Lady of the Camelias with the Bayerisches Staatsballett
A feast of heartbreak with excellent dancing and drama at its best. Each act concluded with roaring applause, a rare thing in Munich
Jeannette Andersen
A Life in Ballet. Judith Turos Leaves the Bayerisches Staatsballett after 45 Years
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
Think Big: a Festival for children and youths in Munich
A biennial festival, now in its 11th edition, offering dance performances, music theatre and workshops for children of all ages…
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.
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