Born in 1958, this world-renowned dancer and choreographer was Ballet Director of the Leipzig Opera from 1991 until his death in 2004. For his work as a choreographer, which includes a repertoire of more than one hundred ballets, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1996, in addition to many other awards such as the German Dance Prize. In the course of his successful career, he has created choreographies for major European stages such as the Zurich Opera House, the Stuttgart Ballet, the Vienna State Opera and La Scala in Milan, and has
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Throughout his life, Jean Weidt strove to give expressive dance a political dimension. With his company Die Roten Tänzer (The Red Dancers), he organised socially critical dance evenings in Berlin from 1929. Weidt was thus an important protagonist of the political theatre of the Weimar Republic. For him, dance was a mouthpiece for issues of the working class and the oppressed. In 1933 he emigrated to France and worked in Paris, Moscow and Prague until the end of the Second World War. He became internationally known with his group Ballets Weidt, for which he created, among other things, the choreography
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