Uwe Scholz (31 December 1958 – 21 November 2004) was a German ballet dancer, director, and choreographer.

Scholz was born in Jugenheim (now Seeheim-Jugenheim) in Hesse, Germany on 31 December 1958, and moved as a child to the Landestheater Darmstadt for ballet and music training.^[1][2]

In 1973, he was admitted to John Cranko's Ballet School in Stuttgart, one month before Cranko's death, and studied under Marcia Haydée.^[2] Scholz also studied, on scholarship, at Balanchine's School of American Ballet in New York.^[3] He graduated from Stuttgart in 1977, and joined the Stuttgart Ballet. At 26 he became the director of the Zürich Ballet,^[4] and directed there for the next 6 years, before returning to Germany to become director of the Leipzig Ballet, where he was also chief choreographer.^[1] He remained in Leipzig from 1991 until his death.^[5] Among his most famous creations are Mozart's Great Mass, Pax Questuosa by Udo Zimmermann,^[3] Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, The Red and the Black by Stendhal, and much else.^[6] In 1993 he was appointed professor at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. He was also a founding member of the Freie Akademie der Künste zu Leipzig [de] (Free Academy of Arts in Leipzig).^[7]

He died on 21 November 2004 in Berlin.^[8][4]

• "Ballette von Uwe Scholz". Tatjana Thierbach (in German). 26 January 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2022.

• Omaggio Alla Danza (1987)^[1]
• Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1996)^[1]
• Bayerischer Theaterpreis [de] (Theatre prize of the Bavarian State Government) in the dance category (1998)^[1]
• Deutscher Tanzpreis (1999)^[1]

• Le Sacre du Printemps – EuroArts on YouTube
• Kyrie from Great Mass in C minor, Mozart – Leipziger Oper on YouTube

• Site dedicated to his works
• Uwe Scholz at IMDb
• Literature by and about Uwe Scholz in the German National Library catalogue