Yohan Stegli

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Yohan Stegli was born in 1980, in Aix-en-Provence, France. He studied at the Mireille Marin Dance School in Trets and at the School of The Hamburg Ballet. Among his most important teachers figure Mireille Marin, Pedro Consuegra, Marianne Kruuse, Anatoli Nisnevich, Kevin Haigen, Radik Zaripov and Nicole Leduc. In 1999, he became a member of the Company of The Hamburg Ballet, where he was promoted to Soloist in 2004. In 2009, he created the role “Hermes“ in John Neumeiers ballet Orpheus.

He danced solo roles in several of John Neumeier’s ballets, among them Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler, Winter Ways, Saint Matthew Passion and Opus 100.

He was a guest dancer in Tokyo, Osaka and Luxemburg as well as in Toronto at Canada’s National Ballet School and at the School of the Opéra National de Paris, where he also staged John Neumeier’s ballet Yondering.

In 1998, he received the Prix Espèces at the Prix de Lausanne and in 1999 the first prize at the eight’s Eurovision contest for young dancers.

Yohan Stegli has repeatedly worked as a choreographer. In Hamburg, in April 2011, he organized the performances of the “Young Choreographers”. In 2011, he officially ended his stage career and became assistant to the Artistic Director Kevin Haigen and ballet master since the founding of the German National Youth Ballet. Since 2017 he is the managing director of the company.