The collaborative project with the National Chiang Kai-Shek Cultural Center was born during my first trip to Taiwan where our Company was performing its show Récital. I was captivated by the energy of the dancers that were sharing the stage…
French choreographer Maguy Marin occupies a distinctive place in contemporary dance and dance theatre. The documentary “Time to Act” follows the stage life of her iconic piece “May B”. Created in 1981, it established her international reputation and continues to…
Many components of this work are as unstable and unpredictable as the poem “Toss of a dice” by Stéphane Mallarmé (“Un Coup de Dés”) which was my major source of inspiration. The poem was written in 1897 and it is…
Matthew Bourne‘s Romeo and Juliet is a passionate and contemporary re-imagining of Shakespeare’s classic love story. Bursting with youth, vitality and Matthew Bourne‘s trademark storytelling, Britain’s brightest young dance talent joined the New Adventures company for this World Premiere production.…
Ohad Naharin, artistic director of the Batsheva Dance Company, is regarded as one of the most important choreographers in the world. Meeting him at a critical turning point in his personal life, this spirited and insightful documentary will introduce you…
In Autumn 2017, English National Ballet performed Kenneth MacMillan‘s Song of the Earth for the first time ever. This work is indisputably a masterpiece. The story of love, loss and inescapable death told through MacMillan’s beautiful, sparse choreography and Mahler’s…
From the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden Ghost Light is an answer to social distancing brought on by the corona pandemic. The Hamburg Ballet was one of the first companies worldwide to resume rehearsals on the ballet stage after the lockdowns. What began…
Palais Garnier presents “Impressions”, an evening of creations by contemporary choreographers Jessica Wright, Morgann Runacre-Temple and Marcos Morau, danced by the Paris Opera Ballet. “Arena”, the first Paris Opéra creation by Jessica Wright and Morgann Runacre-Temple, with music by Mikael…
Ballet with original music by Philip Glass based on Lewis Carroll’s novel (1865). In the early 1860s, to entertain young Alice Liddell, Lewis Carroll dreamt up a strange and wonderful world where common sense is nonsense, cats are nihilists, hatters…
Bringing the Mind back home, where the inner vision perceives the spaces we live in, inspired by the writings of Gaston Bachelard, La poétique de l’espace. These spaces contain the hallways of our mind as memories of mystery contained in…
