Stuttgart Ballet was the first major German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 ballet

Ballet

Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...

 company. It rose to fame in the 1960s under Artistic Director John Cranko

John Cranko

John Cyril Cranko was a choreographer with the Sadler's Wells Ballet and the Stuttgart Ballet....

. The company, which is renowned for presentations of full-length narrative ballets including Romeo and Juliet, Eugene Onegin, The Taming of the Shrew, John Neumeier's ''Die Kameliendame and Streetcar Named Desire, continues to be defined critically as one of the world's best ballet theatres for its combination of classical, story and new modern ballets.

Stuttgart Ballet has a tradition of producing new and exciting dance while giving young choreographers and dancers opportunity to express themselves and flourish. Famous dancers who have emerged from the ranks of the company to become some of the world's most well-known choreographers include Neumeier

John Neumeier

John Neumeier is a well-known American ballet dancer, choreographer, and director. He has been the director and chief choreographer of the Hamburg Ballet since 1973. 5 years later he founded the Hamburg Ballet School, which also includes a boarding school...

, William Forsythe

William Forsythe (dancer)

William Forsythe is an American dancer and choreographer resident in Frankfurt am Main in Hessen. He is known internationally for his work with the Ballett Frankfurt and The Forsythe Company...

, Uwe Scholz, John Alleyne, Jiri Kylian

Jiří Kylián

Jiří Kylián is a Czech dance choreographer.Kylián studied in Prague and, at the age of 20, won a scholarship at the Royal Ballet School in London. He joined the Stuttgart Ballet in 1968 and worked under John Cranko, where he began to choreograph. Kylián became Artistic Director of Nederlands Dans...

 and Renato Zanella.

The modern Stuttgart Ballet evolved from the royal ballet resident at the court of the Duke of Württemberg as early as 1609. Previous directors include Glen Tetley

Glen Tetley

Glen Tetley was an American ballet and modern dancer as well as a choreographer who mixed ballet and modern dance to create a new way of looking at dance, and is best known for his piece Pierrot Lunaire.-Biography:Glenford Andrew Tetley, Jr. was born on February 3, 1926 in Cleveland, Ohio...

 and Marcia Haydee. Reid Anderson

Reid Anderson

Reid Anderson is a bassist and composer originally from Minnesota. Anderson is best known for his work in The Bad Plus with pianist Ethan Iverson and drummer Dave King...

has been the artistic director since 1996. Stuttgart Ballet is known for its enthusiastic and knowledgeable audiences and performs in the Stuttgart Opera House and (slightly smaller) playhouse. The company is recognised all over the world and is regularly invited to perform on the most distinguished stages, giving approximately twenty shows a season across a variety of countries.

Principal dancers

• Alexander Jones
• Alicia Amatriain
• Bridget Breiner

• Maria Eichwald
• Sue Jin Kang
• Elizabeth Mason
• Anna Osadcenko

• Katja Wünsche
• Filip Barankiewicz
• Douglas Lee
• Evan McKie

• Marijn Rademaker
• Jason Reilly
• Friedemann Vogel
• Alexander Zaitsev

Soloists

• Oihane Herrero

• Laura O'Malley
• Myriam Simon

• Nikolay Godunov
• William Moore

• Damiano Pettenella
• Hyo-Jung Kang

Demi soloists

• Magdalena Dziegielewska
• Katarzyna Kozielska

• Alessandra Tognoloni
• Linda Waasdorp

• Angelina Zuccarini
• Laurent Guilbaud

• Roland Havlica
• Dimitri Magitov
• Arman Zazyan

Corps de ballet

• Maria Alati
• Francesca Berruto
• Anais Bueno Garces
• Rachele Buriassi
• Christina Burnell
• Jelena Buschuyeva
• Annabel Fawcett

• Nathalie Guth
• Catherine Hamer
• Miriam Kacerova
• Daniela Lanzetti
• Daisy Long
• Julie Marquet
• Elizabeth Wisenberg
• Renee Wright

• Bilyana Yancheva
• Özkan Ayik
• Attila Bako
• Daniel Camargo
• Matthew Crockard-Villa
• Tomas Danhel
• Lee Fennell
• Sébastien Galtier

• David Moore
• Roman Novitzky
• Ludovico Pace
• Brent Parolin
• Mikhail Soloviev
• Petros Terteryan
• Demis Volpi
• Yaosheng Weng

Apprentices

• Elisa Badenes
• Mariya Batman

• Valeria Busdraghi
• Heather MacIsaac

• Ami Morita
• Lea Zoe Weidner

• Lionel de Bayser
• Doruk Demirdirek