FRIEDEMANN VOGEL Principal Dancer
Friedemann Vogel was born in Stuttgart (Germany), completed his ballet training at the Princess Grace Academy of Classical Dance in Monte Carlo with the John Gilpin Scholarship from Princess Antoniette de Monaco. He showed his outstanding talent by winning several international ballet competition awards. In 1997 he won the Prix de Lausanne, the Gold medal in the Prix de Luxembourg, the Eurocity Competition in Italy and 1998 he won the Jackson Competition USA.
In September 1998 Friedemann Vogel joined the Stuttgart Ballet and quickly rose through the ranks. In 2002 he was promoted to first soloist, the company's highest rank. In the same year he also won the much-coveted Erik Bruhn Prize in Toronto Canada. Friedemann Vogel has been elected Dancer of the Year twice by the international dance critics survey of the magazine TANZ, for 2010 and again for 2019. In June 2011 Friedemann was appointed by the Italian dance magazine Danza&Danza as Best Male Dancer. His repertory includes title roles in the classics, as well as principal roles in pieces by Choreographers ranging from Cranko and Balanchine to Robbins and Kylián, from Neumeier to Forsythe and McGregor.
Friedemann Vogel has been invited to dance as a guest artist by the most prestigious companies like the Mariinsky Theater St.Petersburg, the Bolshoi Ballet Theatre Moscow, Teatro alla Scala Milano, the English National Ballet, the National Ballet of China, the Tokyo Ballet, the Hong Kong Ballet, Ballets de Santiago de Chile, the Finnish National Ballet, Staatsballett Berlin and the Bayerisches Staatsballett, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Royal Swedish Ballet, the Vienna State Ballet,the Korean National Ballet and the Béjart Ballet Lausanne. In September 2015 he was awarded the national title of "Kammertänzer". In 2016 he received the "Prix MAYA". In October 2020 he was honored as Outstanding Performer with the German Dance Prize 2020. In 2021, Friedemann Vogel was selected to be the Ambassador for International Dance Day to write the official message by the International Theatre Institute, under the patronage of UNESCO.
Leading roles
Afternoon of a Faun (Jerome Robbins)
Apollo (George Balanchine): Apollo
Ballet Imperial (George Balanchine): leading role
Bella Figura (Jiří Kylián) : Pas de deux
Bolero (Maurice Béjart): male leading role
Brouillards (John Cranko) : Bruyère
Dances at a Gathering (Jerome Robbins): Role in Green
Diamonds (George Balanchine): leading role
Edward II (David Bintley): Edward II
Forgotten Land (Jiří Kylián): White
Fratres (John Neumeier)
Gaîté Parisienne (Maurice Béjart): Pas de deux “The Lovers”
Giselle (Production: Reid Anderson, Valentina Savina)(Patrice Bart)(Yvette Chauviré): Duke Albrecht
Grand Pas Classique by Daniel Auber
Herman Schmerman (William Forsythe)
In The Middle, Somewhat Elevated (William Forsythe)
Initials R.M.B.E. (John Cranko)
Kaash (Akram Khan)
Kazimir’s Colours (Mauro Bigonzetti): main role
La Bayadere (Natalia Makarova) (Yuri Grigorovich) : Solor
La Chauve-Souris (Roland Petit): Johann
La fille mal gardée (Sir Frederick Ashton): Colas
La Sylphide ((Peter Schaufuss), (Erik Bruhn) after August Bournonville)): James
Legende (John Cranko)
Les Sylphides (Michail Fokine): Poet
Marguerite and Armand (Frederick Ashton): Armand
Manon (Kenneth MacMillan): Des Grieux
Mayerling (Kenneth MacMillan): Crown Prince Rudolph
Mopey (Marco Goecke)
Nachtmerrie (Marco Goecke)
Onegin (John Cranko): Onegin and Lenski
Poème de l’extase (John Cranko): lead role boy in love
Raymonda 3.Act (Rudolf Nureyev): Jean de Brienne
Ricercare (Glen Tetley)
Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko), (Kenneth MacMillan), (Derek Deane) : Romeo
Slice to Sharp (Jorma Elo)
Songs of a wayfarer (Maurice Béjart) role Nureyev
Stravinsky Violin Concerto (George Balanchine)
Swan Lake (John Cranko),(Derek Deane),(Yuri Grigorovich),(Rudolf Nureyev),(Asaf Messerer): Prince Siegfried
Symphony in C (George Balanchine): 1st movement
The Dream (Frederick Ashton): Oberon
The Four Temperaments (George Balanchine): Sanguinic
The Lady and the Fool (John Cranko): Moondog, Prince
The Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier): Armand Duval and Graf N.
The Sleeping Beauty (Márcia Haydée after Marius Petipa): Prince Désiré
The Song of the Earth (Kenneth MacMillan): Messanger of Death
The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude (William Forsythe)
Theme and Variations (George Balanchine): leading role
Trois Gnossiennes (Hans van Manen)
Voluntaries (Glen Tetley): Pas de trois
Specially created Roles
Adagio Assai (Bridged Breiner)
Aurora’s Nap (Johan Inger) Prince Désiré
Cadavre Exquis (Guillaume Cote)
Carlotta’s Portrait (Christian Spuck)
Copelia at Teatro alla Scala (Derek Deane): Franz
Creatures with the Tokyo Ballet (Patrick de Bana): male lead role
EDEN / EDEN (Wayne McGregor)
Fancy Goods (Marco Goecke)
Giselle (Irina Lukasova): Duke Albrecht
Il Concertone (Mauro Bigonzetti)
Le petit rien (Christian Spuck)
Mono Lisa (Itzik Galili)
Metrof (Shaked Heller)
nocturne (Christian Spuck)
Nuit Blanche (Sébastien Bertaud)
Orlando (Marco Goecke): title role
Raymonda at Teatro alla Scala (Sergej Vikharev):Jean de Brienne
Source (Edward Clug)
still.nest (Dominique Dumais)
Strictly Gershwin (Derek Deane)
Taiyō to Tsuki (Martin Schläpfer)
The Chambers of a Heart (Itzik Galili)
The Firebird (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui)
The Nutcracker (Edward Clug): Nutcracker, Nephew
The Shaking Tent (Marc Spradling)
The Sleeping Beauty (Derek Deane),(Cyntia Harvey): Prince Desiré
Tristesse for ''Kings of the Dance'' (Marcelo Gomes)
Two Pieces of Matter against the Gravitational Force (Jean Christophe Blavier)
Awards
Prix de Lausanne (cash prize)
Prix de Louxembourg (Gold Medal)
Jackson Competition USA (Bronze Medal)
Eurocity Competition (Gold Medal)
Erik Bruhn Prize 2002
Dancer of the Year 2010 by the international dance critics survey of the magazine TANZ
Elected as "Best male dancer 2011" by Danza&Danza magazine Italy
Léonide Massine Prize as''Best male dancer'' 2012, Positano Italy
"Prix MAYA"2016 by Ballet2000, Cannes France
Dancer of the Year 2019 by the international dance critics survey of the magazine TANZ
"Outstanding Performer" award of the German Dance Prize 2020