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w dot com tang's. don't be too good just because it. takes her take her to go. to. john nolan meyer at work that fast. and internationally renowned choreographer depicts worlds of emotion in the language of dance thank you. it's been done and i'm a grateful person convert might be why i'm a happy person could be 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 i define my life is a painting is done so 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. a microcosm that includes the underworld just now i meyer is staging orpheus and you read a scene. where cliche you see it is stick to 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. man attends st d. my kind of dances 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 huge to go and destroy in fact me to him 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

the 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 the answers 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 incredible experience to be with him in the studio and. to see how how. how to he's as he sees

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

self i ask myself back too much money. he's never taken the easy route when he was 62 he danced the part of the lion in his ballet production affronts schubert's into highs of our winter journey. the characters that interest him are the doubters the losers and dreamers. one that has long intrigued 10 is bats let me just see the russian ballet dancer and choreographer often referred to as the greatest male dancer of the early 20th century no i meyers ballet explores his descent into madness. john the baptist and jesus and a power to do it in a choreographic exploration of george frederick handel's messiah broken heroes in classic no i 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. a ballet steeped in soul and she managed to. i am the leader in fact for me i get a cord of there's a bit of myself in every piece of mine every choreography and every production and nish going up she and i can't choreographed stage something with complete honesty if i don't understand it these days for stiff 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

milwaukee 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 crinkle. john knowing 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. 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. she reinterpreted swan lake as a vision dreamed up by lunatic the 2nd during his imprisonment.

was. but not meyer doesn't seek to revolutionize ballet so much as to renew it gently and thoughtfully. up to constant us for art can make a difference i'm not sure he's but i'm not sure that it's task. it should help people understand themselves better as he said afresh the end. up getting them are not. valid 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 pathing 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 is he in on chicken national or that's all i have to go and meet them with standard and see who these people are wanting to bring new life to my work even disses faire noir leave. in money as he can shout it there's money interest in when you decide to work in different places what then you learn that each place has its own set of rules. in papeete that is especially true of the paris opera which has a very long ballet tradition and in ahmedabad 32 not sure but it. 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. he's a company. is i love this company very much it's basically 3rd 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 got to have lots of time to work with my group these groups who are so big ross but each row through its movements is an important color in this mosaic of emotions it was and. is indeed some was a fun image to learn is there. together with ballet masters kevin hagen and. both former dancers with a hammer ballet johnno meyer is on his way to rehearsals his adaptation of la damn . the 19th century novel by alexandre dumas is being staged in the city in which it

was set. with. a retailer no real want to the other side i don't know where you figure out if things are unfixable. with its many stairwells corridors and rooms the historic building is something of a labyrinth you know if an accident. i mean if the reversals 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 forward it's not about success it's about it's not about the distinction it's about the journey and that john has always made very clear he's and that's why he will continue to create. john no i my are originally created like damn coming idea

set to music by fred of actual power for the stock god ballet in 1978 it was internationally acclaimed the production in paris is now the 6th version he has staged in the city in mn at 1st and show in manhattan and when you consider some aspect or would have an earlier dancer is mind. and are looking to reproduce what she or he did and it doesn't work. when one it only works when you love and respect this incredibly precious resource you're working with family people not colors not words not computers or typewriters countrified machine leap and perfect yet. the tree hersel and each role takes on a life of its own. if it beeped muncy i'm always falling in love in you with a dance as i work with is trying to create something fresh trying to awaken

something new both in the dancers and in myself of a dice that is in ideas ok but we're. a lot of it very good for what a very good. you know. the open 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. good or you're going. to rehearsals for productions are tightly scheduled for the goddamn of opera houses 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. 1st of indian i think the problem is that there are 6 different causes and there's also a major production of the opera by stephen and the easiest took him in the us. 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 and making us into a it's always an adventure said some as like this is the grudge or the ascent emitted a row might be the same but it's always performed by someone different to toward braked is a tad bit weak this fund is driven by faith in new ways of being an i know and i know and that mukesh kite suzanne for one of us better for humankind. had a different angle on emotionality more tonight 880 and that's just for us that's

what makes a story endlessly fascinating for me as a choreographer. spock from mission as choreographed. the terminally ill magazine will ultimately. leave her lover and forfeit her happiness. after the rehearsal johnno meyer gives all of the dancers in depth individual feedback with this. change our spatial logic of jumping a set a bush in the center but it's. the 1st time. he

never tires of explaining his ideas and demonstrating what he's looking for she looks. terrific he throws himself into his work with body and soul you look. at the same face with. the fact it's good to have all this in the kitchen for the father and so you know he 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 way what is the sense of doing it is just like i want you to do it it's always there is a little wide. 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 i 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 but and 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 we didn't we wouldn't be together i mean girls who was on 3 adventures on the side. discover is complete imo many think there comes a moment. common 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 show it would exist tom

