dance performances and video dance
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…
Le Sous Sol is the final part of Peeping Tom‘s first trilogy that had started in 2002 with Le Jardin, followed by Le Salon in 2004. In Le Sous Sol, the members of the family encountered previously in the trilogy…
Le Salon marks the second part of a trilogy that started with Le Jardin in 2002 and ended with Le Sous Sol in 2007. This piece shows the mental, physical and financial decay of what was once a wealthy family.…
Le Jardin was Peeping Tom‘s first creation for the stage. The performance is a diptych, comprising a film – made in an African nightclub in Brussels – and a piece of dance theatre. In Le Jardin, the most diverse and…
Star choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and rising talent Jeroen Verbruggen create groundbreaking new choreographies to works composed and arranged by the beloved French composer Maurice Ravel at the Royal Ballet Flanders. Maurice Ravel has been an inspiration to artists of…
After turning to the theatre (cf. the Medea production), Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker ventured into the world of opera. Ottone, Ottone opened in 1988 and was De Keersmaeker’s first ‘large-scale’ project: based on Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s interpretation of Claudio Monteverdi’s opera…
Between shadow and light, experience six ballets of the highest quality, among which is Petite Mort (created on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Mozart’s death), by the Czech choreographer Jiří Kylián, brilliantly interpreted by the Nederlands Dans Theater…
Saburo Teshigawara is a leader of the art and dance scene, famed for his aesthetic fusing intellect, movement, stage design and lighting. Inspired by the Kenji Miyazawa poem “Haratai Kenbairen”, “DAH-DAH-SKO-DAH-DAH” (premiered 1991) is one of his major works, staged…
Widely lauded by critics, 1984 is an awe-inspiring retelling of George Orwell’s masterpiece choreographed by Jonathan Watkins. Winston Smith lives in a world of absolute conformity, his every action scrutinised by Big Brother. When he meets Julia however, Winston dares…
