Paula Rezende

Corps de ballet

Paula Rezende

Corps de ballet

Vita

Paula Rezende was born in Vila Velha, Brazil and received her first ballet classes at the Escola Dançar in 2001. Later she went to the Ballet School of the Balé da Ilha in her home town before she came to the John Cranko Schule in Stuttgart in 2010 where she graduated in 2013. During her time at the Academy of the John Cranko Schule she already danced in several productions of the Stuttgart Ballet in the Corps de ballet.

She successfully participated in several competitions. In 2008 she received the first prize a.o. at the Passo de Arte in Minas Gerais, Brazil. She also won first prizes at the Brazilian Regionals of the Youth American Grand Prix in 2009 as well as at the Festival Internacional de Dança de Joinville 2010.

In the season 2013/14 Paula Rezende became an apprentice with the Stuttgart Ballet, one season later she was taken into the Corps de ballet.
Photo Carlos Quezada

Repertoire

Solo Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet
  • Aedis (Alessandro Giaquinto)
  • Cassiopeia's Garden (Christian Spuck)
  • Don Quijote (Maximiliano Guerra): Gypsy Couple (double of Kitri)
  • Einssein (Mauro Bigonzetti)
  • Falling Angels (Jiří Kylián)
  • Kaash (Akram Khan): solo role
  • One of a Kind (Jiří Kylián)
  • Othello (John Neumeier): One of the Primaveras
  • Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko): Gypsy, carnival
  • Salome (Demis Volpi): Salome
  • Skinny (Louis Stiens)
  • Swan Lake (John Cranko): Little swan
  • The Sleeping Beauty (Marcia Haydée after Marius Petipa): Amethyst, Little Red Riding Hood, Grace Fairy
  • The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko): Street Girl

Specially created Roles
  • Aftermath (Demis Volpi)
  • Everybody Needs Some/Body (Roman Novitzky)
  • Lamento (Andreas Heise)
  • Messenger (Louis Stiens)
  • Reflection/s (Roman Novitzky)
  • REVOLT (Nanine Linning)
  • The Carnival of the Animals (Demis Volpi)
  • The Soldier's Tale (Demis Volpi)

Specially created Roles at Noverre-Society: Young Choreographers
  • Agoloy (Shaked Heller)
  • Arpatruf (Shaked Heller)
  • B-Side (Timoor Afshar)
  • Elegia (Alessandro Giaquinto)
  • Polosma (Shaked Heller)
  • Sugar Rush (David Moore)
  • Venus (Noan Alves)

Corps de ballet Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet
  • A.Memory (Katarzyna Kozielsky)
  • Blake Works I (William Forsythe)
  • Bliss (Johan Inger)
  • Don Quijote (Maximiliano Guerra)
  • Giselle (after Coralli, Perrot, Petipa)
  • Hikarizatto (Itzik Galili)
  • Initials R.B.M.E. (John Cranko)
  • Krabat (Demis Volpi)
  • La fille mal gardée (Frederick Ashton)
  • La Sylphide (Peter Schaufuss after August Bournonville)
  • Leonce and Lena (Christian Spuck)
  • Lulu. A Monstre Tragedy (Christian Spuck)
  • Mayerling (Kenneth MacMillan): a.o. Archdurchess Marie Valerie
  • Neurons (Katarzyna Kozielska)
  • Onegin (John Cranko)
  • Orphée et Euridice (Staging, Choreography: Christian Spuck)
  • Requiem (Kenneth MacMillan)
  • Seventh Symphony (Uwe Scholz)
  • Swan Lake (John Cranko)
  • Symphony in C (George Balanchine)
  • The Kingdom of the Shades, from La Bayadère (Natalia Makarova after Marius Petipa)
  • The Lady and the Fool (John Cranko)
  • The Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier)
  • The Sleeping Beauty (Marcia Haydée after Petipa)
  • The Song of the earth (Kenneth MacMillan)
  • The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko)