Roman Makena

Roman Makena

Sciamachy

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Jeroen Verbruggen will create a brand-new production for 14 dancers of the Finnish National Ballet, with music by Bernard Herrmann from Alfred Hitchcock’s famous film, Psycho. The costumes have been designed by Erika Turunen. Verbruggen is a young choreographer from…

The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party

Young psychotherapist Ernest is an expert in being normal – he even has a PhD in normalization. He’s just begun his first job, at the prestigious (if rather gloomy) Institute for Extremely Normal Behaviour. It’s immediately clear his patients need…

Four Contemporary Choreographers

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Four contemporary choreographers from diverse backgrounds come together to create distinctly original works for the Paris Opera’s resident dance company, leading the dancers to a new form of modernity where bodies vibrate with intensity. Swiss-born James Thierrée takes over the…

The Sacral Dance

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The Sacral Dance is production created by Christophe Béranger et Jonathan Pranlas-Descours for the infamous Compañia de Danza Contemporánea de Cuba. The performance was performed at the historic Garcia Lorca Theater in Havana and features Cuban drumming paired with Igor…

Kreatur

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Kreatur is about the human body. Isolated or attached to a community, it becomes distorted under pressure. The show’s based on the ideas of taking or losing power, of thinking about otherness or looking at oneself, of loving or hating…

Body and Soul

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Premiere of Body and Soul, choreographed by Vancouver’s own Crystal Pite, and performed by the Paris Opera Ballet. Following the phenomenal success of The Seasons’ Canon in 2016, Pite was invited back in 2019 to create a full-length work for thirty-six dancers of…

Le Parc

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Originally created for the Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris and performed for the first time at the Palais Garnier on 9 April 1994, Angelin Preljoçaj’s highly personal contemplation on the nature of love now comes to the stage of the…

Triangle of the Squinches

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Alonzo King LINES Ballet is pleased to present a groundbreaking new collaboration bringing together a trio of celebrated artists: choreographer Alonzo King, architect Christopher Haas, and percussionist Mickey Hart. This new work will have itsworld premiere during Alonzo King LINES…

空 KU

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What is Ku?In an ever-changing world.The sun rises from the east in the morning and sets in the west in the evening.The moon then rises and its shape changes every cycle.The cherry blossom loses its flowers in the wind 10…

Three ballets by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

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Each dancer is like a musical instrument with its own sonority and colour. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker This triptych spans ten years of creation (from 1986 to 1995) and bears witness to Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker‘s remarkable dialogues with the great scores of…