The choreographer Uwe Scholz

Uwe Scholz's choreographies inspire and move audiences around the world. His pieces continue to be regarded by leading international companies as state of the art in neoclassical ballet technique.
They are always born out of music, usually both irrepressibly fast and virtuosic as well as emotional, subtle, and soulful.

Uwe Scholz has always understood the spirit and emotional facets of a musical composition and made them visible in his own personal way.

Even when Scholz's subtle humor comes into play and the weight of meaning is reduced to nothing with a wink...

Uwe Scholz was in demand worldwide as a choreographer and created ballets for the Vienna State Opera, La Scala in Milan, repeatedly for the Stuttgart Ballet, for Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, as well as for Jiri Kylián's Nederlands Dans Theater, for Jerusalem, Stockholm, and Toronto. Scholz's choreographic signature made a name for itself on many international stages (including New York, Paris, Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, Madrid, Florence, Tokyo, Berlin, and Munich).

For his achievements as a choreographer, Uwe Scholz was awarded the »Ommagio Alla Danza« prize by the »Espressione Europa« organization in Venice in 1987 and was awarded the Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by the then Federal President Roman Herzog in 1996. For his choreography »Die Große Messe« (The Great Mass), which he premiered with the Leipzig Ballet in February 1998, he received the Bavarian State Government's Theater Prize for Dance in 1998. He was awarded the German Dance Prize in Essen in 1999.

The Leipzig Ballet, whose origins date back to the late 17th century, is now one of the major international companies.
A new era began for the Leipzig Ballet in 1991 with the appointment of Uwe Scholz as ballet director and chief choreographer. His first premiere in Leipzig, »The Creation,« was followed by symphonic ballets such as »The Great Mass,« »Seventh Symphony,« and »Bruckner 8,« which were performed on guest appearances throughout Europe and Asia.

Under Uwe Scholz, the Leipzig Ballet was invited to tour throughout Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Austria, Luxembourg, Poland, and the Netherlands. In 1995, it traveled to San Francisco as Germany's cultural ambassador to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the war, and in the same year accompanied Federal President Roman Herzog on a state visit to Bern.
Uwe Scholz spent the longest and most productive period of his career in Leipzig.
His Leipzig productions were created in close collaboration with the Gewandhaus Orchestra.
He worked in this city until his untimely death in 2004, and his life's work is inextricably linked to the city of Leipzig.