Marijn Rademaker

Guest Ballet Master

Marijn hails from Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Born in 1981, he trained in Amsterdam, Arnhem and The Hague and joined the Stuttgart Ballet as a group dancer in 2000. He was promoted to Demi-Soloist in 2004, and, skipping the Solits rank, to Principal Dancer in 2006. In Stuttgart, he danced numerous leading roles in works by John Cranko, including Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Onegin and Lenski in Onegin, and Petruchio and Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew. Numerous leading choreographers created roles for him, such as Mauro Bigonzetti (Rocco in I fratelli), Edward Clug (Ssss...) and Christian Spuck (Leonce in Leonce and Lena, Cardillac in Das Fräulein von S.), For his performance in Marco Goecke’s solo Äffi, Marijn Rademaker received the German Theatre Prize ‘Der Faust’ in 2016 in the category ‘Best Male Dancer’. From 2015 to 2018, he was Principal Dancer with the Dutch National Ballet and subsequently worked there as a ballet master. As a choreographer, he has worked for the Bundesjugendballett and the NRW Juniorballett, amongst others. Together with Sue Jin Kang, he staged John Neumeier’s ballet The lady of the camellias on the Korean National Ballet in 2025.

(Information as of April 2025)