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Jiří Kylián (NL)

BIOGRAPHY

Jiří Kylián (born in Czechoslovakia, 1947) started his dance career at the age of nine, at the School of the National Ballet in Prague. In 1962 he was accepted as a student at the Prague Conservatory. He left Prague when he received a scholarship for the Royal Ballet School in London in 1967. After this, he left for the Stuttgart Ballet led by John Cranko. There Kylián made his debut as a choreographer with Paradox for the Noverre Gesellschaft.

After having made three ballets for NDT (Viewers, Stoolgame and La Cathédrale Engloutie), he became the company’s artistic director, together with Hans Knill, in 1975. During the 1978 Charleston Festival in the United States Kylián put NDT on the international map with Sinfonietta (Leoš Janácek). That same year he and Carel Birnie founded NDT2, which was – and is – meant to give young dancers the opportunity to develop their skills and talents. In 1991 he initiated NDT3, the company that created opportunities for ‘older’ dancers. With the advent of NDT3, NDT stood out as the first company worldwide that showe

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Jiří Kylián

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The world-renowned choreographer Jiří Kylián (Czechoslovakia, 1947) has been artistic director of Nederlands Dans Theater for nearly a quarter century.

He started his dance career at the age of nine, at the School of the National Ballet in Prague. In 1962 he was accepted as a student at the Prague Conservatory. He left Prague when he received a scholarship for the Royal Ballet School in London in 1967. After this, he left to join the Stuttgart Ballett led by John Cranko. Kylián made his debut as a choreographer here with Paradox for the Noverre Gesellschaft. After having made three ballets for Nederlands Dans Theater (Viewers, Stoolgame and La Cathédrale Engloutie), he became artistic director of the company in 1975. In 1978 he put Nederlands Dans Theater on the international map with Sinfonietta. That same year, together with Carel Birnie, he founded Nederlands Dans Theater II, which served as a bridge between school and professional company life and was meant to give young dancers the opportunity to develop their skills and talents an

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Jiří Kylián

Czech former dancer and contemporary dance choreographer

Jiří Kylián (born 21 March 1947) is a Czech former dancer and contemporary dance choreographer.^[1] He is considered one of the greatest contemporary dance choreographers in Czech history. ^[2]

Life

Jiří Kylián was born in 1947 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, to his father Václav who was a banker and to his mother Markéta, who was as a young teenager a dancer-child protégée.

Initially inspired by the acrobatic performances of the Circus Busch [de], Kylián decided to pursue professional ballet training at the School of the National Ballet Prague at the age of 9, after having seen a ballet performance for the first time.^[3] Kylián was admitted to the Prague conservatory in 1962. Here, he encountered one of his mentors, teacher and former dancer Zora Šemberová, "who left a deep mark in Jiří's professional development".^[3] At the conservatory Kylián made his first steps as a choreographer with Nine Eighth's, choreographed to jazz music, and Quartet,