On 20 June, the Hamburg Ballet gave the premiere of Alexei Ratmansky's two-act Wunderland. Shown as part of Hamburg's Tanztriennale, the production opened the 51st edition of the celebrated Hamburger Ballett-Tage (Hamburg Ballet Days), the festival founded by John Neumeier in 1975.

The premiere of the ballet evening Fearful Symmetries took place in Berlin, bringing together one-act ballets by George Balanchine and Christian Spuck. The programme opened with one of Balanchine’s most celebrated works – Symphony in C, set to music by Georges Bizet.

On 12 May, The Lady of the Camellias returned to the Bavarian State Ballet after a six-year absence. In the intervening years, the company changed its artistic director and welcomed a new generation of soloists — for many of them, this run of performances marks a premiere. We spoke with Ksenia Shevtsova — principal dancer of the Bavarian State Ballet (and guest soloist of the Stanislavsky Theatre) — about working with John Neumeier, preparing the role of Marguerite Gautier

On May 8, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf premiered John Neumeier's A Streetcar Named Desire — a ballet by one of the most legendary choreographers of our time. It was with this very production that the Hamburg Ballet opened its 50th and final season under Neumeier in 2023. And though A Streetcar Named Desire enjoys less popularity with companies than, say, The Lady of the Camellias — currently running in Munich and Paris this season alone — it is precisely this ball

Ballet Director Laurent Hilaire concluded Ballet Festival Week 2026 with an overall attendance of 100 per cent. The opening event was the premiere of the new triple bill Common Ground on Saturday, 28 March 2026, in which choreographers Alexander Ekman and Johan Inger presented their work to the Bavarian State Ballet audience in Munich for the first time. Common Ground refers to a shared basis of human coexistence, and thus the audience can expect a performance that conveys an

On April 17, 2026, the Paris Opera announced the death of Jacqueline Rayet, one of the most brilliant and versatile stars of French ballet of the second half of the 20th century. She died at the age of 93.

It is striking how fates and meanings echo across time. After his legendary defection from the USSR in 1961, Rudolf Nureyev was declared a traitor to the Motherland and sentenced in absentia to imprisonment. And now, decades later, in modern Russia, a ballet about him – a man who became a symbol of freedom in the art world - is stigmatized and pushed aside.

When a ballet classic is reborn, it carries within that mixture of nostalgia, expectation and electric tension that only the truly great works can evoke. John Neumeier’s Nutcracker, back in the repertoire of the Bavarian State Ballet since 2 November 2025, is such a work.

A new double-bill from the Staatsballett Berlin "Minus 16 / Saaba" presents 2 contemporary pieces from Israeli-born choreographers: Sharon E

The choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui returned to the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona with the duo of choreographies "Faun/Noetic" , both performed by the Grand Ballet de Genéve. In the gaze of the Belgian choreographer and dancer, the symbiosis between cultures and movements is almost always accompanied by a philosophical line, resulting in a communicative dance that transcends diversity of bodies, perceptions, and contexts. Through an artistic ideology formed by collec