Books by Victor Hughes

Victor Hughes was born in South Africa in 1939. He started dancing in his early 20s in Cape Town and joined the Cape Town University Ballet and Cape Performing Arts Board. He left South Africa in 1968 and was engaged as a dancer in the UK by London Festival Ballet, later leaving to dance with the Opera House Zurich in 1968. In 1970 he joined the Ballet company of the Stadtische Buhnen in Frankfurt, where John Neumeier was embarking on a highly successful career as a choreographer/ director. Victor moved with Neumeier to Hamburg on his promotion as choreographer/director to the Hamburg State Opera Ballet - later renamed Hamburg Ballet. He was promoted to soloist and master assistant in 1972 and danced with them until his early retirement in 1999. He became a permanent resident of Germany after spending many years there and in his retired years, he has lectured on Dance History with the Ballet School of the Hamburg Ballet.