Family concert: "The Four Seasons"

Premiere: 23.4.2023

Berlin Philharmonic, Berlin, Germany

Philharmonic Stradivari Soloists Berlin
Music: Antonio Vivaldi
Concept and Moderation: Aleksandar Ivić
Choreography: Winnie Dias Pinto
Stage Design & Projection: Otto Bubeníček
Costume Design: Isabella Heymann

Remember the Ladies

Premiere 28.10.2022

Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater, Ballett X Schwerin, Schwerin, Germany

Music: (World premiere): Peer Baierlein
Choreography & Stage Design: Xenia Wiest
Costume Design: Otto Bubeniček

Proces

Premiere: 21.10.2022

State Opera Košice, Ballet State Opera Košice, Košice, Slovakia

Inspired by a novel by Franz Kafka

Music:

Alfred Schnittke
Wim Henderickx
Hans Eisler / Heiner Goebbels
Arvo Pärt
Alva Noto
(Ryuichi Sakamoto / Carsten Nicolai)
Elliot Sharp
Walter Fähndrich
Anton Arensky
Caroline Shaw
Petri Sirviö
Wim Mertens
as well as trad. Jewish folk songs

Choreography & Music Arrangement: Jiří Bubeníček
Stage Design & Projection: Otto Bubeníček
Costume Design: Nadina Cojocaru
Lighting: Jaka Šimenc
Shouting choir: Mieskuoro Huutajat
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Orpheus and Eurydice

Premiere: 5.7.2022

Astana Ballet Theatre, Astana Ballet, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

Music: Sergei Prokofiev
Edward William Elgar
George Frideric Handel
Davidson Giaconello
Choreography & Director: Kristina Paulin
Stage Design: Otto Bubeniček
Costume Design: Dennis Peschke

Through my eyes

Premiere: 04.03.2022

Mecklenburg State Theatre, Ballett X Schwerin, Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle, Schwerin, Germany

Music: Johannes Brahms
Choreography: Xenia Wiest
Musical Direction: Mark Rohde
Piano: Florian Uhlig
Stage Design & Projection: Otto Bubeníček
Costume Design: Melanie Jane Frost
Dramaturgy: Patricia Stöckemann

Rendezvous

Premiere: 19.11.2021

Mecklenburg State Theatre, E-Werk, Ballett X Schwerin, Schwerin, Germany

Music: C.Debussy
M.Glinka
M.Fengler & Efdemin
J.Marry
F.Schubert
P.Soluri

Choreography: Xenia Wiest
Stage Design: Otto Bubeníček
Projection: Marush Mehnert, Nikita Fedosik
Costume Design & Assistant: Melanie Jane Frost, Julia Mottl
Staging: Philipp Amelungsen

DANTE METÀNOIA
by and with Sergei Polunin

Premiere: 01.09.2021

Teatro Alighieri, Ravenna, Italy

Music: (World Premiere) Kirill Richter
Choreography: Jiří Bubeníček
Stage Design & Projection: Otto Bubeníček
Costume Design: Tatjana Strugar

THE
Transcendental
EX-PERIENCE

by Otto Bubeníček

Premiere: 1.2.2021

HFBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg Auditorium, Hamburg, Germany

Music: Maurice Ravel
Concept & Stage Design: Otto Bubeníček
Choreography: Nicholas Palmquist
Dancer: Jón Vallejo
Violin: Annabelle Dugast
Cello: Sebastian Gaede
Camera: Silvano Ballone

Little Red and The Wolf

Premiere: 29.12.2019

Concert Hall "Zarydaye", Moscow, Russia

Music: Kirill Richter (World Premiere)
Choreography: Ross Freddie Ray
Stage Design: Otto Bubeníček
Costume Design: Dmitry Loginov
Lighting: Konstantin Binkin

The Little Prince

Premiere: 13.10.2019

National Academic Theatre
of Opera and Ballet after A. Spendiaryan
Yerevan, Armenia

Inspired by a novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
For the 95th Anniversary of The Yerevan State Dance College

Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Choreography: Arsen Mehrabyan
Stage Design, Projection, Costume Design: Otto Bubeníček

Rasputin

The World Premiere: 23.5.2019

23.5 & 31.5.2019 Barvikha Concert Hall, Moscow Oblast, Russia
1.6.2019 London Palladium, London, United Kingdom

