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Christian Martinu
To Professional References
- Ballet master for:
- Ballet Master with Fusion Dance Company, Seattle, WA
- Austrian Ballet Theatre, Vienna, Austria
- Sakura Ballet, Tokyo, Japan
- Guest ballet master with a ballet company in Guaira, Brazil
- Projetto di Danca, Verona, Italy
- Festival Ballet, Lübeck, Germany
- Juneau Dance Unlimited and Sitka Studio of Dance, Alaska, USA
- Director at:
- January 2000 to June 2001: executive director, ballet master, and choreographer, Juneau Dance Unlimited, Alaska, USA
- 1992 to 1998: executive director, ballet master, and choreographer, Austrian Ballet Theatre, Vienna, Austria
Christian as Albrecht in Giselle |
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- Member of resident company at:
- Vienna State Opera Ballet, Vienna, Austria
- Volksopern Ballett, Vienna, Austria
- Vienna Dance Theatre, Vienna, Austria
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- Danced as guest artist at:
- Union Square Festival, NY, USA
- Sakura Ballet, Tokyo, Japan
- Festival Off, Avignon, France
- Viennese Dances, Beijing, China
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Christian as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet |
- Repertoire includes:
- Giselle, Prinz Albrecht, Austria
- Sleeping Beauty, Prinz Florimund, Austria
- Swan Lake, Prinz Siegfried, Japan
- Don Quixote, Grand Pas de Deux, Basil, Austria
- Four Temperaments, Austria
- Exodus, Moses, Germany
- Faust's Damnation, Faust, Vienna, Austria
- Giselle, Peasant Pas de Deux, Tokyo, Japan and others
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- Ballets choreographed and staged for operas and operettas include:
- The Tales of Hoffman, Kammeroper, Vienna, Austria
- The Merry Widow, Lübeck, Germany
- The Gypsy Baron, Lübeck, Germany
- Carmen, Lübeck, Germany
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- Other ballets directed, choreographed, and staged include:
- Sleeping Beauty, Austrian tour
- Viennese Evening (producer, artistic director, choreographer, dancer), Saõ Paolo, Rio de Janeiro, and Curitiba, Brazil
- 1000 Years of Austria (choreographer), Vienna Festival Weeks, Vienna, Austria
- Schubert Lieder, Verona, Italy
- Exodus, Moenchengladbach, Germany
- Handless Fortune (production of Young Choreographers of the Vienna State Opera Ballet), Vienna, Austria, and others
- The Nutcracker (classic version), Austrian and American tour
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- Balletmaster style:
- Teaches in the style of Tarrasov-Tsukanov (Bolshoi method) and using the Vaganova method.
- Uses elements of the method of Tatiana Leskova of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo (with whom he worked in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
- Experienced in training and coaching male ballet dancers and pas de deux.
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