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be too good just because it. take her take her to go. john nolan meyer at work that fast. and internationally renowned choreographer who depicts morals of emotion in 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 pretty and privileged to get to do what i love most people. for john know i my are the artistic journey has always been more important than a destination. and i live in and if my life is

a painting dance is the frame. his creative home is the ballet center hamburg. site 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 the answer to. a microcosm that includes the underworld just no i meyer is staging orpheus and your idiocy. in there. is stick soon sam 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.

so. one of his main focuses has always been melding dance with music. mine attend st d. my kind of dancers are ones who give it their all even in rehearsal a nice little knot 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 is. and this joy in fact me to him it's a great source of inspiration for me which is for me and of course in spirits you. refer 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 that is not really bungees between one and another it requires these unity to be able to create something really from deep inside tension 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 yeah it's incredible experience to be with him in the studio and. to see how how. how he's as he sees you and that they're all you do and that piece he creates so it's this really special.

am was the. the end the arrow the. the world famous dance company as a many headed entity accompanying john nolan my own on his artistic quest down a long and winding road. cypher imma f i thought no and i always have doubts tate nothing has any worth from less you question it and question yourself and father stared at a string i'm forever as a crossroads conflicted wondering if i'm going in the right direction or not confuse you one of their fake. sleep to quit anything. why do you do it here self i ask myself that too much but. he's never taken the easy route when he was 62 he danced the part 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 has 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 new meyers ballet explores his descent into madness. john the baptist and jesus and a power to do in a choreographic exploration of george frederick handel's messiah the broken heroes in classic noir my us 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 life steeped in soul and humanity.

i am the leader in fact from here yet according to feel there's a bit of myself in every piece of mine every choreography and every production and nish growing up here and i can't choreographed all stage something with complete honesty if i don't understand it deals with for stuff i don't understand it deeply from a very specific angle my own possible angle in that 1st year. john no i meyer 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 in the long. walky city library he stumbled across a biography of. 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. johnno i my out was a talented dancer and was soon making a name for himself as a choreographer too. 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 he breathed new life into the classics. he reinterpreted swan lake as a vision dreamed up by luke the 2nd during his imprisonment. but not meyer doesn't seek to revolutionize ballet so much as to renew it gently

and thoughtfully. up there. can make a difference 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 fresh t. an. alabama m.r.i. . gallery on. the majestic pal a guy name is located in the heart of the congo do that in paris it's the home of the famous ballet due to patti and associated ballet school. it is clear that created a lot of it yet what i create is not complete sort as very often 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 that's when on chicken i should know orders 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 he says for noir live. in london see him chided this man interested in when you decide to work in different places or what then you learn that each place has its own set of rules that. in part he said is especially true of the paris opera which has a very long ballet tradition and an army that would be too much shit about it. the pentagon you 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. he's

a company a d.c. leader is i love this company very much it's basically that not too big because it will often have 2 big productions going on in it's 2 different venues mine i can lease to interest my. i'd like to have lots of time to work with my groups these are groups who are by so they cross but each row through its movements is an important color in this mosaic of emotions it has and. it is indeed some was a fun image tune is there. together with ballet masters kevin hagen and yeah. both former dancers with the hammer ballet john no i 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. with. the retailer no really wanted the other side. where they were fucking things

up and fix it. with its many stairwells corridors and rooms the historic building is something of a labyrinth you know if an i.c.b.m. . i mean if the reversal is are taking place in one of 5 studios it's interesting with our job and john makes that very very clear because it is the journey the process of always learning and always searching because everything doesn't have to be successful but everything has to go forward it's not about success it's about it's not about the distinction it's about the journey and that john is always made very clear. and that's why he will continue to create. john no meyer originally created lockdown will come in yeah set to music by fred actual power for the stock car ballet in 1978 it was internationally acclaimed

the production in paris is now the 6th version he has staged in the city in mind at 1st and show it in my head and beard when you consider some aspect or other and have an early a dancer in mind. and are looking to reproduce what she or he did and it doesn't work it's good vent money it only works when you love and respect this incredibly precious resource you're working with mainly people fobbed not colors not words not computers or typewriters countrified machine bleep and. each rehearsal and each role takes on a life of its own. if a deep to man and c i'm always falling in love again with the dancers i work with who is trying to create something fresh trying to awaken something new both in the dancers and in myself but that is in i knew serger ok but we're.

