John Neumeier
Hamburg Ballet, Sybil Shearer Dance Company
John Neumeier is the director of the Hamburg Ballet in Germany. Originally from Milwaukee, where he received his first ballet instruction, he continued his dance training in Chicago at the Stone-Camyrn School of Ballet. He then studied dance with Sybil Shearer and Ruth Page while attending Marquette University, later training in Europe before joining the Stuttgart Ballet in 1963. After briefly directing the Frankfurt Ballet, he became the director of the Hamburg Ballet in 1973 and has since choreographed over 170 works, including, in 2017, when he created and directed a new production of Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice for the Lyric Opera of Chicago featuring the Joffrey Ballet. He also operates the John Neumeier Foundation in Hamburg.