Music: Kirill Richter (World Premiere)
Choreography: Yuka Oishi
Stage Design: Otto Bubeníček
Costume Design: Ulyana Sergeenko
Lighting: Konstantin Binkin

Rasputin Sergei Polunin
Prince Felix Yusupov Johan Kobborg
Emperor Nikolas II Alexey Lyubimov
Empress Alexandra Fyedorovna Elena Ilinykh
Tsarevitch Alexei Djordje Kalenic

The Trial

Inspired by a novel by Franz Kafka

Premiere: 17.5.2019

The Royal Swedish Ballet, Stockholm, Sweden

Music: Alfred Schnittke
Wim Henderickx
Hans Eisler/Heiner Goebbels
Arvo Pärt
Alva Noto
(Ryuichi Sakamoto/Carsten Nicolai)
Elliot Sharp
Walter Fähndrich
Anton Arensky
Caroline Shaw
Petri Sirviö
Wim Mertens, as well as traditional Jewish folk songs

Shouting choir: Mieskuoro Huutajat
Choreography: Jiří Bubeníček
Stage Design: Otto Bubeníček
Costume Design: Nadina Cojocaru
Lighting: Jaka Šimenc

Metropolis

Premiere: 3.11.2018

Inspired by a novel by They von Harbou & a film by director Fritz Lang

Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb
Croatian National Theater Ballet, Zagreb, Croatia

Music: Johann Sebastian Bach
Mason Bates
Alban Berg
John Cage
Brian Eno
Gabriel Fauré
The Great Gatsby - the Jazz Recordings Gotfried Huppertz
Nico Muhly
Raster—Norton
Maurice Ravel
Nitin Sawhney
Aphex Twin

Choreography, Staging & Music Arrangement: Jiří Bubeníček
Stage Design & Projection: Otto Bubeníček
Costume Design: Nadina Cojocaru

Má vlast

(My homeland)

Premiere: 28.6.2018

Old Town Square, Czech Republic, Prague

For the 100th anniversary of the founding of Czechoslovakia (ordered by city Prag)

Broadcast LIVE on ČT Art (28.June 2018)

Les Ballet Bubeníček

Guests from: Zürich Ballett, Royal Swedish Ballet,
Salzburger Landestheater, Semperoper Ballett,
Stuttgarter Ballett, Ballett Dortmund and Czech National Ballet

Music: Bedřich Smetana
Choreography: Jiří Bubeníček
Stage & Costume Design: Otto Bubeníček
Organization: Marcela Tomášková, Otto Bubeníček

The Piano: The Ballet

(full-length)

Premiere: 23.2.2018

Royal New Zealand Ballet

Inspired by the film The Piano with permission kindly granted by Jane Campion
Jan Chapman and Saddleback Productions.
Royal New Zealand Ballet, Wellington, New Zealand

Music: Igor Stravinsky
Dmitri Shostakovich
Johannes Brahms
Alfred Schnittke
Charles Ives
Peteris Vasks
Michael Nyman
Clive Williamson
Te Rauparaha Maori traditional music & Otto Bubeníček

Choreography: Jiří Bubeníček
Staging: Jiří & Otto Bubeníček
Stage Design, Music Arrangment & Projection: Otto Bubeníček
Costume Design: Elsa Pavanel

“The Heart Dances” the journey of The Piano: the ballet (2018)
A film by Rebecca Tansley. 1h 38min | Documentary | 28 July 2018 (New Zealand)
Director: Rebecca Tansley
Producer: Robin Laing
Cast: Jiří Bubeniček, Otto Bubeniček

Rusalka

Premiere: 29.04.2017

Inspired by the The Czech libretto Written by the poet Jaroslav Kvapil (1868–1950) Based on the fairy tales of Karel Jaromír Erben and Božena Němcová

Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe
Ballet - Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

Music: Leoš Janáček, Antonín Dvořák
Choreography: & Staging Jiří Bubeníček
Stage & Costume Design: Otto Bubeníček
Dramaturgy: Jiří Bubeníček, Silke Meier

Requiem

Premiere: 13.4.2017

Opera Wrocławska
Ballet Opera Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland

Music: W.A.Mozart
Choreography: Jacek Tyski
Stage Design: Karol Dutczak
Costume Design: Otto Bubeníček
Projection: Karolina Mełnicka

Fragile Vessels

Premiere: 24.1.2017

War Memorial Opera House
San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco, USA

