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Richard Cragun (5 October 1944 – 6 August 2012) was an American ballet dancer – one of the most influential dancers of the twentieth century. Cragun was born in Sacramento, California, United States. He studied at the Banff School of Fine Arts (Canada), the Royal Ballet School (London), and with Vera Volkova (Copenhagen, Denmark). Cragun's artistic development is closely associated with John Cranko, who engaged him in 1962 for the Stuttgart Ballet. With Cranko's choreography (e.g. ''Romeo and Juliet'', ''Onegin'', ''The Taming of the Shrew''), Cragun became world-famous. He also forged a successful partnership with the ballerina Marcia Haydée. Even after Cranko's death, Cragun remained at the Stuttgart Ballet through the end of his dancing career in 1996. There, and in his many guest appearances around the world, he worked with several choreographers who have significantly influenced the development of dance. He danced in works choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan, John Neumeier, Jiri Kylian, William Forsythe, and Maurice Bejart. From 1996 to 1999, he was ballet director at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He left Berlin in 1999 to start a new ballet company in the Brazilian city of Curitiba and at the Teatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro with his partner Roberto de Oliveira. Cragun was also a noted cartoonist, who mounted several exhibitions of his work. Cragun died in Rio de Janeiro on 6 August 2012, at the age of 67.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://gramilano.com/2012/08/the-ballet-world-loses-a-prince-richard-cragun-dies-at-67/ )〕 ==References== * (Cragun in the Oxford Dictionary of Dance ) * Koegler, Horst (1977). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ballet. ISBN 978-0-19-311314-5. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Cragun」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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