Angèle Albrecht Explained

Angèle Albrecht (12 December 1942[1] – 1 August 2000) was a German ballerina.

Life and career

Born in Freiburg im Breisgau,[2] Albrecht was the daughter of the Munich painter and stage designer Elmar Albrecht. After training with Lula von Sachnowsky and at the Royal Ballet School in London,[3] she had engagements at the Mannheim National Theatre (1960/61) and at the Hamburg State Opera (1961–1967), where she was discovered as a "great ballerina" under George Balanchine. From 1967 she was a solo dancer in the ballet du XXième siècle by Maurice Béjart in Brussels for many years,[4] where she was successful in Bhakti, Boléro and The Rite of Spring, among others.Guest tours took her to Berlin and Venice (1964), Spain (1965), Munich (1966) and Zurich (1967) with the ballet of the Hamburg State Opera, and to Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Canada, Cuba, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland and Portugal with the "ballet du XXième siècle" among others.

In 1979, she retired from the stage and founded a ballet school in Brussels, which she gave up in the mid-1980s. She then taught in Munich, among others in the Dance Project and in the Roleff-King Ballet School. She had been married since 1969 to the (exiled) Polish concert pianist and composer Piotr Lachert (later divorced), who dedicated the ballet Angelica to her in 1972. Her son Tigran Albrecht is the offspring of her relationship with the choreographer Lorca Massine, the eldest son of Léonide Massine.

Albrecht died in Munich at the age of 57.[5] Her estate is located in the Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln.

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Notes

  1. According to the birth certificate entry in the register of births, marriages and deaths of the Freiburg im Breisgau registry office dated 15 December 1942; also found in Niehaus 1972, p. 135 bzw. 2nd ed. 1978, .; Reclam's Ballet Encyclopaedia erroneously states 16 November.
  2. Web site: 13 December 1942 . Albrecht, Angele (1942–) . 7 June 2021 . Encyclopedia.com.
  3. Web site: 12 December 1942 . Biography of Angela Albrecht (1942-VVVV) . 7 June 2021 . TheBiography.us.
  4. Web site: Angèle Albrecht . 7 June 2021 . Biografie WHO'S WHO . de.
  5. News: Pace . Eric . 13 August 2000 . Angele Albrecht, 57, Dancer Praised for Work With Bejart . . 7 June 2021.
  6. Wilfried Hofman: Junge deutsche Tänzer: Angele Albrecht. In Das Tanzarchiv, 17. Jg. issue. 10 March 1970, pp. 309f.
  7. Web site: Gradinger . Malve . Angèle Albrecht . 7 June 2021 . Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln . de. Published in: Ballett-Journal / Das Tanzarchiv, No. 4 v. 1 October 2000,

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