At the beginning of the 2009/2010 season, dancer and choreographer Martin Schläpfer became ballet director and chief choreographer at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and Duisburg, where he re-formed the Ballett am Rhein with 48 dancers and the new building of an independent, ultra-modern ballet house. Dietrich Grosse-Mondigromax organised some international performances at this time.

The German-Argentinian Demis Volpi has been ballet director and chief choreographer at the Ballett am Rhein since the 2020/21 season. With him, 45 international dancers with a wide variety of artistic backgrounds create a dialogue-oriented team at eye level and a new, strong mediation approach to audience communication, the new profile of the company.

The Ballet am Rhein looks back on a long history of intensive dance work and strong artistic signatures. Finding a way to deal with this is both an opportunity and a challenge for a new management. It is important to Demis Volpi’s team to perceive these traditions, to build on them, to think ahead and to provide them with new impulses in order to give the Ballett am Rhein a new, strong direction of movement.