a lot of it very good for what a very good. the gun 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. and good. to go for rehearsals for productions are tightly scheduled for the condom of opera house this makes no exceptions. the venue's sumptuous velvet upholstery and lavish gold detail is dance 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. places of energy out and i think the problem is that there are 6 different causes and there's also a major production of the upper busty and the easiest took in investing. it's an unfamiliar situation for john i my are 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 snowiest what's interesting is that you can always discover something new because humans are such eternal enigmas in toy it's always an adventure said some as like this is the graduate or the ascent emitted a row might be the same but it's always performed by someone different time toward the day qt is to tired to beat this fun friend who is driven by faith in new ways of being an i know an i know under mukesh kite to xining for one perspective on humankind. had a different angle on emotionality him or to 98 or and does this test for us that's what makes a story endlessly fascinating for me as a choreographer i'll spot for mission i scored off.

the terminally ill magazine it will ultimately. leave her lover and forfeit her happiness. after the rehearsal johnno meyer gives all the dancers in depth individual feedback . change. spatial to the television set of the bush in the center but it's. the 1st that. he never tires of explaining his ideas and demonstrating what he's looking for she looks. so

he throws himself into his work with body and soul you. have the same fate with. the professor it's good to have all this in the kitchen for the fraud and so you know it gives you so much image of soccer actor it tells you why you have to do it like that why it's more. credible for the audience wait what is the sense of doing it is just like i want you to do it it's always there is a little while. stretch after yet 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 and 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

of the 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 freedom but if you didn't we wouldn't be together i missed calls home was songs with villagers on the side. he discovered his complete i'm a man think there comes a moment when my vice when you just know that you've made someone at their. best better than anyone you've ever imagined that's money that's the same one who could sort of would exist tom and kinda sorta. went down is this all this money that you know together with this person is as man say he was here to

talk about everything. 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 concern for them than you off we'll solve for 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. just before and months eat after us so get the feeling of seeing who these people are in private does this mean 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 in the end if this outfit is. the 1st ballet workshop took place in 1973 and was an instant hit with the audience tickets are always snapped up immediately. with our title to. thank you margaret thank you and good morning ladies and gentlemen it's right about it that i'm delighted to welcome you to our 224th ballet walk shops site begin audits tighten the course and sit out thank you gifts for ballet workshops per year and the event is always sold out. today and i loudly and edna 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 could as agnes by let is and give is in one respect ballet as 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 is that i've got

problems getting good stuff and that he's depressed at the moment and can't cook what it is fair it's so cough and that's something 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 home is that it's the same with ballet if you watch a performance and you don't like it and then like be interested in finding out anything more about it and nothing i can say oh we can show you will change that the deficit psych the godly come out of your john norma in 1978 1000000 myra one a german t.v. a white for the 4 part john mill in my respond at action at which he developed and hosted oft the just for 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 spirit of

latter bernstein. now. that. and see defense of these opinion is once you've seen the dancers on stage then you lead a dancing isn't just a job for them job dancing for all dancers is a vocation i can clinch for either tents or hopeful. is the most intensive part of our lives and that's wonderful. and that's a story but that can come a time when it's no longer possible and to me what's most important is not a moment when dance is a dancing or tense advance and kind of the moment when they no longer cans and they're all meant was if that's what we need to focus on a ha that's where we need to help this economy that's your get down because heaven

. proceeds from the event to go to the dance foundation which helps professional dancers make the transition to other jobs. in general in my are 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. a little.

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 the. direct us on going home and harbor the size it's been nice to not only responsible for mahler's 5th symphony or the boys magic horn i'm responsible for everything or not for this was dancers who were glad to be part of something for those who are a bit sad because they're part of it but aren't resting enough and i doubt if one of a kind poor fellows that are completely unhappy because they're not a part of it at all and thus i need to have answers for all of them 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 direct 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 myra tends to keep a professional distance from his dancers but not the escapes west's all seeing photographers gaze. so as tense of it as. when i was a dancer we had a completely different relationship. and it's something else now. in front of me he's not afraid you have to kind of. cool it. can as well as i can draw on the underside of the best sides of john and that's what i always want to show and he knows that. so he trusts me completely. we did this portrait together and i just said john do you think you've got the special move and he was like fine what move and your move john no

maya so he does it. so i just have to photograph him and show the world. and give it side can you and john my last. little. bit. of 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 mo he spat paid tribute to his friend john meyer and his company. among the masterpieces created by 9 meyer and the hamburg ballet is simply number 3 by good stuff mama which premiered in 1985 the music itself is the theme of the

choreography. is a recurring inspiration. to many of new myra's choreographies have a dreamlike mood merging elements that make for strange and unsettling bedfellows. in a midsummer night's dream he juxtaposes the romantic strains of felix matters on with georgi legatees mechanical music i say matthew passion was johnno meyers 1st choreographic exploration of a sacred oratorial it premiered at the santa miss a list church in hamburg in 1980.

