Category Dance

dance performances and video dance

Birth-Day

Birth-day was inspired, in part, by Sabine Kupferberg, who is one of the performers, as well as Kylián’s wife. The music is by Mozart, and the dancers wear period costumes and wigs. The premise is that this is Sabine’s birthday,…

Into the Hairy

NDT and L-E-V Dance Company (LEV) come together to create a newly commissioned and yet unstaged version of Into the Hairy, originally created for 7 dancers of LEV (2023). Performance merges classical dance with underground club culture, to create a…

SH-Boom!

The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty. – Francisco Goya Sol León and Paul Lightfoot created…

Hikarizatto

“Hikarizatto is a modern piece that will energize your spirit,” Hikarizatto is a visually stunning ballet that features rhythmic drumming and Galili’s trademark off-balance, hyper-kinetic movement. Hikarizatto means “crowded light.” Lit from directly above, the dancers become anonymous creatures, united…

One Thousand Pieces

One Thousand Pieces was created in celebration of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s 35th anniversary in 2012. Choreographed by Alejandro Cerrudo, the work was inspired by Marc Chagall’s America Windows, stunning panels of glowing stained glass created by the Russian-French artist…

Das Stück mit dem Schiff

Tanztheater Wuppertal has announced will see an ambitious restaging of Pina Bausch‘s 1983 work, The Piece with the Ship. Rarely seen, it was last performed in Saitama, Japan, 24 years ago. Characterised by sweet melancholy, delicate humour and typically zestful…

Dance

Dance, created in 1979, is considered to be a pinnacle of post-modern dance, a minimalist ballet that strips dance back to the language of the body. This seminal piece marks the first major collaboration of Lucinda Childs with the composer…

Sacre

Considered one of the key works of modernism, it is a hundred years after the genesis of Igor Stravinsky’s “Le Sacre du Printemps” that Sasha Waltz takes on the Mariinsky Theatre’s offer to engage with this extraordinary piece of musical…