Name	Roque
Union	American Roque League (1916-1970s?) National Two Ball Roque Association (?-1970s?) National Roque Association (1899-?) National Croquet Association (1882-99)
First	1880s
Team	1-on-1
Category	Outdoor, croquet
Equipment	Mallets, balls
Venue	Curbed clay court, with arches
Obsolete	yes
Olympic	Summer 1904 }}

Roque () is an American variant of croquet played on a hard, smooth surface. Popular in the first quarter of the 20th century and billed "the Game of the Century" by its enthusiasts, it was an Olympic sport in the 1904 Summer Games, replacing croquet from the previous games.

Roque court and equipment

Roque is played on a hard sand or clay 30 by 60 foot (approximately 9 by 19 m) court bordered by a boundary wall, a curb bevelled at the ends to form an octagon. Players use this wall to balls similarly to how billiard balls are played off the cushions of a billiard table.

The wickets, called arches, are permanently anchored in the court. The arches are narrow as in professional six-wicket croquet. The court has ten arches in seven points configured in a double diamond (or figure-8). The two farthest end points and the central point of the figure-8 are double arches (one after the other) while the four side (or corner) points have single arches. Each arch of the double arches at either end of the court each count as a separate arch, but the double arches in the center (which are closer together) are scored as a single arch. While in nine-wicket croquet the single central wicket opens up to the length of the court facing the stakes, in roque the double center arches face the sides of the court. Roque uses two stakes: at the head of the court is the "head stake," the other stake at the far end of the court is the "turning stake."

The mallets with which the balls are struck have a shorter handle (approx. 24 inches) than croquet mallets. One end of the mallet is surfaced with rubber, the other with wood, plastic, or aluminum.

Notes on game play

The rules of roque are largely similar to those of croquet, with some notable exceptions:

In roque, a wall marks the boundary of the court off of which the ball may be caromed. There is also a "playing line" 28 inches in from the wall marked in chalk. A player's ball which comes to rest between the playing line and the wall is out of bounds and the fouled ball is placed at the point where the ball crossed the line (rather than a point nearest the line as in croquet).

The hard court surface is "faster" than the grass croquet court, which affects and much as the speed of billiard table cloth affects billiard play.

Using the rubber side of the mallet, roque players apply spin to a ball to affect its movement, as in billiards.

In croquet, the two teams are the balls colored red and yellow versus blue and black. In roque, the two teams are red and blue versus black and white. The order of play is red, white, blue, black.

In roque, the starting player is determined similarly to billiards: each player "" the ball, i.e. shoots it from one end of the court to the other, and the player whose ball is closest to the playing line at the opposite end of the court without touching the opposing wall, arches, or other balls, wins the lag and goes first.

After the opening lag, the balls are placed on the court at the four boundary line corners nearest the center of the court, with partner balls (red and blue, white and black) diagonally opposite from each other. The playing ball and ball next in sequence occupy the corners at the head of the court, with the choice of corners going to the player who won the lag. The player then attempts to make the first arch through roqueting another ball, caroming into the arch, or by any other lawful means. The player may also forfeit his opening shot.

While croquet is played with six wickets or nine wickets, roque is played with ten arches configured similarly to nine-wicket lawn croquet. However, the two center arches count as a single arch. Roque has two stakes, as in lawn croquet, the "home stake" and the "turning stake."

The double center arches score as a single arch. While the center arches can be made in several successive turns of play, the ball must remain "within limits of center," has committed no foul, and contacted no live ball.

After scoring the center arches, the player scores the side (or corner) arches by passing the ball from the corner of the court through the arch heading towards the center of the court, opposite from lawn croquet.

"A ball is within the limits of the center when any part of it is within the lines of a rectangle circumscribed by laying a straight edge successively against the inside of both stems of each arch, the inside of the stem of each arch nearest the home stake, and the inside of the stem of each arch nearest the turning stake." Rule 95, Official Rules and Regulations of the American Roque League (1958).

