dance performances and video dance
Thomas Noone‘s Medea is a compelling contemporary dance interpretation of one of the most powerful tragedies of classical antiquity. Inspired by Euripides’ timeless drama, the production abandons literal storytelling in favour of an intensely physical exploration of betrayal, love, revenge, and loss.…
For this project, Angelin Preljocaj brings together ten dancers from the Ballet Preljocaj and ten dancers from the Opera National de Bordeaux. This collaboration began in 2018 through a partnership between both companies, which resulted in the creation of Ghost…
Lied Ballet is one of French choreographer Thomas Lebrun’s most celebrated creations, premiered in 2014 and developed in collaboration with the Maison de la Danse de Lyon. Conceived as a dialogue between the traditions of Romantic music and contemporary choreography, the work revisits the…
A magical mix of dance, text, visuals and sound. Akram Khan Company’s CHOTTO DESH is a hit with audiences and critics alike. Fusing dance, storytelling, interactive animation and specially composed music, Chotto Desh is a bewitching dance-theatre tale of a…
Climb the sky introduces Noé Soulier, an inspiring new voice to the company, highlights Crystal Pite‘s first time collaboration with NDT 2 for her work Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue, and restages Johan Inger‘s Out of Breath. “I…
Analogy/Ambros: The Emigrant is the culminating chapter of Bill T. Jones’ Analogy Trilogy, an ambitious dance-theatre project that explores memory, identity, migration, and the enduring impact of personal history. Inspired by the character Ambros Adelwarth from W. G. Sebald’s acclaimed novel The Emigrants, the work…
With Mirror and Music, Japanese choreographer Teshigawara Saburo returns to Theatre Chaillot with a work for nine dancers, for which he also did the stage design, lighting, and costumes. “I am trying to express something of the invisible…that has no…
Hussein Chalayan‘s first theatrical work Gravity Fatigue, received its world premiere at Sadler’s Wells in October 2015. Gravity Fatigue combined the visual creativity of his artistic concepts with contemporary dance, realised in partnership with award-winning choreographer Damien Jalet (Vessel, Babel(words)),…
Never before has The Australian Ballet presented contemporary dance of this scale and ambition. Commissioned for the 60th anniversary of Nederlands Dans Theater, the world’s most celebrated contemporary company, and now presented for the first time outside of the Netherlands…
