Heinz-Bosl-Stiftung

For more than 40 years, the Heinz-Bosl-Stiftung has been instrumental in training new generations of dancers from all over the world.

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A council of high-profile experts supports and advises the Heinz-Bosl-Foundation on all strategic and operational matters.

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Who was Heinz Bosl?

A rising star in Munich of international acclaim

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Autumn-Matinées
24.11. & 1.12.2024 – 11am
Nationaltheater Munich

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Sixteen promising young dancers between the ages of 17 and 21 are given the opportunity to gain professional experience on stage for two years as members of the Bavarian Junior Ballet Munich.

Bavarian Junior Ballet Munich

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The Heinz-Bosl-Stiftung was founded in 1978 in memory of Heinz Bosl, an exceptional dancer in Munich who died at a very young age.

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Take a look behind the curtain and experience the most important moments of the young artists up close!

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Interview

In tune with the times: A Conversation with Kinsun Chan

About a decade ago, Kinsun Chan, who will become the director of the Semperoper Ballet in Dresden starting the 2024/2025 season, choreographed «JIT» (2015) alongside «Storm», «Unleashed», and «Peter and the Wolf» as the fourth creation for the Munich Ballet Academy. After «JIT», along with the other three works, had already embarked on its international journey, the choreography returns to its birthplace with the current revival at the Spring Matinee. The Ballet Academy eagerly anticipates the valuable renewed collaboration with its almost 'resident choreographer.'

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Bach-Suite 3 from the studio

Since the beginning of January, the dancers of the Junior Company have been working intensively on John Neumeier's "Bach Suite 3". The ballet, which was created in 1981 for the opening of the Hamburg Operettenhaus, represents a time in which Neumeier worked intensively with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Since its premiere in Hamburg, the work has also been danced by the Deutsche Oper Ballet, the Zurich Ballet, the Royal Swedish Ballet and the Vienna State Ballet. By including the piece in the BJBM's repertoire in the 2023/24 season, Ivan Liška is honouring the choreographer John Neumeier, who is now celebrating his last season after 51 years at the helm of the Hamburg Ballet.

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The Perceived World – John Neumeier, a Portrait from Munich

"John is like a catalyst. My career, not only as a dancer, has a lot, has everything to do with him. We met in 1977. Ever since, it has been an exploration of his world of ideas, movements, struggles, and ideals - in the ballet studio, on stage, and on the road." – Ivan Liška

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Danced Devotion: A Night on the Bald Mountain

Energetic music, passion, drama, ferocity, unbridled energy and a great deal of storytelling through music. This is how one could succinctly describe Modest Mussorgsky's composition "A Night on the Bald Mountain."

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Blind dates of a different kind: Photoessay from dancer Ayesha Lucido

The new year brings with it new opportunities and in late January, ten of our junior company members travelled to Stuttgart to begin working with Eric Gauthier on his upcoming creation for our Spring Matinee series. For a week, Theaterhaus Stuttgart became their temporary home and the ballet studio a witness for a birth of a different kind.

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Creating a home away from home…

For many of the residents in our boarding house, the possibility of travelling home to be with loved ones over the festive season is not an option. If the Christmas period is not filled with rehearsals and performances, often the flights are too expensive to fit into a student’s modest budget. Creating a home away from home is quite literally the best option they have.

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Seeing the world through the lens of our dancers

What would it look like to experience the junior company from the perspective of our dancers directly? This is a question that prompted us to engage dancer Ayesha Lucido to leverage her experience from inside the company directly.

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Changes in our management as we move into the next year

Our Stiftungsrat met together here at the Foundation on 16th November. The meeting is always a high point in our annual calendar as we present to them the year that was and look forward to the possibilities on the horizon for the next year.

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Completely sold out already in advance

Backstage at the Generalprobe of the Bosl-Matinée, there is always a heightened sense of anticipation as the young dancers of the Bavarian Junior Ballett Munich and the students of the Ballet Academy of the University for Music and Performing Arts Munich come together to bring their work of the past few months to fruition.

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Rückkehr in kein fremdes Land

„Während meiner vielen Besuche beim Bayerischen Staatsballett konnte ich mich nie dem mächtigen Eindruck des Nationaltheaters entziehen, einem Gebäude, das eng mit München verbunden ist. Es ist das unruhige Herz dieser Stadt.“ – Jiří Kylián, 2008 

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Thank you from our heart - our recent "Thank-you Reception"

Art does not exist in a vacuum. It needs audiences and lovers, who with open hearts, to take what they see and hear into their hearts and to experience together the abundance of life in this world.

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Choreographic jewel as a dance prelude

As a dance prelude for our upcoming performances of «Das Triadische Ballett» in Munich's Prinzregententheater, the Bavarian Junior Ballet Munich will present Hans van Manen’s «Concertante» set to the music of Frank Martin. At their core, Hans van Manen’s ballets are about the complexities of human relationships. His unique and immediately recognisable choreographic language highlights the subtleties that all too often go unnoticed in daily life. His ballets typically show dancers in postures of an almost electrically charged physicality, which celebrate the strengths of their individuality. Originally created for the young ensemble of the Netherlands Dance Theatre II in 1994, «Concertante» has lost none of its original charm. The timeless beauty of its group sections, trios and duets and the shimmering iconic unitards designed by van Manen’s longtime collaborator Keso Dekker continue to thrill audiences to this day.

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When the audience dance too

A rare and special occasion saw the entire audience of Munich's Nationaltheater dancing a sequence of choreography from Caroline Finn's «When she knew» ahead of the ballet's premiere at the Autumn Matinee series. We were aware that our audience loved dance but little did we know they could all move so well themselves! This moment undoubtedly counts amongst one of the best in our long and cherished tradition of our Sunday Matinees performances.

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Explosive movement fragments from the studio

Created for the State Ballet School of Berlin in 2015, «All Long Dem Day» finds a perfect partner in crime with Nina Simone’s 1956 rendition of «Sinnerman». Originally a traditional African American spiritual song inspired by the book of Exodus, the lyrics describe a sinner attempting to hide from divine justice on Judgement Day. Simone often chose the song to close her early appearances in New York City’s Greenwich Village: “I want to shake people up so bad that when they leave a nightclub where I’ve performed, I want them to be in pieces.” Pairing Simone’s cries for forgiveness from transgression with Goecke’s explosive movement fragments, the relentlessness of «All Long Dem Day» reminds us that change is not only important but necessary to repair the social, moral and political ties that wither with the passage of time.

Studio

Every detail scrutinised, every intention considered…

Behind every stage performance lay hours of tireless and dedicated hours of work by dancers and repetiteurs in the ballet studio. Ahead of our upcoming Spring Matinees, dance photographer Marie-Laure Briane has captured snapshots in time of the Ballett-Akademie and Bayerisches Junior Ballett München long and exciting journey to the stage.

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As free and as wild as possible

Marco Goecke created «All Long Dem Day» 2015 for the Berlin State Ballet School. He was only commissioned for a two-person piece, but then decided to work with a whole group of students. Marco Goecke explains the fact that his choreographic language has been included in the repertoire of classical ballet schools over the past thirty years with the intention of opening up these these institutions to experience other styles and themes : “The good dancers of today have to be able to dance everything. The profession of dancer would not make sense if you did what you already knew you could do each day.”

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