strains of felix meant a zone with georgi legatees mechanical music i say matthew passion was johnno meyers 1st choreographic exploration of a sacred oratorial it premiered at the santa mission 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 the 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 damo coming performed on the occasion of his 60th birthday. under the watchful eye of the city's patron goddess imo nia 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 he that i always say it's a welcome but as i decided to carry this burden for another 4 years it's does it. e

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 u

a microcosm that includes the underworld johnno meyer is staging orpheus and you read a scene. where cliche is stick christians and 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 attends zent di di my kind of dancers are ones who give it their all even in rehearsal. 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 is 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 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