Konstanze
Vernon

Jury member of Benois de la Danse

Constance Vernon — a german ballerina and teacher of dance, Constance Vernon studied under T. Gaovskaja, N. Kiss and S. Peretti.

From 1954 to 1962 she danced at the West Berlin Municipal Opera, and has been the main soloist at the Municipal Bavarian Opera in Munich since 1962.

Her best part is unanimously recognized as being Beatrice Cenci in G. Banner's The Anguish of Cenci" set to music by Gummel. Her repertoire also includes Giselle, Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, Odette and Odile in Swan Lake, Clara in The Nutcracker (J Neumeier), works by G. Kranko “Encounter in three colours“, set to music by Stravinskij, C. Rosen, G. Chefgcns and M. Kurd.

„Vernon is a ballerina of great artistic skill, rare musicality and precise choreographical style” (G. M. Schluglait, Ballet Enciclopedia, 1981).

Constance Vernon currently teaches classical dance in the Choreographical Department at the Superior Music Academy in Munich.