Mauricio wainrot biography helf

John Clifford, George Balanchine’s protégé, youngest male star dancer and choreographer, “Balanchine’s prize prodigy and a choreographic wunderkind” (The Saturday Review) brings an unusually varied and broad experience to the stage. His parents were both featured performers in the EARL CARROLL VANITIES (his mother was the lyric soprano soloist and his father was part of a two man acrobatic team, “Park and Clifford”) and he first appeared onstage in his father’s act at two-years of age. At eleven he was the “Nutcracker-Prince” in George Balanchine’s acclaimed NUTCRACKER ballet, thus beginning his long association with the genius choreographer. At that same age he appeared on television twice on the Dinah Shore Show as a guest star and

was a featured actor on many television drams such as the DONNA REED SHOW and DEATH VALLEY DAYS. At sixteen he choreographed, and was featured as “Baby John” in a Los Angeles summer stock production of WEST SIDE STORY and received his first rave revie

The Royal Winnipeg Ballet of Canada comes to Israel in October as part of Tel Aviv Dance 2010, for a series of seven performances, including Jerusalem and Haifa. The company will present a program of two very different works: Carmina Burana by internationally acclaimed choreographer Mauricio Wainrot and In Tandem choreographed by Peter Quanz, an emerging young choreographer.

Canada’s foremost ballet company, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet of Canada was founded in 1939 by Gweneth Lloyd and Betty Farrally, receiving its royal title in 1953. Arnold Spohr was the artistic director during the company’s formative years from 1958 to 1988, as it grew to acquire an international stature. A professional dance school was created in 1970 by former principal dancer David Moroni, and two thirds of the company’s dancers are graduates of the school. Current artistic director André Lewis has held the position since 1996, after a long history with the company. Lewis began as a dancer in the corps de ballet in 1979, was promoted to soloist in 1982 and joined the artistic staff in 1984.

Jewish-Arg

Teachers

Artistic Director

Luca MASALA

Artistic Director

In 1981, Luca Masala studied at the School of La Scala in Milan, then in 1986 at the School of American Ballet in New York and finally in 1988 at the Princess Grace Academy of Classical Dance in Monaco.

At the age of 17, he joined the Royal Ballet of Flanders then headed by Robert Denvers, where he remained for three years. He performed roles in ballets by Balanchine, Béjart, Nureyev, Tudor, Violette Verdy, Flindt and others. Then he worked for a year with Pierre Lacotte at the Ballet National de Nancy where he played key roles in Lacotte’s choreographies and choreographies of Antonio Gades, José Limón, Jirí Kylián, Ulysses Dove, Balanchine...
In 1992, he moved to the Wiesbaden Staatstheater in Germany under the direction of Ben van Cauwenbergh where he was involved in several works such as Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and many abstract pieces. He also worked with Peter Schaufuss on his Sylphide. In 1995, he joined the Bavarian State Ballet in Munich under the direction of Konstanz

Copyright ©cakestot.pages.dev 2025