Angelin Preljocaj (; born 19 January 1957) is a French dancer and choreographer of
contemporary dance.
Early life
Angelin Preljocaj was born in 1957 in
Sucy-en-Brie
Sucy-en-Brie (, literally ''Sucy in Brie'') is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris.
Population
Transport
Sucy-en-Brie is served by Sucy–Bonneuil station on Paris RER line A.
Educ ...
,
France
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. He is of
Albanian descent.
Career
His choreographic work is steeped in his writing of the history of classical ballet, but is resolutely contemporary. He joined the repertoire of the
Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris
The Paris Opera Ballet () is a French ballet company that is an integral part of the Paris Opera. It is the oldest national ballet company, and many European and international ballet companies can trace their origins to it. It is still regarded a ...
in the early 1990s. In 1995, he received the
Prix Benois de la Danse The Benois de la Danse is a ballet competition held annually in Moscow. Founded by the International Dance Association in 1991, it takes place each year on or around April 29 and it's judged by a jury. The members of this jury change every year and ...
as choreographer.
In December 1984 he founded the ballet company that in 1996 that was subsequently rename
Ballet Preljocajwhen it moved into its current home of residence at
Pavillon Noir of
Aix-en-Provence.
Main choreographies
* 1984 : ''Aventures coloniales''
* 1984 : ''Marché noir''
* 1985 : ''Larmes blanches''
* 1985 : ''Peurs bleues''
* 1986 : ''À nos héros''
* 1987 : ''Le Petit Napperon bouge''
* 1987 : ''Hallali Romée''
* 1988 : ''Liqueurs de chair''
* 1988 : ''Les raboteurs'' after
painting
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by Caillebotte
* 1989 : ''Noces'' (répertoire)
* 1989 : ''Un trait d'union''
* 1990 : ''Amer America''
* 1990 : ''
Romeo and Juliet''
* 1992 : ''La Peau du Monde''
* 1993 : ''
Parade'' (répertoire)
* 1993 : ''Noces'' (new version)
* 1993 : ''
Le Spectre de la Rose'' (répertoire)
* 1994 : ''Le Parc'' (répertoire) for the
Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris
The Paris Opera Ballet () is a French ballet company that is an integral part of the Paris Opera. It is the oldest national ballet company, and many European and international ballet companies can trace their origins to it. It is still regarded a ...
* 1995 : ''Annonciation'' (
Bessie Award
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in 1997)
* 1995 : ''Petit Essai sur le temps qui passe''
* 1995 : ''L'Anoure'' (répertoire)
* 1996 : ''
The Firebird
''The Firebird'' (french: L'Oiseau de feu, link=no; russian: Жар-птица, Zhar-ptitsa, link=no) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1910 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev' ...
'' (répertoire)
* 1996 : ''
Romeo and Juliet'' (new version) in collaboration with
Enki Bilal
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Biography Early life
Bilal was born in Belgrade, PR Serbia, Yugoslavia, to a Czech mother, Ana, who came to Belgrade as child from ...
* 1996 : ''L'Annonciation'' (répertoire)
* 1997 : ''La Stravaganza''
* 1997 : ''Paysages après la bataille''
* 1998 : ''Centaures''
* 1998 : ''Casanova'' (répertoire)
* 1999 : ''Personne n'épouse les méduses''
* 2000 : ''Portraits in Corpore''
* 2000 : ''MC/14-22 (Ceci est mon corps)''
* 2001 : ''
The Rite of Spring
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, composer = Igor Stravinsky
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''
* 2001 : ''Helikopter'' on a composition by
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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* 2002 : ''Near Life Experience''
* 2003 : ''L'Annonciation'' (video version)
* 2004 : ''MC/14-22'' (new version, répertoire)
* 2004 : ''Le Songe de Médée'' (répertoire)
* 2004 : ''Empty Moves (part I)'' on a music by
John Cage
* 2004 : ''N'' (répertoire) with
Kurt Hentschläger (Image, light & stage design) and
Ulf Langheinrich (music and sound design)
* 2005 : ''Les 4 saisons...'' in collaboration with
Fabrice Hyber (répertoire)
* 2007 : ''Empty Moves (Part I and II)'' (répertoire)
* 2007 : ''Eldorado (Sonntags Abschied)'' (répertoire) with a dedicated composition for the ballet by
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th-century classical music, 20th and early 21st-century ...
* 2008 : ''Blanche Neige'' (''Snow White'')
Blanche-Neige
' entry at IMDb
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. Retrieved 11 September 2010.
* 2009 : ''Le funambule''
* 2010 : ''Siddharta''
* 2010 : ''And then A Thousand Years Of Peace''
* 2011 : ''suivront mille ans de calme''
* 2012 : ''What I Call Oblivion
* 2013 : ''The Nights''
* 2015 : ''Return to Berratham''
* 2016 : ''The Painting on The Wall''
* 2017 : ''Still Life''
* 2018 : ''Gravity''
* 2019 : ''Winterreise''
* 2020 : ''Swan Lake''
* 2021 : ''Deleuze / Hendrix''
* 2022 : ''Mythologies''
Filmography
* 2016 : ''
Polina
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Other uses
* Pojan, Fier, a town in Abania near Ancient Illyrian Apollonia also called Polina.
* Polina (given name)
Polina is a Greek (ΠωλίΠ...
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References
External links
Official site of Ballet Preljocaj
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1957 births
Living people
People from Sucy-en-Brie
People from Aix-en-Provence
French male dancers
French choreographers
French film directors
French people of Albanian descent
Prix Benois de la Danse winners
Bessie Award winners
Albanian Roman Catholics
Contemporary dancers