The Big Crying
Those who know Marco Goecke‘s works know that they always have to do with himself and with the time in which they were created. Perhaps The Big Crying is Goecke’s most personal piece, begun in Autumn 2020, shortly after the…
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dance performances and video dance
The Soldier’s Tale
Jiří Kylián feels a great affinity for Stravinsky, who, like himself, was forced to leave his homeland. He describes the composer’s music drama, L’Histoire du Soldat, as a ‘surrealistic fairy tale for grown-up children’. His version of the piece uses…
Vertigo 20
Commissioned by the Fondazione Campania dei Festival – Teatro Festival Italia. A Vertigo Dance Company and Fondazione Campania dei Festival – Teatro Festival Italia coproduction. This new production by choreographer Noa Wertheim weaves together twenty years of the Vertigo Dance…
Fall of a sparrow
Recorded in a completely closed, cylindrical space in which dancers and camera are enclosed. In Fall of a sparrow by Joost Vrouenraets, the viewer comes close, very close …Fall of a sparrow is set in a completely closed, cylindrical space…
Strong
Sharon Eyal‘s choreographies can also be described as vibrant experiments on the border between precision and supposed excess. Her works strike a nerve with audiences and dancers. The uncompromising Israeli choreographer has long since found a very personal, unmistakable artistic…
Draw From Within
Draw From Within choreographed by cinematographer and choreographer Wim Vandekeybus was one of the first live-stream dance events to be performed and screened live during the early months of the pandemic.Together, Wim Vandekeybus and Rambert have created an exhilarating reflection…
White Darkness, the Lavender Follies
The Monte Carlo Ballets presents a two-part program marked by an unprecedented juxtaposition of human tragedy, dance, and theater. White Darkness Nacho Duato composed the one-act ballet, White Darkness, as a requiem for the untimely loss of a sister. The…
La Strada
Zampanò, a coarse showman, is touring the entire country with his penniless assistant, Gelsomina. The dependent young woman, who always appears at Zampanò’s side as a clown, is badly treated by him and kept as a slave. But when Gelsomina…
Persefony Songs
Persefony Songs riffs on images from Christopher House‘s acclaimed 2001 work, Persephone’s Lunch, to inspire a new work of unabashedly sensual beauty. The original production, inspired by Homer’s Odyssey, was nominated for a Dora Mayor Moore Award for Outstanding Original…