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 Heinz Spoerli                                                                                                               
1991 - 1996
    The Ballet of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf – Duisburg had been under  the leadership of Erich Walter since 1964, and had promoted soloists like Joan Cadzow, Monique Janotta, Falco Kapuste, Peter Breuer and Paolo Bortoluzzi.

Paolo Bortoluzzi took over the company on Walter’s death in 1984 until 1991.

When Heinz Spoerli took the direction in 1991, he united the members of the Opera-ballet to the dancers of the Ballet company to make a large group of over 60 dancers and brought to the repertoire many of the ballets he had created in Basle. 

Peter Appel, Spoerli’s long time assistant,  became a colleague  and a close friend.  Spoerli also choreographed new ballets for the restructured company and invited choreographers of international repute.  Very fast the D.O.R. became one of the leading companies in Germany.

La Fille Mal Gardée Heinz Spoerli Nutcracker Heinz Spoerli
Transfigured Night Heinz Spoerli Swan Lake Heinz Spoerli
Blue Light p.de2 Heinz Spoerli Three Pieces H.van Manen
Joseph's Legend Heinz Spoerli Dead End Heinz Spoerli
In the Middle ... William Forsythe Giselle Heinz Spoerli
Goldberg Variations Heinz Spoerli Firebird Heinz Spoerli
Visions Fugitives         Hans van Manen Sacre Erich Walter
Violin Concerto Georges Balanchine Gras Mats Ek
Death and the Maiden Erich Walter Before Nightfall Nils Christe
Agon Georges Balanchine Fantaisies Erich Walter
Midsummernights Dream Heinz Spoerli Farben

Heinz Spoerli

Sleeping Beauty Heinz Spoerli    

At the term of his contract in 1996, Heinz Spoerli left for Zürich, and Youri Vamos, his successor, asked me to stay as ballet-master.


       
   
               
     
               

Youri Vamos                                                                                                                        
1996 - 1998
   
Wooden Prince Youri Vamos Swan Lake Heinz Spoerli
Szenen Heinz Spoerli Pulcinella Nils Christe
Miraculous Mandarin Youri Vamos Nutcracker Youri Vamos
Lucidor Youri Vamos Paganini Youri Vamos
Black Cake H.van Manen Before Nightfall Nils Christe
Three Pieces H.van Manen Carmen Mats Ek

Two years later I was offered a contract by Uwe Scholz as ballet-master in Leipzig.

During my  seven years stay in Düsseldorf I gave evening classes at die Werkstatt, Tanzhaus N.R.W. where I  had the opportunity to present on stage three of my creations: Isadora: without limits, Choice and Twins. 


Dusseldorf Dancers
(91-98)

Olga Alexandrova
Marina Antonova
Mikiko Arai
Nanou van de Cam
Victoria Becka
Sabrina Brazzo
Monica Caturegli
Sabine Caussade
Eleonora Citterio
Kerin Clifford
Claudia Creutz
Joyce Cuoco
Karine David
Sandy Delasalle
Inna Dorofeeva
Stéphanie Faranda

           

Fiona Fielding
Simone Geiger
Valérie Ghiglione
Sonia Goicoechea
Eleonora Gori
Marina Grandjean
Felicity Hader
Minako Hashimoto
Young-Soon Hue
Monique Janotta
Kendra Johnson
Sandra Kerr
Uliana Khoudoikina
Alexandra Koltun
Barbara Korge
Sherry LeBlanc
Nathalie Léger
Ilja Louwen
Catherine Loveless
Sandra Mace
Roberta Mazzoni
Jorinde Messlinger

          

Shannon Moreno
Bojana Nenadovic
Simona Noja
Alicia Olleta
Katia Pagano
Natalya Pankewitsch
Monica Puerta
Dawn Pyke
Macareña Ramos
Christiana Ruella
Nadja Saidakova
Cynthia Samchee
Roberta Scorza
Julie Selwood
Karine Seneca
Anna Simondi
Martine Smorto
Melanie Soloman
Laurence Souc
Mia Stagh
Karine Sutter
Saskia Tindle
Cécile Tuzii
Akiyo Uchida
Monica Uta
Corinne Verdeil
Liege Villanova
Anna Vita
Trinidad Vives
Natasha Waldron
Imogen Wearing
Melissa Werner
Risa Yajima
ErikoYamashiro
Eva Zamazalova

BOYS
Alexej Afanassiev
Christopher Akrill
Guy Albouy
Igor Antonov
Jukka Aromaa
Richard Adler
Detlev Alexander
Fabricio Betti
Nicholas Blanc
Emmanuel Bock
Jean-François Boisnon
Joan Boix
Sefton Clarke
Brendan Collins
Theodore Constant
Stéphane Dalle
Rafael Darder
Olivier Deguine
Ernani Dos Santos
Miroslav Fila
Stefan Friedenreich
Ulrich Germer
Axel Goerlt
Laurentiu Guinea
Yves Haënni
Michael Hartmann
Olivier Hazard
Parren Higgins
Jhane Hill
Martin Howland
Daniel Hütten
Sergei Ignatjev
Mark Jeitner
Tero Julku
Falco Kapuste
Vladimir Karakulev
Juha Kirjonen
Thomas Kolbe
Gaël Lambiotte
Serge Lavoie
Franck Legros
Cyril Lot
Olivier Lucea
Llewelyn Malan
Jevgeni Mamrenko
Philippe Mancini
Jörg Mannes
Guido Marni
Ben Martens
Istvan Martin
Peter Mason
Sébastien Mata
Michal Matys
Danilo Mazzotta
Daniel Meja
Alan Ocen
Daniel Otevrel
Jean-Jacques Pomperski
François Petit
Mile Radojcic
Morten Rasmussen
Marc Ribaud
Merlin Ries
Michael Revie
Aurélien Scannella
Yannik Sempey
Nicholas Sica
Dimitri Simkin
Jörg Simon
Spencer Solomon
Wolfgang Strzalla
Jiri Szczudlik
Daniel Thomas
Catalin Tiganasu
Julian Tonev
James-Russell Toth
Lazo Turozi
Sergei Vanaev
Robin van Zutphen
Philippe Vivenot
Marc Wenke
Niel Westmoreland
Georg Winterholler
Irek Wisniewski