ensembles: Hannover_Staatsballett Hannover

Portrait

Since the 2019/20 season until February 2023, Marco Goecke has been the artistic director and head choreographer of the Staatsballett Hannover His numerous works are danced by the world's most renowned companies and can be found in the repertoire of the Stuttgart Ballet, the Nederlands Dans Theater, the Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris, the Ballets de Monte Carlo, the Staatsballett Berlin, the Ballett Zürich as well as the Vienna Staatsballett, among others. At the Staatsballett Hannover Marco Goecke united a broad spectrum of further artistic signatures of young as well as renowned international choreographers.

History and biography

On the ensemble’s history

In the years 2001-2006 Stephan Thoss was the artistic director of the Staatsballett Hannover, in 2006 he was succeeded by Jörg Mannes. Since the 2019/20 season until February 2023, the ballet company has been under the artistic direction of Marco Goecke. Christian Blossfeld as associate ballet director, has been leading the ballet on an interim basis since February 2023. Assistant director Pia Schmiedeskamp, ballet masters and choreography assistants Takako Nishi and Ludovivo Pace, and dramaturges Esther Dreesen-Schaback and Leira Marie Leese are at his side as a team. The ensemble currently consists of 27 dancers from 17 nations.

Images

Wir sagen uns Dunkles | © Ralf Mohr

Der Liebhaber | © Ralf Mohr

Productions

2019/2020
2019/2020
Productions from the 2019/2020 season
BEGINNING (21 September 2019)
Prélude
First showing: 22/02/2014, Ballet BC, Vancouver
Choreography: Medhi Walerski
Rehearsal direction: Livona Ellis
Music (recorded): Lera Auerbach
Costume: Kate Burrows
Lighting: James Proudfoot
26 dancers
Duration: 150 min
Kosmos
First showing: 26/10/2014, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal
Choreography: Andonis Foniadakis
Rehearsal direction: Alexander Hille, Pier Loup Lacour
Music (recorded): Julien Tarride
Costume: Anastasios Sofronius
Lighting: Andonis Foniadakis, Elana Sieberski
10 dancers
Composer: Julien Tarride
Dramaturgy: Esther Dreesen- Schaback
Thin Skin
First showing: 28/01/2015, NDT, Den Haag
Choreography & Costume: Marco Goecke
Rehearsal direction: Ludovico Pace
Music (recorded): Patti Smith, Keith Jarrett
Lighting: Udo Haberland
10 dancers
NIJINSKI (13 December 2019)
Choreography: Marco Goecke
First showing: 17 June 2016, Gauthier Dance, Stuttgart
Rehearsal direction: Fabio Palombo
Musical direction: Valterri Rauhalammi
Music (live by Staatsorchester Hannover): Frédéric Chopin, Claude Debussy, Libana
Costume: Michaela Springer
Lighting: Udo Haberland
Pianist: Namin Najafli, Xiaolu Zang
28 dancers
Dramaturgy: Esther Dreesen- Schaback
Duration: 90 min
3 GENERATIONEN (22 February 2019)
Rise (UA)
Choreography: Emrecan Tanis
Choreographic assistance: Takako Nishi, Ludovico Pace
Music (recorded): Philip Glass, Nese Karabocek
Composition: Mehmet Sadik Tanis
Stage and costume: Emrecan Tanis
Lighting: Susanne Reinhardt
10 dancers
Dramaturgy: Esther Dreesen- Schaback
Duration: 120 min
Concertante
First showing: 13/01/1994, NDT, Den Haag
Choreography: Hans van Manen
Rehearsal direction: Ken Ossola
Music (recorded): Frank Martin
Stage and costume: Keso Dekker
Lighting: Joop Caboot
8 dancers
Kiss a Crow (UA)
Choreography, stage and costume: Marco Goecke
Choreographic assistance: Takako Nishi, Ludovico Pace
Music (recorded): Kate Bush
Lighting: Udo Haberland
9 dancers
ALL YOU CAN DANCE- JUNGE CHOREOGRAF*INNEN IN HERRENHAUSEN (01 July 2020)
First showing: 01/07/2020, Gartentheater Herrenhausen, Hannover
Pieces | Choreography, stage & costume | Dancers:
Push The Sky Away (UA) | Alessandra La Bella |1
I´ll Do The Talking (UA) | Francisco Baños Diaz | 5
The Waters And The Bubbles Too (UA) | Giovanni Visone | 4
On Tonights Program (UA) | Javier Ubell | 3
Antonia The Victim (UA) | Lilit Hakobyan | 2
Betweeness (UA) | Michèle Seydoux | 2
Melindrosa (UA) | Verónica Segovia Torres | 4
Whatever (UA) | Rosario Guerra | 1
Music: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Kablam, Balkan Beat Box, Randomer, Malvina Reynolds, Jaeden Camstra, Kedr Livanskiy, Tarwater, Maewen Forest, Pablo Casals and Sol Gabetta, Travis Lake
Lighting: Sasha Zauner
Dramaturgy: Esther Dreesen- Schaback
Duration: 75 min
WE´LL MEET AGAIN (03 July 2020)
First showing: 03/07/2020 Gartentheater Herrenhausen, Hannover
Choreography: Marco Goecke
Rehearsal direction: Takako Nishi, Ludovico Pace
Pieces | Music (recorded) | Dancers:
Thin Skin Suite | Patti Smith | 8
TUÉ | Barbara | 1
Äffi | Johnny Cash | 1
Kiss A Crow | Kate Bush   | 1
Nijinski: 1st Solo | Frédéric Chopin | 3
Lullaby | Libana   | 4
Cry Boy | The Cure | 1
Costume: Marco Goecke & Michaela Springer
Lighting: Sasha Zauner
Dramaturgy: Esther Dreesen- Schaback
Duration: 60 min
previous seasons
previous seasons
Productions from the 2017/2018 season
Marilyn (2018)
Choreography: Jörg Mannes, music : n. a.
30 dancers, recorded music, stage 20 x 17,50, duration ca. 130 min
Moving Lights (2018)
Choreography: Jörg Mannes, Nils Christe, music : Giovanni Sollima, John Adams
30 dancers, recorded music, stage 20 x 17,50 m, duration ca. 125 min

