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Richild Springer (BB)
Born in Barbados, Richild SPRINGER carried out her studies in Jamaica. After a dance degree at the Bard College of New York, she entered DONALD MCKAYLE ‘S DANCE COMPANY, before being offered a contract at DOUBLE EXPOSURE, Company created in Germany by the American choreographer Lester WILSON.
Dance Delegate for the Cultural Affairs ministry of Barbados and Artistic Directress of BARBADOS DANCE THEATER COMPANY, she thereafter created her own company, DANCE EXPERIENCE.
As a dancer she also appeared on television in France and England. In London, she has worked with Molly MOLLOY and taught to the London Contemporary Dance Theater. She also occurred in London in the musical Cabaret and went on Tour with Samy DAVIS Jr. She took part in the last Josephine BAKER’S Review in Monte Carlo and yet at the age of 25, in Paris, was chosen to incarnate Josephine BAKER herself. In France, Mrs SPRINGER was a member of PETER GOSS COMPANY from creation to end, and has ever since been assisting Mr GOSS in his teaching method.
Richild SPRINGER also teaches to BALLET PRELJOCAJ, Maguy MARIN’s and Philippe TREHET’s Companies, to BALLET DU NORD; in Belgium she teaches to ROSAS - Anne Teresa De KEERSMAEKER ‘s Company- as well as CHARLEROI/DANSES, and, in Holland, to the COMPANY ITZIK GALILI.
She collaborated with the Producers Andrei SERBAN, for The Master and the Marguerite, and with Yannis KOKKOS as dancer and choreographer, for Damnation of Faust, Salome, Alcester, Sad Tropics, Elektra, Hansel und Gretel, Outis, Orestie, Midsummer night Dream, Phaedra, Dido and Aeneas, Troyens, and The Birds.
In 2004, Yannis KOKKOS entrusted to her the role of Nidya in Philippe FENELON‘s world creation opera The Kings, and in 2005 she danced and choreographed for The Bassarides from Hans Werner HENZE.
In 2008 she worked with 14 dancers and singers for the opera Julius Cesar, a production directed by Yannis KOKKOS, which toured through Nancy, Marseille, Caen and Bilbao. She worked as company teacher with BALLET PRELJOCAJ on their tour to Prague, Bucarest and La Rochelle.
Dance Delegate for the Cultural Affairs ministry of Barbados and Artistic Directress of BARBADOS DANCE THEATER COMPANY, she thereafter created her own company, DANCE EXPERIENCE.
As a dancer she also appeared on television in France and England. In London, she has worked with Molly MOLLOY and taught to the London Contemporary Dance Theater. She also occurred in London in the musical Cabaret and went on Tour with Samy DAVIS Jr. She took part in the last Josephine BAKER’S Review in Monte Carlo and yet at the age of 25, in Paris, was chosen to incarnate Josephine BAKER herself. In France, Mrs SPRINGER was a member of PETER GOSS COMPANY from creation to end, and has ever since been assisting Mr GOSS in his teaching method.
Richild SPRINGER also teaches to BALLET PRELJOCAJ, Maguy MARIN’s and Philippe TREHET’s Companies, to BALLET DU NORD; in Belgium she teaches to ROSAS - Anne Teresa De KEERSMAEKER ‘s Company- as well as CHARLEROI/DANSES, and, in Holland, to the COMPANY ITZIK GALILI.
She collaborated with the Producers Andrei SERBAN, for The Master and the Marguerite, and with Yannis KOKKOS as dancer and choreographer, for Damnation of Faust, Salome, Alcester, Sad Tropics, Elektra, Hansel und Gretel, Outis, Orestie, Midsummer night Dream, Phaedra, Dido and Aeneas, Troyens, and The Birds.
In 2004, Yannis KOKKOS entrusted to her the role of Nidya in Philippe FENELON‘s world creation opera The Kings, and in 2005 she danced and choreographed for The Bassarides from Hans Werner HENZE.
In 2008 she worked with 14 dancers and singers for the opera Julius Cesar, a production directed by Yannis KOKKOS, which toured through Nancy, Marseille, Caen and Bilbao. She worked as company teacher with BALLET PRELJOCAJ on their tour to Prague, Bucarest and La Rochelle.
Photo: © Richild Springer
