The Triadic Ballet

Public dress rehearsal

As a co-production of the Bayerisches Staatsballett with the Academy of the Arts, supported by the Tanzfonds Erbe der Bundeskulturstiftung, in 2014 the new production resulted in an unforgettable dance event of the 20th century: Oskar Schlemmer’s “Triadic Ballet” in Gerhard Bohner’s choreography commissioned by the Academy in 1977. Bohner’s congenial, timeless new version of the legendary costume ballet from 1922, with an original composition by Hans-Joachim Hespos, was a global success which revived Schlemmer’s major theatre experiment of the Bauhaus period.

In the new production in 2014 with the Bayerisches Staatsballett II under the direction of ballet director Ivan Liška and with ballet legend Colleen Scott, who danced almost every performance as first soloist in Bohner’s production for an entire decade, the young ensemble ensured the legendary ballet was at last once again performed for audiences all over the world.

The costumes reconstructed precisely by Bohner in 1977 with stage designer Ulrike Dietrich according to Schlemmer from the Academy’s Gerhard Bohner archive and reworked by Susanne Stehle are presented in full expressiveness and beauty in the “cheerfully burlesque”, “festively worn”, “mythically fantastic” moods of the three-piece ballet.

Choreography Gerhard Bohner (1977)
Music Hans-Joachim Hespos
Costume reconstruction and new version in Berlin 1977 Ulrike Dietrich
Reconstruction and reproduction in Munich 2014 Susanne Stehle
Arrangement Colleen Scott, Ivan Liška
Production management Caroline Rehberg, Bettina Wagner-Bergelt
Technical production management Norbert Stück

Première at the Bayerisches Staatsballett II on 4 June 2014 in the Reithalle, Munich.

Première of the new version by Gerhard Bohner on 2 September 1977, Academy of the Arts, Berlin

World première in the version by Oskar Schlemmer on 30 September 1922, Stuttgart

Ballet master Olivier Vercoutère
Light design Michael Kantrowitsch
Stage manager Deike Wilhelm
Dancers Sheyun An, Aldona Budny, Hannah Conlon, Gillian Fitz, Anais Fitze, Lotte James, Hanna Miquel, Benedetta Musso, Angelo Marco Accardi, Luis Armando Arens, Severin Brunhuber, Pablo Gonzales, Martin Nudo, Florimon Poisson, Nikita Voronin, N.N.

A production of the Bayerisches Staatsballett II in cooperation with the Academy of the Arts Berlin, Munich 2014; a Tanzfonds Erbe project of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes.

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Admission fee: EUR 10 / EUR 6 reduced

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