The double arches at the head and turn of the court count as separate arches and are wider apart than the center arches.

The most points that can be scored by one side in a game is 32: 16 points per ball (14 points for the arches and 2 points for the stakes).

Like baseball, roque is played in "innings," with ten innings per game. The game is over once one side either "stakes out" (thus scoring 32 points) or after ten innings expire. If both teams have the same score after 10 innings, the game ends in a tie (although some tournaments may permit extra innings). Scoring all of the arches in a single inning, thus winning the game outright, is called a "home run." Some games could, by agreement or tournament rule, be timed.

In roque, the side (or corner) arches (identified as points 3, 5, 11, and 13) can only be scored by a roquet or continuation shot.

Unlike croquet, both balls must be staked out in the same turn in order to outright win the game. By necessity, this requires the first ball to be staked out on a roquet shot and the second ball to be staked out on the ensuing continuation shot. Thus, unlike croquet, one side cannot defensively "stake-out" an opponent's rover in roque.

Like croquet, roque makes use of deadness. However, unlike American croquet which employs the carryover deadness rule, roque follows the Association rule wherein deadness is cleared after the player's turn ends.

Like croquet, roque players mark their progress on the court by placing colored markers on the arches. However, while croquet traditionally places the marker on the top of the wicket for the first pass-through and on the side of the wicket for the second pass, roque markers were usually placed at the top of the arch and were labeled on one side. The labeled side would be facing the position side.

Roque developed sub-variants, including two-ball roque and royal roque.

History

Historical roque

The name "roque" was suggested by Mr. Samuel Crosby of New York in 1899, who came to it by removing the initial "c" and final "t" from "croquet." The National Croquet Association, formed in 1882, thereafter changed its name to the National Roque Association in 1899. "Roque" is not to be confused with "roquet" , the term used in both roque and croquet for the bonus shot a player earns after striking another ball (on which he is not "dead") with his own.

The American Roque League was founded in 1916 and, after mergers with various other roque entities, became the centralized roque league on August 20, 1920. It last published its rules in the 1950s; the National Two Ball Roque Association last published its revised rules in 1961.

Contemporary roque

In 2004, the American Roque and Croquet Association suspended tournaments because the number of participants at the Nationals had shrunk to single figures.

Roque is still played by a small number of people in the United States. A roque tournament is held annually in Angelica, New York, USA. While there are reports that the American Roque League still operates, and that roque is played in Chautauqua, Illinois, USA, there is no independent evidence of this. Considering that roque was hailed as the "Game of the Century" by its enthusiasts, and was an event at the 1904 Summer Olympics held in St. Louis, Missouri, the demise of the sport was meteoric. This is despite the survival of croquet, the creation of new variants of croquet, the smaller court, the relative ease of maintaining the court, and the indoor playing possibilities of roque.

In popular culture

Roque features heavily in Stephen King's novel ''The Shining.'' Where in the film adaptation Jack Torrance wields an axe, his weapon in the book was a roque mallet. The character Ullman tells Torrance that roque is the older, original form of the game and croquet is a "bastardized" American version. In fact, croquet is the original European game and roque is a later American variation.

A chapter in John Steinbeck's novel ''Sweet Thursday'' also describes a rivalry that arose among the town's residents over the game.

References

External links

Description of roque with diagrams

Roque rules with brief history

Diagrams for various courts including roque

Roque at the 1904 Summer Olympics

The February 1937-March 1945 installments of "Roque Chatter", a column in the St. Petersburg (Florida) Times by Walton B. Wilson, are available for free.

Category:Croquet in the United States Category:Former Olympic sports Category:Lawn games Category:Precision sports

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name	Sportfreunde Stiller
background	group_or_band
origin	Munich, Germany
genre	Indie rock / Rock
years active	1996–present
website	http://www.sportfreunde-stiller.de/
current members	Peter BruggerFlorian "Flo" WeberRüdiger "Rüde" Linhof
past members	Andi Erhard
notable instruments	}}

Sportfreunde Stiller () is a German antifascist rock band from Germering, near Munich, in Bavaria.

