(ANSA) - BERLIN, 22 JAN - After 5 months at the helm of the Staatsballet in Berlin, the choreographer Sasha Waltz and JohannesOehman will end their joint mandate at the end of 2020. The Department of Culture confirmed this to the Rbb broadcaster, and their port Die Zeit. Choreographer and dancer Sasha Waltz had been contested by the classical ballet company this summer with the petition "Save the Staatsballet". At the basis of the contestation, the choice of a theater-dance choreographer for a classical ballet company. "This form of dancing requires other artistic qualities than those of a ballet dancer", "it is as if they put a tennis coach at the helm of a football team," it was said in the appetite. The Karlsruhe artist justified the early termination of the contract, explaining his intention not to continue conducting the Staatsballet on his own after the resignation of co-director Oehmann, who will direct the Dansenhus (the dance house) in Stockholm.
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Dance: Sasha Waltz leaves Staatsballet Berlin in late 2020
2020-01-22T19:43:08.048Z
After 5 months at the helm of the Staatsballet in Berlin, the choreographer Sasha Waltz and Johannes Oehman will end their joint mandate at the end of 2020. The Culture Department confirmed it to the Rbb broadcaster, and Die Zeit reports it. (HANDLE)
