Staatliche Ballettschule Berlin

After graduating from the State Ballet School of Berlin in 1987, Gregor Seyffert danced for 13 years as a soloist in the ballet company of the Komische Oper Berlin. His technical perfection and unique embodiment of character parts won him numerous international prizes such as the gold medal at the Prix de Lausanne in 1986 or the first prize as best partner at the International Ballet Competition in Jackson, USA (1994). In 1997, he was the first German dancer to be given the coveted Prix Benois de la danse- UNESCO as the world`s best dancer of the year. In 1996, he founded Gregor Seyffert & Compagnie and that same year was commissioned to produce “Über das Marionettentheater” and “Clown Gottes” as official German cultural contributions to the Olympic Summer Games in Atlanta, USA. The successful piece “Clown Gottes” about the legendary Vaslav Nijinsky was filmed by a WDR and ORB co-production in 2002. In appreciation of his remarkable artistic achievements, Gregor Seyffert was awarded the German Dance Prize in 2003.  In 2002, the Kammertänzer Seyffert was named artistic director of the stage dance department at the State Ballet School of Berlin, and in 2006, appointed professor for stage dance at the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst “Ernst Busch”. As artistic director of the Gregor Seyffert Compagnie Dessau am Anhaltischen Theater between 2004 and 2009, he staged “Der kleine Prinz”, “Tango Palast”, “Peri – Ein Engel zwischen Himmel & Erde”, “In 80 Tagen um die Welt” as well as the cross-over spectacle “Marquis de Sade” at the Kraftwerk Vockerode, which was shown over 220 times between 2006 and 2009. In 2010, he created the dance piece “Menschensohn” about the life of Jesus Christ based on texts by Klaus Kinski for the Theater & Philharmonie Thüringen. His latest production, “Wagner Reloaded”, was the opening event of the MDR-Musiksommer during the Wagner anniversary year 2013. A multi-media cross-over spectacle with the Finnish