The band was founded in 1996 by Peter "Balboa" Brugger (guitar, vocals), Florian "Rakete" Weber (drums, vocals), and Rüdiger "Rüde" Linhof (bass). They took their original name, Stiller, from their former football manager, Hans Stiller, at SV Germering. They later changed their name because a different band called Stiller owned the rights to this name. The term ''Sportfreunde'' literally translates to ''friends in sports'' and is also used in names of sports clubs (e.g. Sportfreunde Siegen).

Sportfreunde Stiller's track "Independent" from ''Die gute Seite'' was featured in the video game ''FIFA 2003''.

In 2006 the band wrote "'54, '74, '90, 2006", a fan hymn for the German World Cup squad which became a number one hit in Germany; the song commemorates West German championships in the 1954, 1974, and 1990 World Cups. After Germany lost in the semi-final against Italy on July 4, 2006, the song was reworked as "'54, '74, '90, 2010" in anticipation of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

Sportfreunde Stiller was nominated for Best German Act at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2006 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Their new album "La Bum" was released on August 3, 2007 (and reached the number 1 spot in Germany) with their single "Alles Roger" debuting on July 20, 2007 (reaching number 22 in Germany). The album title is an anagram on ''album''. The band was also nominated once again for the 2007 MTV Europe Music Awards award for German Act of the year.

The entire La Bum album (bonus track edition) was added to the American iTunes store in early 2008.

The song "'54, '74, '90, 2010" is featured as a downloadable track in the game Guitar Hero World Tour

In 2009 Sportfreunde Stiller was the sixth German band to record an album for the MTV Unplugged series. The album includes adaptations of old songs, covered songs and new songs alike. Although titled MTV Unplugged in New York the album was actually recorded during a concert at Bavaria Film Studios, Munich.

Discography

1996:

* EP ''Macht doch was ihr wollt, ich geh jetzt (Do Whatever You Want, I'm Leaving)''

1998:

* EP ''Thonträger (Sound Storage Medium)''

1999:

* Maxi "Wellenreiten '54" (Surfing '54)

2000:

* Maxi "Fast wie von selbst" (Almost By Itself)

* LP ''So wie einst Real Madrid'' (Like Once Real Madrid)

* Maxi "Heimatlied" (Homesong)

* Split-Single "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes" with Readymade

2001:

* Split-Single "Friday I'm In Love" with Readymade

2002:

* Maxi "Ein Kompliment" (A Compliment)

* LP ''Die gute Seite'' (The Up-side)

* Maxi "Komm schon" (Come On!)

* Maxi "Tage wie dieser" (Days Like These)

* Split-Single "Schwule Mädchen" (Gay Girls) with Readymade (Ready Sport Go!3 Tour)

2003:

* Maxi "Ans Ende denken wir zuletzt" (The End Is the Last Thing on Our Minds)

* DVD: ''Ohren zu und durch'' (Close Your Ears and Go Through with It)

2004:

* Maxi: "Siehst du das genauso?" (Do You See It the Same Way?)

* LP: ''Burli'' (Little Boy)

* Maxi: "Ich Roque" feat. Roque Santa Cruz

* Maxi: "1. Wahl" (First Choice)

* Maxi: "1. Wahl (2. Wahl)" (First Choice(Second Choice))

* Maxi: "Ein kleiner Schritt (live)" (A Small Step)

* LP: ''Live''

2006:

* LP: ''You Have to Win Zweikampf''

* Maxi: '54,'74,'90,2006 (was the 5th best-selling album in Germany of 2006)

* Maxi: "Pogo In Togo"

* Maxi: "Eine Liebe, die nie Endet" (A Love That Never Ends)

2007:

* LP: ''La Bum'' (was the 94th best-selling album in Germany of 2007)

* Maxi: "Alles Roger" (Everything's Fine)

* Maxi:"(Tu nur das) was dein Herz dir sagt" (Do Only What Your Heart Tells You to Do)

* Maxi: "Antinazi Bund" (Anti-nazi Alliance) stand-alone single, not included on the ''La Bum'' album

* Maxi: "Advent, Advent" exclusively released via fan club newsletter in December 2007.

