Flemming Flindt

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Flemming Flindt (30 June 1936 – 3 March 2009) was a

Paris Opera Ballet
in 1961.

His first ballet was Enetime, a 1963 adaptation of

La Leçon, original English title of the ballet The Private Lesson,[1][2] to a score by Georges Delerue and was commissioned by Danish television, later being adapted for the stage, making its premiere with Royal Danish Ballet on tour in Paris in 1964; Flindt returned to the Royal Danish Ballet as artistic director from 1966 to 1978. Other ballets he made on the Royal Danish Ballet include Gala Variations Music: Knudåge Riisager first performance was 5 March 1967, Ballet Royal Music: Knudåge Riisager first performance was on 31 May 1967, The Miraculous Mandarin to Bartók (1967), Swineherd Music: Knudåge Riisager first performance was on 11 March 1969 The Nutcracker to Tchaikovsky in 1971, Jeux to Debussy in 1973 and Dreamland, to a score by Herman David Koppel
in 1974.

In 1978 he formed his own dance company. Its first work,

Janos Fürst. The principal dancers were Vivi Flindt, his wife, as Salome; Jonny Eliasson as John the Baptist; and Lizzie Rhode as Herodias. Flindt danced the role of Herod, and Vivi danced her final scene completely nude. This caused less of a sensation than the couple's previous nude ballet Dødens triumf (The Triumph of Death), a television ballet in which the whole cast danced naked to a 1971 score by The Savage Rose (its stage premiere at the Royal Danish Theatre was in 1972).[3]
Salome was filmed and shown on national television.

From 1981 to 1989 he became artistic director of the Dallas Ballet, after which he continued to work as a freelance choreographer, especially with the Cleveland Ballet. In 1991 he returned to the Royal Danish Ballet to make Caroline Mathilde to another Peter Maxwell Davies score and Legs of Fire in 1998 to a score by Erik Norby.

Flemming Flindt was made a

Carina Ari Medal in 1975. He was married to the dancer Vivi Flindt
, who created leading roles in a number of his ballets.

Flemming Flindt works continue to be performed as part of the extensive repertoire of

Sarasota, Florida in the United States.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ Clive Barnes (8 December 1965). "Flemming Flindt Work Has Debut Here; "Private Lesson" Based on Ionesco Play". The New York Times. p. 56.
  2. ^ The date of Clive Barnes' December 1965 review was given incorrectly as 8 October in the Times' 12 March 2009, obituary of Flindt.
  3. ^ "OBIT: Flemming Flindt". 3 March 2009. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  4. ^ Jack Anderson (12 March 2009). "Flemming Flindt, Dancer, Dies at 72". The New York Times. p. B9.
  5. ^ "Flemming Flindt er død" [Flemming Flindt has died]. DR. 3 March 2009. Retrieved 2 July 2019.

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