Heinz Spoerli
Heinz Spoerli ( born July 8, 1940 in Basel ) is a Swiss choreographer.
Life
Heinz Spoerli began with 17 professional ballet training. At 19 he received in Basel in a ballet by Vaslav Orlikowsky his first engagement. From 1963 to 1973, followed by engagements as a soloist in Cologne Todd Bolender, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Ballets Canadiens at the Grands in Montreal, at the Basel Theatre and the Grand Théâtre de Genève. From 1967, made his first choreographic works. The breakthrough as a choreographer succeeded Spoerli 1972 Le chemin at the Geneva Theater.
From 1973 worked as chief choreographer Heinz Spoerli and ballet director at the Basel Theatre. He created a number of new dance works and developed to an excellent international reputation as a choreographer of full-length ballets and stylish reinterpretations of classic ballets, including La Fille mal gardée, Giselle, Coppélia, Romeo and Juliet, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake and La Belle Vie. There were also contemporary ballets and pointed short forms such as Cheese, miniatures, Dead End and loops.
As a choreographer Spoerli worked among others at the Paris Opera, the Vienna State Opera, La Scala, Berlin, Hong Kong, Lisbon, Stockholm, Stuttgart and Graz. From 1991 to 1996 Spoerli assumed the position of Artistic Director at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Dusseldorf. During this period new productions, among others, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and Joseph legend and Spoerli dance version of Bach's Goldberg Variations. From 1996 to 2012, he was artistic director and choreographer of the Zurich Ballet Zurich Opera House. His successor, Christian spit.