Sue Jin Kang also dances the "Lady" in John Cranko's "The Lady and the Fool" in that programme. While dancing leading roles in classical and modern ballets in Stuttgart and all over the world, the character role of "Madame" offers new experiences to the ballerina. Especially preparing for speaking on stage in speech and voice coaching sessions are interesting challenges.

In the preceeding performances, former primaballerina and Artistic director Marcia Haydée dances the part of the "Madame". Sue Jin Kang will give her debut on April 14th and dance four more performances until June 30th, 2012.

(photos: Portrait Sue Jin Kang, Copyright: die arge lola; Sue Jin Kang as Lady in Cranko's The Lady and the fool, Copyright: Stuttgart Ballet)

more about Sue Jin Kang

The Noverre-Society is an association of ballet-friends that was founded in 1958 in order to support young choreographers in their development and promote a better understanding of the art form by providing them with a platform to show their first works to an audience on stage.
 
The "Young Choreographers"-programme has brought to the light the talent of famous choreographers such as John Neumeier, Jiří Kylián, William Forsythe, Uwe Scholz and - of the younger generation - Marco Goecke, Bridget Breiner, Douglas Lee and Demis Volpi.

Audiences of the young choreographers' evenings can witness tomorrow's talents as they create their first steps.

Programme and cast of this year's performances will be announced under the link below soon.

(photos: "Love your ground" by David Moore and "Hope Mountain" by Evan McKie, Copyright: Ulrich Beuttenmüller)

It’s my third time to work with the ballet of the Arena di Verona, and I really like coming here - it is a small, but good ballet company, everyone is very friendly to me, and the atmosphere in the theatre and city of Verona is very special.

With my partner Yuniesca Sanchez (la ragazza / the girl) I’ll dance five performances in the Teatro Filarmonico di Verona from April 11th  to April 16th. Yuniesca is not only a beautiful dancer, but also a well-known TV Star here in Italy, so I’d better not drop her if I don’t want to get in trouble with the audiences...

The choreographer, Mario Piazza (he’s also Canadian!), is well known for his contemporary works and for this program he created contemporary versions of two historical ballets: Pulcinella and The Miraculous Mandarin. It is exciting to work with him, he is a very interesting artist, and works very fast: We put a huge solo for me together in one day!

Now there is time for class and rehearsals. The piece is challenging, very physical, very strong! A little time is left to stroll around the city, though, and Verona is such a beautiful place.

Still I’m looking forward to coming home to Stuttgart and to spending some days at home before I pack my bags again to go on tour with the entire company – to Japan and Korea !

Take care, everyone, and Arrivederci!
Yours, Jason


(photos: Jason Reilly rehearsing "Il Mandarino meraviglioso", Courtesy of Fondazione Arena di Verona”)