Flemming Flindt

Flemming Flindt (* June 30, 1936 in Copenhagen, † March 3, 2009 in Sarasota / Florida) was a Danish ballet dancer and choreographer.

Flindt studied at the schools of the Royal Danish Ballet and the Paris Opera and in 1955 eighteen principal dancer of the Royal Ballet. As a guest, he joined inter alia, with the London Festival Ballet (1955), the Ballet Rambert in Auguste Bournonville's La Sylphide (1960), the Royal Ballet in Frederick Ashton's Sylvia (1963 ) and in 1968 the Bolshoi Ballet on.

In 1961 he went to the Paris Opera on in pieces such as La Sylphide, Harald Landers Études and productions of George Balanchine. In 1963 he made ​​his debut as a choreographer with Enetime (La Leçon ), an originally designed for television ballet after Eugène Ionesco. Thirty -year old he was in 1966 the artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet. Having also in pieces of contemporary choreography as Lander, Birgit Cullberg and Roland Petit, he had already as a dancer success, he now led on with the Royal Ballet Paul Taylor's works, Jerome Robbins', Glen Tetley and Ron Fields.

As her own choreographies he brought, inter alia, The Miraculous Mandarin ( Bartók, 1967), The Triumph of Death ( Anders Koppel, 1971), The Nutcracker ( Tchaikovsky, 1971), Jeux ( Claude Debussy, 1973) and Dreamland ( Anders Koppel, 1974) on the stage. In 1978, he parted from the Royal Ballet and staged with its own troupe Peter Maxwell Davies ' Salome, in which he himself with his wife, the dancer Vivi Flindt, occurred.

From 1981 to 1989 Flindt was artistic director of Dallas Ballet, after which he worked as a freelance choreographer, often with the Cleveland Ballet. For Rudolf Nureyev in 1989, he created The coat on the short story by Nikolai Gogel and 1991 Death in Venice to Thomas Mann ( with Nureyev as Gustav Aschenbach ). In the 1990s, he reunited with the Royal Danish Ballet: In 1991, he led Caroline Matilde ( music by PM Davies) in 1998 Legs of Fire (music by Erik Norby ). With the Ballet San Jose of Silicon Valley, he led until 2004 Out of Africa, an adaptation of the eponymous book by Isak Dinesen.