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RICHARD WHERLOCK
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Richard Wherlock was born in Bristol, UK. After studying at London’s prestigious Ballet Rambert School he joined their company as a dancer. Wherlock was Ballet Director at Hagen Theatre in Germany from 1991 to 1996, then spent three seasons as director of the Lucerne Ballet before moving to Komische Oper, Berlin as artistic director and choreographer of BerlinBallett. He has been director and head choreographer of Ballett Basel since the 2001/2002 season, and artistic director of the renowned festival, Basel tanzt, since 2004.
He has worked as choreographer with the companies Tanzforum Köln, Ballet de la Normandie, Scapino Ballet, Rotterdam, English Dance Theatre, Finnish Dance Theatre, Helsinki, Ballett Staatstheater, Braunschweig, Zürcher Ballett Juniors, Romanian National Ballet, Innsbrucker Ballett at Tiroler Landestheater, |
The Icelandic Ballet, Ballet National de Nancy et de Lorraine, Ballet National de Marseille, Ballet de l'Opéra de Nice, aalto ballett theatre, Essen, Europa Danse (Unesco),Ballett der Deutschen Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf, Singapore Dance Theatre, Ballett der Vereinigten Bühnen, Graz, Introdans in Arnheim,Holland, Ballett des Badischen Staatstheaters, Karlsruhe and Ballet Contemporaneo del Teatro, San Martin/Argentina. He has also created a full-length ballet for Les Etoiles de l’Opéra National de Paris.
His film and TV work includes the choreography for Claude Lelouch’s cinema production Hasards ou Coïncidences, presented in 1998 at the Venice Biennale and at the Montréal and Chicago festivals. In 2000, He eceived the Prix Italia for the award-winning dance film Passengers, produced by the Swiss broadcasting company DRS, RM Associates and 3sat. His most recent film success, One bullet left (also produced by y DRS) was awarded the Golden Rose of Montreux in 2003. In 1999 he was nominated for the international dance award Benois de la Danse.
Richard Wherlock’s particular interest lies in supporting talented up-and-coming dancers. He serves on the juries of numerous international dance competitions.
VANESSA FENTON
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Vanessa has won the Kenneth MacMillan Choreographic Award, second prize in the Ursula Moreton Award, the Kerrison Cooke Bursary, the Promis Award for Choreography and has a BA in English Literature.
She choreographed Ad Infinitum for the programme of new work at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Covent Garden in 2000, Frozen (2001), Absolutely Not (2003), Deliverance (2003), Seacastles (2005), Eden (2005), Two’s Company (I) and Two’s Company (II) (2006) all for First Drafts, the young choreographers’ programme at ROH2, Knots (2002) for the Artists’ Development Initiative, A Little Princess (2004) for London Children’s Ballet and On Public Display (2004) for Inspired by Diaghilev at the Linbury. Vanessa organised a tour of her work performed by Royal Ballet dancers for the Bermuda Festival and choreographed for Shirley Bassey and 16 ballerinas for the launch of Siemens mobile phone. She has also worked with Lee Stafford, Erin O’Conner and Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones. |
In 2005 Vanessa choreographed the BA Degree Show for Central St Martin’s School of Art. She created Trias for the Royal Ballet in May 2006 and Step by Step for The Royal Ballet Lower School which was performed both at the Linbury Studio Theatre and on the main stage of the Royal Opera House in July 2006.
Vanessa is a First Artist of The Royal Ballet
JAMIE THOMSON
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Jamie trained at the McMahon School of Ballet, The Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance and at the Royal Ballet School. He subsequently performed with various companies in the UK. In 1995 he was the winner of the prestigious Ursula Moreton Choreographic Award with his piece Me, Myself and I Alone which went on to be performed at the Cochrane Theatre, London. His choreographic output is extensive and his works have been performed both in this country and in the USA.
In 2006 Jamie inaugurated New English Contemporary Ballet’s education department and subsequently set up its highly-acclaimed youth company, Nottingham Youth Dance of which he is artistic director. He has made numerous works for NYD and choreographed last season’s Nutcracker which brought together the dancers of New English Contemporary Ballet, Nottingham Youth Dance and the students of our Associate programme.
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DAVIDE BOMBANA
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Davide Bombana was born in Milano where he studied ballet at the La Scala School from which he graduated in 1977. He made his debut with the La Scala Company in the same year in the title role of M.Béjart’s “Firebird” and subsequently danced principal roles there in works by Tetley, Nureyev, Robbins, Balanchine, Falco and further works by Béjart. Awarded the Positano and the Bordighera Prizes, he then participated in the International Dance Competition in Jackson Mississippi where he won the bronze medal.
He went on to dance with Pennsylvania Ballet, Scottish Ballet and London Festival Ballet performing important roles from the classical and neo-classical repertoire before returning to guest at La Scala where he performed in Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet and Petit’s Proust.
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From 1986 to 1991 he worked as a principal with the Bayerische Staatsballett, Munich interpreting roles in ballets by Neumeier, Ashton, Cranko, Bintley and Peter Wright. From 1991 to 1998 he continued in Munich as ballet master working in collaboration with such choreographers as Kylian, Van Manen, Preljocaj, Martins and Tharp. It was at this time that he presented Sonata and Parabel, his first projects as a choreographer. Also for Munich he went on to create Quatour pour la fin du temps, Okanagon, Woyzeck Fragmente inspired by Büchner, Schönberg opus 4 and the two full-lengths ballets Luigi Nono Project and Ein Traumspiel inspired by Strindberg.
In 1998 Davide Bombana was appointed director of Maggio Danza in Florence where he created the full-length ballet Teorema inspired by Pasolini for the 62nd Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. More recently he has created and restaged works for a number of international companies including Aus der Ferne (Ballet du Rhin and Queensland Ballet), Penthesilea (Maggio Danza Florence), Woyzeck Fragmente and Beyond Skin (Ballet du Rhin and Zaragoza Ballet), Lolita (Grand Ballet de Geneva), La Séptième Lune (Paris Opera), Kunst der Fuge (Ballet du Rhin) , Tenebrae (Badisches Theater, Karlsruhe), Cinderella (for Aalto Ballett Theater Essen), Carmen (Ballet de Capitole de Toulouse and Ballett Thüringen Gera), Century Rolls (Bayerisches Staatsballett Munich) and Harpsichord Concerto (New York Choreographic Institute New York with dancers of the New York City Ballet).
He has collaborated with, and created and restaged work for, a number of prestigious ballet academies including the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, the John Cranko School Stuttgart Germany, the Academy of the Bolshoi in Moscow, r the School of American Ballet New York and the Academy of Teatro alla Scala di Milano.
Davide Bombana has won numerous awards for choreography including the prestigious Benois de la Danse in Moscow in 1998 and the Premio Danza e Danza 2004 award for Best Italian Chroeographer abroad (for Lolita, Septième Lune and Kunst der Fuge).
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