Ivan Cavallari - Stuttgart Ballet

Ivan Cavallari was born in Bolzano, Italy. He received his initial training at the Teatro alla Scala Ballett School in Milan, where his teachers noticed his talent and awarded him with a scholarship to the Bolshoi Ballet School in Moscow. There, he finished his training in 1983. From 1984 to 1985, he danced with the Teatro alla Scala Ballet. In 1986 he joined the Stuttgart Ballet and became a Soloist in 1991, advancing to a Principal Dancer in 1994.

He danced Prince Sigfried in Swan Lake, Onegin, Lenskj and Count Gremin in Onegin, Romeo and Paris in Romeo and Juliet, Petruchio and Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko), the leading role in Edward II (David Bintley), the Prince Desirée and Carabosse in Marcia Haydée´s production of Sleeping Beauty, Albrecht and Hilarion in Giselle, the man and the “Ewige” in Song of the Earth and the brother in My brother, my sister (Kenneth Mac Millan). His repertoire includes leading roles in choreographies from Balanchine, Ashton, Fokine, Bejart, Tetley, Kilian, Forsythe, van Manen, Scholz and Neumeier.

For the Stuttgart Ballet Mr. Cavallari choreographed the Pas de deux Fishy. The State Opera Hannover commissioned a piece from him set to music by John Adam´s Harmonielehre. In July 1999 Mr. Cavallari choreographed the Pas de deux Per Sonia for his partner Sonia Santiago, principal dancer with the Stuttgart Ballet. In May 2000 the State Gallery Stuttgart asked him to create a piece for the opening of a Franz Marc´s paintings exhibition. In May 2001 he created a ballet to Verdi´s music for the Lodz State Opera in Poland followed by another piece called Schiffbrüchige (shipwrecked) for the Mannheim ballet, which premiered in November 2001. The same year he was asked by Read Anderson to collaborate in Staging Cranko´s Onegin at the Royal Ballet Covent Garden in London. In April 2002 Mr. Cavallari staged, together with the choreologist Birgit Deharde, Cranko’s Onegin for the Hungarian State Ballet. In the same year he created a full-length ballet based on the life of the last Emperor of China with the Liaoning Ballet in Schenyang, China. The world premiere took place on August 31, 2002.