Berlin State Ballet announces 2025-2026 season

Staatsballett Berlin (Berlin State Ballet) announced its 2025-2026 season, which includes two main world premieres and Nureyev, in a news release on 12th March 2025.

Artist-in-residence Marcos Morau will create Wunderkammer, his first full-length production for the company. Artistic director Christian Spuck will create a new work as a part of the Fearful Symmetries double-bill programme, which will also feature George Balanchine's Symphony in C.

The production which caught my eye was Nureyev. Nureyev was created based on Rudolf Nureyev’s life by Yuri Possokhov and stage and film director Kirill Serebrennikov. The news release said, “The work premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre in 2017 but was removed from the repertoire in 2023 due to Russia’s ban on "non-traditional values" propaganda.”

The news release also said the Nureyev programme would be “their (Possokhov and Serebrennikov) first production for Staatsballett Berlin outside of Russia.” I am not sure what it meant but my hunch is “and” was probably a dropped word before “outside”.

Repertoires to be performed in the new season are Gods and Dogs featuring Jiří Kylián and Crystal Pite; Swan Lake by Patrice Bart; and Winterreise by Christian Spuck, Minus 16 with choreographies by Ohad Naharin and Sharon Eyal, as well as Edward Clug's A Midsummer Night's Dream which has world-premiered very recently.

Click here for the digital booklet.