Ernst Meisner (born 27 January 1982, in
Noordoostpolder
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) is a Dutch dancer and
choreographer
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. He trained at the Nationale Ballet Academy in
Amsterdam
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and at the Royal Ballet School in
London
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.
Career
He joined the
English Royal Ballet company in 2000 dancing many solo roles including Benvolio in ''
Romeo and Juliet
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'' and works by
Forsythe,
MacMillan
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,
Ek,
Ashton
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,
Balanchine
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and
Kylian, as well as creating roles for such choreographers as
Wheeldon,
McGregor
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in Canada:
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and
Tuckett. He has also expanded his repertoire by performing such works as ''Sans Response'' by ex-NDT choreographer
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.
Meisner has toured extensively with the English Royal Ballet to the US, Japan, Russia, Australia and Europe and has performed with
Mara Galeazzi
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and Friends in galas in Kenya, South Africa and Italy.
He was a finalist in the Eurovision Grand Prix for Young Dancers in
Lyon
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, 1999. He was awarded a prize for most promising newcomer by the Alexandra Radius Fonds in the Netherlands. He produced his own show with dancers from the English Royal Ballet and the
Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet in 2005.
He has also choreographed several pieces for the Royal Ballet Workshop. His dances were also performed in New Works in the Linbury 2008 and galas in England and Italy. His duet called "What if..." was made for up and coming Royal Ballet dancers Melissa Hamilton and Sergei Polunin.
He closely works together with composer Paul Gladstone-Reid and designer Karoline Weber on many projects. He organizes children workshops and also teaches ballet. He was invited to attend Dance East's Rural Retreat for Future Dance Directors in January 2008.
His agent is the former dance
Gavin Roebuck
In 2010, Meisner joined the
Dutch National Ballet
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as ''grand sujet''. Increasingly, he is working as a choreographer. One of his choreographies is ''De Kleine Grote Kist'', developed for children aged under four (and their parents). In 2012, he choreographed ''Het Nationale Canta Ballet'', a ballet for 50 ballet dancers and 55 small cars for the disabled. Piece de resistance of that ballet was a double
pas de deux
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: first,
Dutch National Ballet
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History
The Dutch National Ballet was formed in 1961 when the Amsterdam Ballet and the Nederlands Ballet merged.
The company h ...
soloists Marisa Lopez and
Casey Herd
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performed a pas de deux; after Lopez left the stage, Herd partnered with a red
Canta, driven by Dutch writer
Karin Spaink
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.
Recently Meisner has choreographed ''and after we were'' and ''Saltarello'' for Dutch National Ballet.
In September 2018, Meisner was appointed interim artistic director for the
National Ballet Academy of Amsterdam.
References
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1982 births
Living people
Dutch male ballet dancers
Dutch choreographers
People educated at the Royal Ballet School
Dutch National Ballet dancers
People from Noordoostpolder