Spring Matinee Of The Heinz Bosl Foundation

Ballet

Choreography Bryan Arias, Patrice Bart, Pina Bausch, Nacho Duato, Marco Goecke, Pablo González Martínez, Norbert Graf, Ivan Liška, Hans van Manen, Mario Radačovský, David Russo, Simone Sandroni, Remi Wörtmeyer.

From the very beginning, i.e. since 1978, Konstanze Vernon associated the idea of regular Sunday matinees at the National Theater with the establishment of the foundation that would carry the name of her great dance partner Heinz Bosl, who died so young, into the future. She had always regarded the stage of their joint triumphs in Swan Lake, Onegin or Romeo and Juliet as a kind of sacred place. And inseparable from the educational thought of the Foundation was the desire that the young people who wanted to devote themselves to the art of dance should have this experience from childhood.

To experience what it means to stand on a great stage, and one of the most traditional and important in the world. To be able to dance on this stage and in front of this enormous auditorium, five tiers high, shimmering in red and gold - Vernon had never forgotten what a privilege this means for every artist.

And she conceived the programs of the Bosl Matinees in such a way that they soon became a natural part of Munich dance life: the little ones of the Ballet Academy were given tasks of artistic substance. The same was true for the adolescents and students of the upper school, for whom the Foundation engaged world-class choreographers. Here the students could experience what their art is capable of in the most demanding cases. Vernon was no less concerned about the audience: the matinees were to be a family celebration, inspiring the children as well as the parents and even the experienced ballet-goer, who is accustomed to the highest artistic expectations of a program.

Program and cast

Programme Spring Matinee 30.3.2025

Bilder einer Ausstellung
Piet Mondrian Solo
Choreography: Ivan Liška
Music: Modest Mussorgski – „Befragung - Die Hütte der Baba Jaga“
Dancer: Alfie Pearce, Bayerisches Staatsballett

Jardi Tancat
3. Pas de deux
Choreography: Nacho Duato
Music: Maria del Mar Bonet
Dancers: Elisa Mestres, Matteo Dilaghi, Bayerisches Staatsballett

Isadora
Choreography: Ivan Liška
Music: Johannes Brahms – „Walzer Op. 39 Nr. 6“
Dancers: Marina Mata Gómez, Bayerisches Staatsballett

Chopin Duett
Choreography: Mario Radačovský
Music: Frederic Chopin – „Nocturnes, Op. 9: Nr. 2“
Dancers: Se Hyun An, Jacopo Iadimarco, Nationaltheater Brünn

Die Stadt
Choreography: Norbert Graf
Music: Franz Schubert – „Schwanengesang, Die Stadt“
Dancers: Severin Brunhuber, Bayerisches Staatsballett

Liberación World Premiere
Choreography: Pablo González Martínez
Music: Georg Friedrich Händel– „Lascia ch´io pianga“
Dancer: Pablo González Martínez, Bayerisches Staatsballett

La Bayadère
Variation Gamzatti from the 1. akt, 2. scene
Choreography: Patrice Bart
Music: Léon Minkus
Dancer: Carollina Bastos, Bayerisches Staatsballett

Odyssey
Soldat Solo
Choreography: Bryan Arias
Music: N.N.
Dancer: Shawn Throop, Saarländisches Staatstheater

Concertante
2. Pas de deux
Choreography: Hans van Manen
Music: Frank Martin – „Petite symphonie concertante“
Dancers: Phoebe Schembri, Soren Sakadales, Bayerisches Staatsballett

Penumbra 
Choreography: Remi Wörtmeyer
Music: Sergei Rachmaninov – „Sonata in G Minor, Op. 19, Andante“
Dancers: Luiza Bertho, Timothy van Poucke, Het Nationale Ballet

O Leãzinho
Auschnitte aus «Für die Kinder von gestern heute und morgen»
Choreography: Pina Bausch
Music: Caetano Veloso – „O Leãozinho“
Dancer: Matteo Dilaghi, Bayerisches Staatsballett

Binding Pulse
Choreography: Simone Sandroni
Music: Francesco Antonioni – „Solid to solid“
Bayerisches Junior Ballett München

Drifting
Choreography: David Russo
Music: Ezio Bosso Francesco Libetta – „Solid to solid“, Nils Frahm  – „Because this must be“
Bayerisches Junior Ballett München

