Nutcracker
Sometimes, a gift isn’t just a gift. It’s a key to a new world. A young heroine. A Nutcracker-turned-prince. The small but mighty army of mice. The beautiful conclusion of a sugar plum celebration. It’s a story so good, it…
Category Ballet
modern and contemporary ballet performances
All Lang
All Lang is a compelling triple bill celebrating the artistry and creative vision of Jessica Lang, Resident Choreographer of the Pacific Northwest Ballet. Bringing together three distinctive works – Her Door to the Sky, Ghost Variations, and ZigZag – the programme showcases the…
Three Choreographies by Thierry Malandain
L’Après-midi d’un faune A faun is lying down on a rock during a summer afternoon. Nymphs appear. Intrigued, he looks at them and leaps near them. They all run away, scared, except one of them who enjoys being courted. When…
Bernstein Celebration
The Royal Ballet celebrates the centenary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth with an all-Bernstein programme from Wayne McGregor, Liam Scarlett and Christopher Wheeldon. Leonard Bernstein was one of the fi rst classical composers in America to achieve both popular and critical…
Glass Pieces
Expansive in scope and streamlined in style, Glass Pieces captures the pulsating heartbeat of metropolitan life with its charged, urban choreography, concluding in a finale that propels the corps de ballet across the stage at an electrifying pace. Although Philip…
Coppél-i.A.
While love is breaking into the lives of two young people, an artificial being will challenge what they believed they knew about it… Revisiting this classic of the Romantic repertoire, Jean-Christophe Maillot gives us, with an original musical score, a…
Carmen
When Johan Inger was asked to create a new version of Carmen, being himself Swedish and Carmen a piece with a strong Spanish nature, he faced an enormous challenge. But it was also a great opportunity. The story witnessed through…
Bach 25
Founded in 1994 by a pair of former Alvin Ailey dancers and frequent contributors to the hit TV show So You Think You Can Dance, New York-based Complexions Contemporary Ballet has wowed critics and audiences alike with their boundary-breaking style…
Winterreise
Franz Schubert’s Winterreise, a cycle of 24 songs for voice and piano set to poems by Wilhelm Müller, is not only regarded as the zenith of Schubert’s song composition, but as the pinnacle of German art song in its entirety.…