David Moore

Principal Dancer

David Moore

Principal Dancer

Vita

David Moore was born in Ipswich, England. He started training at the Angela Rowe School of Dance in his hometown in 1998. Two years later, he continued his education at the Royal Ballet School in London from which he graduated in 2007. At the beginning of the season 2007/08 David Moore joined the Stuttgart Ballet. In the season 2013-14 he was promoted to Soloist and in 2014-2015 to Principal Dancer.

His repertoire includes solo roles such as Albrecht in Giselle (after Coralli, Perrot, Petipa), Prince Desiré in The Sleeping Beauty (Marcia Haydée), Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew, the Prince in The Lady and the Fool (all John Cranko), Basilio in Don Quixote (Maximiliano Guerra), Leonce in Leonce and Lena (Christian Spuck), Cassio in Othello, Allan Grey in A Streetcar named Desire (both John Neumeier) and Gurn in La Sylphide (Peter Schaufuss after Bournonville) as well as roles in ballets by renowned choreographers such as Jerome Robbins, Maurice Béjart, Kenneth MacMillan, Frederick Ashton and Hans van Manen. In 2013, Resident Choreographer Demis Volpi created the title role in his ballet Krabat for David Moore, in 2016 the role of Jochanaan in his ballet Salome and in 2017 the role of Apollo in his Death in Venice especially for him. Other choreographers who have created roles for him include Marco Goecke, Edward Clug, Christian Spuck and Katarzyna Kozielska.
Portrait
David Moore
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Death in Venice
Ch: Demis Volpi
D: David More
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Or Noir
Ch: Fabio Adorisio
D: Rocio Aleman, David Moore, Jason Reilly
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Dances at a Gathering
Ch: Jerome Robbins
D: David Moore, Noan Alves, Martí Fernández Paixà, Elisa Badenes, Vittoria Girelli
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Skinny
Ch: Louis Stiens
D: Elisa Badenes, David Moore
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Swan Lake
Ch: John Cranko
D: David Moore
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The Soldier's Tale
Ch: Demis Volpi
D: Alicia Amatriain, David Moore
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Giselle
Ch: after Coralli, Perrot, Petipa
D: Miriam Kacerova, David Moore
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Krabat
Ch: Demis Volpi
D: David Moore
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Krabat
Ch: Demis Volpi
D: Elisa Badenes, David Moore
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Swan Lake
Ch: John Cranko
D: Elisa Badenes, David Moore
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Onegin
Ch: John Cranko
D: David Moore
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The Sleeping Beauty
Ch: Marcia Haydée
T: David Moore
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Romeo and Juliet
Ch: John Cranko
D: Elisa Badenes and David Moore
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Krabat
Ch: Demis Volpi
dancers: David Moore (Krabat)

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repertoire

Leading and Solo Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet
  • A Streetcar named Desire (John Neumeier): Allan Gray, paperboy, Doctor
  • Adagio Hammerklavier (Hans van Manen)
  • Aedis (Alessandro Giaquinto)
  • Aurora's Nap (Johan Inger): Prince Desiré
  • Blake Works I (William Forsythe)
  • Brouillards (John Cranko): Voiles, Bruyères, Des pas sur la neige
  • Concerto for Flute and Harp (John Cranko)
  • Dances at a Gathering (Jerome Robbins): Roles in Blue, in Green and in Brown
  • das siebte blau (Christian Spuck): Finale
  • Don Quijote (Maximiliano Guerra): Basilio, José-Antonio, Gypsy as Basilio's Double
  • Frank Bridge Variations (Hans van Manen)
  • Gaîté Parisienne (Maurice Béjart): Ludwig II of Bavaria, Friend
  • Giselle (after Coralli, Perrot, Petipa): Albrecht
  • High (Louis Stiens)
  • Holberg Pas de deux (John Cranko)
  • Initials R.B.M.E. (John Cranko): Solo role in B.
  • Kaash (Akram Khan): leading role
  • Kammerballett (Hans van Manen)
  • Kingdom of Shades, from: La Bayadère (Natalia Makarova after Marius Petipa): Solor
  • L'Estro Armonico (John Cranko)
  • La Sylphide (Peter Schaufuss after August Bournonville): Gurn, Pas de huit
  • Leonce and Lena (Christian Spuck): Leonce, District administrator
  • Little Monsters (Demis Volpi)
  • Lulu. A Monstre Tragedy (Christian Spuck): Alwa Schöning
  • Mayerling (Kenneth MacMillan): Crown Prince Rudolf
  • Mopey (Marco Goecke)
  • Onegin (John Cranko): Onegin, Lenski
  • Orphée et Euridice (Staging, Choreography: Christian Spuck)
  • Othello (John Neumeier): Cassio
  • Pas de deux from: Return to a strange land(Jiří Kylián)
  • Petite Mort (Jiří Kylián)
  • Red in 3 (Jorma Elo)
  • Requiem (Kenneth MacMillan): Solorole
  • Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko): Romeo, Count Paris
  • Ssss... (Edward Clug)
  • Swan Lake (John Cranko): Prince Siegfried, Benno, Companion of the Prince, Cavalier of the Princess of Spain
  • Symphony in C (George Balanchine): leading role 1st movement
  • The Four Temperaments (George Balanchine): First Theme
  • The Lady and the Fool (John Cranko): Prince, Moondog
  • The Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier): Armand Duval, Gaston Rieux, Graf N
  • The Nutcracker (Edward Clug): The Nutcracker / Drosselmeier's Nephew
  • The Sleeping Beauty (Marcia Haydée): Prince Desiré, Prince of the West
  • The Soldier's Tale (Demis Volpi): Soldier
  • The Song of the Earth (Kenneth MacMillan): Solorole
  • The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko): Petruchio, Lucentio

