ensembles: Hagen_balletthagen

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This 2014/15 season, the balletthagen has thirteen dancers, a training director, a choreographic assistant, a ballet répétiteur and a ballet dramaturge in its employ. The dancers are between 22 and 34 years old and come from ten different countries. Every season, the company presents at least two original ballet evenings, often in addition to one revival from last season and it performs in operettas and musicals. The balletthagen also presents various pieces produced with teenagers in schools (e.g. BallroomDance), engages in projects for people with disabilities (Closing the Gap), and features its dancers as choreographers (Tanzlabor), etc.

This 2014/15 season will include a dance festival featuring so-called “mixed-abled dance” entitled “Farben des Tanzes” (“The Colours of Dance”). Ballet chef Ricardo Fernando on his relationship to the company: “Loyalty is the foundation of our work, for me it is an attitude towards life. I have no prejudices, but I can only employ dancers who apply very high standards to their work in every way.”

History and biography

On the ensemble’s history

The world premiere of “Der Schrank der Georgi” (a TANZFONDS ERBE-Project), which premiered at the end of the 2013/14 season, was a homage to ballet director and dancer Yvonne Georgi, who introduced the sustainable rotation of and interaction between classical and modern ballet to the stage over 50 years ago. For Hagen’s ballet director Ricardo Fernando, this approach to dance has always been his goal. Over the ten years in which his company consisted of 14 dancers plus a maximum of four guests, he has successfully choreographed his own versions of classical dramatic ballets such as “Giselle”, “The Nutcracker“, “Sleeping Beauty“ or “Alice in Wonderland“, and has won new audiences in Hagen for contemporary dance with his unconventional creations.

Marguerite Donlon is an innovative, contemporary choreographer and performer based in Berlin. Known for her humour and profound creativity, her work thrills an unusually broad audience. With stylistic innovation, Irish wit and the combination of different art forms, Marguerite Donlon has pushed artistic limits to secure a place in the international dance scene.

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„I believe the artistic concept for every Theater needs to be addressed specifically.
As a ballet director of a State or Stadt Theater I see it as my obligation to learn and understand the city and the region both socially and politically in an effort to create something outstanding that is unique to that place.
Creating an artistic concept for a city like Hagen naturally looks very different to an artistic concept I would create for a larger theatre in a more cosmopolitan city. ...“

Marguerite Donlon

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Productions

2019/2020
2019/2020
Productions of the 2019/2020 season
CASA AZUL
Inspired by Frida Kahlo
Ballet by Marguerite Donlon
Composition and musical arrangements by Claas Willeke
Choreography and concept: Marguerite Donlon
Stage and video: Ingo Bracke
Costumes: Markus Maas
Lighting: Ernst Schießl
Choreographic assistance and training direction: Francesco Vecchione
Premiere: 9 October 2009, Saarländisches Staatstheater, Saarbrücken
Premiere Ballet Hagen
5 October 2019, 7.30 p.m., Großes Haus, Theater Hagen
Stage dimensions 12 X 10 m
Duration: 75 minutes
14 dancers
1 guitarist and singer
SubsTanz trifft Schumacher
Dancers choreograph
Ballet Hagen and iMOVE HA
World premieres
Peter Copek: System Break
Filipa Amorim: TRInity
Alexandre Démont: YET ANOTHER LIFE TIME WORN OUT
Noemi Emanuela Martone: LITTLE P. 4.0
Sara Peña: Not for you
Marguerite Donlon, Francesco Vecchione for iMOVE HA: iPAINT
Dario Rigaglia: Fail-Able
13 dancers
iMOVE HA: 18 people
Premiere, Thursday,13.2. 2020
7.30 pm OPUS, Theatre Hagen
Stage dimensions: 8X 9 m
Duration: 100 minutes without intermission (all pieces in sequence)
SCHWANENSEE-AUFGETAUCHT
Ballet by Marguerite Donlon
Music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sam Auinger and Claas Willeke
Concept and choreography: Marguerite Donlon
Musical direction: Rodrigo Tomillo
Composition: Sam Auinger and Claas Willeke
Stage and video: Ingo Bracke
Lighting : Ernst Schiessl
Costumes: Markus Maas
Direction and artistic assistance: Francesco Vecchione
Premiere: 28 March 2009, Saarländisches Staatstheater, Saarbrücken
Premiere Ballett Hagen: 9 May 2020, Großes Haus, Theater Hagen
Stage dimensions: 12 X 10 m
Play duration: 120 minutes
previous seasons
previous seasons
Productions from the 2018/2019 season
Dido und Aeneas (2019)
Choreography: Francesco Nappa
Junge Choreografen (2019)
Move On (2018)
Choreography: Cayetano Soto, Itzik Galili, Alfonso Palencia
Dancers: 14
Duration: 2 hours

Productions from the 2017/2018 season
Dancing Souls (three-part dance evening)
Duration: 2 hours 15 min.
Dancers: 12
Soma (2011)
Choreography: Marguerite Donlon
Extremely Loose (2008)
Choreography: Alejandro Cerrudo
Luminous Heart (2018)
Choreography: Alfonso Palencia
Cindarella (2018)
Choreography: Alfonso Palencia
Dancers: 12
Tanzlabor IV (2018)
Choreography: Bobby Briscoe, Sara Peña, Alexandre Démont Noemi Martone, Gonçalo Martins da Silva, Ana Isabel Casquilho
Dancers: 12

Productions from the 2014/2015 season
Farben des Tanzes (2015)
Dancefestival of Hagen 31. Mai - 7. Juni
Dance Celebration! (2014)
Choreography: Ricardo Fernando
16 dancers, 160 min
Ballett? Rock it! (2015)
Choreography: Ricardo Fernando, James Wilton, Marguerite Donlon
14 dancers
Alice im Wunderland (2014)
Choreography: Ricardo Fernando after Lewis Carroll
14 dancers, 120 min

Productions from the 2013/2014 season
Der Schrank der Georgi (2014)
Choreography: Maria Hilchenbach, Ricardo Fernando, music: I. Strawinsky, Darius Milhaud, Gottfried von Einem
18 dancer, 1 pianist, 150 min
Terra brasilis (2014)
Choreography: Tindaro Silvano, Henrique Rodovalho, Luiz Fernando Bongiovanni
14 dancers, 110 min
Der Nussknacker (2013)
Choreography: Ricardo Fernando, music: P. I. Tschaikowsky
16 dancers, 120 min
Dance Celebration! (2013)
Choreography: Ricardo Fernando
15 dancers, 160 min