Music: Sergei Rachmaninoff
Choreography: Jiří Bubeníček
Stage Design: Otto Bubeníček
Costume Design: Uroš Belantič

Dance Gallantries

Premiere: 16.11.2016

For the Graduation Season 2016
New Zealand School of Dance, New Zealand, Wellington
Wellington, New Zealand

Music: J.S.Bach
Choreography: Jiří Bubeníček
Costume Design: Otto Bubeníček

Je rêve

Matthias Arfmann Presents Ballet Jeunesse

Berlin, Germany. (Deluxe Version) CD 2016

Matthias Arfmann, Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg
Bernd Ruf, Onejiru Schindler
Label: Universal Music Classics
Choreography: Jiří and Otto Bubeníček

Orfeus

Premiere 8.9.2016

Výstaviště Olomouc
Olomouc, Czech Republic

Director "SKUTR" (MARTIN KUKUČKA a LUKÁŠ TRPIŠOVSKÝ)
and Jiří & Otto Bubeníček.

Music: Lawrence English
Plaid
The Ink Spots
The Beach Boys / Brian Wilson
Rahman Asadollahi
Aphex Twin
Nitin Sawhney
The Ink Spots
J.S.Bach
Sir Edward William Elgar
Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto
Rene Hell
Jeff Witscher
Olaf Bender
Ryoji Ikeda
Ultra-Red
Frank Bretschneider
Jeff Witscher
Jeremy Cohen
Otto Bubeníček
Beach Balls
Frank Bretschneider

Music: Arrangment Otto Bubeníček
Choreography: Jiří and Otto Bubeníček
Dancers: Anna Herman, Jiří and Otto Bubeníček
Dancer & Acteur: Csongor Kassai
Violin: Annabelle Dugast, Violoncello: Terezie Kovalová

Production: JT PROMOTION

Anita Berber

Goddess of the Night

Premiere: 26.5.2016

Ballet of the Theater and Philharmonic Orchestra Thüringen
Theater Gera, Gera, Germany

Music: Simon Wills (World Premiere)
Choreography: Jiří Bubeníček
Staging: Jiří & Otto Bubeníček
Stage & Costume Design: Otto Bubeníček

Doctor Zhivago

Premiere: 14.4.2016

Slovenian National Opera and Ballet Ljubljana
Ljubljana, Slovenia

Music: Dmitri Shostakovich
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Alfred Schnittke
Peteris Vasks
Nikolay Myaskovsky & The Red Army Choirs
(Varchavianka, Oh Ma Vaste Steppe)

Choreography: Jiří Bubeníček
Staging: Jiří & Otto Bubeníček
Stage Design: Otto Bubeníček
Costume Design: Design Elsa Pavanel
Lighting: Jaka Šimenc

Les jeux jaloux

Premiere: 20.2.2016

Staatstheater Hanover Ballet
Hanover, Germany

Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn
Choreography: Jiří Bubeníček
Stage & Costume Design: Otto Bubeníček
Lighting: Peter Hörtner

L'heure bleue

Premiere: 30.1.2016

Tokyo City Ballet
Tokyo, Japan (Longer version)

Music: J.S.Bach, W.A.Mozart
Choreography: Jiří Bubeníček
Staging: Jiří & Otto Bubeníček
Stage & Costume Design: Otto Bubeníček

Arshile Gorky

Premiere 30.7.2015

National Academic Theatre
of Opera and Ballet after A. Spendiaryan
Yerevan, Armenia

Music: J.S Bach, Alan Hovhaness, Komitas
Choreography: Arsen Mehrabyan
Stage & Costume Design: Otto Bubeníček

The Piano

Premiere: 14.2.2014

Ballett Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

Music: Igor Stravinsky
Dmitri Shostakovich
Johannes Brahms
Alfred Schnittke
Charles Ives
Peteris Vasks
Michael Nyman
Clive Williamson
Te Rauparaha Maori traditional music & Otto Bubeníček

Choreography: Jiří Bubeníček
Staging: Jiří & Otto Bubeníček
Music: Arrangment Otto & Jiří Bubeníček
Stage Design & Projection: Otto Bubeníček
Costume Design: Elsa Pavanel

The Soldier’s Tale

Premiere: 23.6.2013

Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Music: Igor Stravinsky
Choreography: Jiří Bubeníček
Staging: Jiří & Otto Bubeníček
Stage & Costume Design: Otto Bubeníček

