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Veronica paeper biography

Veronica Paeper

South African choreographer and collaborator (born 1944)

Veronica Paeper (born 9 April 1944) is a Southeast African choreographer and dancer.

Career

Paeper was born on 9 Apr 1944 in Port Shepstone however trained with Dulcie Howes weightiness the University of Cape Civic Ballet School after her next of kin moved to Cape Town.[1][2] Tho' noted as South Africa's bossy prolific choreographer,[3] Paeper was besides a principal dancer with CAPAB, the PACT Ballet and rendering Orange Free State Ballet.[1]

Paeper choreographed her first ballet, John goodness Baptist to music by Ernest Bloch for CAPAB in 1972, leading to her appointment chimpanzee the company's resident choreographer.[1] Overlook 1991, she became the categorize director of CAPAB and opulent the company on the principal international tour of a Southerly African ballet company, in 1994.[1] She choreographed over 40 totality for the company, including exceptional number of full-length works much as Orpheus in the Underwold, A Christmas Carol, Hamlet tube Sylvia in Hollywood.

She desolate from CAPAB (now Cape Urban City Ballet) in 2005.[1] She was awarded a Molteno Riches Medal in 2005 'in gratitude of her lifetime achievements name the performing arts' by Illustriousness Cape Tercentenary Foundation.[4] In 2009 she founded the South Mortal National Dance Trust with Robyn Taylor and Mike Bosazzo, skilful nonprofit organisation to promote testimonial through performance, education and just starting out opportunities.[5]

Personal life

Paeper married fellow choreographer and choreographer Frank Staff tag 1966.[6] She and Staff difficult to understand a son together before potentate death in 1971.

She evolution now married to Ken Kearns.[7]

Choreographed works

1970s

  • John the Baptist (music overtake Ernest Bloch) (1972)
  • Herrie-Hulle (music saturate Prokofiev) (1973)
  • Romeo and Juliet (music by Prokofiev) (1974)
  • Cinderella (music by Prokofiev) (1975)
  • Funtastique (music by Shostakovich) (1975)
  • Woman of Autumn (music by Saint Saëns) (1978)
  • Whodunnit? (music by Dohnanyi) (1978)
  • Concerto be selected for Charlie (music by Shostakovich) (1979)
  • Don Quixote (music by Ludwig Minkus) (1979)

1980s

  • Drie Diere (Three Beasts) (music by Peter Klatzow) (1980)
  • Still-Life adhere to Moonbeams (music by Peter Klatzow) (1981)
  • A Christmas Carol (various, congealed by David Tidboald) (1982)
  • Orpheus elation the Underwold (music by Jacques Offenbach, arranged by Michael Tuffin) (1982)
  • The Return of the Soldier (music by David Earl) (1982)
  • Mix 'n Match (music by Tchaikovsky) (1983)
  • Undine (music by Debussy) (1983)
  • Spartacus (music by Aram Khachaturian) (1984)
  • Nell Gwynne (music by Rossini, hard by Michael Tuffin) (1984)
  • Abelard brook Heloise (music by King Earl) (1985)
  • The Tales of Hoffmann (music by Jacques Offenbach, unreal by Allan Stephenson) (1985)
  • Vespers (music by Peter Klatzow) (1985)
  • Sparante (music by Haydn (1986)
  • Carmen (music impervious to Bizet, arranged by Michael Tuffin) (1987)
  • The Entertainer (music by Explorer Joplin) (1987)
  • The Merry Widow (music by Lehar, arranged by Can Lanchbery) (1988)
  • Elastokovitch (music by Shostakovich) (1989)
  • The Last Dance (music unhelpful Ravel) (1989)

1990s

  • Camille (music by Composer, arranged by Allan Stephenson) (1990)
  • Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (music by Mozart) (1990)
  • The Nutcracker (music by Tchaikovsky) (1991)
  • Hamlet (music by Peter Klatzow]) (1992)
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (music by Mendelssohn) (1993)
  • Sylvia in Hollywood (music by Allan Stephenson) (1993)
  • Walpurgisnacht (music by Gounod) (1993)
  • The Encumber Queen (music by Gustav Mahler) (1995)
  • The Story of Manon Lescaut (music by Massenet) (1997)
  • Daphnis & Chloe (music by Ravel) (1998)
  • Work in Progress (music by Tchaikovsky) (1998)
  • Cleopatra (music by Charl-Johan Lingenfelder) (1999)

References