Daphnis-Lost Love (2017)
Choreography: Jörg Mannes, music : Maurice Ravel, Philip Glass
30 dancers, recorded music, stage 20 x 17,50 m, duration ca. 130 min

Productions from the 2016/2017 season
Henry VIII (2017)
Choreography: Jörg Mannes, music : Mark Polscher, Johann Sebastian Bach
30 dancers, Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester, stage : 20 x 17,50 m, duration ca. 136 min
Don't think twice (2017)
Choreography: David Blázquez, Georg Reischl, Yaron Shamir, music : n. a.
30 dancers, recorded music, stage : 20 x 17,50 m, duration n. a.
Schubert (2016)
Choreography: Jörg Mannes, music : Franz Schubert, Luciano Berio
30 dancers, Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester, stage : 20 x 17,50 m, duration ca. 95 min

Productions from the 2015/2016 season
"Think Big" Arists-in Residence Programme 2016 (2016)
(In cooperation with the festival Tanztheater International)
Choreography: Edan Gorlicki, Carla Cardoso Jordao, Ashley Wright, music : own composition, various
9 dancers. stage : 20 x 17,50 m, duration: 3 x 20 min
Three is a Party (2016)
Choreography: Jörg Mannes, Niels Christe, Jirji Bubenicek
music : Philip Glass, Richard Wagner, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Joseph Haydn
30 dancers, Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester, stage : 20 x 17,50 m, duration: ca. 90 min
Der Besuch (2016)
Choreography: Jörg Mannes
music : Giovanni Allevi, Craig Armstrong, Max Richter, David Wenngren i. a.
30 dancers, Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester, stage : 20 x 17,50 m, duration: ca. 90 min
New Steps (Junge Choreographen aus dem Ensemble) (2016)
Choreography: David Blázquez, Demis Moretti, Wesley D‘Alessandro, Patrick Michael Doe, Mónica García Vicente, Conal Francis-Martin
music : Alfred Schnittke, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Arvo Pärt, Edgard Varese, Daniel Bjarnson, Ben Frost i. a.
15 dancers, recorded music, stage : 11 x 10 m, duration: ca. 120 min
Was ihr Wollt (2015)
Choreography: Jörg Mannes, Segej Prokofjew, Dimitri Schostakowitsch, Antonín Dvorák
music : Segej Prokofjew, Dimitri Schostakowitsch, Antonín Dvorák
30 dancers, Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester, stage : 20 x 17,50 m, duration: ca. 90 min

