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Dear Audience,
Dear Friends of the Bavarian State Ballet
In 1988 the Bavarian State Government decided to grant ballet an equal status with opera and drama in Munich and to found the Bavarian State Ballet.
The foundation took effect in the 1989/90 season and it meant artistic independence, reorientation of cultural aims and the beginning of a success story. At present the Bavarian State Ballet is an international company of high renown, with the richest multifaceted repertoire in Europe.
In this jubilee year we feel particularly obliged to this renown and therefore will present to you some of the greatest present-day choreographers in Munich during the 200972010 season: Jiří Kylián who for the first time created a work for us in 2009 – Zugvögel (Migratory Birds). It was the highly acclaimed beginning of the Ballet Week in May 2009 and will continue to be part of the repertoire. In December 2009 the Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato will produce his worldwide acclaimed work Vielfältigkeit. Formen von Stille und Leere (Diversity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness), a full-length ballet to music by Bach, which Duato created in Weimar in 1999. It takes us through life and work of Bach with the poetry, humour and imaginative wealth of movement so typical for Duato.
In April 2010 William Forsythe will produce his full-length ballet Artifact in Munich. It is a ballet in four parts, dating from the early times of the Ballet Frankfurt (1984) and in April 2010 will be the second of the important Forsythe Works – after Limb's Theorem – to be premiered in Munich with the Bavarian State Ballet, also the music by Johann Sebastian Bach, and others. In September 2009 the Forsythe Company under the artistic direction of William Forsythe will guest in the Prinzregenten Theatre for two days with the piece YES WE CAN'T and thus continue the series of works by Forsythe to be presented in Munich by the Bavarian State Ballet.
In 2010 the Swedish choreographer Mats Ek will also return to the State Ballet to supervise the new production of his legendary version of Giselle in the Prinzregenten Theatre, that about ten years ago, with Beate Vollack in the lead, was highly acclaimed in Munich.
And the guest performances of the Tanztheater Wuppertal with Pina Bausch were to complete this series of great contemporary choreographers from Kylian to Duato, Forsythe and Ek in Munich – however, now the company has to perform without her, incomprehensible to all of us, Pina Bausch died on June 30 this year.
After these five giants of contemporary dance the up-an-coming choreographers come to the fore: the young Australian Terence Kohler is – after his success with “Once Upon an Ever After” – at present working in Munich as Once Upon an Ever After and throughout the year is creating together with the dancers The Secret Agent to music by Philip Glass. The first performance is to be in June 2010 in the Prinzregenten Theatre.
With your support, dear audience, your enthusiasm and your curiosity Munich has, once again, become a city of dance.
Yours
Ivan Liška
