Marcia Haydée Salaverry Pereira da Silva (born 18 April 1937) is a Brazilian ballet dancer, choreographer and ballet director. She was

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of the Stuttgart Ballet under

John Cranko John Cyril Cranko (15 August 1927 – 26 June 1973) was a South African ballet dancer and choreographer with the Royal Ballet and the Stuttgart Ballet. Life and career Early life Cranko was born in Rustenburg in the former province of Transv ...

and succeeded him as the company's director, serving from 1976 to 1995. She has been director of the Santiago Ballet since 1992.

Career

Born in Niterói, Haydèe studied with several masters, joined the

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in London and then the

Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas Jorge Cuevas Bartholín, known as George de Cuevas (1885 – 22 February 1961), was a Chilean-born ballet impresario and choreographer who was best known for the Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas that he formed in 1944. Life and career Cueva ...

(

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) in 1957. She entered the Stuttgart Ballet in 1961, where she was named the ''

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'' the following year. With

, she created roles in full-length ballets, such as Juliet in '' Romeo and Juliet'' (1962), Tatiana in '' Onegin'' and Kate in ''

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''. She said: A frequent dance partner in Stuttgart was for 30 years Richard Cragun, beginning with ''Romeo and Juliet''. Her performance as Kate received a review in ''

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'':

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created for her parts in Stuttgart in '' Las Hermanas'', based on Lorca's ''

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'' in 1963, '' The Song of the Earth'' with Mahler's music ''

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'' in 1965, and '' Requiem'' after Fauré's Requiem in 1976.

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created for her roles such as the

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with music by Frédéric Chopin premiered in 1978, and Blanche in ''A Streetcar Named Desire''. Maurice Bejart created roles for her in the full-length production ''Wien, Wien, nur du allein'', in ''Divine'', a ballet about Greta Garbo, in ''Isadora'' (1976) and ''Gaiete Parisienne'', among others, shown both in Stuttgart as with his company in Brussels. After Cranko's death, Haydée was from 1976 to 1995, director of the Stuttgart Ballet. She has also been the director of the Santiago Ballet, the ballet of the

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in Chile, from 1992 to 1996, and again from 2003. Haydée appeared in several films, documentations of her work as well as filmed ballet. She appeared in the dance film ''Die Kameliendame'', directed by

and produced by the NDR in 1986–87. She took part in the film ''Golgotha'', filmed in Germany and Bulgaria from 1992 to 1994, directed by Mikhail Pandoursky. She played in the 2000–02 German literary film ', directed by Ralf Schmerberg. Jean Christophe Blavier, her partner in ballet for many years, produced in 2006 a documentary

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''M. for Marcia. Marcia Haydée – die Tanzlegende des 20. Jahrhunderts.'' ( ... the dance legend of the 20th century). He produced the documentary ''Marcia Haydée – Das Schönste kommt noch!'' (The best is still to come!) in 2007, first broadcast by

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on 15 December 2007. She published ''John Cranko'' (with an introduction by Walter Erich Schäfer) in 1973 and ''Mein Leben für den Tanz'' (My life for the dance) in 1996.

Awards

In 1989, Haydée was awarded the

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, in 2003 the Nijinsky Award. She received the Orden al Mérito Cultural of Brazil in 2004. The State of

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honoured her with the Staufer Medal in 2007. Stuttgart made her an honorary citizen, she is an honorary professor of the University of Stuttgart and the

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. She was awarded Germany's Order of Merit (Großes Verdienstkreuz mit Stern) in March 2009. In 2019, she received the Life Time Achievement Award from the Prix de Lausanne.

Literature

* Cornelia Stilling-Andreoli: ''Marcia Haydée – Divine.'' Fotografien von Gundel Kilian, Henschel-Verlag, Berlin 2005, 216 pp. * Felipe J. Alcoceba und Brigitte Schneider: ''Dance & dancers Stuttgart Ballet''. Edition Braus, Heidelberg 1997 Catalogue of an exhibition at the Württembergische Landesbibliothek in collaboration with the Stuttgarter Ballett for the Stuttgart Ballet Festival: ''Hommage à John Cranko'' and the project ''TanzRegion'' of the cultural region Stuttgart 1997), *

Maurice Béjart Maurice Béjart (; 1 January 1927 – 22 November 2007) was a French-born dancer, choreographer and opera director who ran the Béjart Ballet Lausanne in Switzerland. He developed a popular expressionistic form of modern ballet, talking vast th ...

und Rainer Woihsyk (ed): ''Marcia Haydée.'' Belser, Stuttgart, Zürich 1987, 136 p., * Hannes Kilian: ''Stuttgarter Ballett. Auf neuen Wegen.'' Kunstverlag Weingarten, Weingarten 1981, 271 pp. * Hannes Kilian, Heinz-Ludwig Schneiders,

Horst Koegler Horst Koegler (22 March 1927 – 11 May 2012) was a German dance critic, journalist and writer. He was the editor and author of books on the ballet scene in Germany, as well as the author of essays in journals and introductions to illustrated book ...

, John Percival: ''Marcia Haydee. Porträt einer großen Tänzerin.'' Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1975,

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