Por vos muero
Duato was inspired by old Spanish music of the 15th and 16th centuries together with some of the most beautiful verses of the Spanish poet Garcilaso de la Vega. Music and poetry connect the obviously contemporary dance of Por Vos…
Roman Makena
Un Jour Ou Deux
In 1973 the Paris Festival d’Automne and the Paris International Dance Festival commissioned a new work from Merce Cunningham, to be performed by 26 dancers of the Ballet of the Paris Opera, including three etoiles, Wilfride Piollet, Michael Denard, and…
Dance and Short Fiction Films
This video contains an overview of choreographer and filmmaker Wim Vandekeybus career with dance films and short fiction films, including many extras and featuring original compositions by David Byrne, Thierry De Mey, David Eugene Edwards, Marc Ribot and Peter Vermeersch.…
Connection
Juliano Nunes‘ artistic sensibility and distinctive choreographic voice have earned him international praise from critics and audiences alike, and he has worked extensively with leading ballet companies and choreographers across the globe. He has been a collaborator of Philadelphia Ballet…
Le Songe de Médée
Angelin Preljocaj is interested in the myths of antiquity as well as current events. Medea’s Dream allows him to penetrate inside the soul of a woman, to search for deeply buried desires and to pierce Medea’s unconscious beyond the myth:…
Nomad
Invited by artistic director of 420PEOPLE, Václav Kuneš, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui presented a work-in-progress at the Czech dance festival Tanec Praha in 2017, a performance titled Nomad – with dancers of Eastman (Nemo Oeghoede, Antonin Rioche, Nicola Leahey and Mabrouk…
Mea Culpa
“Mea Culpa” is a performance originally created by Cherkaoui for the Ballets de Monte-Carlo in 2006. “Mea Culpa explores the world that our ancestors and roots have bequeathed to us. What are the foundations of our current civilization? At what…
A simple man
Commissioned to celebrate the centenary of the birth of the painter L. S. Lowry in 1987, this award-winning ballet celebrates the life and work of a unique artist. Created by Gillian Lynne (choreographer of Cats, The Phantom of the Opera…
Soul Chain
A uniformly seeming mass with eccentric movements, constantly halfway between dancing to hard techno-beats: this only describes parts of the high-performance dance of “Soul Chain”, a piece by the renowned Israeli choreographer Sharon Eyal, which she created especially for the…
Orpheus and Eurydike
Orpheus and Eurydike is Pina Bausch‘s masterpiece and the ultimate symbol of her choreographic genius. It is here danced by the Ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris. From the outset it had been Gluck’s wish that Orpheus and Eurydike should…