2009:

* LP: ''MTV Unplugged in New York''(was the 14th best-selling album in Germany of 2009)

* Maxi: ''Ein Kompliment (Unplugged)'' (was the 26th best-selling single in Germany of 2009)

External links

Official Website

Live Fotos von Sportfreunde Stiller vom 02.08.2008 @ Sonnenrot, München von Poorboys On The Road

''Sportfreunde Stiller:'' Interview

Category:German rock music groups Category:Participants in the Bundesvision Song Contest

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playername	Roque Santa Cruz
fullname	Roque Luis Santa Cruz Cantero
dateofbirth	August 16, 1981
cityofbirth	Asunción
countryofbirth	Paraguay
height
position	Striker
currentclub	Betis
clubnumber	16
youthyears1	1990–1997 |youthclubs1 Olimpia
years1	1997–1999 |clubs1 Olimpia |caps1 24 |goals1 13
years2	1999–2007 |clubs2 Bayern Munich |caps2 155 |goals2 31
years3	2005–2006 |clubs3 Bayern Munich II |caps3 6 |goals3 2
years4	2007–2009 |clubs4 Blackburn Rovers |caps4 57 |goals4 23
years5	2009– |clubs5 Manchester City |caps5 20 |goals5 3
years6	2011 |clubs6 → Blackburn Rovers (loan) |caps6 9 |goals6 0
years7	2011– |clubs7 → Betis (loan) |caps7 0 |goals7 0
nationalyears1	1999 |nationalteam1Paraguay U-20 |nationalcaps1 13 |nationalgoals1 6
nationalyears2	1999– |nationalteam2Paraguay |nationalcaps2 87 |nationalgoals2 25
pcupdate	11 May 2011
ntupdate	21 July 2011 }}

Roque Luis Santa Cruz Cantero (born 16 August 1981) is a Paraguayan footballer currently playing as a striker for La Liga club Real Betis on loan from Manchester City, and the Paraguay national football team. Holder of a Spanish passport, Santa Cruz is eligible for unrestricted selection in all European Union-based sides.

Club career

Olimpia

Born in Asunción, Santa Cruz joined the Olimpia's youth academy at the age of nine where he became the top scorer during several seasons until the head coach of Olimpia's first team, the Uruguayan Luis Cubilla, invited Santa Cruz to practice with the first team squad at the age of 15. His professional debut was in 1997 at the age of sixteen. Santa Cruz's club performance led Olimpia to a Paraguayan championship in the 1998–99 season, and the winning of the Paraguayan Footballer of the Year award. Aged 17, Santa Cruz participated in the 1998 Copa Mercosur where Olimpia reached the semi-finals. During the first-leg quarter-finals match against Vélez Sársfield on 27 October he scored in the 65th minute as Olimpia won 4–3. In the second leg on 4 November he scored two first half goals as Olimpia won 2–1 to advance to the semi-finals. All three goals were scored past his international goal keeper team mate Jose Chilavert. During his time at Olimpia he earned the nickname 'Babygoal'. Olimpia's president, who at the time was Osvaldo Domínguez Dibb, had assessed Santa Cruz to value from around US$20 million due to his involvement in Paraguay's national teams. However, when Germany's Bayern Munich came knocking he was signed for only US$7 million for the 1999–2000 Bundesliga season.

Bayern Munich

Showing his excellence with Olimpia and the Paraguay national football team, Santa Cruz was noticed by German club Bayern Munich, who eventually signed him in the second half of 1999. Santa Cruz was unexceptional at Bayern as he only scored five goals in his first season with the club, a series of injuries, and heavy competition between forwards (including Élber Giovane, Roy Makaay and Claudio Pizarro) for the German giants limited his impact. Nonetheless, he was part of the latest successes for Bayern, winning the German league and cup double, the UEFA Champions League and the Intercontinental Cup.

