Zürich Ballet
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| Name | Ballett Zürich |
| Local name | Ballet Zürich |
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Zürich Opera House Zürich, Canton of Zürich  Switzerland
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| Website | Ballet Zürich |
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| Artistic Director | Christian Spuck |
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Ballett Zürich, formerly known as Zürich Ballet, is the largest professional ballet company in Switzerland. Its principal venue is the Zürich Opera House and it regularly tours across the country. The company includes an ensemble cast of 36 dancers and 14 junior members. Christian Spuck has directed the company since 2012, assuming the role from Heinz Spoerli.
The ensemble danced in the 2012-13 season before a total of 48,061 visitors, averaging a space occupancy of 93.5%.
Ballet Zürich emerged from Zürich's now defunct "Ballet of City Theatre".
From 1978-1985 had Balanchine -Spezialistin Patricia Neary held the post of ballet director. Starting in 1985, died in 2004, took over Uwe Scholz with 26 years, the youngest director of a dance company in Europe, the management of the Zurich Ballet until 1991. Subsequently, the Zurich Ballet was up to the year 1996 by Bernd Roger Bienert out.
Heinz Spoerli, ballet director from 1996-2012, the company established among the leading European ballet formations. Guide was a neo-classical dance style of ballets like Goldberg Variations, A Midsummer Night's Dream or Peer Gynt and the great classical ballets such as Giselle or The Nutcracker. The company also presented works of other choreographers such as George Balanchine, Mats Ek, William Forsythe, Jiri Kylian, Hans von Manen or Twyla Tharp.
Since the 2012-13 season passes Christian Spuck, former choreographer of the Stuttgart Ballet, the Ballet Zürich. Under his leadership, the Company maintains the established traditions of the ensemble and sets new artistic accents. Internationally renowned choreographers such as William Forsythe, Paul Lightfoot, Sol León, Douglas Lee, Martin Schläpfer, Jiří Kylián, Wayne McGregor, Marco Goecke, and Mats Ek have already worked with the Ballet Zürich.
In 2001 the Junior Ballet was founded. Fourteen members strong, bridges the gap between young performers' formal training and their entries into professional careers. Under a no longer than two years of commitment they train together with the members of Ballet Zürich, dance with them at selected performances of the repertoire, and each season in a specially put together for her ballet with world premieres by Douglas Lee or Christian rejects.
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