Choreography
Vasco Wellenkamp
Synopsis
Passacaglia, with music by Weber, was a restaging by the Portuguese choreographer Vasco Wellenkamp, who gifted it to the company in 1992. The work was originally a duet created for the Gulbenkian Ballet, a company founded in Lisbon, Portugal in 1975 and which ceased operations in 2005.
Year of debut
1992
For 20 years he was resident choreographer of the Ballet Gulbenkian. Wellenkamp has also worked for major companies such as Ballet de Geneve, Balletto di Toscana, Extemporary Dance Theatre, Dance Theatre Comune, Ballet of the National Theatre of Zagreb, among others. The experience he has acquired over more than thirty years of career allowed him, after leaving the Gulkbekian Ballet in 1996, to found his Portuguese Contemporary Ballet Company in Portugal. Vasco Wellenkamp has choreographed numerous works in various companies around the world, including works created especially for Cisne Negro Cia. de Dança's repertoire, such as Sabiá, Keep-Going, Cânticos Místicos, and Passacaglia. The holder of several prizes and awards for his work as teacher and choreographer, since October 2007 he has been Artistic Director of the Companhia Nacional de Bailado, in Lisbon.
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