A truly unique evening. Anyone who was there will still vividly remember that summer evening high up on the Stuttgart heights, even after all this time. Scheduled as an artistic highlight of the 1993 International Horticultural Exhibition, Renato Zanella's Apollo not only met all expectations, it exceeded them: The final scene had to be repeated three times on the open-air stage in Killesberg Park, and Vladimir Malakhov added two more performances before the audience was finally satisfied and released the sun god from his leading role.
An evening at the John Cranko School, then still directed by Alex Ursuliak. Among the muses: Iratxe Ansa from San Sebastián, who, like so many from the Spanish Basque Country, had followed the example of the long-time ballet soloist Hilde Koch and ended up ...
