Marcia Haydée
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Portrait by Eva Zippel
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Marcia Haydée Salaverry Pereira da Silva 18 April 1937 Niterói, Brazil |
| Education | Royal Ballet School |
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Marcia Haydée Salaverry Pereira da Silva (born 18 April 1937) is a Brazilian-born ballet dancer, choreographer and ballet director. She was prima ballerina of the Stuttgart Ballet under John Cranko and succeeded him as the company's director, serving from 1976 to 1995. She has been director of the Santiago Ballet from 1992.
Born in Niterói, Haydèe studied with several masters, joined the Royal Ballet School in London and then the Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas (Monaco) in 1957. She entered the Stuttgart Ballet in 1961, where she was named the Prima ballerina the following year. With John Cranko, she created roles in full-length ballets, such as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (1962), Tatiana in Onegin and Kate in The Taming of the Shrew. She said:
I gave myself to Cranko almost like a virgin: fresh, unformed. Now dancers want to be great in their own right and for their own persona. They don't want to lend themselves as creative vehicles, or be molded by another's inspiration.
A frequent dance partner in Stuttgart was for 30 years Richard Cragun, beginning with Romeo and Juliet. Her performance as Kate received a review in The Times:
It is difficult to believe that Marcia Haydée never played comedy before. She absolutely is the Shrew. As she prepares to pounce (elbows going back, shoulders forward and knees slightly bending) the trepidation of her intended victim is understandable ... Haydée matches him in speed and brilliance, and the duet when they finally admit their love is full of incredibly difficult (but so smoothly done) Bolshoi-style lifts, throws and catches.
Kenneth MacMillan created for her parts in Stuttgart in Las Hermanas, based on Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba in 1963, The Song of the Earth with Mahler's music Das Lied von der Erde in 1965, and Requiem after Fauré's Requiem in 1976.John Neumeier created for her roles such as the Lady of the Camellias with music by Frédéric Chopin premiered in 1978, and Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire. Maurice Bejart created roles for her in the full-length production Wien, Wien, nur du allein, in Divine, a ballet about Greta Garbo, in Isadora (1976) and Gaiete Parisienne, among others, shown both in Stuttgart as with his company in Brussels.
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