Choreographer Richard Siegal takes a new look at the Ballets Russes
Choreographer Richard Siegal investigates the the spirit of Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes with his own reimaginings of Pulcinella and Petrushka.
Jeannette Andersen
Luck/Unluck with Gauthier Dance
In new works by Hofesh Shechter and Aszure Barton, the company’s dancers were fabulous and mesmerising, and sucked us into two strange worlds almost devoid of references to reality, but full of emotion
Going for it. Laurent Hilaire on being a director and leading the Bayerisches Staatsballett
Hilaire recently talked to Jeannette Andersen about his achievements with the Bayerisches Staatsballett, his role as director and next season’s repertoire.
Limonada Dance Company in Enrique Gasa Valga’s Dorian Gray
It is a complex story to put into dance, but Valga successfully reduces the action to the essentials: sex, drugs, two murders and an array of music…
Rock to Heaven with Ballet of the Staatstheaters am Gärtnerplatz
“The programme did not take me anyway near heaven, but it presented a roster of very talented, young dancers”
Botis Seva and Far From the Norm with Until We Sleep in Munich
It takes place in an austere and dark enclosure… brings associations with a prison, and as the piece proceeds, perhaps the prison of a person’s life.
Ballet Revolución in Munich
Like a musical without a plot, one dance routine follows the next without any connection. But this is easily made up for by the exuberant dancing
Heinz-Bosl-Stiftung Spring Matinée in Munich
Twice annually, the matinées are very popular. They present the Bayerisches Junior Ballet and Ballett-Akademie der Hochschule für Musik und Theater
Radical Classical with Gauthier Dance Juniors
A rollercoaster of sheer fun, erotic display and a quiet moment of reflection in a programme of seven pieces by seven choreographers all to classical music.
Onegin with the Bayerisches Staatsballett
Onegin is always big drama – a tale in which the characters turn into human beings, real people who hit you viscerally with all their anguish and throes
Designer Jürgen Rose receives a lifetime achievement award
In ballet, Jürgen Rose is noted for his work with John Cranko and John Neumeier in particular. Jeannette Andersen recently visited him to talk about his work.