Category Dance

dance performances and video dance

The Red Shoes

Filmed at Sadler’s Wells in 2019, Matthew Bourne‘s The Red Shoes is a triumphant adaptation of the legendary 1948 feature film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. The double Olivier Award-winning show is Hans Christian Andersen’s tale of obsession, possession,…

Stabat Mater

The piece offers the public an intimate incursion in the universe of Les Grands Ballets. This contemporary creation by young choreographer Edward Clug, who also brilliantly revisited the celebrated Carmina Burana last season, has known success since its premiere in…

Until the Lions

As in many myths, the female characters are often the unsung heroes, the figures of strength and imagination and endurance. It is their unsung stories in particular that still haunt me today. Akram Khan In this partial adaptation of poet…

Souviens-toi

Built as a succession of intimate moments reinvented by dance, choreographic time is redeployed on stage in the way that memory resurfaced. The films projected on stage, stolen moments from the childhood of the two protagonists, could be ours and…