Sleepless
Jiří Kylián has already made many masterpieces, one of them the fascinating Sleepless, a creation for six young dancers in which the set plays an important part. It has a wall behind which dancers – or sometimes just parts of…
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Jiří Kylián (born 21 March 1947) is a Czech former dancer and contemporary dance choreographer.
Jiří Kylián was born in 1947 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, to his father Václav who was a banker and to his mother Markéta, who was as a young teenager a dancer-child protégée.
Jirí Kylián: Svadebka, Symphony of Psalms, Torso
Three performances by the Nederlands Dans Theater. The choreography by Jiri Kylian is set to Stravinsky’s ‘Les noces’ and ‘Symphony of Psalms’, and Toru Takemitsu’s ‘Torso’. Among the dancers are Shane Carroll, Nils Christe and Sabine Kupferberg. Every now and…