Specially created Roles
  • A. Memory (Katarzyna Kozielska): Solo role
  • Big Blur (Demis Volpi): solo role
  • Black Breath (Marco Goecke)
  • Calma Apparente (Fabio Adorisio)
  • Das Fräulein von S. (Christian Spuck)
  • Death in Venice (Staging, Choreography: Demis Volpi): Apollon
  • Everybody Needs Some/Body (Roman Novitzky)
  • Fingerspitzengefühl (Demis Volpi)
  • Krabat (Demis Volpi): Krabat
  • Lost Room (Fabio Adorisio)
  • No Men’s Land (Edward Clug): Solo role
  • On Velvet (Marcoe Goecke)
  • Or Noir (Fabio Adorisio)
  • Orlando (Marco Goecke)
  • Orphée et Euridice (Staging, Choreography: Christian Spuck)
  • Overture to a Prelude (Kevin O'Day)
  • Salome (Demis Volpi): Iokanaan
  • Skinny (Louis Stiens): Solo Role
  • Taiyō to Tsuki (Martin Schläpfer)

Specially created Roles at Noverre-Society: Young Choreographers
  • Ballade d’el Mariachi (Mikhail Soloviev)
  • Demon Days (Fraser Roach)
  • Manomanca (David Moore)

Corps de ballet Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet
  • Bolero (Maurice Béjart)
  • Carmen (John Cranko, new production: Reid Anderson and Georgette Tsinguirides)
  • Don Quijote (Maximiliano Guerra)
  • Fancy Goods (Marco Goecke)
  • Forgotten Land (Jiří Kylián): Couple in Off-White
  • Frank Bridge Variations (Hans van Manen)
  • Giselle (Production: Reid Anderson, Valentina Savina)
  • Goecke at the Chamber: The Nutcracker (Marco Goecke)
  • Hamlet (Kevin O’Day): Man of the Court
  • Initials R.B.M.E. (John Cranko)
  • Jeu de Cartes (John Cranko)
  • La fille mal gardée (Sir Frederick Ashton)
  • La Sylphide (Peter Schaufuss after August Bournonville)
  • Le Sacre du Printemps (Glen Tetley)
  • Lulu. A Monstre Tragedy (Christian Spuck)
  • Onegin (John Cranko)
  • Opus 1 (John Cranko)
  • Othello (John Neumeier)
  • Poème de l’extase (John Cranko)
  • Présence (John Cranko)
  • Requiem (Kenneth MacMillan)
  • Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko)
  • Seventh Symphony (Uwe Scholz)
  • Swan Lake (John Cranko)
  • Symph (Katarzyna Kozielska)
  • The Lady and the Fool (John Cranko)
  • The Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier)
  • The Sleeping Beauty (Marcia Haydée after Marius Petipa)
  • The Song of the Earth (Kenneth MacMillan)
  • The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko)
  • Theme and Variations (George Balanchine)

own choreographies

Meridian World premiere at Noverre- Society: Young Choreographers on June 9th, 2010, Stuttgart Ballet
Love your ground World premiere at Noverre-Society: Young Choreographers on July 13th, 2011, Stuttgart Ballet
Dearest World premiere at Noverre-Society: Young Choreographers on May 23rd, 2012, Stuttgart Ballet
Manomanca World premiere at Noverre-Society: Young Choreographers on January 18th, 2013, Stuttgart Ballet
Pish Posh World Premiere at the New Year’s Concert of the Original Strauss Capelle Vienna on January 13th, 2014 at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart
Bridges World Premiere at Noverre: Young Choreographers on April 18, 2021, Stuttgart Ballet