L'heure bleue

Premiere: 26.4.2013

North Carolina Dance Theatre
North Carolina, USA

Music: J.S.Bach, W.A.Mozart
Choreography: Jiří Bubeníček
Staging: Jiří & Otto Bubeníček
Stage & Costume Design: Otto Bubeníček

Burning Bridges

Premiere: 11.01.2013

Gauthier Dance, Germany

Music: David Longstreth
Johann Sebastian Bach
Arvo Pärt
Jason Charles Beck (Chilly Gonzales)
Otto Bubeníček

(Arrangement: Jiří Bubeníček, Philip Kannicht)
Choreography: Jiří Bubeníček
Stage Design: Otto Bubeníček

Faun

Premiere: 23.06.2012

Semperoper Ballett Dresden
Dresden, Germany

Music: Claude Debussy
Choreography: Jiří Bubeníček
Stage & Costume Design: Otto Bubeníček

“Les Ballets Bubeníček” TV Premiere: 11.10.2014 ČT art
“Faun” TV Premiere: 1.1.2019 ČT art
DVD “Les Ballets Bubeníček” ©Česká televize 2014 ℗Česká televize 2015
Actor: Jiří Bubeníček, Otto Bubeníček
Director: Gustav Skála

Gentle Memories

Premiere: 27.04.2012

D.H. Koch Theater Lincoln Center
New York, USA

Premiere: 27.9.2012 (Extended Version)

Mariinsky Ballet Theater
St. Petersburg, Russia

Premiere: 21.1.2016

The War Memorial theater,
San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco, USA

Music: Karen LeFrak
Choreography: Jiří Bubeníček
Costume Design: Otto Bubeníček

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Premiere: 16.07.2011

Castle Velké Losiny
Velké Losiny, Czech Republic

Music: Keith Jerret, Bruno Moretti
Choreography: Jiří & Otto Bubeníček
Stage & Costume Design, Music Arrangement: Otto Bubeníček

Die innere Stimme
The inner Voice

Premiere: 30.10.2010

Museum Albertinum
Dresden, Germany

Music: Johann Sebastian Bach
Charles Ives
György Ligeti
Heinrich Ignaz
Franz Biber
Arvo Pärt
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Erkki-Sven Tüür
Otto Bubeníček

Choreography: Jiří Bubeníček
Costume Design: Otto Bubeníček

Unintended Consequences

Premiere: 15.05.2009

National Theatre in Prague
Prague, Czech Republic

Music: Otto Bubeníček (World Premiere)
Choreography: Jiří Bubeníček
Costume Design: Otto Bubeníček

Double Violin Concerto

Premiere: 15.05.2009

National Theatre in Prague
Prague, Czech Republic

Music: J.S.Bach
Choreography: Jiří & Otto Bubeníček
Costume Design: Otto Bubeníček

Toccata

Premiere: 13.5.2009

New York City Ballet
New York, USA

Music: Otto Bubeníček (World Premiere)
Choreography: Jiří Bubeníček
Stage & Costume Design: Otto Bubeníček

Le souffle de l'esprit

Premiere: 2007

Zurich Ballet
Zurich, Switzerland

Music: Johann Sebastian Bach
Roman Hoffstetter
Johann Pachelbel
Otto Bubeníček

Choreography: Jiří Bubeníček
Stage & Costume Design: Otto Bubeníček

“Les Ballets Bubeníček” TV Premiere: 11.10.2014 ČT art
“Le souffle de l’esprit” TV Premiere: 20. 6. 2014 ČT art
DVD “Les Ballets Bubeníček” ©Česká televize 2014 ℗Česká televize 2015

Actor: Jiří Bubeníček, Otto Bubeníček
Director: Gustav Skála

Ai No Yukue Mo

Premiere: 2005

Sapporo, Japan

Music: Otto Bubeníček (World Premiere)
Choreography: Jiří & Otto Bubeníček
Stage Design, Projection & Music Arrangement: Satoshi Hata
Costume Design: Otto Bubeníček

Unreachable places

Premiere: 19.6.2005

Hamburg Ballet John Neumeier
Hamburg, Germany

Music: Otto Bubeníček (World Premiere)
Choreography & Stage Design: Jiří Bubeníček
Costume Design: Elsa Pavanel