6-3-19 Interview
6-3-19 Part 3 of my interview with Ballet Master Robert de Warren begins with a description of the frightening climax to his tour with Iran’s National Folklore Organization to celebrate America’s Bicentennial and his departure from Iran as that country descended into chaos. It goes on to describe his seven year tenure with La Scala in Milan which Rudolph Nureyev chose him to lead: a star studded period during which Robert choreographed and designed ballets for the world’s most prestigious dancers and for which Princess Margaret was the Ballet’s patron. It concludes with a description of the ironic way Robert began his 13 years leading the Sarasota Ballet Company.
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Actor,
Artist,
Artistic Director,
Author,
Ballet master,
Choreographer,
Costume Manager,
Costumer / Costume Designer,
Dancer,
Designer,
Director,
educator,
Performer,
Performer-Coach,
Scenic Designer,
Set Designer A Dance Portrai,
A Midsummer Night's Dream,
Agnes DeMille,
Alvin Ailey,
Andre Prokovsky,
Arts Educational Trust,
August Bournonville,
Balanchine,
Berlin Ballet,
Carreño Dance Festival,
Cinderella,
Countess of Snowdon,
Covent Garden Opera Ballet,
Dame Leonide Massine,
Dame Ninette de Valois,
English National Ballet,
Eva Peron,
Frankfurt Ballet,
Harold Turner,
HRH The Princess Margaret,
Iranian National Folklore Society,
John Cranko,
John Field,
John Vickers,
La Scala,
La Scala Milan,
Lawrence Oliver award for design,
Liontine Price,
Margot Fonteyn,
Marguerita Valma,
Maurice Bejart,
Michael Fokine,
National Ballet of Iran,
National Ballet of Uruguay,
Paul Taylor,
Roland Petit,
Romeo and Juliet,
Royal Academy of Dance,
Royal Ballet School in London,
Royal Bank of Canada,
Royal Opera Ballet Company,
Royston Maldoom. Rudolf Nureyev,
Sadler's Wells School,
Sarasota Ballet,
Sarasota International Dance Festival,
Simorgh Northern Ballet Theatre,
Sir Frederic Ashton,
Sir Kenneth McMillan,
Stuttgart Ballet,
Swan Lake,
The Empress Farah Pahlavi,
The Mahally Dancers of Iran,
The Royal Ballet,
Tragic Memories,
Vakhtam Chabukiani,
Walter Gore,
Yehudi Menuhin
3-27-19 Interview
5-27-19 In the 2nd part of my interview Robert de Warren talks about his studies with The Royal Ballet School, his early work with the Royal Opera Company, his first choreography with the Royal Ballet Choreographic workshop, his time with the Stuttgart, Frankfurt and Berlin Companies where he was finally able to dance principle roles. He talks about his first meeting with Rudolph Nureyev who would become his dear friend and sponsor, the injury to the sesamoid bones in his feet which threatened to end his career and his life, and how, at the Shahs’ request, he took over the National Ballet of Iran, later becoming Founder of Iran’s National Folklore Organization, where he documented and recorded previously unseen tribal ceremonies. It ends with his description of the both glorious and disastrous tour of America that he made with the troupe and his painful discovery of what would soon happen in Iran.
