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Nevertheless, a growing fascination for the multitudinous ways of expression in dance seemed to prevail. It was of breathtaking beauty. But each year, instead of hiring new dancers, cuts in subsidies obliged him to reduce the numbers of his troupe, from fifty to forty-six, and again down to forty, a fact which distressed him enormously, and involved him in lengthy arguments, disastrous for his general well-being and health, always fragile from childhood.

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___ One of his first ballets to be shown in France was set to Bruckner's Eighth Symphony, music which is slow and formal, and, one would have thought, impossible to choreograph, but he created a fascinating work, where sound actually became visible.

And he'd get that particular score out and slap the paper with his hand to demonstrate his point." ___

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___ Moutarde, who went to see over twenty ballets of Scholz in Leipzig, recalled some of them. From the very beginning of his dancing career Marcia Haydée entrusted him with a range of choreographic assignments.

Decorated cross Order of Merit (Germany); recipient Omaggio Alla Danza Dance award, Bavarian Theater awrd, 1998, German Dance award, 1999. He always gave us hope." ___

___ "I loved his ballet on America", Moutarde added, "so full of invention, and with an extraordinary choice of music; he portrayed the United States as he saw it.

At 26 he became the director of the Zürich Ballet, and directed there for the next 6 years, before returning to Germany to become director of the Leipzig Ballet, where he was also chief choreographer.

He remained in Leipzig from 1991 until his death.

Among his most famous creations are Mozart"s Great Mass, Pax Questuosa by Udo Zimmermann, Berlioz"s Symphonie fantastique, The Red and the Black by Stendhal, and much else.

He received a scholarship grant for the prestigious Balanchine School of American Ballet in New York. Dezember 1958 im hessischen Jugenheim geboren. In seiner langjährigen Karriere als Choreograph hat er sich ein Repertoire von mehr als einhundert Balletten geschaffen. He loved works by Bach, Bruckner, Mozart, Wagner, Schumann, Schubert, Stravinsky, and Bartok as much as contemporary compositions by Udo Zimmermann and Pierre Boulez.

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Uwe Scholz created more than 100 choreographic works for major companies and venues: among them were the State Opera Vienna, la Scala di Milan, the Stuttgart Ballet, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo (with Karl Lagerfeld), Jiri Kylián's Nederlands Dans Theater, the Testimonium Festival in Israel, the Dresden Semperoper, Frankfurt Theater, the National Canadian Ballet in Toronto, the National Theater in Zagreb, il Teatro Communale di Firenze, the Henze Festival Montepulciano, the National Ballet Madrid, les Ballets de Zaragoza, the Opera Stockholm, the Theatre Municipal Santiago de Chile, the Ballet Company of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, as well as the Ballett British Columbia in Vancouver.

Two principal dancers of the company, Kiyoko Kimura and Christoph Böhm, internalising the score, were at the centre of the creation, which served and added something extra to what one had heard before, giving the spectators the feeling they were actually experiencing the music for the first time. Artikel zum Thema

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