Marijn Rademaker

Marijn Rademaker was born in Nijmegen, Netherlands. He started his ballet training in Nijmegen and then went to the National Ballet Academy in Amsterdam (1991-1992). Afterwards he was trained at the Arnheim Institute for the Arts (1992-96) and completed his studies at the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag in 2000. In 1998 and 1999 Marijn Rademaker took part in a ballet competition of the “Young Dancer” foundation of Alexandra Radius and Han Ebbelaar where he won the Grace Prize in 1999.

In 2000/2001, Marijn Rademaker became a member of the Stuttgart Ballet’s Corps de ballet. At the beginning of the season 2004/05 he was promoted to Demi Soloist. At the beginning of the season 2006/07 he was supposed to be promoted to Soloist but after his highly successful debut as Armand in The Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier) in July 2006, Reid Anderson promoted him immediately to Principal Dancer after the performance.

Marco Goecke created the Solo Äffi for Marijn Rademaker, which he danced for the first time at a Gala in Arnheim. For this solo he was named “Young Dancer to watch” in the critics’ choice of the magazine ballettanz 2005. In 2008 he was named several times in the category „Outstanding Dancer“ in ballettanz, above all for his captivating performance of Jago in John Neumeier’s Othello. Just one year later he was named again twice in the category “Best Dancer”. In November 2006 he won the German Theatre Prize “Der Faust” in the category “Best Performer Dance” which has then been awarded for the first time. Only one year later he received the honorable German Dance Prize “Future” 2009. In July 2009 he was awarded the international dance prize “Premio ApuliArte”.

Marijn Rademaker joined the Stuttgart Ballet on tours all around the world. In addition to that he receives invitations to international galas and guest performances. In May 2007 John Neumeier invited him to dance the role of Armand Duval in his The Lady of the Camellias together with the Hamburg Ballet and Sue Jin Kang as Marguerite Gautier. At the 34th Nijinski-Gala in the course of the “Hamburg Ballet Days 2008” he danced excerpts as Tadzio in John Neumeiers Death in Venice together with Lloyd Riggins as Aschenbach. In the season 2008/09 he performed the title role in Heinz Spoerli's Peer Gynt as a guest with the Zurcher Ballet which has also been recorded for television and a DVD-production. In January 2011 Marijn Rademaker was guesting at Het Nationale Ballet Amsterdam where he danced in The Sleeping Beauty (Sir Peter Wright nach Marius Petipa) together with Maia Makhateli. Since the season 2011/12 he is dancing as a permanent guest with Het Nationale Ballet Amsterdam.

For the Noverre-Society’s “Young Choreographers” Marijn Rademaker created his first own choreography in May 2012: the Solo Odium? was danced by Stuttgart Ballet’s dancer Robert Robinson.

Leading Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet

• ..., la peau blanche ... (Christian Spuck): Bellegarde
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Jean Christophe Blavier): Lysander
• A Streetcar named Desire (John Neumeier): Allan Gray, Allan`s Friend
• Afternoon of a Faun (Jerome Robbins)
• Bolero (Maurice Béjart): The Melody
• Carlotta’s Portrait (Christian Spuck)
• Carmen (John Cranko, new production: Reid Anderson and Georgette Tsinguirides): Don José
• Corps (Hans van Manen)
• Dances at a Gathering (Jerome Robbins): Role in Brick, Role in Brown
  
