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At the annual press conference of the Bavarian State Ballet on March 24, Ivan Liška announced the plans for the forthcoming season of the Bavarian State Ballet – during the jubilee year 2009/2010, for the first time after six years, there will be three premieres on the program of the Munich Company.
In December there will be the premiere of a work by Nacho Duato. The internationally renowned Spanish choreographer will for the first time produce one of his works with the Bavarian State Ballet. The Munich premiere of “Vielfältigkeit. Formen von Stille und Leere” on life and work of Johann Sebastian Bach will premiere in Munich on December 23, 2009.
On April 25, the Munich premiere of “Artifact”, a four-part ballet by William Forsythe, again to music by Johann Sebastian Bach, will mark the opening of the Ballet Festival Week 2010. After the great success of “Limb’s Theorem” this is the second of his full-length works that the renowned choreographer will produce at the Bavarian State Ballet – an extraordinary distinction for ballet director Ivan Liška and his company.
The season’s third premiere will be a world premiere by Terence Kohler at the Prinzregententheater. After his success with the first work for the Bavarian State Ballet– “Once Upon An Ever After”, Ivan Liška offered the young Australian choreographer a contract as “choreographer in residence” for the forthcoming season to work continuously with the dancers and artists of the Munich company. The result of this work will be seen on June 22, 2010 at the world premiere of “The Secret Agent” to music by Philip Glass.
For the jubilee year 2009/2010, the Bavarian State Ballet has invited two of the most important contemporary choreographers with their companies to Munich which both have not been working here any more for over thirteen years: William Forsythe and The Forsythe Company, and Pina Bausch with the Tanztheater Wupptertal. In September, The Forsythe Company will present the most recent work of the choreographer with “Yes, we can’t” – created in 2008 in Dresden and awarded with the German Theatre Prize “FAUST”.
The Tanztheater Wuppertal will present three performances of “Masurca Fogo” in the frame of the Ballet Festival Weeks 2010. Pina Bausch has chosen to present this ballet in Munich that she created in 1998 in collaboration with the Expo Lissabon to a selection of music from Portuguese Fado, Percussion, Jazz and Tango.
The new season will open on September 23, 2009 with a revival of “Raymonda” in the version of Ray Barra after Marius Petipa. This classic was lastly danced at the National Theatre in spring 2006.
For the second great revival in June 2010 the Swedish choreographer Mats Ek will return to Munich supervising the reproduction of his legendary version of “Giselle” which premiered in 1996 in Munich with the Bavarian State Ballet.
The repertoire will consist of the following ballets: – besides the two creations of the current season “100 Years Ballets Russes” and “Migratory Birds” – the classic “Le Corsaire” (which the Bavarian State Ballet will perform during the guest season in Cairo in March 2010), as well as John Neumeier’s “Lady of the Camelias”, the Jörg Mannes’ Shakespeare ballet “The Tempest”, and John Cranko’s masterpiece “Onegin” that will return to the repertoire in January 2010.
The traditional Ballet Festival Week in spring 2010, in celebration of the jubilee year, will be prolonged to two weeks to combine the presentation of the newest premieres with works from the current repertoire of the Bavarian State Ballet as well as guest performances of important companies. There will be two gala performances, on May 8 and 9, 2010 (the Terpsichore Galas IX and X) to present the varied repertoire of the Bavarian State Ballet with excerpts from the most important creations of the company since its foundation.
Under the title “Campus” the Bavarian State Ballet will continue to develop a special series of programs for children and young people with new innovative projects during the 2009/2010 season. In addition to the role model project “Anna dances” that was awarded a prize by the German Federal Government last year as part of the initiative “Germany – Country of Ideas”, there are plans for further long-term co-operations with schools in Munich.
