Autumn brings the start of a new theatre season. Ballet and opera companies carefully shape their programmes, hoping to attract both regular theatregoers and new audiences. To help you choose, we have selected five productions from the repertoire of Staatsballett Berlin that deserve special attention this season.

From 4 to 13 September, the inaugural Kirill & Friends Berlin Festival brought theatre, film screenings, exhibitions and artist talks to venues across the city. The invitation carried a wish to reunite people whom recent years have scattered across cities and countries. This made Ivan Estegneev’s Demon’s Sorrow, presented on the festival’s final day, all the more poignant: a story of a reunion that can no longer happen.

For Denis Watanabe from Japan, performing on the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre became a special experience: after several years without competitions, he once again found himself in a competitive atmosphere, where technique and focus matter, but so does the ability to cope with one’s own nerves.

During the first round of the competition, we spoke with Anna Bylkova — a participant from Russia and a student at the Moscow State Academy of Choreography. For young artists, a competition performance becomes a moment of maximum студенткой Московской государственной академии хореографии. Для молодых артистов конкурсное выступление становится моментом максимальной концентрации: за несколько минут нужно показать технику, образ, музыкальность, характер и умение собрать на сцене

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.

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

The premiere of "Messa da Requiem" by Christian Spuck which came as one of the first collaborations between the new Artistic Director of the

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

A night of celebration of generational talent comes very rarely, and the world premiere of "Overture" by Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau

"A captivating explosion of colors" – that is how Theaterkrant described Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s world premiere in 2020.