February 10th, 2022

TODAY 10 YEARS AGO, Christian Spuck's Das Fräulein von S. premiered. With this last story ballet as resident choreographer of the Stuttgart Ballet, Spuck dedicated himself to E.T.A. Hoffmann's novella Das Fräulein von Scuderi.

January 13th, 2022

TODAY 96 OR 92 YEARS AGO Kurt-Heinz Stolze was born in Hamburg. His exact year of birth is unclear. According to his personnel file at the Württemberg State Theatres, he was born in 1930.

December 1st, 2021

TODAY 50 YEARS AGO, the John Cranko School was founded in Stuttgart. Its namesake dreamed of an academy from which the dancers of his company would grow. 1971, ten years after John Cranko became director of the Stuttgart Ballet, his dream came true ...

November 27th, 2021

TODAY 100 YEARS AGO Fritz Höver was born. The founder of the Stuttgart based Noverre Society promoted ballet in Stuttgart and initiated the now legendary platform Noverre: Young Choreographers.

November 18th, 2021

TODAY 45 YEARS AGO, William Forsythe's Urlicht premiered. It was the very first piece of the choreographer who was to revolutionise ballet in the following decades. He created Urlicht for the Young Choreographers' Evening of the Noverre Society, ...

November 6th, 2021

TODAY 128 YEARS AGO, Peter Tchaikovsky died in St Petersburg, shortly after his Symphony No. 6 had been premiered to great acclaim. He was born in 1840 in a small Russian town near the Ural Mountains.

October 12, 2021

TODAY 50 YEARS AGO, John Cranko's Song of My People – Forest-People – Sea (originally Ami Yam Ami Ya'ar) premiered in Israel with the Batsheva Dance Company. Cranko was enthusiastic about other cultures and was particularly fascinated by Israel.

September 29th, 2021

TODAY 48 YEARS AGO, the Stuttgart Ballet gave its first performance in front of a Japanese audience, laying the foundation for many decades of a wonderful and fruitful cultural exchange.

September 22nd, 2021

TODAY 77 YEARS AGO Birgit Keil was born in the former Sudetenland. After graduating from the ballet school of the Württemberg State Theatres, John Cranko engaged her at the Stuttgart Ballet ...