Spring-Matinées

Spring-Matinées
14. & 28.4.2024 – 11 AM
Nationaltheater Munich

Program

Open Training

Ballett-Akademie der Hochschule für Musik und Theater München

Spectrum

Ballett-Akademie der Hochschule für Musik und Theater München

Night on Bald Mountain

Bayerisches Junior Ballett München

JIT (Just in Time)

Ballett-Akademie der Hochschule für Musik und Theater München

Bach-Suite 3

Bayerisches Junior Ballett München

TICKETS

Reserve tickets!

From the 2022/23 season you can purchase tickets for our Bosl-Matinées directly from the Box Office of the Bavarian State Opera.

Box office of the Bavarian State Opera
+49 89 21 85 19 20 – tickets@staatsoper.de
Mo – Sa, 10.00 AM – 19.00 PM

Spring-Matinée 1 | 14.4.2024 | 11 AM Spring-Matinée 2 | 28.4.2024 | 11 AM

in Kooperation mit

Spotlight

Get to know our Spring-Matinée choreographers

John Neumeier

Choreography

Eric Gauthier

Choreography

Kinsun Chan

Choreography

David Russo

Choreography

Trailer

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.

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.'

Essay

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."

Essay

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

News

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.

News

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.

Essay

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.”

Portrait

"It is kind of a living tradition..."

Students of the Ballet Academy of the University for Music and Performing Arts have had the opportunity to study the style of renowned Danish choreographer August Bournonville through the invitation of teacher and Bournonville-specialist Dinna Bjørn. In this video, Dinna goes into detail about what it means to study the work of August Bournonville and what relevance it has for audiences today.

Trailer

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.

Portrait

Serving young artists in their professional development

In 2016 we invited videographer Severin Vogl to create a portrait that captures the essence of what we do here at the Foundation. Ivan Liška explains the ideology that is integral to our mission and how we constantly strive to create opportunities that bridge the gap between the end of a dancer's training and their pledging professional careers.

Essay

Wenn junge Künstler nach dem Licht suchen

Wie ein Funke springt die jugendliche Frische und Freude im Nationaltheater von der Bühne in den Zuschauerraum. Berührend sind die jungen Tänzerinnen und Tänzer, die ihr Talent mit uns teilen.