moment when they no longer cannes and the

moment was is that what we need to focus on a ha that's where we need to help missing a concert that's your get down because head front. row seats from the event to go to the dance foundation which helps professional dancers make the transition to other jobs. john no meyer dedicated his choreography to manas leads where the beautiful trumpets blow to soloist geoffrey kirk who died of aids. the ballet workshop benefits traditionally end with a performance. for neumeier compassion and commemoration are intertwined with the ephemeral nature of dance.

i'm going home and i think that was my approach when i became a ballet director nearly 50 years ago. that i missed by that defect us on going home and hobbit the size. and i'm not only responsible for mahler's 5th symphony or the boy's magic horn i'm responsible for everything or this was done since who applied to be part of something for those who are a bit sad because that's part of it but on dressing enough and i doubt if one of them haven't kind of those that are completely unhappy because they're not a part of it at all costs most i need to have answers for all of them and i and i need to be able to give direction or i can't call myself

a director. so it's come on say he needs to defect on any. exactly because it's hard to get his job also includes this sort of thing today he selecting images for the program for orpheus and your idiocy together with photographer kieron west a former dancer. johnno and meyer tends to keep a professional distance from his dancers but nothing escapes west's all seeing photographers gaze. so as tense of us as when i was a dancer we had a completely different relationship. and for them it's something else now. in front of me he's not afraid to kind of. thank you all sit and ken as well diversified from drama and doesn't know the best sides of john when just and that's what i always want to show and he knows that in the us so he trusts me completely. we did this portrait together and i just said

john do your thing to us and you've got a special move and he was like fine what move at the end and your move john noir milan unlocked and so he does it so i just have to photograph him and show the world john no a mile and give it sag and. john maya. i get. a group photo to mark the company's 40th anniversary in 2013 including a few dancers from the very early days. with his $988.00 piece hamburger impromptu french choreographer a movie space paid tribute to his friend john meyer and his company.

i remember the masterpieces created by 9 minor and the hamburg ballet is simply number 3 by gustaf mana which premiered in 1975 the music itself is the theme of the choreography. is a recurring inspiration. i . many of numerous choreographies have a dream like murder merging elements that make for strange and unsettling bedfellows. in a midst. her night's dream he just opposes the romantic strains of felix matters on with georgi legatees mechanical music. st matthew passion was john 1st choreographic exploration of

a sacred oratorial it premiered at design to say as church in hamburg in 1980. 9 meyer has devised 160 choreographies in the course of his career his young students marked his 60th birthday with a celebration of his. working with young students in the school of the hamburg ballet is a cornerstone of norm myers mission. the majority of the dancers in his company are graduates of the school he also founded the national youth ballet which has become a pillar of the german dance world his works are classics with cross generational appeal as illustrated by this short version of la dam. performed on the occasion of his 60th birthday.

want . it under the watchful eye of the city's patron goddess omonia in 2018 at hamburg city hall he renewed his contract as ballet director. in 2023 he will have held the position for 50 years the saturdays and it leave it i always say it's a welcome but he and i decided to carry this burden for another 4 years and does it . every autumn the hamburg ballet gives the guest performance in baton bodden even after all these years he still feels nervous and had a premiere. this is production is bernstein dances. and. it's the same piece that launched the

cooperation between the hamburg ballet and the baton baton festival hall 20 years ago. this is free and it's a place where you can experiment with interesting art and i want to open up the packard violated here escape because there's always time here to reconsider the works it's within and see them in a completely different space not mine in one feature and somehow i find that very inspiring and spectate machine. the serene setting helps focus the body in mind here in baton baton there's a deep appreciation for the dance company from hamburg at the press conference it's obvious that the local media is familiar with his work here and it is and by that victory i feel was a ballet is truly good when it doesn't just tell an old story but my story. is some that is if it saved my negotiator that's the most important thing is that it's

still alive the worst thing that could happen would be to have works of mine staged in a way that's all fine and good but like a museum object behind glass and that's mustn't happen this dance ballet is a living art form but it is it's to do with the here and now and if it has nothing to do with now then it shouldn't be done at all it needs to not so much. as always the choreographer attends the performance accompanied by his ballet master. i for the last 2 decades the company has done top of the no fan base here in the south many members of the audience have come from france and switzerland. the venue has a capacity of $2500.00 seats and every single one is taken the anniversary guest

