Uwe Scholz | |
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Born | Jugenheim, Hesse, Germany | 31 December 1958
Died | 21 November 2004 | (aged 45)
Nationality | German |
Occupation | contemporary dance ballet choreographer |
Uwe Scholz (31 December 1958 – 21 November 2004) was a German ballet dancer, director, and choreographer.
Scholz was born in Jugenheim (now Seeheim-Jugenheim) in Hesse, Germany on 31 December 1958, and moved as a child to the Landestheater Darmstadt for ballet and music training.[1][2]
In 1973, he was admitted to John Cranko's Ballet School in Stuttgart, one month before Cranko's death, and studied under Marcia Haydée.[2] Scholz also studied, on scholarship, at Balanchine's School of American Ballet in New York.[3] He graduated from Stuttgart in 1977, and joined the Stuttgart Ballet. At 26 he became the director of the Zürich Ballet,[4] and directed there for the next 6 years, before returning to Germany to become director of the Leipzig Ballet, where he was also chief choreographer.[1] He remained in Leipzig from 1991 until his death.[5] Among his most famous creations are Mozart's Great Mass, Pax Questuosa by Udo Zimmermann,[3] Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, The Red and the Black by Stendhal, and much else.[6] In 1993 he was appointed professor at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. He was also a founding member of the Freie Akademie der Künste zu Leipzig (Free Academy of Arts in Leipzig).[7]