• das siebte blau (Christian Spuck)
• Don Quijote (Maximiliano Guerra): Basilio
  
• Forgotten Land (Jiří Kylián): Couple in White
• Frank Bridge Variations (Hans van Manen)
• Fratres (John Neumeier)
• Gaîté parisienne (Maurice Béjart): Pas de deux "The Lovers", Friend
• Giselle (production: Reid Anderson, Valentina Savina): Albrecht
• Hommage á Bolshoi (John Cranko)
• Initials R.B.M.E. (John Cranko): E.
• La Sylphide (Peter Schaufuss after August Bournonville): James
• Le sacre du printemps (Glen Tetley)
• Leonce and Lena (Christian Spuck): Leonce
• melodious gimmick to keep the boys in line (Marc Spradling)
• Mono Lisa (Itzik Galili)
• My Way (Stephan Thoss)
• No More Play (Jiří Kylián)
• Onegin (John Cranko): Lenski
• Othello (John Neumeier): Jago
• Pas de deux (John Cranko)
• Pierrot lunaire (Glen Tetley): Pierrot
• Pocket Concerto (Edward Clug)
• Poème de l’extase (John Cranko): Boy in Love
• Requiem (Kenneth MacMillan): solo role in “Libera me”
• Return to a strange Land (Jiří Kylián)
• Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko): Romeo, Benvolio
• Siebte Sinfonie (Uwe Scholz): a.o. male lead
• Skew-Whiff ( Paul Lightfoot, Sol León)
• Song of my People Forest Peolpe – Sea (John Cranko): Pas de trois
• Ssss... (Edward Clug)
  
• Stravinsky Violin Concerto (George Balanchine): Toccata, Aria I, Capriccio
• Swan Lake (John Cranko): Prince Siegfried and Benno, Friend of the Prince
• The Four Temperaments (George Balanchine): Second Theme, Phlegmatic
• The Lady and the Fool (John Cranko): Host
  
• The Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier): Armand Duval
• The Sandman (Christian Spuck): Nathanael
• The Sleeping Beauty (Márcia Haydée after Marius Petipa): Prince Desiré, Prince of the North, Ali Baba, Puss-in-Boots, Cavalier
• The Song of the Earth (Kenneth MacMillan): Messenger of Death
• The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko): Lucentio
• The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude (William Forsythe)
• Theme and Variations (George Balanchine): leading part
• Two Pieces for Het (Hans van Manen)

 
Specially created Roles

• Äffi (Marco Goecke)
• Avatar (Matjash Mrozewski)
• Das Fräulein von S. (Christian Spuck): René Cardillac, goldsmith
  
• Double Bass Concerto (Bridget Breiner)
• EDEN / EDEN ( Wayne McGregor)
• Fingerspitzengefühl (Demis Volpi)
  
• Gambling, x 5 (Nicolo Fonte)
• Krabat (Demis Volpi): The Master
• I fratelli – Die Brüder (Mauro Bigonzetti): Rocco
• Letters of Others (Bridget Breiner)
• Lulu. A Monstre Tragedy (Christian Spuck): Alwa
• Sleepers Chamber (Christian Spuck)
• Songs (Christian Spuck)
• The Sandman (Christian Spuck): Siegmund
• The Shaking Tent (Marc Spradling)
• Yantra (Wayne McGregor)

 
Specially created Roles at Noverre-Society: Young Choreographers

• Blender (Katarzyna Kozielska)
• Chicks (Marco Goecke)
• Denial of service (Alexander Makaschin)
• Make me sway (Sarah Grether)
• palpable leers (Demis Volpi)
• Sirs (Bridget Breiner)

 
Corps de ballet Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet

• Don Quijote (Maximiliano Guerra)
• dreamdeepdown (Kevin O’Day)
• Giselle (Production: Reid Anderson, Valentina Savina)
• La Fille mal gardée (Sir Frederick Ashton)
• Le sacre du printemps (Glen Tetley)
• melodious gimmick to keep the boys in line (Marc Spradling)
• Onegin (John Cranko)
• Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko)
• Serenade (George Balanchine)
• Seventh Symphony (Uwe Scholz)
• Swan Lake (John Cranko): Tarantella and others
• The Lady and the Fool (John Cranko)
• The Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier)
• the seventh blue (Christian Spuck)
• The Sleeping Beauty (Márcia Haydée after Marius Petipa): Duke Blue Beard
• The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko)