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Ballett Theater Basel 21/22 Director: Richard Wherlock
The Ballett Theater Basel
The Ballett Theater Basel is a dynamic, polyvalent and multi-
cultural ensemble in the International class, one of the
leading contemporary dance groups in Europe. The members
of the Company have thoroughly mastered the vocabulary of
both classical ballet and contemporary dance, combining the
highest standards of dance with virtuoso dynamism and
inspired expressiveness. The ensemble has an outstanding
command of both narrative and abstract ballet. There are
plenty of contemporary Choreographers working with the
Company – Jiri Kylian, Nacho Duato, Ohad Naharin, Alexander
Ekman, Johan Inger, Ed Wubbe, Stijn Celis, Hofesh Shechter,
Sharon Eyal – to name only a few of them, and of course
the outstanding choreographic OEvre of the Director of the
Ballett Theater Basel, Richard Wherlock.
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Our Productions
21/22
Cow Empty Thrones La Fille mal Gardée TERRitORy
20. August 2021 (new creation) (new creation) (new creation)
Choreography by Alexander Ekman 16. September 2021 6. November 2021 26.02.2022
Music: Mikael Karlsson Choreography by Richard Wherlock Choreography by Choreography by
Jeroen Verbruggen Muhammed Kaltuk
90 minutes, 25 dancers Music: Max Zachrisson
Music: Louis Ferdinand Hérold, Music: Tobias Herzog
80 minutes, 12 dancers arrangement by John Lanchberry
Bliss 30 minutes, 10 dancers
→ available for touring 90 minutes, 30 dancers
24. August 2021 → available for touring
Choreography by Johan Inger Gloria Snow White
Titan
Music: Keith Jarrett 6./7./8. October 2021 16. December 2021
in Winterthur (new creation)
30 minutes, 14 dancers Choreography by Richard Wherlock
Choreography by Richard Wherlock 26.02.2022
→ available for touring and eight members of the Company: Music: Dmitri Schostakowitsch
J. García Pérez, D. Maiques Marin, Choreography by Edouard Hue
S. Pechtl, F. F. Pedersen, 105 minutes, 30 dancers
5 Duos A. Ramiandrisoa, J. Rodríguez Music: Jonathan Soucasse
Cobos, R. Scott, A. Tortosa Vidal
24. August 2021 Snow White / 30 minutes, 10 dancers
Music: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi,
Choreographies by Bryan Arias, Antonio Vivaldi Schneewittchen → available for touring
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, 90 minutes, 30 dancers (for young audience with workshop)
Alexander Ekman, Ed Wubbe,
Richard Wherlock → available for touring 22.11.2021 Salt Womb
Music: F. Chopin, H. Purcell, Choreography by Richard Wherlock 20.03.2022
E. Morente, E. Piaf, J. Haydn
Music: Dmitri Schostakowitsch Choreogrpahy by Sharon Eyal
30 minutes, 10 dancers and Gai Behar
→ available for touring 30 minutes, 11 dancers Music: Ori Lichtik
30 minutes workshop 30 minutes, 11 dancers
→ available for touring → available for touring
Our Productions 21/22 6 Our Productions 21/22 7
Our Touring Dates
21/22
Forest Fires Theater Winterthur Kurtheater Baden
(new creation) 6./7./8. October 2021 6. April 2022
Premiere: 20.03.2022 Gloria Bliss
by Richard Wherlock, J. García by Johan Inger
Choreography by Marcos Morau Pérez, D. Maiques Marin, S. Pechtl,
F. Pedersen, A. Ramiandrisoa, Salt Womb
Music: Nick Cage J. Rodríguez Cobos, R. Scott, by Sharon Eyal
A. Tortosa Vidal
40 minutes, 15 dancers
→ available for touring La Filature Théâtre Le Granit
Mulhouse (F) Belfort (F)
Heidi 29. January 2022 19. May 2022
(new creation) Ballets européens au XXIe siècle Heidi
6. May 2022 by Richard Wherlock
Bliss
Choreography by Richard Wherlock by Johan Inger
Music: Tino Marthaler, Alain Pauli
Theater Casino Zug
105 minutes, 30 dancers
23. March 2022
→ available for touring
Bliss
by Johan Inger
Salt Womb
by Sharon Eyal
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Richard Wherlock –
The Gentle Innovator of
Ballet in Basel
Richard Wherlock has rewritten the history of Ballet-
Company in Basel. Over 20 years of unrelenting hard work,
the ambitious and highly productive head of ballet has
assembled a company of the greatest technical skill, which is
up there with the best in the world in both neoclassical
dance and contemporary dance techniques and is frequently
compared with famous international companies. For years,
Wherlock has pursued the concept of a blend of small-scale,
contemporary pieces, which are abstract in the broadest sense
and play with associative images, and modern, full-length
narrative ballets which tell stories, paint characters or interpret
literary works in dance.
