In PASSING, legendary Swedish choreographer and longtime Ballet BC collaborator Johan Inger traverses a vast landscape of human emotion, taking audiences on an epic, theatrical, often touching ride. Commissioned by Ballet BC in the 2022/23 season and inspired by climate…
Illuminate turns the spotlight on three young choreographers and forms the ultimate opportunity for the young dancers of NDT 2 to be exposed to different styles of movement. Micaela Taylor creates a new work, and Jermaine Spivey will further explore…
Through his compositions, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky influenced and shaped classical ballet like few other composers. The myth of his music remains unbroken to this day. Cayetano Soto draws an engaging portrait of a man who could not live his life…
NDT 2 opens the season with a double bill. A pulsating visual and auditory landscape, Marcos Morau‘s Folkå (2021) tells about community and its customs and traditions. In addition, Nadav Zelner creates a new work in which his passion for…
Iolanta is a blind princess. A famous doctor can cure her, but only after she is being told about her blindness. Her father doesn’t want to break that horrible news to her. Lotte de Beer: “In her blindness Iolanta lives…
A world premiere based on the life and writings of Oscar Wilde Oscar, a spectacular new full-length ballet by Tony Award-winning choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, known for An American in Paris and MJ The Musical. Wheeldon brings his signature blend of…
Andrew Scott (Fleabag) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens‘ (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) radical new version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. Hopes, dreams, and regrets are thrust into sharp focus in this one-man adaptation…
Café Müller was originally the title of a four-part evening. In 1978, Pina Bausch invited choreographers Gerhard Bohner, Gigi-Gheorghe Caciuléanu and Hans Pop to work with her ensemble. Following the same cues, three more pieces were created in addition to…
Richard Siegal‘s diverse troupe merges ballet, contemporary dance, and pop culture in “UNITXT,” his radical reinterpretation of classical techniques and concepts of symmetry set to the beats of electronic avant-gardist Alva Noto. Unitxt, which premiered on June 25,2013 at Munich’s…
Choreographer of more than one hundred pieces, many of them being part of the core repertoire of leading ballet companies all over the world, Jiří Kylián is a living legend. Written by Christian Dumais-Lvowski and directed by Don Kent, this…
