Rouven Pabst
Dancer
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Rouven Pabst is back at Oper Frankfurt where he has danced in productions including The Merry Widow and Der Rosenkavalier (both with Claus Guth) Carmen, Iwan Sussanin, Tchaikovsky's The Sorceress and a new Elektra for the first revival of Tobias Kratzer's production of Nielsen's Masquerade. He gained his bachelors in contemporary and classic dance at the University for Music and the Performing Arts in Frankfurt in 2015. Whilst there he worked with people including William Forsythe, Regina van Berkel and Marguerite Donlon and was awarded a scholarship from the German People. He has appeared in many works as a free-lance dancer and performer, including Cabaret (Staatstheater Wiesbaden), Im weißen Rössl (Theater Heidelberg), Ariodante (Salzburg Festival) and Alcina (Zurich Opera / Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris/ Opéra de Monte-Carlo - both directed by Christoph Loy - Alcina (Salzburg Festival/ Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, director: Damiano Michieletto) and several dance productions by co>labs Nürnberg (run by Beate Höhn), Miriam Markl and the choreography duo Vlasova / Pawlica. He also works as an assistant choreographer and choreographer- most recently for Christian Weise's Wilhelm Tell at the National Theater in Mannheim. HIs experience in everything to do with dance earned him a new job: running the contemporary department of the German Dance Teachers Association's Dance Teachers Academy.