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MAESTRI CONTEMPORANEI<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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BACH-SUITE 3<\/em><\/strong>Choreography: John Neumeier<\/strong>Music: Johann Sebastian Bach<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

NIGHT ON BALD MOUNTAIN<\/em><\/strong>Choreography: Eric Gauthier<\/strong>Music: Modest Mussorgsky<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

SONGS OF WAYFARER<\/em><\/strong>Choreography: Ji\u0159\u00ed Kyli\u00e1n<\/em><\/strong>Music: Gustav Mahler<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

3\/4 PRELUDES<\/em><\/strong>Choreography: Richard Siegal<\/strong>Music: George Gershwin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

DEVIL\u2019S KITCHEN<\/em><\/strong>Choreography: Marco Goecke<\/strong>Music: Pink Floyd<\/strong> – Shine on you crazy Diamond<\/strong> (1975), Wish you were here<\/strong> (1975), Dogs<\/strong> (1977)<\/p>\n\n

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BAYERISCHES JUNIOR BALLETT M\u00dcNCHEN<\/strong>When the dancers of the Bayerisches Junior Ballett M\u00fcnchen \u2013 the junior company of the Bavarian State Ballet of Munich \u2013 take to the stage, youthful joy jumps from the stage to the audience, lighting up like a spark. Founded in 2010 as the first youth company in Germany, with sixteen members aged between seventeen and twenty, the ensemble is still the largest youth company. Under the direction of Ivan Li\u0161ka, the ensemble has won the hearts of audiences far beyond the borders of Bavaria. As cultural ambassadors of the Free State of Bavaria and the city of Munich, the company’s talented performers have successfully appeared on stages in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, the Czech Republic, Israel and Hong Kong. <\/p>\n\n

The youthful verve with which the artists conquer the stage has become a distinctive feature for audiences and critics alike. During their two years with the company, the young dancers undergo intensive training for their professional careers. Former members of the Bayerisches Junior Ballett M\u00fcnchen<\/em> are now part of renowned companies such as the Munich State Ballet, the Stuttgart Ballet, the Hamburg Ballet, the Berlin State Ballet and in ballet companies located in Helsinki, Oslo, Prague, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Seoul, Pilsen, Graz, Wiesbaden, Antwerp, Warsaw, Ostrava, Vienna, Greifswald, Hanover, Dresden, Brno, Flensburg and Paris, to name but a few. <\/p>\n\n

Co-operation partners<\/strong>Heinz-Bosl FoundationBavarian State Ballet of MunichAcademy of Ballet of the University of Music and Theatre Munich<\/p>\n\n

Company ambassador<\/strong>Dr h.c. Ir\u00e8ne Lejeune is an ambassador for the Bavarian Junior Ballet in Munich.<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n

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BACH-SUITE 3<\/strong><\/em>World premiere performed by the Hamburg Ballet at the Operettenhaus in Hamburg on 2 October 1981.First performance by the Bayerisches Junior Ballett of Munich as part of a Heinz-Bosl Foundation matin\u00e9e at the National Theatre in Munich on 14 April 2024.<\/p>\n\n

Choreography and costumes: John Neumeier<\/strong>Music: Johann Sebastian Bach<\/strong> – Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major <\/em> (1730)<\/p>\n\n

John Neumeier is best known for his full-length narrative works, symphonic ballets and choreographies set to sacred music. Alongside these works, Neumeier has created a wide range of smaller choreographic works, including the ballet Bach-Suite 3<\/em>. A neoclassical work with a series of solos, duets and group dances, with a pas de deux<\/em> to the famous \u2018Aria on the Fourth String\u2019 at the centre of the ballet. Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major was composed in 1730 and, like most orchestral works of the Baroque era, begins with a sumptuous French-style overture, followed by a suite of dances. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n

