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

prima ballerina A ballet dancer is a person who practices the art of classical ballet. Both females and males can practice ballet. They rely on years of extensive training and proper technique to become a part of a professional ballet company. Ballet dancers ...

of the

Stuttgart Ballet Stuttgart Ballet is a leading German ballet company. Dating back to 1609, then the court ballet of the dukes of Württemberg, the modern company was founded by John Cranko and is known for full-length narrative ballets. The company received the ...

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 to Herbert and Grace Cranko in Rustenburg in ...

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

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, Haydée studied with several masters, joined the

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in London and then the Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas (

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) in 1957. She entered the

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 ''

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'' (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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'':

Kenneth MacMillan Sir Kenneth MacMillan (11 December 192929 October 1992) was a British ballet dancer and choreographer who was artistic director of the Royal Ballet in London between 1970 and 1977, and its principal choreographer from 1977 until his death. Ea ...

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 '' Das Lied von der Erde'' in 1965, and ''

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'' after Fauré's Requiem in 1976. John Neumeier created for her roles such as the Lady of the Camellias with music by

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premiered in 1978, and Blanche in ''A Streetcar Named Desire''.

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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

. 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 John Neumeier 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 Deutscher Tanzpreis, 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

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and the

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. She was awarded Germany's

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(Großes Verdienstkreuz mit Stern) in March 2009. In 2019, she received the Life Time Achievement Award from the

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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), *

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

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