Vienna Festival Ballet
Encyclopedia
The Vienna Festival Ballet, is a classical ballet
company founded in 1980 by Peter Mallek. Based in the United Kingdom, they typically spend 8 months of the year touring small and medium venues around the country, with the occasional foreign trip.
, The Nutcracker
, The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle
, Cinderella
, Coppélia
, Othello, La Sylphide, Rhapsody in Blue, American in Paris and Bolero (after Bejart).
Park, now Tring Park School for the Performing Arts, aged 11. She joined the company after graduation from the school in July 2007.
In 2008 she took part as a visiting professional in the Kent Youth Dance Company production Excerpts and Originals in her home town of Herne Bay
, Kent
.
in the West Midlands
, England
. She joined the company in September 2008, aged 20, after studying for 4 years at the Central School of Ballet in London. A former pupil of Little Bloxwich School in Walsall and Abotts Bromley School for Girls, near Lichfield
, she was 4 when she joined the Walsall Academy of Dance in The Butts, Walsall.
in the West Midlands
, England
. He joined the company in the summer of 2007, aged 19, after spending 3 years at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance. He was the Jester in Swan Lake
on the 2008 tour.
graduating in July 2005.
Classical ballet
Classical Ballet is the most formal of the ballet styles, it adheres to traditional ballet technique. There are variations relating to area of origin, such as Russian ballet, French ballet, British ballet and Italian ballet...
company founded in 1980 by Peter Mallek. Based in the United Kingdom, they typically spend 8 months of the year touring small and medium venues around the country, with the occasional foreign trip.
Repertoire
They have been touring the UK since 1980. Their repertoire includes Swan LakeSwan Lake
Swan Lake ballet, op. 20, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, composed 1875–1876. The scenario, initially in four acts, was fashioned from Russian folk tales and tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse. The choreographer of the original production was Julius Reisinger...
, The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". It was given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St...
, The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle
Giselle
Giselle is a ballet in two acts with a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Théophile Gautier, music by Adolphe Adam, and choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot. The librettist took his inspiration from a poem by Heinrich Heine...
, Cinderella
Cinderella (Prokofiev)
Cinderella is a ballet, Op. 87, composed by Sergei Prokofiev to a scenario by Nikolai Volkov. It is one of his most popular and melodious compositions, and has inspired a great many choreographers since its inception. The piece was composed between 1940 and 1944. Part way through writing it he...
, Coppélia
Coppélia
Coppélia is a sentimental comic ballet with original choreography by Arthur Saint-Léon to a ballet libretto by Saint-Léon and Charles Nuitter and music by Léo Delibes. It was based upon two macabre stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Der Sandmann , and Die Puppe...
, Othello, La Sylphide, Rhapsody in Blue, American in Paris and Bolero (after Bejart).
Dancers
- Samantha Camejo
- Yoshiko Kabuta
- Ellodie-Lark Stott
- Jodie McKnight
- Carl Hale
- Tomoya Tanimoto Jequier
- Emily Hufton
- Agnese Remolo
- Phil King
- Melanie Cox
- Amy Fussell
- Simon Jequier
- Eva Koniavitou
- Azusa Urano
- Simona Marsibilio
- Joseph Mackie-Graves
Peter Mallek
Artistic Director Peter Mallek trained in Vienna under the Russian teacher Harry Pluciss, a former pupil of the world famous ballet master Pushkin. He performed with the national ballet companies of the world e.g. American Ballet Theatre, London Festival Ballet, Scottish Ballet, Australian Ballet and the Dutch National Ballet.Melanie Cox
Melanie Cox went to the Arts Educational School, TringTring
Tring is a small market town and also a civil parish in the Chiltern Hills in Hertfordshire, England. Situated north-west of London and linked to London by the old Roman road of Akeman Street, by the modern A41, by the Grand Union Canal and by rail lines to Euston Station, Tring is now largely a...
Park, now Tring Park School for the Performing Arts, aged 11. She joined the company after graduation from the school in July 2007.
In 2008 she took part as a visiting professional in the Kent Youth Dance Company production Excerpts and Originals in her home town of Herne Bay
Herne Bay
Herne Bay may refer to one of several places:*Herne Bay, Kent, England*Herne Bay, New Zealand*Riverwood, New South Wales, Australia...
, Kent
Kent
Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...
.
Samantha Camejo
Samantha Camejo was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She trained at the Maria Olenewa State Dance School which is part of the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro. She was awarded a scholarship to the London Studio Centre. She joined the company in 2007.Amy Fussell
Amy Fussell is from WalsallWalsall
Walsall is a large industrial town in the West Midlands of England. It is located northwest of Birmingham and east of Wolverhampton. Historically a part of Staffordshire, Walsall is a component area of the West Midlands conurbation and part of the Black Country.Walsall is the administrative...
in the West Midlands
West Midlands (county)
The West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a 2009 estimated population of 2,638,700. It came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, formed from parts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. The...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. She joined the company in September 2008, aged 20, after studying for 4 years at the Central School of Ballet in London. A former pupil of Little Bloxwich School in Walsall and Abotts Bromley School for Girls, near Lichfield
Lichfield
Lichfield is a cathedral city, civil parish and district in Staffordshire, England. One of eight civil parishes with city status in England, Lichfield is situated roughly north of Birmingham...
, she was 4 when she joined the Walsall Academy of Dance in The Butts, Walsall.
Carl Hale
Carl Hale is from DudleyDudley
Dudley is a large town in the West Midlands county of England. At the 2001 census , the Dudley Urban Sub Area had a population of 194,919, making it the 26th largest settlement in England, the second largest town in the United Kingdom behind Reading, and the largest settlement in the UK without...
in the West Midlands
West Midlands (county)
The West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a 2009 estimated population of 2,638,700. It came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, formed from parts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. The...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. He joined the company in the summer of 2007, aged 19, after spending 3 years at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance. He was the Jester in Swan Lake
Swan Lake
Swan Lake ballet, op. 20, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, composed 1875–1876. The scenario, initially in four acts, was fashioned from Russian folk tales and tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse. The choreographer of the original production was Julius Reisinger...
on the 2008 tour.
graduating in July 2005.