Ballett am Rhein
Ballett am Rhein 2025/2026
© Ingo Schaefer
Since the beginning of the 2024/25 season, Artistic Director Bridget Breiner and Ballet Director Raphaël Coumes-Marquet have been leading Ballett am Rhein together.
The company of 45 dancers from a wide range of nations, stands for international diversity and artistic excellence. Its repertoire offers a rich and varied program that brings together established choreographic styles with fresh new voices.
Bridget Breiner and Raphaël Coumes-Marquet draw on their many years of experience as dancers and leaders to make this unique art form more accessible to the audience and to strengthen the ballet company. They set new creative impulses while continuing the tradition of presenting a powerful repertoire.
Bridget Breiner and Raphaël Coumes-Marquet draw on their many years of experience as dancers and leaders to make this unique art form more accessible to the audience and to strengthen the ballet company. They set new creative impulses while continuing the tradition of presenting a powerful repertoire.
© Yan Revazov
© Daniel Senzek
Participatory initiatives such as “Tanz mit!” and audio description for selected performances create multiple opportunities for active engagement: Dance is experienced together.
Dancing is fun - and ballet offers children and young people an extraordinary combination of training for strength, flexibility, coordination and musicality.
Concentration is also required and encouraged.
Concentration is also required and encouraged.
© Daniel Senzek
Under one roof with professional dancers from all over the world, children and young people from
from the age of 6 can discover the great variety of ballet at the ballet school of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and learn different dance techniques. The currently around 60 pupils aged between 6 and 16 are taught in four groups divided according to age or level of training.
The focus is on classical academic ballet and is supplemented by PBT (Progressing Ballet Technique), character dance and modern dance techniques. Children and young people can gain their first dance experience and a solid grounding, which also provides an excellent basis for admission to one of the renowned classical or modern ballet and dance academies.
from the age of 6 can discover the great variety of ballet at the ballet school of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and learn different dance techniques. The currently around 60 pupils aged between 6 and 16 are taught in four groups divided according to age or level of training.
The focus is on classical academic ballet and is supplemented by PBT (Progressing Ballet Technique), character dance and modern dance techniques. Children and young people can gain their first dance experience and a solid grounding, which also provides an excellent basis for admission to one of the renowned classical or modern ballet and dance academies.
© Christoph Schroll
Balletthaus
Merowingerstraße 88
40225 Düsseldorf
Phone +49 211 89 25 340
ballettbuero@ballettamrhein.de
Ballet school
Phone +49 211 89 25 340
ballettunterricht@ballettamrhein.de
Auditions
audition@ballettamrhein.de
Guidelines for auditions
Merowingerstraße 88
40225 Düsseldorf
Phone +49 211 89 25 340
ballettbuero@ballettamrhein.de
Ballet school
Phone +49 211 89 25 340
ballettunterricht@ballettamrhein.de
Auditions
audition@ballettamrhein.de
Guidelines for auditions