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Artist,
Artistic Director,
Attorney,
Ballet master,
Choreographer,
Costume Manager,
Costumer / Costume Designer,
Dancer,
Designer,
Director,
educator,
Performer,
Performer-Coach,
Scenic Designer,
Set Designer A Dance Portrai,
A Midsummer Night's Dream,
Agnes DeMille,
Alvin Ailey,
Andre Prokovsky,
Arts Educational Trust,
August Bournonville,
Balanchine,
Berlin Ballet,
Carreño Dance Festival,
Cinderella,
Countess of Snowdon,
Covent Garden Opera Ballet,
Dame Leonide Massine,
Dame Ninette de Valois,
English National Ballet,
Eva Peron,
Frankfurt Ballet,
Harold Turner,
HRH The Princess Margaret,
Iranian National Folklore Society,
John Cranko,
John Field,
John Vickers,
La Scala,
La Scala Milan,
Lawrence Oliver award for design,
Liontine Price,
Margot Fonteyn,
Marguerita Valma,
Maurice Bejart,
Michael Fokine,
National Ballet of Iran,
National Ballet of Uruguay,
Paul Taylor,
Roland Petit,
Romeo and Juliet,
Royal Academy of Dance,
Royal Ballet School in London,
Royal Bank of Canada,
Royal Opera Ballet Company,
Royston Maldoom. Rudolf Nureyev,
Sadler's Wells School,
Sarasota Ballet,
Sarasota International Dance Festival,
Simorgh Northern Ballet Theatre,
Sir Frederic Ashton,
Sir Kenneth McMillan,
Stuttgart Ballet,
Swan Lake,
The Empress Farah Pahlavi,
The Mahally Dancers of Iran,
The Royal Ballet,
Tragic Memories,
Vakhtam Chabukiani,
Walter Gore,
Yehudi Menuhin
5-20-19 Interview
Dancer, Choreographer, Ballet Master, Scenic and Costume Designer, Producer, Director, educator, author and Artistic Director of the most prestigious Ballet Companies in the world Robert de Warren, is one of the legendary, illustrious, celebrated and influential members of the international ballet community. In Part 1 of my interview this erudite, entertaining, gifted man describes his early life; his birth in Uruguay, his childhood in Montevideo, meeting his beloved Jacqueline, his career in banking and the serendipitous way he discovered, at age 16, that he was meant to be a ballet dancer.
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administrator,
Artistic Director,
Ballet master,
Choreographer,
Costume Manager,
Costumer / Costume Designer,
Dancer,
Designer,
Director,
educator,
Performer,
Performer-Coach,
Scenic Designer Agnes DeMille,
Alvin Ailey,
Andre Prokovsky,
Arts Educational Trust,
August Bournonville,
Balanchine,
Berlin Ballet,
Carreño Dance Festival,
Countess of Snowdon,
Covent Garden Opera Ballet,
Dame Leonide Massine,
Dame Ninette de Valois,
English National Ballet,
Eva Peron,
Frankfurt Ballet,
Harold Turner,
HRH The Princess Margaret,
Iranian National Folklore Society,
John Cranko,
John Field,
John Vickers,
La Scala Milan,
Lawrence Oliver award for design,
Liontine Price,
Margot Fonteyn,
Marguerita Valma,
Maurice Bejart,
Michael Fokine,
National Ballet of Iran,
National Ballet of Uruguay,
Paul Taylor,
Roland Petit,
Royal Academy of Dance,
Royal Ballet School in London,
Royal Bank of Canada,
Royal Opera Ballet Company,
Royal Opera Company,
Royston Maldoom. Rudolf Nureyev,
Rudolph Nureyev,
Sadler's Wells School,
Sarasota International Dance Festival,
Simorgh Northern Ballet Theatre,
Sir Frederic Ashton,
Sir Kenneth McMillan,
Stuttgart Ballet,
The Empress Farah Pahlavi,
The Mahally Dancers of Iran,
The Royal Ballet,
the Royal Ballet Choreographic workshop,
The Royal Ballet School,
Vakhtam Chabukiani,
Walter Gore,
Yehudi Menuhin
10-8-18 Interview
10/8/18 Susan Angerman’s mother taught her to sew when she was eight years old, she made her doll’s clothes and her own clothes. She was passionate about Dance, especially Ballet, and at fourteen became part of the Charleston Ballet Company, where her sewing came in handy because, in this small company, dancers had to make their own costumes. Although she loved to dance, when it was time to move towards a career as a dancer, she knew that it was not the life for her. She studied design at the French Fashion Academy, where she then taught for several years. Finally deciding that costuming for the theater provided the perfect opportunity to combine her skills and interests, she went to work for the “most prestigious costume shop in New York,” getting freelance work and building a resume. After many years as costume shop manager, she has created a new career as an image consultant and is once again taking freelance costuming jobs; come see her costumes at Florida Studio Theater’s cabaret production of “Unchanged Melodies”
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