Kevin Haigen

BORN
in Miami, Florida, USA. American

EDUCATION
School of American Ballet, NYC.
American Ballet Theater School, NYC

ENGAGEMENTS
American Ballet Theatre, NYC
Stuttgart Ballet
Hamburg Ballet 1976-1983
Nederlands Dans Theater 1983-1985
Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo as dancer, Ballet Master and choreographer 1985/1986
London Festival Ballet 1986-1988
Béjart Ballet Lausanne in 1988
Hamburg Ballet as Ballet Master for the school and the company since 1991, since 2006 Principal Ballet Master. Since 2011 he is also Artistic and Pedagogical Director of the National Youth Ballet

CREATIONS
Joseph in "The Legend of Joseph"
Puck in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Catalabutte and Blue Bird in "The Sleeping Beauty"
Petrushka in "Petrushka"
Lancelot in "The Saga of King Arthur"
Emble in "The Age of Anxiety"
A principal role in "Saint Matthew Passion"
Armand in "Die Kameliendame" (Hamburg version)
"Fourth Symphony of Gustav Mahler" (Hamburg version)

REPERTORY
Armand and Gaston in "Lady of the Camellias"
Günther in "The Nutcracker"
Romeo in "Romeo and Juliet"
Prince Désiré in "The Sleeping Beauty"
Daphnis in "Daphnis and Chloë"

and solos in

Vaslav
Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Fourth Symphony of Gustav Mahler
Lieb' und Leid und Welt und Traum
(Mahler's 1st and 10th Symphony)
Les Noces (Jerome Robbins)
Le Train Bleu (Bronislava Nijinska)

GUEST TEACHER
Royal Swedish Ballet, Malmö Ballet, English National Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Ballet der Deutsche Oper Berlin, Ballett Dresden and Le Ballet de l'Opéra National de Paris and its Ballet School.

HE STAGED
"Les Sylphides" at the age of 17 for the Royal Danish Ballet, with Erik Bruhn. "Yondering" for the National Ballet School of Canada and the Ballet School of the Opéra National de Paris. "The Little Mermaid" for the San Francisco Ballet and the Stanislavsky Ballet Moscow. "Lady of the Camellias" for the American Ballet Theatre and the Bolshoi Ballet. "Romeo and Juliet" for the Tokyo Ballet.

HE DANCED
Joseph as a guest in "The Legend of Joseph" productions of Munich and Vienna, and also for the video production of this ballet with the Ballet Company of Vienna State Opera.
John Neumeier's "Opus 100 - for Maurice" with Ivan Liska at a Gala, in Lausanne, for the 70th Anniversary of Maurice Béjart.
He also performed this ballet in May 98 and during the season 98/99. In the same evening, the Hamburg Ballet danced a ballet that Kevin Haigen choreographed for Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo in December 30, 1985, "Moments Movements Mendelssohn" (Original title: "After Dawn").

HE CHOREOGRAPHED
for the School of American Ballet, American Ballet Theatre II, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, English National Ballet, Spoleto Festival, Malmö Ballet, Hamburg Ballet, Ballettschule der Österreichischen Bundestheater Wien and the School of the Hamburg Ballet.
Donya Feuer made a documentary about him: The Work of Utopia.