Blackburn Rovers

Santa Cruz agreed a four-year deal with Blackburn Rovers on 28 July 2007. Blackburn agreed to pay Bayern Munich £3.5 million for the player. He scored his first goal for Rovers after just three touches of the ball when he came on as a substitute for the injured Benni McCarthy against Middlesbrough in the opening game of the 2007–08 Premier League season. Santa Cruz celebrated his 26th birthday and his first full Rovers start when he scored the winner away to MYPA in the UEFA Cup. Santa Cruz scored his first hat-trick for Blackburn in a 5–3 loss to Wigan Athletic on 15 December 2007, becoming the first player in over ten years in English football to score a hat-trick for the losing side, since Dwight Yorke's hat-trick on 30 September 1996 for Aston Villa in their 4–3 away loss to Newcastle United. On 12 January 2008, he was named Premier League "Player of the Month" for December 2007.

Following a successful 2007–08 campaign, there was much transfer speculation surrounding Santa Cruz at the start of the 2008–09 season. However, Santa Cruz signed a four-year contract with Blackburn in August to end the speculation. He became a target for Manchester City following their takeover by the billionaire Abu Dhabi United Group. In January 2009, they had bids of £12 million and £16 million rejected by Blackburn, with the club stating it would take £25 million for them to even consider selling their star striker. On 2 February 2009, City failed to meet the reported £25 million asking price. On 20 April 2009, there were rumours that Santa Cruz was planning to leave Rovers after the 2008–09 season, less than 12 months after signing a new deal with the Premier League club, although he denied these rumours, saying that they were ''"lost in translation."''

Manchester City

On 21 June 2009, it was reported that Santa Cruz was undergoing a medical at Manchester City ahead of a proposed summer transfer worth £17.5 million on a four-year deal. Confirmation that the deal had been completed was released later that same day. Santa Cruz scored his first City goal on 28 October 2009 against Scunthorpe in the Carling Cup. Santa Cruz grabbed his first league goals for City against Sunderland, scoring a brace in a thrilling 4–3 win which proved to be Mark Hughes's last game at the club. However his appearances were limited when Roberto Mancini took over as manager due to a succession of injuries coupled with a lack of form.

Roberto Mancini continued to leave out Santa Cruz during the 2010–11 season and Santa Cruz made it clear he wanted to leave. On 14 January 2011, he returned to Blackburn Rovers on loan for the remainder of the 2010–11 football season. After Santa Cruz passed his medical, he said; "When Blackburn showed an interest in me, it was very easy to decide," to BBC Radio Lancashire.

In August 2011, after being linked with moves to Leeds United, Sunderland and Celtic, Santa Cruz was loaned to Real Betis for the 2011–12 La Liga season after completing a medical on 27 August.

International career

Santa Cruz made a name for himself at the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship, where he scored three goals for a surprising Paraguay team. His performance there led to a call-up to the full Paraguay national team for the Copa América at the age of 17. Santa Cruz made his senior debut at age 17 for Paraguay at Copa América leading his national team in scoring with three goals. He also scored a total of seven goals in the 2002 and 2006 World Cup qualification rounds, and appeared in the 2002 FIFA World Cup, where he scored one goal while helping his team advance to the elimination rounds. Santa Cruz was in doubt for the 2006 World Cup as he was recovering from a serious knee injury. However, he recovered in time for the start of the tournament and played all three group stage matches for Paraguay. Santa Cruz was not able to score a goal, but he did assist Nelson Cuevas and had a good game in the 2–0 victory over Trinidad and Tobago. Despite the win, Paraguay failed to qualify to the second round of the tournament. Santa Cruz scored a hat trick against Colombia in a 5–0 Paraguayan victory during the Copa América 2007 in Venezuela. He was one of Paraguay's top scorers (three goals) in the 2010 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers.

