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.
Germany
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.
Gauthier Dance in Akram Khan’s Turning of Bones
A tale of love and violence, of belonging to or being expelled, of life and death, all taking place in the liminal space between reality, dream, memory…
Bayerisches Staatsballett in Neumeier’s Illusionen – wie Schwanensee
A coming together of Swan Lake and the ill-fated King Ludwig II of Bavaria, a troubled dreamer renowned for building castles and his homosexuality