SCAPINO BALLET ROTTERDAM - Key Persons
After his training in Sao Paulo, the Brazilian Alessandro Pereira danced with the Lina Pentiado Dance Company and with the Bahia Ballet at the Ballet do Teatro CastroAlves. In 2002, he moved to Austria to dance as a soloist with Tanz Graz. A year later he danced with the Ballettheater Munich in productions by choreographers such as Carolyn Carson, Jiri Kylián and Richard Alston.
In 2006 Alessandro Pereira received the Bayerischen Kunstförderpreis for his work as a dancer. From 2003 to 2007 his choreographies were presented in the programme for young choreographers of the Gärtnerplatz theatre in Munich.
In 2007, he created Crossing Silience for the New Danish Dance Theater in Copenhagen. With it he won in 2009 the Internationale Choreographen Concours Hannover and the Scapino Production Prize. Winners of this prize, instituted by artistic director Ed Wubbe, are given the opportunity to make a piece for the TWOOLS series at Scapino. He then made Absent for Tanz Theater Braunschweig. And in 2010 Unintended for the New Danish Dance Theater in Copenhagen, where he is still connected as a dancer today.
As winner of the Scapino Production Prize, in 2010 he worked with Ed Wubbe, Hans Tuerlings, Lucas Jervies and Loïc Perela on TWOOLS at the Opera.
In 2011 he created And I For You for the Danish Dance Theater.
Amanda Miller (USA, 1961) grew up in North Carolina and studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts. She trained in ballet in New York and later joined the Chicago Lyrical Opera Ballet. From 1980 to 1982, she danced with the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
In 1984, Miller joined the Ballett Frankfurt at the invitation of William Forsythe, initially working as a dancer and two years later being appointed as the regular choreographer.
In 1992, she left Frankfurt to found the Pretty Ugly Dance Company as artistic director. Miller toured extensively with her company and gave performances in both Europe and the United States. In 1994, her dance production Night by Itself won the award for Best Choreography and her company won the award for Best Ensemble at the Rencontres Chorégraphiques de Bagnolet.
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- the Argentinian Choreographer and Dancer Armando Navarro ( 1941 - 2013 ) Was Connected to Scapino Ballet Rotterdam for Thirty Years - 21 Years of Which As Creative Director
Navarro was born in Buenos Aires and trained by Gema Castillo. He started his career in 1947 as ballet dancer at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, the National Ballet of Cuba. After that, he danced at the Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas in Monte Carlo, where he met dancer Marian Sarstädt. He married her in 1961. When she was hired by the Nederlands Dans Theater, the couple moved to the Netherlands. Soon Navarro got in touch with Scapino, where he was hired in 1963 as ballet master. Claire du Lune was the first performance Navarro choreographed for Scapino. In addition to his role as choreographer, he often danced various major parts in the dance performances.
In 1970 Navarro succeeded Hans Snoek as Creative Director. Under her management great classic ballets such as The Nutcracker Ballet (De Notekraker), Coppélia and Cinderella (Assepoester) were adapted and these shows had become more accessible to a younger audience. Scapino was able to further professionalize thanks to Navarro's high standards and the fact that he required a lot from dancers, teachers and guest teachers.
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- Assistent Light & Stage Manager
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- Artistic Director / Choreographer
Ed Wubbe: "With our productions we want to touch the audience and show them the magic, power and beauty of dance. We're constantly looking for authenticity, something you can believe in. We make dance on the cutting edge. Exhilarating dance by passionate artists and virtuoso dancers with something to say."
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- Manager / Assistant to the Artistic Director
Serge van Veggel is one of the founders of OPERA2DAY.
In recent years, as artistic director, scenarist and director, he developed a series of performances of a very diverse nature there. In doing so, he often adopts a conceptual approach, creating new works from existing repertoire. This applied, for example, to La troupe d'Orphée around repertoire by Charpentier, Dolhuys Kermis with baroque lamenti, Dr. Miracles last illusion with (late) romantic repertoire, Vivaldi - Dangerous Liaisons and J.S. Bach - The Apocalypse with baroque repertoire, and Opera Melancholica, with music by Philip Glass.
As a director, Van Veggel has a penchant for combining opera with other genres such as text theater, dance, film, puppetry or illusionism, and playing opera at unusual locations. In addition to new creations, he has directed titles from the repertoire such as The Fairy Queen, La Giuditta (Alessandro Scarlatti), Médée (Cherubini), Hamlet (Thomas) and Carmina Burana (Orff), usually with though innovative conceptual approaches. He created screenplay and libretti for Mariken in de tuin der lusten, with music by Calliope Tsoupaki .
He also made music-theater performances and staged recitals both within OPERA2DAY and outside.