Now
Bringing the Mind back home, where the inner vision perceives the spaces we live in, inspired by the writings of Gaston Bachelard, La poétique de l’espace. These spaces contain the hallways of our mind as memories of mystery contained in…
Category Dance
dance performances and video dance
21st Century Choreographers
The Royal Ballet returns to live performances with 21st Century Choreographers, a celebration of some of today’s finest international choreographers. The dancers are reunited on their home stage of the Royal Opera House in a programme featuring work by Christopher…
Episode 31
Swedish choreographer Alexander Ekman is known for his fast-paced timing, witty humor, and clever choreography, and Episode 31 does not disappoint. Episode 31 opened on a screen where the audience watched a video of the artists of Pennsylvania Ballet rehearsing…
Im siebten Himmel
Two amazing choreographers and a few more famous composers: such a combination really ought to bring ballet lovers into Seventh Heaven – or Im siebten Himmel, as the title of the ballet performance at Vienna State Opera goes. With the…
The Next Stage
Stars of the ballet world take to the screen with daring new contemporary work. See how stars of the ballet and contemporary dance worlds translate their talents to the screen in these nine international shorts, many of them made during…
Null
Captivating movement and elegant imagery stands out in this work called Null, choreographed by Noa Wertheim who is the co-founder and director of the Vertigo Dance Company, Isreal. It is performed in this video by the company. The music is…
I love you, ghosts
“It is Marco Goecke‘s eleventh creation for Nederlands Dans Theater, but the first in the recently opened Amare. There is a new smell in the huge building, heavy doors connect the countless rooms with the long corridors, and construction pits…
Naharin’s Virus
Naharin’s Virus is one of those performances that is ahead of its time. Even in a decade and a half after a premiere it looks stunningly ground-breaking and “different”. When I first saw a performance of “Naharin’s Virus” over a decade ago, I knew that this ritualistic, insurrectionary dance was…
Constellation
Sidereal time – the time of stars – is the way that astronomers fix their telescopes on remote constellations from night to night, since the earth spins them away each day. Celestial geometrics align our bodies with the complex grids…