Richard Wherlock could be described as a gentle innovator:
building on the legacy of the Classic and modern vocabulary,
he choreographs contemporary dance that is brimming
with energy and brings it to the stage in traditional story-telling
form, as full-length narrative ballets. His choreographies are a
mix of effervescent, athletic tension and playful virtuosity.
Today, the company comprises around 30 male and female
dancers and is hugely popular with audiences in Basel.
Particularly successful are his adaptations of the great classics,
such as A Swan Lake, Traviata-Ein Ballett, Carmen, Giselle,
Eugen Onegin, his enchanting fairy tale ballet Snow
White or his outstanding Tewje and other full-length narrative
ballets, which Wherlock has reinterpreted in his own,
incomparable way.
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Biography produced by the Swiss broadcasting company DRS,
RM Associates and 3SAT. His most recent film success ‹One
bullet left› – also produced by Swiss broadcasting company
DRS – was awarded the Golden Rose of Montreux in 2003.
In 1999 he was nominated for the international dance award
‹Benois de la Danse›. In 2003 he created the choreography
Born in Bristol (GB). After studying at London’s prestigious for the musical ‹West Side Story›, which was performed on the
Ballet Rambert School, he joined their company as a dancer. Seebühne in Bregenz.
Wherlock was Ballet Director at Hagen Theatre in Germany He was co-founder of SiWiC, a Swiss international advanced
from 1991 to 1996, then spending three seasons as director training course in choreography from 1997 to 2011,
of the Lucerne Ballet before moving to Komische Oper and Richard Wherlock‘s choreographies are regularly danced
Berlin as artistic director and choreographer of BerlinBallett. by participants in the prestigious Prix de Lausanne. In 2021
He has been director and head choreographer of Ballett he was President of the Jury of the Prix de Lausanne.
Basel since the 2001/2002 season, and artistic director of He is also vice-president of the theater Granit in Belfort.
the renowned festival ‹basel tanzt› from 2004 to 2009. Wherlock’s particular interest lies in supporting talented
He worked as choreographer with, among others, the following up-and-coming dancers and choreographers. He serves on
companies: New English Contemporary Ballet, Tanzforum Köln, the juries of numerous international dance and choreographic
Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, Finnish Dance Theatre Helsinki, competitions. The city of Basel has dedicated a plaque to
Ballett Staatstheater Braunschweig, Romanian National Ballet, Wherlock on the Spalenberg ‹walk of fame›, where he appears
The Icelandic Ballet, Ballet National de Nancy et de Lorraine, alongside other Basel personalities such as Roger Federer,
Ballet National de Marseille, Ballet de l’Opéra de Nice, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron.
aalto ballett theater essen, Europa Danse (UNESCO),
Ballett der Deutschen Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, Singapore
Dance Theatre, Ballett der Vereinigten Bühnen Graz, «Our art is … holding on and letting go, precision and dis-
Introdans in Arnheim / Holland, Ballett des Badischen Staats- organization. Dizzyingly fast, achingly slow, and everything in
theaters Karlsruhe, Phoenix Dance Theatre Leeds and between. Back, up, forth and down. Immeasurable. …
Ballet Contemporaneo del Teatro San Martín / Argentina. I just love it.» Richard Wherlock
Wherlock also created a full-length ballet for Les Étoiles
de l’Opéra National de Paris. At the International Music Festival
in Lucerne he developed choreographies for operas by
Monteverdi and Debussy.