Productions from the 2014/2015 season
"Think Big" Artists-in-Residence Programme 2015 (2015)
(In cooperation with the festival Tanztheater International)
Choreography: Melanie Lomoff, David Blázquez, Andrew Skeels, music : own composition, various
10 dancers, stage 17,50 x 20 m, duration: 3 mal 20 min
Paradiso (2015)
Choreography: Jörg Mannes, music : Giovanni Sollima u. a.
29 dancers, Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester, stage 17,50 x 20 m, ca. 90 min
Der Prozess (2015)
Choreography: Mauro Bigonzetti, music : Antonio Bononcini, Dietrich Buxtehude, Hnryk Górecki, Carlo Gesualdo, Tarquino Merula, Claudio Monteverdi and Modest Mussorgski,
29 dancers, recorded music, stage 17,50 x 20 m, duration n. a.
Der Kuss - Rodin und Claudel (2014)
Choreography: Jörg Mannes, music : Michael Nyman, John Adams and Sergei Rachmaninow
29 dancers, Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester, stage 17,50 x 20 m, ca. 90 min
Oliver Twist (2014)
Choreography: Mathias Brühlmann, music : Andreas Tiedemann
8 ensemble members, 80 students from IGS Linden, live music, stage 17,50 x 20 m, ca. 60 min
Wahlverwandschaften (2014)
Choreography: Jörg Mannes, music : F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, W. A. Mozart, J. S. Bach
29 ensemble members, Chor der Staatsoper, Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester, stage 17,50 x 20 m, ca. 90 min
Dornröschen (2013)
Choreography: Jörg Mannes, music : P. I. Tschaikowsky
29 dancers, Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester, stage 17,50 x 20 m, ca. 90 min
Inferno (2013)
Choreography: Jörg Mannes, music : Adriano Celentano, Ennio Morricone, Dmitri Schostakowitsch u. a.
28 dancers, recorded music, stage 17,50 x 20 m, ca. 85 min
Chaplin (2010)
Choreography: Mario Schröder, music : Charles Chaplin, Samuel Barber, John Adams, R. Wagner i. a.
24 dancers, recorded music, stage 17,50 x 20 m, ca. 90 min

Productions from the 2013/2014 season
"Think Big" Artists-in-Residence Programme 2014 (2014)
(In cooperation with the festival Tanztheater International)
Choreography: Miquel Font, Shannon Gillen, Robert Przybyl, music : own composition, various
9 dancers, recorded music, stage 17,50 x 20 m, 3 mal 20 min
Wahlverwandschaften (2014)
Choreography: Jörg Mannes, music : F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, W. A. Mozart, J. S. Bach
29 ensemble members, Chor der Staatsoper, Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester, stage 17,50 x 20 m, ca. 90 min
Dornröschen (2013)
Choreography: Jörg Mannes, music : P. I. Tschaikowsky
29 dancers, Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester, stage 17,50 x 20 m, ca.90 min
Herr der Fliegen (2013)
Choreography: Mathias Brühlmann, music : Andreas Tiedemann
8 ensemble members, 80 students from IGS Linden, live music, stage 17,50 x 20 m, ca. 60 min
"Think Big" Künstlerresidenz-Programm 2013 (2013)
(In cooperation with the festival Tanztheater International)
Choreography: Mathias Kass, Maura Morales, Shumpei Nemoto, music : own composition, various
9 dancers, recorded music, stage 17,50 x 20 m, 3 mal 20 min
Inferno (2013)
Choreography: Jörg Mannes, music : Adriano Celentano, Ennio Morricone, Dmitri Schostakowitsch i. a.
28 dancers, recorded music, stage 17,50 x 20 m, ca. 85 min
Sissi (2012)
Choreography: Jörg Mannes, music : Gustav Mahler, Arthur Honegger and J. Strauß
29 dancers, Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester, stage 17,50 x 20 m, ca. 90 min
Alice im Wanderland (2011)
Choreography: Jörg Mannes, music : Eric Satie and Antonín Dvorák
29 dancers, Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester, 17,50 x 20 m, ca. 120 min
Chaplin (2010)
Choreography: Mario Schröder, music : Charles Chaplin, Samuel Barber, John Adams, R. Wagner u. a.
24 dancers, recorded music, stage 17,50 x 20 m, ca. 90 min