Eric Viudes
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| Eric Viudes | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 5, 1963 Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France |
| 🏳️ Nationality | French |
| 💼 Occupation | Ballet teacher |
| 📆 Years active | 1984-present |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Dinna Bjørn |
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Eric Alain Alfonso Viudes-Genoud (born 5 October 1963) is a French ballet dancer and teacher. Since 1984, he has been engaged at Norwegian National Ballet in Oslo.
Early life
Eric Viudes started his ballet training in Biarritz, France. At fourteen years old, he won the first prize in Le Concours de la Scène Française in Paris, and achieved a first mention in Dance de Caractère by the jury directed by Rita Thalia and Serge Lifar. After that, he was admitted to Le Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris, where he completed his ballet education, and became one of the last private pupils of Maître Yves Brieux in the legendary Hôtel Particulier, Rue de la Rochefoucault.[1][2]. Eric Viudes signed a contract at Ballet du Rhin in Mulhouse/Strasbourg, under the direction of Jean Sarelli.[3] He joined the company’s tour to Cagliari with Rudolph Nureyev, and danced in Ravel's Bolero by Maurice Béjart at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris.
Career
Eric Viudes was engaged at The Norwegian National Ballet in Oslo in 1984. In 1985, he danced the principal role of Vaslav Nijinsky in Ulf Gadd and Sven-Erik Goude's Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the première in Oslo, to great critical acclaim. After the artistic director, the Norwegian ballerina Anne Borg, promoted him to the soloist rank in 1986, Eric Viudes danced the principal role in all the later revivals of this production with The Norwegian National Ballet, as well as in the Norwegian television NRK's production of the ballet in 1996.[3][4]. Anne Borg has later said that the performance was a huge success, one of the Opera's best and most interesting productions ever.[5].
He was also dancing in another successful dance theatre production by Ulf Gadd and Sven-Erik Goude, where he danced the major part as the son of the family Gallo in Tango Buenos Aires 1907 with the Norwegian National Ballet in 1987, and when he guested with the Gothenburg Ballet in 1988. Norwegian choreographer Sølvi Edvardsen created two ballets for him for The National Stage: Masken (1985) and Grieg à Jour (1994) in which he portrayed Edvard Grieg at the Bergen International Festival. He has also danced leading roles in Jerome Robbins's Les Noces, George Balanchine's Four Temperaments, Rudi van Dantzig's Vier Letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs), Glen Tetley's La Ronde, and Jiří Kylián's Forgotten Land with the company.[6][2]. Of the classical repertoire, Eric Viudes has danced pas de trois in both Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, pas de deux in Giselle and Flower Festival in Genzano, and the male solo in August Bournonville's ballet Napoli.[1][3].
Other responsibilities
In 2003, he received from the Ministry of Culture (France), the State diploma of dance teacher, as recognition of his artistic merits and experience.[7] He has given company classes and master classes in Boston, Montevideo, Singapore, Tbilisi, and Copenhagen as a guest teacher.[1][3]. Eric Viudes has received two scholarships from the Norwegian state to participate in The Bournonville Summer Academy in Copenhagen (1991) and to study dance pedagogics at Canada's National Ballet School and at The Hamburg Ballet School (1995).
Together with his spouse Dinna Bjørn, Eric gives master classes around the world. For several years, he was a regular guest teacher for the aspirant classes at The Royal Danish Ballet, during the artistic directorship of Frank Andersen. He is now a member of The Bournonville Academy faculty, and has been teaching at seminars with them in the USA and Tokyo, Japan. He was the Artistic Advisor of Monik Elgueta for all six editions of The Bournonville à Biarritz Summer Academy from 2009 to 2014.[1]. For the conclusion gala in Biarritz in 2014, he, together with Dinna Bjørn and Gilbert Mayer, brought back to the stage The Pas de la Vestale that Bournonville himself danced at the Opera Garnier.[8] Eric Viudes was also a member of the jury in the dance competition in Biarritz, as well as in the American ballet competition in Utah, USA.
Eric Viudes is now resident ballet master in the newly established European Ballet School in Amsterdam, directed by Jean-Yves Esquerre. He also teaches open classes in Oslo for freelance dancers, young ballet students, and ballet lovers.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Eric Viudès - European School of Ballet". schoolofballet.eu. European School of Ballet. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "2020 BOURNONVILLE WORKSHOP WITH THE MASTERS". Imagineballet.org. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Eric Viudes - Bårdar". baardar.no. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
- ↑ Valdemar Hansteen, Historien om norsk ballett, (Universitetsforlaget, 1989), 178–179.
- ↑ A. Borg, Anne Borg Dans!, (Kolleforlag, 2003), 187–188.
- ↑ A.O. Vollsnes, Norges opera & balletthistorie, (Opera Forlag, 2010), 238–239.
- ↑ "Arrêté du 28 janvier 2003 portant dispense du diplôme d'Etat de professeur de danse". legifrance.gouv.fr. Légifrance. 28 January 2003. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
- ↑ "ACADEMIE Bournonville à Biarritz 6th édition" (PDF). frank-andersen.com. 2014. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
External links
- Ballett og dans – Diaghilevs ballets russes – NRK TV
- "Music for Ballet Class – Sammatti Dance Vol.1" by Martin Åkerwall
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