Angelin Preljocaj (; born 19 January 1957) is a French dancer and choreographer of

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Early life

Angelin Preljocaj was born in 1957 in

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. He is of

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descent. His father was born in Vermosh but was escaped from Albania because of the communism while his mother was from Ulcinj.They together went to France where Angelin was born.

Career

His choreographic work is steeped in his writing of the history of classical ballet, but is resolutely contemporary. He joined the repertoire of the

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in the early 1990s. In 1995, he received the

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as choreographer. In December 1984 he founded the ballet company that in 1996 that was subsequently rename
Ballet Preljocaj
when it moved into its current home of residence at Pavillon Noir of

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Main choreographies

* 1984 : ''Aventures coloniales'' * 1984 : ''Marché noir'' * 1985 : ''Larmes blanches'' * 1985 : ''Peurs bleues'' * 1986 : ''À nos héros'' * 1987 : ''Le Petit Napperon bouge'' * 1987 : ''Hallali Romée'' * 1988 : ''Liqueurs de chair'' * 1988 : ''Les raboteurs'' after

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by Caillebotte * 1989 : ''Noces'' (répertoire) * 1989 : ''Un trait d'union'' * 1990 : ''Amer America'' * 1990 : ''

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'' * 1992 : ''La Peau du Monde'' * 1993 : ''

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'' (répertoire) * 1993 : ''Noces'' (new version) * 1993 : '' Le Spectre de la Rose'' (répertoire) * 1994 : ''Le Parc'' (répertoire) for the

* 1995 : ''Annonciation'' (

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in 1997) * 1995 : ''Petit Essai sur le temps qui passe'' * 1995 : ''L'Anoure'' (répertoire) * 1996 : ''

The Firebird ''The Firebird'' (; ) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1910 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Michel Fokine, who c ...

'' (répertoire) * 1996 : ''

'' (new version) in collaboration with

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* 1996 : ''L'Annonciation'' (répertoire) * 1997 : ''La Stravaganza'' * 1997 : ''Paysages après la bataille'' * 1998 : ''Centaures'' * 1998 : ''Casanova'' (répertoire) * 1999 : ''Personne n'épouse les méduses'' * 2000 : ''Portraits in Corpore'' * 2000 : ''MC/14-22 (Ceci est mon corps)'' * 2001 : ''

The Rite of Spring ''The Rite of Spring'' () is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Vaslav Nijinsky ...

'' * 2001 : ''Helikopter'' on a composition by

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* 2002 : ''Near Life Experience'' * 2003 : ''L'Annonciation'' (video version) * 2004 : ''MC/14-22'' (new version, répertoire) * 2004 : ''Le Songe de Médée'' (répertoire) * 2004 : ''Empty Moves (part I)'' on a music by

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* 2004 : ''N'' (répertoire) with

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(Image, light & stage design) and Ulf Langheinrich (music and sound design) * 2005 : ''Les 4 saisons...'' in collaboration with Fabrice Hyber (répertoire) * 2007 : ''Empty Moves (Part I and II)'' (répertoire) * 2007 : ''Eldorado (Sonntags Abschied)'' (répertoire) with a dedicated composition for the ballet by

* 2008 : ''Blanche Neige'' (''Snow White'')
Blanche-Neige
' entry at

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. Retrieved 11 September 2010. * 2009 : ''Le funambule'' * 2010 : ''Siddharta'' * 2010 : ''And then A Thousand Years Of Peace'' * 2011 : ''suivront mille ans de calme'' * 2012 : ''What I Call Oblivion * 2013 : ''The Nights'' * 2015 : ''Return to Berratham'' * 2016 : ''The Painting on The Wall'' * 2017 : ''Still Life'' * 2018 : ''Gravity'' * 2019 : ''Winterreise'' * 2020 : ''Swan Lake'' * 2021 : ''Deleuze / Hendrix'' * 2022 : ''

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Filmography

* 2016 : '' Polina''

References

External links

Official site of Ballet Preljocaj
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