The Norwegian National Ballet’s Hedda Gabler is Henrik Ibsen’s drama retold in a way you’ve never seen it before. After the premiere in 2017, both Norwegian and international critics praised director Marit Moum Aune‘s dance production, set to music by…
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Four women and one man dance in tutus to baroque music. Five dancers denied their farewell performances depict a dance of longing and distance – and the necessity of saying goodbye to start anew. In Close (Nærme in Norwegian), two…
“Why let reality get in the way of a good story?” exclaims one of the characters of this artwork that lies somewhere between stage play and ballet—a fitting question with which to approach A Swan Lake by Alexander Ekman. In…
World premiere in which the Norwegian National Ballet joins forces with the Norwegian National Opera Chorus. Jocasta’s Line intertwines two Greek tragedies: Oedipus Rex and Antigone. Samy Moussa has composed new music for Antigone (2023), while Oedipus Rex will be…
The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet transforms Ibsen’s psychological drama into contemporary dance, where every gesture exposes layers of illusion and loss.A wounded wild duck becomes the living symbol of a family’s unraveling in this daring adaptation. Choreographed by Marit…
(Re)discover Ibsen’s masterpiece as told by the Norwegian National Ballet. Are we ever honest enough to be unaffected by lies? This is the question asked by Henrik Ibsen’s drama Ghosts (Gengangere). Oswald Alving returns from a bohemian existence in Paris…
