For two decades he ran the Frankfurt Ballet, one of Europe's most adventurous companies.
Then, after many curtain calls and a few tears, the Frankfurt Ballet ceased to exist.
The Frankfurt Ballet is also to present work.
It opens with more than our target of $200,000 in advance sales, and the Frankfurt Ballet broke even.
"The Frankfurt Ballet has found its style," a German critic wrote recently.
I couldn't think of another company I wanted to dance with after the Frankfurt Ballet.
Now, at the end of this season, the Frankfurt Ballet will also disappear.
All but one of the new company's dancers come from the Frankfurt Ballet.
The Frankfurt Ballet currently receives the equivalent of $5.7 million a year in grants from the city government.
She had moved to the Frankfurt Ballet by 1991.