Marguerite Donlon

Marguerite Donlon (born 31 May 1966) is an Irish dancer, choreographer and ballet director.

Career

Marguerite Donlon was born in County Longford, Republic of Ireland. After a childhood of traditional Irish dance, Marguerite began her ballet studies with Anica Dawson and Dorothy Stevens at the late age of 16. She became a solo dancer and choreographer with the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1990; before that she was a member of the English National Ballet under Peter Schaufuss. During this time she worked with and was coached by many world-renowned artists, including Natalia Makarova, Rudolf Nureyev, Sir Kenneth Mac Millan, and danced pieces from Maurice Béjart, William Forsythe, Bill T. Jones, Meg Stuart and Jirí Kylián.

Since she became director of the ballet at the Saarländisches Staatstheater, Marguerite Donlon made her mark with her choreographies on the German and international ballet scene.

Awards

• 2007 Nomination for the Prix Benois (“Giselle: Reloaded”)
• 2007 Nomination for the German theatre prize “Der Faust” (“Romeo und Julia”)
• 2007 Award: „Saarländischer Verdienstorden“

Selected works

1999: Patch of Grass 2000: Different Directions 2001: We Three Sheep 2002: BeBob 2002: How fast you want! 2002: Somewhere Between Remembering and Forgetting 2002: Move 2002: Taboo or not 2003: Chocolate (bittersweet) 2003: Carmen privat 2003: Poetic Licence 2004: Blind Date 2004: Zettels Sommernachts Traum 2005: Strokes Through The Tail 2005: Tanz mir das Lied vom Tod 2005: Die Schachtel 2005: Eros - Life Instinct

2005: Erinnerung an...eine Zukunft 2005: On Top 2006: CRASH 2006: Schatten 2006: Die roten Schuhe 2006: Words and Music (And Silence) 2006: Giselle: Reloaded 2007: Romeo und Julia 2007: Seed 2008: The Nutcracker 2008: Splash! 2008: Sound Moves 2008: Le sacre du printemps 2009: Swan Lake– aufgetaucht 2009: Casa Azul - Inspired by Frida Kahlo 2010: Footprints 2010: Buster Keaton in Silent Mov(i)e 2011: Secret of immortality (alpha, soma)

References

• https://portal.d-nb.de/opac.htm?query=Woe%3D131745824&method=simpleSearch
• http://www.donlon.de/
• http://www.saarlaendisches-staatstheater.de/
• http://www.claaswilleke.de/page.php?ID=500/

http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marguerite_Donlon&stable=0&redirect=no

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