Carmina Burana

Mauricio Wainrot
Choreographer
Mauricio Wainrot, born in Buenos Aires, is currently the Artistic Director of Ballet Contemporáneo del Teatro San Martin of Buenos Aires. He was a Permanent Guest Choreographer of The Royal Ballet of Flanders, Belgium from 1991 until 2004 and created 11 successful ballets for this distinguished company: Carmina Burana, Le Sacre du Printemps, The Messiah, Firebird, Looking through Glass, Beyond Memory, Wayfarer Songs, Tango Plus,
The 8 Seasons, Distant Light and Journey.

Wainrot is a former Artistic Director of Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal and Grupo de Danza Contemporánea of Teatro San Martín of Buenos Aires. He studied at the Teatro Colón High School of Arts in Buenos Aires and danced as principal guest dancer with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, the Teatro Municipal Ballet of Rio de Janeiro, the Ballet de Cámara of Caracas, the Ballet Contemporáneo of Buenos Aires and the Grupo de Danza Contemporánea of Teatro San Martín.

Wainrot left Argentina in 1986, invited by Ulf Gaad, Artistic Director of the Goteborg Opera of Sweden, to stage Anne Frank, Symphony of Psalms and Three Argentine Dances. Due to the success of this program, he was invited to set his works and to create new ones for companies in Europe and in America.

More than 40 companies have premiered Wainrot’s works. Among them are English National Ballet, Royal Ballet of Flanders, Royal de Wallonie, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Staatstheater Hannover, Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Julio Bocca and Ballet Argentino, Cincinnati Ballet, Richmond Ballet, The Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Ballet Florida, The Juilliard Dance Ensemble, The Bat Dor Dance Company of Israel, The Ballet de l´Opera de Bordeaux, Ballet du Capitole, Ballet de l´Opera de Nice, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, The National Ballet of Mexico, Ballet Nacional Chileno, Ballet de Santiago and Ballet of Teatro Colon.

In 2006 Wainrot was awarded the Dance Critics Award in Argentina for The Tempest, based on Shakespeare’s play. And just this month he received a Lifetime Achievement in the Dance World award, the most important Argentinean national prize.

Wainrot was nominated for the International Dance Award Benois de la Danse 2003 for Distant Light at the Boslhoi Theater in Moscow. In 1993 and 1998 the Choo-San Goh Choreographic Award Foundation awarded two of his works, Perpetual Motion created for the Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Now and Then for Richmond Ballet. In 1991, 1994, 1998 and 1999 the Chilean Critics Association awarded him with the APES Prize, for Best Production of the year for Anne Frank, 4 Janis For Joplin, Libertango and The Messiah, respectively. In 1999 he won the Konex Platinum Prize in Argentina as Best Choreographer of the Decade, in Argentina the Premio Teatros del Mundo 1999 for The Messiah and in 2000 his work A Streetcar Named Desire was awarded twice for both the Trinidad Guevara Prize and Ace Prize (Argentinean Critics Association) as Best Dance Production of the Year. In 2001 he received the Award Teatro XXI for Now and Then.

He was a jury member of the Concurso Coreográfico de la Villa de Madrid in 1992 and in the Dance World Montecarlo Competition in the year 2000. From 1987 to 1990, he was the resident choreographer of Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal and from 1989 to 1991 he was resident choreographer of Hildesheim Stadttheater in Germany. Wainrot has been a guest teacher at MUDRA International (Bejart’s Company School) in Brussels, at the Hochschule fur Müsik und Darstellende Kunste, Frankfurt, and in Buenos Aires at the Teatro Colón High School of Arts and the Taller de Danza of Teatro San Martín. With Set Designer and Plastic Artist, Carlos Gallardo, Wainrot has staged more that 40 ballets around the world.

In 2007 Mauricio Wainrot was invited to be a Jury at the Benois de la Danse, which was held in Moscow at the Bolshoi Theater and a Jury at the New York International Dance Competition.