On 9 July 2011, Santa Cruz scored in a 2–2 draw against Brazil in Paraguay's second group stage game at the 2011 Copa América. His goal brought him to a total of 25 goals for Paraguay making him the joint all-time leading goal scorer, with José Saturnino Cardozo, of the Paraguayan national team's history.

Career statistics

:''(Correct as of 12:00, 19 March 2011)''

0 3 10 5 5 5 5 5 0 4 2 7 4 0 0 3 0

Club	Season	League	Cup	Continental	Total
	!Apps	!Goals	!Assists	!Apps	!Goals	!Assists	!Apps	!Goals	!Assists	!Apps	!Goals	!Assists
rowspan="3" valign="center"	Olimpia	1997	1
1998	9
1999	14
colspan="2">Total
rowspan="8" valign="center"	Bayern Munich		28
	19
2001–02 Fußball-Bundesliga	2001–02	22
2002–03 Fußball-Bundesliga	2002–03	14
2003–04 Fußball-Bundesliga	2003–04	29
2004–05 Fußball-Bundesliga	2004–05	4
2005–06 Fußball-Bundesliga	2005–06	13
2006–07 Fußball-Bundesliga	2006–07	26
colspan="2">Total
rowspan="2" valign="center"	Blackburn Rovers		37	19	|	3	3	0	3	1	0	43	23	8
2008–09 in English football	2008–09	20	|	2	7	2	0	0	0	0	27	6	2
colspan="2">Total			! 70 !! 29 !! 10
rowspan="2" valign="center"	Manchester City		19	3	|	3	1	0	0	0	0	22	4	0
2010–11 in English football	2010–11	1	|	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
colspan="2">Total	!20	|	0	4	1	0	0	0	0	24	4	0
rowspan="1" valign="center"	Blackburn Rovers (loan)		5	|	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0
Total		!57!!23!!9!!10!!5!!0!!3!!1!!0	! 70 !! 29 !! 10
Career total		!244!!67!!-!!17!!7!!-!!43!!11!!-	! 304 !! 85 !! –

|- |1999||8||4 |- |2000||9||2 |- |2001||4||1 |- |2002||7||2 |- |2003||5||1 |- |2004||4||0 |- |2005||5||3 |- |2006||3||0 |- |2007||12||5 |- |2008||7||2 |- |2009||2||0 |- |2010||12||3 |- |2011||9||2 |- !Total||87||25 |}

Honours

;Club Olimpia

Paraguayan Primera División (2): 1998, 1999

;Bayern Munich

Bundesliga (5): 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006

DFB-Pokal (4): 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006

DFB-Ligapokal (2): 2000, 2004

UEFA Champions League (1): 2001

FIFA Intercontinental Cup (1): 2001

Personal life

Santa Cruz married Giselle Tavarelli, the sister of his former national team and Olimpia teammate Ricardo, in 2003. They have a son named Tobias (born 17 December 2003), a daughter named Fiorella (born 11 November 2005) and a son named Benjamin (born 2010). Santa Cruz has a younger brother named Julio who plays for Blackburn Rovers in the reserve squad, second brother named Diego who was also a professional football player and another brother named Oscar who died in 2005.

In a 2006 FIFA World Cup edition of German magazine ''Kicker'' magazine, he was voted the sexiest man to be taking part in the tournament. He was also chosen by the German newspaper ''Die Welt'' as the sexiest footballer of the 2006 World Cup. He has appeared on the cover of the German version of Pro Evolution Soccer 6.

In 2004 Santa Cruz was the subject of the song "Ich Roque" by the German band Sportfreunde Stiller.

Aproniano Santa Cruz, Roque's father, is also his agent.

References

External links

Betis official profile

Manchester City profile

Premier League profile

Transfermarkt profile

2010 FIFA World Cup profile

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name	Nuno Roque
background	solo_singer
birth name	Nuno Fernando Roque
born	September 15, 1988Portugal
occupation	Actor, Singer-songwriter, Mime
website	}}

Nuno Roque (born 15 September 1988) is a Portuguese actor, singer-songwriter and mime artist.