performances are sold out. a standing ovation for bernstein dances the company and the choreography. the hoof from me but over to me this profession means constantly learning and experiencing new things around and after. when i get down my love of assad and learning about him he has never gone away then is me after what. i love that's plain to see and his home. is this is a place of tranquility i thought they would i should concentrate here very well it's a good country and. an entire floor is given over to needs drawings in sketches. vicinity and we don't know exactly how many the rock but we have the largest

existing collection the 1908 of the sketches skits and finishing ski. the collection belongs to the foundation john neumeier which brings together his collections that portray the history of ballet through art and words. design known east for me the collection isn't about value which it's important for my work via it is for my heart might be stickies mine. is it was one pieces together mosaic stones. owns the place that one will keep going forward ticket this man needs to for one can't go back is skipped i thought i know and it's a way to build on the past and on fun def a common sight. paris. is premiering in the pony gown me. 30 dancers are

getting ready for the performance. the company has purchased the entire production and important source of income for the 9 story building. its marble staircases and lavish decor demand a costly upkeep. legendary dancers of days gone by look down from the ceiling it was here that dig out painted his famous ballet dancers and here that dancers would rendezvous with their well heeled admires. paris did it they're all is it the paris opera as one of the main centers of ballet contests of history and tradition of any type it's your own hands on and. i feel very honored to be in such a place and time to contribute to this venerable company as was i at 1st to a decent touchstones i could see one of the companies i've worked with most often

is that the aim is i need the company in me to me shape faster meissen gobshite power. the performance isn't just taking place on stage the audience is engaged in its own performance while the dancers wait in the wings . the. damo come here is a study of high society and fast morality but the production draws its emotional intensity from the power to do between alma and maggie heat it captures the very essence of their relationship.

40 years after it 1st premiered the tragedy has lost none of its power to move the audience. up cars for the paris after a ballet and john on my ass. backstage he can graduates the company. newman. have this ballet it is your salary so please. take care let it grow that it grow in new let yourself grow as an artist when you do it ok i will be thinking of you and it can be any moment i may come back and see what you're doing it's

a big careful ok i could be there any moment. if he sees dance as a form of human expression and its purpose above all is to convey a feeling. i don't care if you miss one step and i don't get you fall down but eat because you have a fantastic technique so it's not of name moment is not equivalent of all blame is to is to project this is incredible pays the thought is that you have listened to the create hearing about this yet. thank you michel thank you very much thank you it was a great. new myers life is a whirlwind of premieres revivals and rehearsals his calendar is packed with engagements. today he's presenting his latest piece billy d's to the press ahead of its premiere in hamburg it's a coproduction with us operas. for neumeier the challenge was to put the ballet and

the opera on an equal footing. he's in charge not only of the choreography but also the staging sets the costumes and the lighting concept. that assange escaped in every stick of the shites say it's heading in the right direction for send a submission chicago bear in mind i did this in chicago after 8 weeks of russell's out of pocket for that set and had a after 3 weeks of rehearsal but psychoanalysed 5 weeks here and yet smitty got his friend for one here so i'd say it's coming along. in hamburg a noir minor premier is always an event especially when the ballet director is trying his hand at an opera this isn't the 1st time he's tackled the myth of

orpheus the audience has high expectations of his latest treatment of looks opera. i. was the norm meyers concept this time is that orpheus is a choreographer and you already see a prima ballerina the production demonstrates the power of art to render even death meaningless iritis he isn't left in the underworld but gets to live. in man and profession langham when you. a profession for a long time and people ask as the germans do when you're going to stop and hit out how so they expect you to deliver one last masterpiece spot hours after all you're a master of your craft and i stood there by my niece and my stuff but i don't feel that's what i am at all he says q. and meister to sign when i start choreographing i don't know how i'll do what i do i see.

2 what he does is interweave dance and music so that the respective art forms merge together organically. 2 as usual he's in the audience interested to see how his work comes across. when he takes to the stage a few boos mingled with the applause he's used to let john know him i has his vision and he's confident in his pursuit of that's.

him yes no biggie in the premiere is only the start of something where if i wasn't enjoying what i do my career wouldn't have lasted 50 years and teachers get my sound melodramatic but i believe i'm doing what i'm destined to do it's each i think that's what's called a vocation discount that's the total. there are reindeer are there life. in them it's people of the russian army. like climate change and mining are threatening their nomadic way of life. so now that's children are now preparing for a different future. a life without reindeer. you

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