and kinda sorta. went down as this all this month on your together with this person is as man say it was here to talk about everything. c.f. a human on the scene 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 sell for human under so how does a set up. 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 a few months eat after 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 in the end it just opens. the 1st ballet workshop took place in 1973 and was an instant hit with the audience tickets are always snapped up immediately. i didn't but now i thank you. thank you and good morning ladies and gentlemen it's right about it that i'm delighted to welcome you to our 224th ballet went shopping 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 unallowed and edwina 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. and good as agnes by lettice and it isn't in one respect the 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 is that i'm back problems getting good stuff and that he's depressed at the moment and can't cook and what it is fair it's so cough it doesn't ding and 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 says that it's the same with ballet if you watch a performance and you don't like it then you might be interested in finding out anything more about it and nothing i can say oh we can show you will change that but what a deficit site to go to come up your john norma in 1978 1000000 myra one a german t.v. a white for the 4 part john on my respond at action at which he developed and hosted off to the to spokane 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. that accurate. and see defense out these abilities once you've seen the dancers on stage then you'll know the dancing isn't just a job for them job dancing for all dancers is a vocation i can clinch for either tense or hopeful. is the most intensive part of our lives and that's wonderful. with us a story. 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 can sit at

all meant was if that's what we need to focus on a ha that's where we need to help miss the concert that's your own get down there because headphones. proceeds from the events go to the dance foundation which helps professional dancers make the transition to other jobs. in general in 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.

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 that. direct us i'm 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 done so who are 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 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 his value to 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 escaped west's all seeing photographers gaze. so as tense of us 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 and you have to kind of. call it. ken as well diversified from draw on doesn't know 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 what do you think you've got the special mood and he was like find what move on your move john neumeier so he does it. so i just have to photograph and show the world or give it side and. john myla. 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 longmire and his company.

the mountain masterpieces created by noir meyer and the hamburg ballet is simply number 3 by gustav mahler which premiered in 1985 the music itself is the theme of the choreography. is a recurring inspiration. to many of new myers choreographies have a dreamlike moored merging elements that make for strange and unsettling bedfellows . in a midsummer night's dream he juxtaposes the romantic strains of felix mentors on with georgi legatees mechanical music. st matthew passion was john myers 1st choreographic exploration of

a sacred oratorial it premiered at the santa anas church in hamburg in 1980. c 9 lyra 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 myra's 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 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 saudis and even i always say it's a welcome but he and i decided to carry this burden for another 4 years it's does it. every autumn the hamburg ballet give the guest performance in baton bodden even after all these years he still feels nervous ahead of a premiere. this year's production is bernstein dances.

it's the same piece that launched the cooperation between the hamburg ballet and the bottom batton festival hall 20 years ago. this is fear and it's a place where you can experiment and. i want to open up the packard fly here escape because there's always time here to reconsider the works today and see them in a completely different space not mine in one and somehow i find that very inspiring and specially mentioning the. 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 victor i feel was a ballet is truly good when it doesn't just tell an old story but my story. is so and it is is that 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 into it that's mustn't happen that's the 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 built up a loyal 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 of. the hoof from the door to me this profession means constantly learning and experiencing new things and then after. when does it get dunk my love of assad and learning about it has never gone away. is. not. a love that's plain to see and his home. is this is a place of tranquility i thought they would concentrate here very well so you could concentrate on. an entire floor is given over to new gen skis drawings and sketches . vicinity and we don't know exactly how many the raw but we have the largest

existing collection 98 of the sketches skits in. the collection belongs to the foundation john neumeier which brings together his collections that portray the history of ballet through art and words. design no east for me the collection isn't about value rather it's important for my work via it is for might have items to case one. is it one pieces together mosaic stones. owns the place that one will keep going forward take it this man needs to the one can't go back escaped and i know and it's a way to build on the past and on fun definite height. paris. is premiering in the county.

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. it's marble staircases and lavish decor demand a costly upkeep. legendary dancers of 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 admires. bagus 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 hand and the specific i feel very honored to be in such a place i want to contribute to this venerable company as was i at 1st to a decent tide she owns i could see one of the companies i've worked with most often

is the dame is i need the company in me to me she's a fast i'm bison gal by to top. 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. lot 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.

for. 40 years after it 1st premiered the tragedy has lost none of its power to move the audience. up because for the paris after a ballet and john i am. backstage he can graduates the company. you. have this valley it is your valley so please. take care let it grow let 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 this survey 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 plan i don't care if you fall down but eat because you have a fantastic technique so it's nepal blame it on the news isn't equipment here is about all of them is to is to project this this incredible pain inside it that you have this is a gift educate young about this year. thank you we thank you very much thank you was a great. new meyer's life is a whirlwind of premieres revivals and rehearsals his calendar is packed with engagements. today he's presenting his latest piece all feel billy deeds to the press ahead of its premiere in hamburg it's a co-production with us operas for no mire 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 is sagging escape in every stick of the shot say it's heading in the right direction for send a submission chicago bear in mind i did this in chicago after a 2 weeks of russell's out of 4 on 4 but set down her l.a. after 3 weeks of rehearsals but psychoanalysed 5 weeks here and yet smitty that was fun for her here so i'd say it's coming along. in hamburg a new mayor 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. was the norm meyers concept this time is that orpheus is a choreographer and your idiocy 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. feynman and a professor in 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 botton dollars after all you're a master of your craft and my store that by my niece and my stuff but i don't feel that's what i am at all mr skinner and meister to sign when i start choreographing i don't know how i'll do what i do i see.

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 in my hands his vision and he's confident in his pursuit of us.

and yet i still think 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 that teacher should be 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 it's down to us to go to the. just small fish ever get me and her husband your hopes for more than 50 years they've been fishing in the aegean sea the sea is their life but now there aren't many fish left. 5 kenyans the fish 3 your education and that's 15 year is it

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