Angele Albrecht

Angèle Albrecht (12 December 1942 – 1 August 2000) was a German ballerina.

Life and career Born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Albrecht was the daughter of the Munich painter and stage designer Elmar Albrecht. After training with Lula von Sachnowsky and at the Royal Ballet School in London, she had engagements at the Mannheim National Theatre (1960/61) and at the Hamburg State Opera (1961–1967), where she was discovered as a "great ballerina" under George Balanchine. From 1967 she was a solo dancer in the ballet du XXième siècle by Maurice Béjart in Brussels for many years, where she was successful in Bhakti, Boléro and The Rite of Spring, among others. Guest tours took her to Berlin and Venice (1964), Spain (1965), Munich (1966) and Zurich (1967) with the ballet of the Hamburg State Opera, and to Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Canada, Cuba, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland and Portugal with the "ballet du XXième siècle" among others.

In 1979, she retired from the stage and founded a ballet school in Brussels, Her estate is located in the Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln. Malve Gradinger: "a technically highly brilliant interpreter with a strong personality".