His film and TV work includes the choreography for Claude
Lelouch’s cinema production «Hasards ou Coïncidences»,
presented in 1998 at the Venice Biennale and at the Montréal
and Chicago festivals. In 2000, Wherlock received the
Prix Italia for the award-winning dance film ‹Passengers›,
Richard Wherlock 16 Biography 17
Repertoire of Richard Wherlock
2002 2006 2013 2021
Le sacre du printemps / Verdi Code Snow White Empty Thrones
Sidewinding
2008 2014 2022
2003
A Swan Lake Juditha Triumphans Heidi
Rebus
2009 2015
2003
Casanova … was bleibt Tewje
Prelude à l’après-midi
d’un faune 2010 2016
2004 Carmen Robin Hood
Der Tod und das 2011 2018
Mädchen
Le spectre de la Rose / Tod in Venedig
2004 La Valse
2018
Nussknacker 2012
Don’t Tell the Kids
2006 Stoned
2019
James oder la Sylphide 2013
The Comedy of Error(Z)
2006 Eugen Onegin
2020
Danses Galantes
Gloria
Repertoire 18 Repertoire 1920 21
Guestchoreographers of the Ballett Theater Basel Bryan Arias Jorma Elo Blanca Li Rami Beer Alexander Ekman Hans van Manen Mauro Bigonzetti Sharon Eyal Marcos Morau Christopher Bruce William Forsythe Ohad Naharin Claude Brumachon Johan Inger Thomas Noone Joelle Bouvier Itzik Galili Angelin Preljocaj Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Edouard Hue Jiří Pokorný Stijn Celis Cathy Marston Hofesh Shechter Patrick Delcroix Muhammed Kaltuk Nacho Duato Jirí Kylián Guestchoreographers 22 Guestchoreographers 23
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Ensemble Lydia Caruso Mikaela Kelly
Italy USA / Estonia
Training: Rosella Hightower, Cannes Training: The Juilliard School,
New York
Previous companies: Compania
de Danza La Mov, Ballet du Grand Previous company: Nederlands
Théatre de Genève, Rudra Béjart Dans Theater 2
Giacomo Altovino Eva Blunno Lausanne
Italy Italy Aleix Labara Cerver
Training: Hamburg Ballet School Training: Codarts Dance Academy, Dayne Florence
(Germany), Dietro le quinte (Italy) Rotterdam Spain
Australia
Previous companies: NRW Junior- Previous companies: Training: Real Conservatorio
ballett Dortmund, Ballett Dortmund Scapino Ballett Rotterdam Training: Mcdonald College of Profesional de Danza Mariemma,
Performing Art, Ballettschule Madrid
Theater Basel
Previous company:
Rubén Bañol Herrera Elias Boersma Previous companies: Ballet du Rhin IT Dansa, Barcelona
Mulhouse, Juniorballett Dortmund,
Colombia Netherlands Ballett Nürnberg
raining: Incolballet (Colombia),
T Training: Royal Ballet Conservatory, Debora Maiques Marin
Real Consérvatorio Profesional de The Hague Lisa Horten-Skilbrei Spain
Danza de Madrid
Previous companies: Norway Training: Elise Lummis-School
Previous companies: Compañía Scapino Ballet Rotterdam
colombiana de ballet, Europadanse, Training: Oslo National Academy Previous companies:
Compañía Nacional de Danza 2, of The Arts (KHiO), Hubbard Street Compañía Nacional de Danza
Ballet de la Generalitat Valenciana, Mirko Campigotto Dance Chicago, Scholarships España 2, Ballet Carmen Roche,
Elephant in the Black Box at Batsheva Dance Company and Centro Coreografico de Valencia
Italy Nederlands Dans Theater
Diego Benito Gutierrez Training: Achillea in Rivarolo C.se., Thomas Martino
Kaos Balletto di Firenze, Kelly Keesing
Spain Codarts Rotterdam Italy
Training: Real Conservatorio Pro- Previous companies: Kaos Balletto Australia / Ireland
fesional de Danza de Madrid di Firenze, Introdans, Saaländisches Training: La Chance Ballet
Staastheater Saarbrücken Training: Palucca Hochschule Academy, Rome
Previous companies: Ballett du für Tanz, Dresden
Grand Theatre de Geneve, Nafas Previous companies:
Dance Company, Introdans Previous company: Ballet National Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz,
de Marseille, Konzert Theater Bern Munich
Ensemble 26 Ensemble 27Gaia Mentoglio Stefanie Pechtl Tana Rosás Suñé Giuliana Sollami
Italy Austria Spain Italy
Training: Art Garage Napoli, Training: Ballettschule der Wiener Training: Training: Codarts, Rotterdam
Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Staatsoper, Dance Academy Instituto del Teatro Barcelona,
Dresden Monte Carlo Koninklijk Conservatorium, Previous company: Apprentice at
Den Haag Tanz Luzerner Theater
Previous companies: Wiener Staats-
Kazuki Mitsuhashi ballett, Györi Ballett Hungary, Previous company:
