Beate Vollack

1978-1986 studies at the State Ballet School of Berlin with Nina Viktorowna Belikowa

1986-1995 soloist at Komische Oper Berlin

• Repertoire like Odile „Swanlake“, Coppelia „Coppelia“, Mylady „The three mousketiers“

1994 winner of the International Ballet Competition in Jackson Mississippi

1996-2005 Solo Dancer at the Bavarian State Ballet

• 1997 dancer of the year for the interpretation of the role of Giselle from Mats Ek
• repertoire includes Mats Ek, Jiri Kylian, Patrice Bart, Georges Balanchine, Hans van Manen, Peter Wright, John Neumeier and many more

2000 Diploma in ballet teaching from the Academie of Music Munich

2004-2006 Ballet teacher at the Richard Strauss Conservatoire Munich

2005-2008 resident choreographer at the Bavarian State Opera and freelance choreographer

2008-2014 freelance choreographer

• 2009 “Don Quichotte” - choreographer
• 2010 “Pinocchio” - choreographer
• 2010 “Der Vogelhändler” - director and choreographer
• 2011 “Die Zirkusprinzessin “ - director and choreographer
• 2013 “Wie die Noten tanzen lernen” - choreographer
• opera choreographies for many international opera companies around the world, such as Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Bolshoi Theater, Salzburg Festival, Zurich Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, Bavaria State Opera, Leeds Opera, WNO, Ruhrtriennale, Lincoln Festival (New York) and many more
• artistic collaborations with Andrea Breth, Calixto Bieto, Doris Dörrie, Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier, Christof Loy, David Pountney, David Alden

2014-2018 Director of the Danceompanie at the theatre St.Gallen in Switzerland

• 2014 “X=Hase” - inspired by Meret Oppenheim – choreographer
• 2015 “Romeo et Juliette” (Berlioz) - director and choreographer
• 2015 “Nüwürüsütät” - choreographer
• 2016 “Peer Gynt “ - choreographer and dancer “Ase”
• 2016 “Orpheo et Euridice” - director and choreographer
• 2017 “Es ist was” - choreographer
• 2018 “Brother of Sleep” - choreographer
• 2018 “Peregrinatio” - choreographer
• 2019 “Verzockt” - choreographer
• and the Operas “La Gioconda”, “Eugen Onegin”, “Macbeth”, “Loreley”

2018-2019

• in the season 2018/2019 artistic director simultaneously of the companies in Graz and St.Gallen
• co-production of “The Four Seasons” (Haydn) between the theaters in St.Gallen and Graz - director and choreographer

2018-2023 director of the ballet of Oper Graz in Austria

• 2019 and 2020 “Cinderella” – choreographer and dancer “Stepmother”
• 2021 Tan(z)Go!” - choreographer
• 2022 “Undine” - choreographer
• 2023 “Carmen” - choreographer
• 2023 “Ans Ende der Zeit” - Composition by David Philip Hefti - choreographer
• Opera creations like “War requiem”, “Les pêcheurs de perles”, “Schwanda”, “Krol Roger”, “Clivia”, “Romeo et Juliette” and many more
• continuing working for other companies like festival Aix en Provence (“Salome”) and for Musiktheater an der Wien and director Stefan Herheim (“The cunning little vixen” and “Amahl and the Night Visitors”)

2020-2023 Member of the ‘Kulturbeirat’ of the city of Graz

Since 2023 ballet director of the Ballet de l’Opéra national du Capitole’ in Toulouse

• 2023 “Moses and Aron” - Co-director with Lorenzo Fioroni
• 2024 “Mephistophele” – Choreographer with the directors Moshe Leiser and Patrice Courier