Choreographer

Gustav Mahler "Twilight Houses"

In 2009, the Estonian Theatre Union presented to Tiit Härm the Rahel Olbrei Award with the following dedication: “To the Chief Choreographer who has gathered on the stage of the Estonia Theatre the works of very diverse stage directors, each with unique choreography that both broadened the dancers’ theatrical character and raised the professional level of the ballet company.

Tiit Härm has been a consummate, strong-willed, sensual and charismatic premier danseur of the Estonian ballet. His roles in the ballets “The Wonderful Mandarin”, “Joanna Tentata”, “Daphnis and Chloe”, “Anthony and Cleopatra”, “Romeo and Juliet” and “Prometheus”, staged in the Estonia Theatre were epoch-making. Many cultural and state awards have been bestowed on Tiit Härm for his creative work.

From 2001 until 2009, Tiit Härm led the Estonian National Ballet, being its artistic director. In this period he staged for the ballet company of the Estonia Theatre such ballets as “Swan Lake” by P.Tchaikovsky, “Romeo and Juliet” by S.Prokofiev, “The Lady of the Camellias” to the music by F.Liszt, “Don Quixote” by L.Minkus, one act ballets “La valse” and “The Bolero” by Ravel, “Pelléas ja Mélisande” by A.Schönberg.

He had brought about a number of changes in the theatre, which allowed the ballet company of the theatre to move to a new, higher level of performance quality and the boost of its image. He had started introducing the Estonia Theatre to the international stage. The company made guest appearances in Sweden, Finland, Russia, England, Latvia and Ukraine. At that time, also the following famous foreign choreographers were invited to work in the theatre: Mauro Bigonzetti, Attila Egerhazi, Jorma Elo, Youri Vàmos, Luciano Cannito, Frank Andersen, Gyula Harangozó, David Nixon, Nils Christe, and Uwe Scholz.
During the directorship of Tiit Härm young Estonian choreographers were given the opportunity to staged their productions for the stage of the Estonia Theatre.
Tiit Härm has been an active member of the jury at various international ballet competitions.

Starting from 1992, Tiit Härm had worked as a guest choreographer in various theatres in different countries: La Scala (Teatro alla Scala) - J.Massenet „Grand pas“; The Slovenian National Theatre (Slovensko Narodno Gledališce Maribor) and The Grand Theatre of Bordeaux (Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux) - S.Prokofiev „Romeo ja Juliet“.

And also as a choreographer and teacher-tutor: La Scala (Teatro alla Scala), The Rome Opera House (Teatro dell'Opera di Roma), Teatro di San Carlo, The Verona Arena (Arena di Verona), Aterballetto (Italy), The Bavarian State Ballet (Bayerisches Staatsballett), The German Opera on the Rhine (Deutsche Oper am Rhein), English National Ballet. For many years, he also worked in ballet schools (Teatro alla Scala and Teatro dell`Opera di Roma), as an educator, among the his students Roberto Bolle, Mike Zeni, Alessio Carbone, Gianluca Schiavoni, Giuseppe Conti, Francesco Ventriglia jt.

In 1990–1991 Tiit Härm was the artistic director of the ballet company of the Estonia National Opera. During this period he created his stage production of Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet” in 1990 and a new version of Adam’s “Giselle”. Was invited to the famous swedish choreographer Birgit Cullberg for ballet "Miss Julia" of A.Rangstrem.

Maître de ballet and professeur