All Long Dem Day
Choreography: Marco Goecke
Music: Nina Simone – „Sinnerman“
Light: Udo Haberland
Staging: Fabio Polombo
Bayerisches Junior Ballett München 

Programme Spring Matinee 6.4.2025

Tides
Choreography: Angelo d´Aiello
Music: Claude Debussy – „Clair de Lune“
Dancers: Gillian Fitz, Angelo d´Aiello (Friedrichstadt-Palast Berlin)

Si fa sera
Choreography: Massimiliano Volpini
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach – „Doppelkonzert für zwei Violinen d-Moll BWV 1043: II. Largo ma non tanto“
Dancers: Natalia Kosovac, Simon Yoshida (Kroatisches Nationalballett Zagreb)

Burned Candle World Premiere
Choreography: Samuel López Legaspi
Music: Abraham Cupeiro – „Armenia“, Santana & Eric Clapton – „The Calling“
Dancer: Samuel López Legaspi 

Bilder einer Ausstellung
Roy Lichtenstein Pas De Deux
Choreography: Norbert Graf
Music: Modest Mussorgski – „Promenade 2 & Das alte Schloss“
Dancers: Jamie Constance (Stuttgarter Ballett), Mallika Aithala (Bayerisches Junior Ballett München)

Take me with you
Choreography: Robert Bondara
Music: Radiohead – „True Love Waits“
Dancers: Maxine Morales, Iannis Teirlijnck (Poznań Opera Ballet)

The new 45
Choreography: Richard Siegal
Musis: Oscar Peterson & Clark Terry – „Mac the Knife“, Benny Goodman – „Get Happy“
Dancers: Nicha Rodboon (Opera Ballet Vlaanderen), Nicholas Losada (Tanztheater Wuppertal)

Enkosi
Choreography: Mthuthezeli November
Music: Alex Wilson - „Sobehlula“
Dancer: Lotte James (Ballett am Rhein)

Maledetto Modigliani
Choreography: Lara Brandi
Music: Jean Gabin – „Maintenant je sais“
Dancer: Olivia Swintek (Tiroler Landestheater)

Alone
Choreography: Joshua Green
Music: Olafur Arnalds – „This Place Is a Shelter“
Dancer: Zofia Wara-Wąsowska (Classical Ukrainian Etoile Ballet)

Deutsches Requiem
Denn wir haben hie keine bleibende Statt
Choreography: Francesco Annarumma
Music: Johannes Brahms – „Deutsches Requiem - Nr. 6, Denn wir haben hie keine bleibende Statt“
Dancers: Justin Rimke, Afroditi Vasilakopoulou (J.K.Tyl Theater)

Soletude World Premiere
Choreography: Joaquin Angelucci
Music: Franz Schubert – „Schwanengesang, D.957: IV. Ständchen“
Dancer: Joaquin Angelucci (Hamburg Ballett)

Carmen
Choreography: Alberto Alonso
Music: Rodion Schtschedrin nach Georges Bizet – „Carmen“
Dancer: Bianca Teixeira (Semperoper Ballett)

Die Schöpfung
Aus Rosenwolken bricht
Choreography: Uwe Scholz
Music: Joseph Haydn – „Die Schöpfung: No. 29, Aus Rosenwolken bricht“
Dancer: Diana van Godtsenhoven, Carl van Godtsenhoven (Leipziger Ballett)

Who knows where the time goes
Choreography: Tars Vandebeek
Music: Nina Simone – „Who Knows Where The Time Goes“
Dancers: Nicha Rodboon, Tars Vandebeek (Opera Ballet Vlaanderen)

Frühlingswasser
Choreography: Asaf Messerer
Music: Sergei Rachmaninov – „Frühlingswasser“
Dancers: Nadia Kahn (Teatro dell’Opera di Roma), Julian MacKay (Bayerisches Staatsballett)

Binding Pulse
Choreography: Simone Sandroni
Music: Francesco Antonioni – „Solid to solid“
Bayerisches Junior Ballett München

All Long Dem Day
Choreography: Marco Goecke
Music: Nina Simone – „Sinnerman“
Light: Udo Haberland
Staging: Fabio Polombo
Bayerisches Junior Ballett München