neumeier 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 non liars 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 damo coming performed on the occasion of his 60th birthday.

under the watchful eye of the city's patron goddess how manya in 2018 at hamburg city hall he renewed his contract as ballet director. in 2023 he will have held the position for 50 years a saturday says and it i always say it's a welcome but these i've decided to carry this burden for another 4 years it's going to set. every autumn to hamburg ballet gives a guest performance in baton bodden even after all these years he still feels nervous i had a premiere. this year's production is bernstein dances. it's the same piece that launched the cooperation between the hamburg ballet and the baton baton festival hall 20 years ago. now this is free

and it's a place where you can experiment and try to go and i want to open up the packard fi is here escape because there's always time here to reconsider the works it's ready and see them in a completely different space nor modern invention 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 it saved my niggas she 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 into that's mustn't happen that's the dance ballet is a living art form that 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 built up a loyal fan base here in the south many members of the audience have come from france and switzerland. i. live in you 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 choreographer of. the hoof from me but over to me this profession means constantly learning and experiencing new things around after. when does it get dunk my love of assad and learning about it he has never gone away and is not. in love that's plain to see and his home. is this is a place of tranquility and ought to work i should concentrate here very well said could contain. an entire floor is given over to needs drawings and sketches. vicinity you know we don't know exactly how many the rock we have the largest existing collection 98 of the sketches gets and finish and. 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 rather it's important for my work via it is from my heart might be stickies mine. is it was one pieces together mosaic stones. owns the place that one will keep going forward to get this man used but one can't go back escaped i thought i know and it's a way to build on the past and on fun f. a common sight. paris. is premiering in the pony gown. 30 dancers are getting ready for the performance.

of the company has purchased the entire production an important source of income for the 9 story building. its marble staircases and lavish decor demand a costly upkeep. legendary dancers the days gone by look down from the ceiling. it was here that day god painted his famous ballet dancers and here that dancers would rendezvous with their well heeled at myer's. palace did it they're all is it a paris opera as one of the main centers of ballet contests of history and tradition of any type it's your own have owned me c.f.s. i feel very honored to be in such a place i want to contribute to visit venerable company as was i at fust to a decent touchstones i could see one of the companies i've worked with most often is the dame is i need the company in meeting me she's a fast i'm bison gal by to 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. or 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 valet and john i'm i am. backstage he can graduates the company. you. have this battle it is your reality so please. take care let it grow all of that it grow in new let yourself grow as artists 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 survey careful ok i could be there any moment if he sees dance as a form of human expression its purpose above all is to convey

a feeling. i don't care if you miss one step plan i don't care if you fall down but eat because you have a fantastic technique so it's not over name moment when he has about all of them is to use to project this is incredible pace inside it that you have this is a gift to create hearing about this year. thank you mr 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 all feel really decent to the press ahead of its premiere in hamburg it's a co-production 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.

is but a satin escape in every stick of the shites a it's heading in the right direction for scent as a vision chicago bear in mind i did this in chicago after 8 weeks of rehearsals. for 4 but set down the l.a. after 3 weeks of rehearsals and all that side by not 5 weeks here and yet snooty that was fun for here though i'd say it's coming along. in hamburg a new meyer 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 nor 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 he wrote a sea isn't left in the underworld but gets to live. feynman and a professor in langham when you. a profession for a long time and people ask as the germans do you know when you're going to stop and hit out how so they expect you to deliver one last masterpiece 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 sure and meister to sigh when i start choreographing i don't know how i'll do what i do.

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 meyer has his vision and he's confident and has pursued it that's. time yet i still think in the premiere is only the start of something. if i wasn't

enjoying what i do my career wouldn't have lasted 50 years in this party to shift 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 which contests that go to the. the w.'s talk show strong opinions clear positions from international perspective some young people worldwide are gathering expected to be the modest apartment protest in history will their strike jokes politicians into action to address the climate crisis used in response to the change that's our topic of the subconscious appointment nightmist on the edge of.

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