dance performances and video dance
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…
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 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…
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…
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,…
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…
At the invitation of the Théâtre de la Ville and the Théâtre du Châtelet, (LA)HORDE presents a program with the Ballet national de Marseille. The performance consists of the work of four different choreographers, all offering a plural and complementary…
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…
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…