He made his stage debut at Coliseu do Porto at the age of three and began a successful career as a variety child singer. In his teens, he suspended his musical career to study theater and film in Portugal, Brazil and France, where he graduated from the famous L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris.

Theater and Opera

2011 : ''Pan'' based on Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up by J. M. Barrie, director Irina Brook, Théâtre de Paris 2010 : ''La Traviata'' by Giuseppe Verdi, director Jean-Paul Scarpitta, Opéra National de Montpellier 2009 : ''The Magic Flute'' by Mozart, director Jean-Paul Scarpitta, Théâtre du Châtelet 2009 : ''C'était Marie Antoinette'' by Évelyne Lever, director Jean-Paul Scarpitta, costumes by Milena Canonero, Festival de Radio France et Montpellier 2009 : ''Dido and Aeneas'' by Henry Purcell, director Jean-Paul Scarpitta, Opéra National de Montpellier 2009 : ''Dido and Aeneas'' by Henry Purcell, director Jean-Paul Scarpitta, Scène Nationale de Sète - Théâtre Molière 2008 : ''Didascalies'', Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou

2005 : ''The Laramie Project'' by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project, director Diogo Infante, Teatro Maria Matos

2004 : ''En Cours de Nettoyage'', Museu de Arte Contemporânea - Serralves Foundation

2004 : ''Tartuffe'' by Molière

2003 : ''Les Champs d'Amour'' by Théâtre de la Mezzanine, Festival International de Marionnettes de Porto

2003 : ''The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui'' by Bertolt Brecht, director Kuniaki Ida

Discography

1995 : ''Nuno Roque: Brincar a Brincar'' (Portugal)

1997 : ''Varios - Eu, o Cao e o Gato'' (Portugal)

Television

2010 : ''Marie Antoinette: Reine de L'Opéra'', director Andy Sommer, France 2

Awards

1994 : Gala Internacional dos Pequenos Cantores - ''Best Song''

References

External links

Official Website

Official MySpace

Category:1988 births Category:Living people Category:Portuguese actors Category:Portuguese male singers Category:Portuguese singer-songwriters Category:Portuguese pop singers

fr:Nuno Roque pt:Nuno Roque

name	Yaron Herman
background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
birth date	July 12, 1981
instrument	Piano
genre	Jazz
occupation	Pianist
website	Official website
notable instruments	}}

Yaron Herman (born 12 July 1981) is an Israeli jazz pianist now living in Paris, France.

Biography

Yaron Herman was born in Tel-Aviv on 12 July 1981. He started to learn the piano at 16 using a methodology based on philosophy, mathematics and psychology. Two years later, Yaron earned the prestigious Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music “Junior talent” prize. He started performing in Israel at the Tel-Aviv Museum, the Tel-Aviv Cinematek, The Camelot, Givataim Theatre, Beit Lesin Theatre, and Einav Center. At the age of 19, Yaron moved to Boston, where he intended to attend the Berklee College of Music but rapidly preferred to start his career in Paris, France. When he was 21, he recorded his first album, ''Takes 2 to Know 1'', with Sylvain Ghio, produced for the Sketch label.

Influences

Yaron Herman's style reflects the influence of jazz musicians and pianists such as Keith Jarrett, Paul Bley, Lennie Tristano and Brad Mehldau, modern pop artists such as Björk, Sting and Olivia, and classical composers such as Alexander Scriabin and Maurice Ravel.

Discography

Yaron Herman Trio (2010). ''Follow the White Rabbit''. ACT

References

External links

Yaron Herman's Official website

Category:1981 births Category:Living people Category:People from Tel Aviv Category:Israeli Jews Category:Hard bop pianists Category:Mainstream jazz pianists Category:Israeli jazz pianists Category:Avant-garde jazz pianists

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