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Angelin Preljocaj
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<h2 id="early-life">Early life</h2> <p>Angelin Preljocaj was born in 1957 in <a href="/facts/Sucy-en-Brie/RrA5YzES">Sucy-en-Brie</a>, <a href="/facts/France/CxIeIKM3">France</a>. He is of Montenegrin-<a href="/facts/Albanians/wc6Mj4KA">Albanian</a> descent. His father was born in Vermosh but was escaped from Albania because of the communism while his mother was from Ulcinj.They together went to France where Angelin was born. </p> <h2 id="career">Career</h2> <p>His choreographic work is steeped in his writing of the history of classical ballet, but is resolutely contemporary. He joined the repertoire of the <a href="/facts/Ballet_de_l%2527Op%25C3%25A9ra_national_de_Paris/JqwWmvl2">Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris</a> in the early 1990s. In 1995, he received the <a href="/facts/Prix_Benois_de_la_Danse/kePE0pfG">Prix Benois de la Danse</a> as choreographer. </p><p>In December 1984 he founded the ballet company that in 1996 that was subsequently renamed <a href="http://www.preljocaj.org/">Ballet Preljocaj</a> when it moved into its current home of residence at <a href="/facts/Pavillon_Noir/N5gYRash">Pavillon Noir</a> of <a href="/facts/Aix-en-Provence/3tSnWEHK">Aix-en-Provence</a>. </p> <h2 id="main-choreographies">Main choreographies</h2> <ul><li>1984 : <i>Aventures coloniales</i></li> <li>1984 : <i>Marché noir</i></li> <li>1985 : <i>Larmes blanches</i></li> <li>1985 : <i>Peurs bleues</i></li> <li>1986 : <i>À nos héros</i></li> <li>1987 : <i>Le Petit Napperon bouge</i></li> <li>1987 : <i>Hallali Romée</i></li> <li>1988 : <i>Liqueurs de chair</i></li> <li>1988 : <i>Les raboteurs</i> after <a href="/facts/Les_raboteurs_de_parquet/sBUc7htI">painting</a> by Caillebotte</li> <li>1989 : <i>Noces</i> (répertoire)</li> <li>1989 : <i>Un trait d'union</i></li> <li>1990 : <i>Amer America</i></li> <li>1990 : <i><a href="/facts/Romeo_and_Juliet_(Prokofiev)/IY9Avffc">Romeo and Juliet</a></i></li> <li>1992 : <i>La Peau du Monde</i></li> <li>1993 : <i><a href="/facts/Parade_(ballet)/qQUn6FF3">Parade</a></i> (répertoire)</li> <li>1993 : <i>Noces</i> (new version)</li> <li>1993 : <i><a href="/facts/Le_Spectre_de_la_Rose/MW7lXUk7">Le Spectre de la Rose</a></i> (répertoire)</li> <li>1994 : <i>Le Parc</i> (répertoire) for the <a href="/facts/Ballet_de_l%2527Op%25C3%25A9ra_national_de_Paris/JqwWmvl2">Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris</a></li> <li>1995 : <i>Annonciation</i> (<a href="/facts/Bessie_Award/JoUPDds1">Bessie Award</a> in 1997)</li> <li>1995 : <i>Petit Essai sur le temps qui passe</i></li> <li>1995 : <i>L'Anoure</i> (répertoire)</li> <li>1996 : <i><a href="/facts/The_Firebird/C8CG9GAF">The Firebird</a></i> (répertoire)</li> <li>1996 : <i><a href="/facts/Romeo_and_Juliet_(Prokofiev)/IY9Avffc">Romeo and Juliet</a></i> (new version) in collaboration with <a href="/facts/Enki_Bilal/TdbHFFWr">Enki Bilal</a></li> <li>1996 : <i>L'Annonciation</i> (répertoire)</li> <li>1997 : <i>La Stravaganza</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li> <li>1997 : <i>Paysages après la bataille</i></li> <li>1998 : <i>Centaures</i></li> <li>1998 : <i>Casanova</i> (répertoire)</li> <li>1999 : <i>Personne n'épouse les méduses</i></li> <li>2000 : <i>Portraits in Corpore</i></li> <li>2000 : <i>MC/14-22 (Ceci est mon corps)</i></li> <li>2001 : <i><a href="/facts/The_Rite_of_Spring/wTuBJeIA">The Rite of Spring</a></i></li> <li>2001 : <i>Helikopter</i> on a composition by <a href="/facts/Karlheinz_Stockhausen/XCrTaejh">Karlheinz Stockhausen</a></li> <li>2002 : <i>Near Life Experience</i></li> <li>2003 : <i>L'Annonciation</i> (video version)</li> <li>2004 : <i>MC/14-22</i> (new version, répertoire)</li> <li>2004 : <i>Le Songe de Médée</i> (répertoire)</li> <li>2004 : <i>Empty Moves (part I)</i> on a music by <a href="/facts/John_Cage/L8UuNbIY">John Cage</a></li> <li>2004 : <i>N</i> (répertoire) with <a href="/facts/Kurt_Hentschlager/KwAP80zu">Kurt Hentschläger</a> (Image, light & stage design) and <a href="/facts/Ulf_Langheinrich/ojfj6mfC">Ulf Langheinrich</a> (music and sound design)</li> <li>2005 : <i>Les 4 saisons...</i> in collaboration with <a href="/facts/Fabrice_Hyber/MgfPzRdV">Fabrice Hyber</a> (répertoire)</li> <li>2007 : <i>Empty Moves (Part I and II)</i> (répertoire)</li> <li>2007 : <i>Eldorado (Sonntags Abschied)</i> (répertoire) with a dedicated composition for the ballet by <a href="/facts/Karlheinz_Stockhausen/XCrTaejh">Karlheinz Stockhausen</a></li> <li>2008 : <i>Blanche Neige</i> (<i>Snow White</i>)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li> <li>2009 : <i>Le funambule</i></li> <li>2010 : <i>Siddharta</i></li> <li>2010 : <i>And then A Thousand Years Of Peace</i></li> <li>2011 : <i>suivront mille ans de calme</i></li> <li>2012 : <i>What I Call Oblivion</i></li> <li>2013 : <i>The Nights</i></li> <li>2015 : <i>Return to Berratham</i></li> <li>2016 : <i>The Painting on The Wall</i></li> <li>2017 : <i>Still Life</i></li> <li>2018 : <i>Gravity</i></li> <li>2019 : <i>Winterreise</i></li> <li>2020 : <i>Swan Lake</i></li> <li>2021 : <i>Deleuze / Hendrix</i></li> <li>2022 : <i><a href="/facts/Mythologies_(ballet)/P3c8YPC3">Mythologies</a></i></li></ul> <h2 id="filmography">Filmography</h2> <ul><li>2016 : <i><a href="/facts/Polina_(film)/GQptN38f">Polina</a></i></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> Wikimedia Commons has media related to Angelin Preljocaj. <ul><li><a href="http://www.preljocaj.org">Official site of Ballet Preljocaj</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>New York Magazine Jun 16, 1997 <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=T-gCAAAAMBAJ&dq=Angelin+Preljocaj&pg=PA55" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=T-gCAAAAMBAJ&dq=Angelin+Preljocaj&pg=PA55</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Blanche-Neige entry at IMDb. Retrieved 11 September 2010. <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1565000/" target="_blank">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1565000/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>