Acclaimed as one of America’s foremost dancemakers, Paul Taylor (1930-2018) created a remarkable repertoire of 147 works, many recognized as contemporary classics and culminating with Concertiana. He performed with Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham, but focused his energies on his…
After Vertikal, which propelled hip-hop into the air, the choreographer continues to exalt this dance in a play with natural forces : from weightlessness to the breath of the wind, from vertical to horizontal, he performs a 90-degree rotation and…
Silent Screen by NDT house choreographers Sol León and Paul Lightfoot can be seen as the epitome of a transdisciplinary performance where dance, theatre, film and music effortlessly come together to melt into a painterly Gesamtkunstwerk. Large screens offer a…
Henry Purcell’s “Dido & Aeneas” is often described as the oldest love story in English opera. The production was a premiere for Sasha Waltz, marking the beginning of her work on “choreographic opera”. Together with 12 dancers from her ensemble…
A collection of three works created for Ballet BC by exciting Canadian choreographers, as well as one of Artistic Director Medhi Walerski‘s most celebrated creations. We are bringing you the North American live premiere of Walerski’s GARDEN along with world…
A sensual, exuberant performance where silence is acknowledged and spaces in between become choreographed. Ten sculptures enter a dialogue with eight dancers, who resonate the abstract geometries, yielding new physicalities. Throughout the performance, the dancers establish an intimate relation with…
With this production, inspired by the figure of Inanna, a Mesopotamian divinity, Carolyn Carlson has created a committed yet poetic piece of work. It is pretty safe to say that Carolyn Carlson, the American without borders, is a choreographer of…
Is a political revolution coming? Will the Labour party collapse? Can the kingdom stay united? It’s 1974. And Westminster is about to go to war with itself. Set in the engine rooms of the House of Commons, James Graham‘s This…
The backdrop to Choré is the emergence of musical theatre in the United States. Shown by the choreographer as less sparkling than in our imagination, here, this period is used as the pretext to question the evolution of dance. What…
Babel is a powerful contemporary dance performance created by the celebrated French choreographer Mourad Merzouki, one of the leading figures in modern hip-hop and multidisciplinary dance theatre. The production explores themes of communication, cultural diversity, human connection, and the universal desire to…