Carlos Gallardo
Costume, Set & Properties Designer
Born in Buenos Aires, Gallardo studied Design and Visual Communication at the Institute of Art Directors of Buenos Aires. He has been Art Director of The Municipal Theatre San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Abril and Hispamerica - two of the most distinguished publishing houses in Argentina; and Summa Publishers, the Architects Directors Magazine. In 1984, after winning in the Biennale of Design for his famous posters created for the San Martin Theater, he started collaborating intensively with choreographer Mauricio Wainrot, creating stage and costume designs for over 40 ballets staged for 43 dance companies around the world.

He has collaborated with the Royal Ballet of Flanders for 11 years where he created designs for 11 of Wainrot’s ballets: Carmina Burana, The Messiah, The Rite of Spring, The 8 Seasons, Firebird, Looking Through Glass, Wayfarer Songs, Journey, Beyond Memory and Tango Plus.

Among his stage and costume designs, the ones that stand out the most are: The Tempest, Medea, Carmina Burana, A Streetcar named Desire, Anne Frank, Travesias, Rite of Spring, 8 Seasons, El pájaro de Fuego, Symphony of the Psalms, Beyond Memory and 4 Janis for Joplin; for companies such as: The Royal Ballet of Flanders, The English National Ballet, Balletto del Teatro di San Carlo di Nápoli, Royal Ballet of Wallonie, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Juilliard Dance Ensemble, Ballet del Teatro Colon, The Cincinnati Ballet, Florida Ballet, Bat Dor Dance Company of Israel, Ballet de l´Opera de Nice, Ballet de l´Opéra de Bordeaux, Ballet du Capitole in Toulouse, Compañía Nacional de México, Ballet Nacional Chileno and Ballet de Santiago.

In 2007 he received the renowned Award Benois de la Danse, in Moscow, for his stage and costume design for The Tempest by Mauricio Wainrot, premiered by the Contemporary Ballet of The San Martin Theatre in 2006.

Carlos Gallardo is also a plastic artist and his work has been exhibited throughout Europe and America. He has participated in expositions at Art Chicago, New York Art Fair, ArteBA, Basel Miami Art Fair, Basel Art Fair in Switzerland, Foire d’Art de Bruxelles, FIAC of Paris, and ARCO in Madrid, Spain. In 1997 he represented Argentina at the Biennale held in Havana, Cuba. He held individual exhibitions in art galleries in Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Miami, Wiesbaden, Frankfurt, Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Santiago de Chile and Buenos Aires; and at the Carrillo Gil Museum, Mexico; Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires; Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires and Museum of Fine Arts of Santiago de Chile. In 2003 his work was xhibited at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and in 2004 at the Musée d´Art Contemporain of Nice, France. In March 2007 he participated as a guest artist at the Biennale of the End of the World, held in Ushuaia, Argentina.

David Morrison

Lighting Designer

David Morrison, lighting designer, has been described as “dramatic”, “daring” and “perfect” by The Globe and Mail. He has lit over 200 world premieres across Canada, the U.S., Europe and Asia. Previous work with the RWB includes; Nina Menon’s Drunken Butterflies and Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White and Mark Godden’s The Rite of Spring and Dracula.

Mr. Morrison has specialized in dance lighting since 1983. He apprenticed with renowned lighting designer Nicholas Cernovitch. David has worked with many leading choreographers including John Alleyne, Peggy Baker, Serge Bennathan, Bill James, James Kudelka, John Neumeier and Rudi van Dantzig. His work has been seen in the repertoire of Dancemakers, Alberta Ballet, Ballet British Columbia, Boston Ballet, Ballet Florida, The Royal Ballet of Flanders and Compañía Nacional de Danza (Mexico). Currently, David is Resident Lighting Designer for the National Ballet School and a regular guest artist at Ryerson University. Most recently David designed Crystal Pite’s Pilot X for Nederlands Dans Theater.

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Carlos Gallardo

David Morrison