{"id":53712,"date":"2021-10-17T10:06:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T10:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/?p=53712"},"modified":"2026-04-16T07:29:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:29:00","slug":"a-couple-means-more-than-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/a-couple-means-more-than-two\/","title":{"rendered":"A couple means more than two"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>20 Years Richard Wherlock in Basel<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Richard Wherlock has been the director of Ballett theater Basel for 20 years. It is quite special for a director to stay at one company for so long\u2014off the top of my head, the only other directors I can think of are John Neumeier of Hamburg Ballet and Kevin McKenzie of American Ballet Theater, although I am sure there are others.<\/p>\n<p>I had the pleasure of working with Richard from 2012\u20132019 in Basel. We worked together on 9 creations for the Basel stage. Richard was easy to work for and cared a lot about the dancer\u2019s experience. The repertory was constantly changing. I never felt overworked or underprepared (shout-out to Ballet Master, Cristiana Sciabordi for holding it down). You could talk to Richard about anything, nothing seemed to surprise him. That\u2019s not exactly shocking considering I would run into Richard at many arts events inside and outside of Basel. He is very open, non-judgmental and is always searching for understanding. In that way, he gives the wise elder vibe\u2026with a twist. Richard likes to laugh and joke and surely you will know that within the first meeting&#8230;<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/abo-subscribe\/\">Subscribe or buy current issue print or digital<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/abo-subscribe\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-53698 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/210804-Banner_750x460px_citit_mai_departe-01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/210804-Banner_750x460px_citit_mai_departe-01.png 750w, https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/210804-Banner_750x460px_citit_mai_departe-01-300x184.png 300w, https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/210804-Banner_750x460px_citit_mai_departe-01-600x368.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 Years Richard Wherlock in Basel Richard Wherlock has been the director of Ballett theater Basel for 20 years. It is quite special for a director to stay at one company for so long\u2014off the top of my head, the only other directors I can think of are John Neumeier of Hamburg Ballet and Kevin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":53771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-performance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53714,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53712\/revisions\/53714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}