JOHN NEUMEIER <\/strong>Born in Milwaukee, USA, John Neumeier moved to Europe to study in Copenhagen and at the Royal Ballet School before joining the Stuttgart Ballet in 1963. In 1969 Neumeier became director of the Frankfurt Ballet, before becoming director and choreographer of the Hamburg Ballet in 1973. Neumeier’s choreographic output includes more than 170 works and has been recognised with numerous awards, including the Deutsche Tanzpreis in 1988 and 2008. <\/p>\n\n

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NIGHT ON BALD MOUNTAIN<\/strong><\/em><\/em>World premiere performed by the Bayerisches Junior Ballett of Munich as part of a Heinz-Bosl Foundation matinee at the Munich National Theatre on 14 April 2024.<\/p>\n\n

Choreography and costumes: Eric Gauthier<\/strong>Music: Modest Musorgskij<\/strong> – Una notte sul Monte Calvo<\/em> (1867)<\/p>\n\n

The ballet Night on Bald Mountain<\/em> by Eric Gauthier is an intense artistic exploration of themes such as passion, power and the relationship between man and nature. To the haunting music of Modest Mussorgsky, vividly describing the witches’ Sabbath on top of a mountain, five couples perform a dynamic choreography, offering a performance rich in nuances in a neoclassical language of movement. Mussorgsky’s enthralling music transports the audience to a fascinating world where reality and fantasy merge. <\/p>\n\n

ERIC GAUTHIER<\/strong>Eric Gauthier has earned the title of \u2018ballet rock star\u2019. In 2006 he founded the Gauthier Dance\/\/Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart, which in recent years has worked with internationally renowned choreographers, thus gaining notoriety. The company’s success, celebrated by both the public and critics, is not only due to Gauthier’s charismatic charm, but also to her direct way of addressing the audience and presenting dance evenings that never fail to thrill. <\/p>\n\n

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SONGS OF WAYFARER<\/strong><\/em><\/em>World premiere performed by the Nederlands Dans Theater at the Zirkustheater Scheveningen on 11 July 1982.Premiere performance by the Bayerisches Junior Ballett of Munich as part of a Heinz-Bosl Foundation matinee at the National Theatre of Munich on 26 March 2023.<\/p>\n\n

Choreography: Ji\u0159\u00ed Kyli\u00e1n<\/strong>Music: Gustav Mahler<\/strong> – Canti di un viandante<\/em> (1883-1885)Choreographic assistants: Shirley Esseboom, Stefan Zeromski<\/strong>Set design and costumes: John F. Macfarlane<\/strong>Lighting design: Kees Tjebbes<\/strong> after Jennifer Tipton<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

The metaphor of the journey is omnipresent, the theme continues to endure in the search for meaning in the world by artists. Love, in its multiform and constantly evolving nature, has inspired great works such as Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen<\/em> by Gustav Mahler, a significant contribution to the German tradition of song cycles. Mahler depicts a young man unlucky in love who must wander the world to find solace in the beauty of nature. Ji\u0159\u00ed Kyli\u00e1n’s 1982 ballet, which is inspired by Mahler’s score, is reminiscent of the choreographer’s earlier, more neoclassical works. Known for his extremely particular musicality, Kyli\u00e1n reflects the nostalgia and torment of Mahler’s score with soft and fluid phrases, interrupted by staccato gestures. Magnificent lifts make the bodies fly in a way that only a master of choreography like Kyli\u00e1n can imagine. <\/p>\n\n

JI\u0158\u00cd KYLI\u00c1N <\/strong>Ji\u0159\u00ed Kyli\u00e1n began his career as a dancer with John Cranko at the Stuttgart Ballet. He then went on to lead the Netherlands Dance Theatre for over a quarter of a century, creating more than 100 ballets. In 2019, Kyli\u00e1n was appointed a member of the Acad\u00e9mie des Beaux Arts in Paris. This highly prestigious honour was made even more special by the Academy’s decision to amend its statutes and add a new chair for \u2018choreography\u2019. <\/p>\n\n

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3\/4 PRELUDES<\/strong><\/em><\/em>World premiere performed by the Bayerisches Junior Ballett of Munich as part of a Heinz-Bosl Foundation matinee at the National Theatre in Munich on 27 November 2016.<\/p>\n\n