Landestheater Linz, Staatstheater IT Dansa Barcelona Andrea Tortosa Vidal
Japan Nürnberg
Spain
Scholarship holder Marina Sanchez Garrigós
Frank Fannar Pedersen Training:
Training: Spain Estudio de danza Maria de Avilar;
Ballettschule Theater Basel Iceland Nederlands Danse Theater II
Training: Institut del Teatre
Training: Iceland Ballett School (Barcelona), Central School of Previous company:
Matias Moura Reykjavik, Ballettschule der Ballet (London) Ballett Basel, Aterballetto
Finnischen Nationaloper (Helsinki)
Portugal Previous companies:
Previous companies: New English Contemporary Ballet, Max Zachrisson
Training: Codarts, Rotterdam Iceland Dance Company, IT Dansa Nürnberg Ballett
Barcelona, Ballett des Staats Sweden
Previous company: Apprentice at theaters Wiesbaden
Scapino Ballet, Rotterdam Celia Sandoya Training:
Royal Swedish Ballet School
Anthony Ramiandrisoa Spain
Francisco Patricio Previous company:
France Training: Ballett Dortmund, Schleswig-
Portugal John Cranko Ballettschule, Holsteinisches Landestheater,
Training: Conservatoire de Lyon Stuttgart Nürnberg Ballett
Training: Ballettschule Theater Previous company: Previous companies:
Basel, Dance Academy Marseille Junior Ballet Lyon IT Dansa, Barcelona
Previous companies: Ballet National
Marseille Junior Company
Javier Rodriguez Cobos Rachelle Scott
Spain USA / France
Training: Real Conservatorio Training:
Nacional de Danza de Madrid Juilliard School New York
Previous companies: Europa Danse, Previous companies:
Ballet des jeunes d’Europe, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
Compañía National de Danza 2, New York, Ballett Nürnberg
Ballet de l’Opéra National du Rhin,
Introdans
Ensemble 28 Ensemble 29Giacomo Altovino Rubén Bañol Herrera Elias Boersma Mirko Campigotto Diego Benito Gutierrez Eva Blunno 30 Lydia Caruso Dayne Florence 31
Lisa Horten-Skilbrei Kelly Keesing Debora Maiques Marin Thomas Martino Mikaela Kelly Aleix Labara Cerver 32 Gaia Mentoglio Kazuki Mitsuhashi 33
Matias Moura Francisco Patricio Anthony Ramiandrisoa Javier Rodriguez Cobos Stefanie Pechtl Frank Fannar Pedersen 34 Tana Rosás Suñé Marina Sanchez Garrigós 35
Celia Sandoya Andrea Tortosa Vidal Max Zachrisson Giuliana Sollami Rachelle Scott 36 37
Team
Cristiana Sciabordi Florent Mollet
Italy France
Ballet Mistress, rehearsal director Administration, Project and
Production Management
Manuel Renard
Francesca Genovese
France
Switzerland / Italy
Ballet Master, rehearsal director
Educational outreach
Tommaso Pennacchio
Bettina Fischer
Italy Cristiana Sciabordi Tommaso Pennacchio
Switzerland / Germany
Physiotherapist
Dramaturg
Anne-Catherine Thomas
France
Deputy Ballet Director,
Head of Administration,
project and production
management.
Team 38 Manuel Renard Anne-Catherine Thomas 39Florent Mollet Bettina Fischer Francesca Genovese 40 41
Ballett Theater Basel
On Tour
ISRAEL ITALY
Opera Tel Aviv Teatro Comunale, Modena
KOREA SPAIN
National Theatre of Korea Teatro Arriaga, Bilbao
Gwacheon Citizens’ Hall Teatro Albeniz, Madrid
Suwon Ballett Festival Baluarte Palacio de
Congresos, Pamplona
CHINA Teatro Principal Antzokia,
Tian Qiao Theater Beijing Vitoria
Grand Theater Tianjin Teatro Breton de Los
Kaiming Theater Suzhou Herreros, Logroño
Majestic Theater Shanghai
HUNGARY
GERMANY Erkel Theater, Budapest
Graf Zeppelin Haus Thalia Theater, Budapest
Friedrichshafen Spring Festival
Stadthalle Gütersloh
Theater im Pfalzbau SWITZERLAND
Ludwigshafen Bâtiment des forces
Stadthalle Recklinghausen motrices, Genf
Lugano Arte et Cultura LAC
FRANCE Theater Winterthur
Gare du Midi, Biarritz Kurtheater Baden
Maison de la danse, Lyon Theater Casino Zug
La Coupole, Saint-Louis Stadttheater Bern
Théâtre Le Granit, Belfort Kronenmattsaal Binningen
42 4344 45
Contact
Anne-Catherine Thomas
Ballett Theater Basel
Theater Basel, Postfach, 4010 Basel
a.thomas@theater-basel.ch
www.theater-basel.ch
Tour manager:
Stephane Hivert
stephanehivert@me.com
Ballett Theater Basel and Richard Wherlock on VIMEO:
vimeo.com/richardwherlockballet Impressum
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Inside the Ballet Theater Basel: Theater Basel
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CH-4010 Basel
Spielzeit 21/22
Intendant: Benedikt von Peter
Textnachweise: Texte von Bettina Fischer
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