Jeannette Andersen 
After retiring from the Bayerisches Staatsballett at the end of the 2025-26 season, Judith Turos talks to Jeannette Andersen about her career and the changes that have taken place in the company during her time
A biennial festival, now in its 11th edition, offering dance performances, music theatre and workshops for children of all ages…
Choreographer Richard Siegal investigates the the spirit of Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes with his own reimaginings of Pulcinella and Petrushka.
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
Hilaire recently talked to Jeannette Andersen about his achievements with the Bayerisches Staatsballett, his role as director and next season’s repertoire.
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…
“The programme did not take me anyway near heaven, but it presented a roster of very talented, young dancers”
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.
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
Twice annually, the matinées are very popular. They present the Bayerisches Junior Ballet and Ballett-Akademie der Hochschule für Musik und Theater
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.