Choreography: Richard Siegal<\/strong>Music: George Gershwin<\/strong> – Three Preludes<\/em> (1926)Costumes: Susanne Stehle<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

When the junior company was founded in 2010, the intention was to create a repertoire of performances to foster the artistic development of dancers in a wide range of choreographic styles. At the time, Richard Siegal was emerging as an exciting new choreographic voice. After contributing some of his pieces to the company’s repertoire, in 2016 Richard Siegal travelled to Munich to create a new work directly with the company’s dancers. Set to George Gershwin’s famous Three Preludes,<\/em> Siegal created a work that translates every single musical note by Gershwin into movement. Siegal has always been fascinated by syncopation and Afro-Caribbean rhythms, and not only deconstructs common phrases of ballet and movement, but reconstructs them in groups of new movement ideas. The lively and jazzy 3\/4 Preludes<\/em> has thrilled audiences over and over since its premiere in 2016. <\/p>\n\n

RICHARD SIEGAL<\/strong>Richard Siegal was a member of William Forsythe’s Frankfurt Ballet before founding an interdisciplinary platform for the performing arts called \u2018The Bakery\u2019 in 2006. After acclaimed productions for Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, the CCN Ballet National de Marseille and the Bavarian State Ballet in Munich, Siegal founded the Ballet of Difference in 2016. The company questions ballet and the position it occupies as a cultural artefact in the 21st century. It uses the question of difference as a starting point and, together with a diverse group of artists from different cultural and aesthetic backgrounds, seeks to demonstrate the relevance of this art form in the contemporary era. Siegal continues to create for companies all over the world, including recent commissions for the Berlin State Opera and the Tanztheater Wuppertal. <\/p>\n\n

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DEVIL\u2019S KITCHEN<\/em><\/strong>World premiere performed by the Bayerisches Junior Ballett in Munich at the Prinzregententheater in Munich on 11 June 2025.<\/p>\n\n

Choreography: Marco Goecke<\/strong>Music: Pink Floyd<\/strong> – Shine on you crazy Diamond<\/strong> (1975), Wish you were here<\/strong> (1975), Dogs<\/strong> (1977)Costumes: Susanne Stehle<\/strong>Lighting: Udo Haberland<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

With Devil\u2019s Kitchen,<\/strong> Marco Goecke has created a deeply personal and layered ballet, without a defined narrative, which was born entirely from the creative process shared with the young dancers of the Bavarian Junior Ballet Munich. Inspired by real conversations in the communal kitchen of the Heinz-Bosl-Stiftung, memories of his youth and the music of Pink Floyd, the rehearsal space was transformed into a symbolic \u201cdevil’s kitchen\u201d: a place of intense emotion, vulnerability and artistic discovery. The title is emblematic of creative risk-taking and the existential struggle with the self. The result is a work about closeness, transformation and shared experience: raw, honest and full of life. <\/p>\n\n

MARCO GOECKE <\/strong>Long-time resident choreographer of the Stuttgart Ballet and Scapino Ballet, associate choreographer of the Nederlands Dans Theater, resident artist of Gauthier Dance and director of the Hanover State Ballet, Marco Goecke has created around 80 works in twenty years. These include works commissioned by many international companies such as Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, the Paris Opera Ballet, the Vienna State Ballet, the Norwegian National Ballet, the Pacific Northwest Ballet Seattle, the ballet of the Staatstheater am G\u00e4rtnerplatz in Munich, the Berlin State Ballet, the Hamburg Ballet, the Zurich Ballet and the Companhia de Dan\u00e7a in S\u00e3o Paulo. Marco Goecke has received numerous international awards, including the Prix Dom Perignon 2003, the Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg Culture Prize 2005, the Nijinsky Prize 2005 and the Dutch Dance Prize Zwaan 2017. In 2022, he was awarded the Kylian Ring and the German Dance Prize. <\/p>\n\n

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