Conversations with Marijn Rademaker and Jozef Varga
Dutch National Ballet
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
June, 2017
by Ilona Landgraf
Copyright © 2017 by Ilona Landgraf
The beautiful opera house and national ballet company are as welcoming and open as Amsterdam itself. During my last visit for the premiere of Alexei Ratmansky’s “Shostakovich Trilogy” in mid-June, I took the opportunity to talk with two principal dancers, Marijn Rademaker and Jozef Varga, about their career and their plans for the future.
Rademaker, a Dutchman, returned home in 2015 after many years with Stuttgart Ballet. We met in a cafe opposite the opera house a few hours before the premiere. Rademaker’s answers are in italics. (more…)