The Tree
Last & ultimate great creation of the choreographer for her company, The Tree is a poetic reflection on humanity and nature, on the edge of sinking… After eau, Pneuma and Now, it completes the cycle of pieces inspired by French…
Category Dance
dance performances and video dance
Esplanade
Acclaimed as one of America’s foremost dancemakers, Paul Taylor (1930-2018) created a remarkable repertoire of 147 works, many recognized as contemporary classics and culminating with Concertiana. He performed with Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham, but focused his energies on his…
Zephyr
After Vertikal, which propelled hip-hop into the air, the choreographer continues to exalt this dance in a play with natural forces : from weightlessness to the breath of the wind, from vertical to horizontal, he performs a 90-degree rotation and…
Silent Screen
Silent Screen by NDT house choreographers Sol León and Paul Lightfoot can be seen as the epitome of a transdisciplinary performance where dance, theatre, film and music effortlessly come together to melt into a painterly Gesamtkunstwerk. Large screens offer a…
Unfold + Give
A collection of three works created for Ballet BC by exciting Canadian choreographers, as well as one of Artistic Director Medhi Walerski‘s most celebrated creations. We are bringing you the North American live premiere of Walerski’s GARDEN along with world…
How to cope with a sunset when the horizon has been dismantled
A sensual, exuberant performance where silence is acknowledged and spaces in between become choreographed. Ten sculptures enter a dialogue with eight dancers, who resonate the abstract geometries, yielding new physicalities. Throughout the performance, the dancers establish an intimate relation with…
Inanna
With this production, inspired by the figure of Inanna, a Mesopotamian divinity, Carolyn Carlson has created a committed yet poetic piece of work. It is pretty safe to say that Carolyn Carlson, the American without borders, is a choreographer of…
Babel
Babel is a powerful contemporary dance performance created by the celebrated French choreographer Mourad Merzouki, one of the leading figures in modern hip-hop and multidisciplinary dance theatre. The production explores themes of communication, cultural diversity, human connection, and the universal desire to…
27’52”
Souls made apparent brings some of the most technically challenging and theatrically demanding NDT creators together in one programme: besides a world premiere Big Crying by associate choreographer Marco Goecke, the young dancers of NDT will present 27’52” by maestro…