11 Facts About Jiri Kylian

Jiri Kylian was born on 21 March 1947 and is a Czech former dancer and contemporary dance choreographer.

Jiri Kylian was born in 1947 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, to his father Vaclav who was a banker and to his mother Marketa, who was as a young teenager a dancer-child protegee.

At the conservatory Jiri Kylian made his first steps as a choreographer with Nine Eighth's, choreographed to jazz music, and Quartet, to music by Bela Bartok.

In 1967 Jiri Kylian received a scholarship to study at the Royal Ballet School in London.

Jiri Kylian joined the Stuttgart Ballet in 1968 and worked under Cranko, where he began to work as a choreographer.

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At Stuttgart Ballet Jiri Kylian started choreographing with Paradox, Kommen und Gehen, and continued in the Stuttgart Ballet's Noverre Kompanie with Incantations, Einzelganger and Blaue Haut, among others.

Three years after the death of Cranko, Jiri Kylian became Artistic Director of Nederlands Dans Theater in 1976.

Jiri Kylian's best known works for NDT include Symphony of Psalms, Stamping Ground, Dream Time, and Silent Cries.

Jiri Kylian's style included exploration of the limitations and capabilities of space, body parts, entrances and exits, contrasts, and humor.

Jiri Kylian makes a statement of lost homelands, lost lovers and lost times and there are duets that reflect violent moods.

Jiri Kylian was influenced by surrealism and minimalism during the creation of this work and the 'black and white ballets'.